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this isn't from a far-left source - anger towards the tech economy and the companies/executives driving this industry is absolutely becoming more and more mainstream
www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
Indirectly, of course, things look quite different. A sharp contraction in tech would put tens of thousands of people out of work, vaporize trillions of investment dollars, torpedo retirement and education funds, obliterate life savings, and ruin lives. It would be a violent shock to a system that’s already under strain. Of course, one of the reasons the economy is under strain is the massive concentration of wealth in the hands of a small number of oligarchs, and those same oligarchs would like to use AI to replace the human labor force—likely putting tens of thousands of people out of work, vaporizing non-oligarchic wealth, obliterating savings, etc. It may be better for the world for the bubble to pop, whatever damage is done.
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
what exactly am i looking at here

second image from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_fi...
However, the disclosure of a $912mn bet against Palantir’s shares by famed hedge fund manager Michael Burry appeared to unnerve some of the investors who have driven the stock higher this year. May 19, 2005: Fund manager Michael Burry closed a credit default swap against subprime mortgage bonds with Deutsche Bank valued at $60 million – the first such CDS. He projected they would become volatile within two years of the low "teaser rate" of the mortgages expiring.
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
this is your stock market now sickos
a tomato-man hybrid sits astride a horse who clearly didn't sign up to be part of this
November 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
lolololol

DrOp ThE sToRy MaGgIe
matt mercer's actual headshot from his actual linkedin page, apparently this is the image he wants to put into the world
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
my brother in christ there are whole fields of study devoted to lying with statistics. i can't help it if you're too fucking stupid to understand that
rob saka claims that "data doesn't lie" in the context of increasing SPD funding, apparently laboring under the delusion that more police hiring simply results in increased public safety (it doesn't, and there are decades of studies backing this up)
October 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
holy shit 👀👀👀
a screenshot of a poll result showing that responses of "strongly oppose" harrell's reelection outnumber "strongly support" by nearly a 2 to 1 margin
October 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
murphy v ncaa (2018)

no surprise, but what an incredibly specific swing and a miss from sam alito

that fucking goon
The legalization of sports gambling is a controversial subject. Supporters argue that legalization will produce revenue for the States and critically weaken illegal sports betting operations, which are often run by organized crime. Opponents contend that legalizing sports gambling will hook the young on gambling, encourage people of modest means to squander their savings and earnings, and corrupt professional and college sports.
October 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
from the new york times, 11/13/14

some interesting thoughts on sports gambling from adam silver, just a few years from losing all personal integrity and respect from the public
Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the N.B.A. is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives.
October 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
fact check: a lot of us are, though!

also, mark alan smith was also the name of a serial killer, so, uh, washington state not beating those allegations
“A lot of people in Seattle are not necessarily angry at Harrell,” said Mark Alan Smith, a political scientist at the University of Washington, “but they’re absolutely angry at politics.”
October 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
top priority: vending. better underline that. let's clarify that we know there's both legal and illegal vending. did we talk about vendors? list it again. make sure to add a note that only some vendors are "designated". add another note to emphasize that they need permits. yeah, that's it.
a brainstorming chart apparently created by a bunch of elementary schoolers with crayola markers making it very clear that whoever is in charge of planning the streets around lumen field and tmobile park have no idea what it feels like to exist in an actual metropolitan city
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
yes yes this is absolutely true in the context you're thinking of but also this is just cop shit and i can't help but think of seattle's idiot mayor bruce harrell announcing huge raises for cops while failing to gain any meaningful accountability or oversight. again.
gwern.net/doc/politics...
"...state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes."
October 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
it’s a perpetual motion machine i promise
a chart of funding and purchasing in the llm fever dream space
October 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
also - and this is possibly way more important - i read the entire sermon, and it's just straight up political speech. rabbi cosgrove doesn't endorse a candidate, but he spends the entire sermon talking about the mayoral race. this contradicts their (presumed) 501c3 status:
Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. Contributions to political campaign funds or public statements of position (verbal or written) made on behalf of the organization in favor of or in opposition to any candidate for public office clearly violate the prohibition against political campaign activity. Violating this prohibition may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of certain excise taxes.
October 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
first, i seriously doubt a single rabbi of a conservative synagogue in the upper east side can speak for all of NYC. this might just be stephens' rabbi. and this is an EXTREMELY WEALTHY neighborhood:
October 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
fascinating bit later, as well. thoughts below:
Even that’s not the deepest worry. “The painful truth,” Elliot Cosgrove, the rabbi of Park Avenue Synagogue, observed in his Saturday sermon, is that “Mamdani’s anti-Zionist rhetoric not only appeals to his base but seems to come with no downside breakage. What business does an American mayoral candidate have weighing in on foreign policy unless it scores points at the ballot box? I don’t doubt that Mamdani’s anti-Zionism is heartfelt and sincere, but its instrumentalization as an election talking point should frighten you in that it says more about the sensibilities of our fellow New Yorkers than it does about Mamdani himself.”
October 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
bret stephens thinks zohran mamdani is dangerous because he wanted to keep nonprofits from supporting violations of international law?

i think i support mamdani more now, not less, thank you bret
Finally, a few months before the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas, Mamdani introduced a bill in the State Assembly that could have jeopardized the tax-exempt status of virtually every pro-Israel charity. The bill, noted Alex Bores, a fellow assemblyman and a Democrat, “is not aimed at improving regulations of nonprofits broadly, or even applying standards which would apply across the board.” Rather, it “singularly applies to organizations providing aid to a specific country and its people. This is immediately suspicious.” "Unauthorized support of Israeli settlement activity" means aiding 11 and abetting activity by the Israeli armed forces, the government of 12 Israel, or citizen thereof, that is illegal pursuant to the Rome Statute 13 of the International Criminal Court or under any of the international 14 treaties signed at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, nineteen forty- 15 nine, as amended, or any protocol to such convention to which the United 16 States is a party
October 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
also, i'm not *inherently against* spd officers making above median, but what does that look like if you remove outlier tech industry salaries?

(i am inherently against dipshits and liars making that much, so a good chunk of spd actually would be excluded, i suppose)
The mayor will also probably focus on the need for officers to earn enough to live in Seattle (which many of them do not). That was the argument for increasing police salaries by 24 percent just last year
October 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
just a reminder that right-wingers calling their opponents "marxists" says way more about them than it does about their perceived enemies: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultura...
"Cultural Marxism" refers to a far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory that misrepresents Western Marxism (especially the Frankfurt School) as being responsible for modern progressive movements, identity politics, and political correctness. The conspiracy theory posits that there is an ongoing and intentional academic and intellectual effort to subvert Western society via a planned culture war that undermines the supposed Christian values of traditionalist conservatism and seeks to replace them with culturally progressive values.
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
great? or greatest?
Eduardo Franco as Argyle in Stranger Things
October 17, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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amy coney barrett: "there was no public consensus on abortion"

later in the same interview: "i don't know what the fuck the people think"
So what the court held in Dobbs was that it could not be said that the right to terminate a pregnancy was one that was deeply rooted and considered so fundamental by a supermajority of Americans that it didn’t even need to be said Well, it’s a legal assessment, and in the cases where we’ve actually made it, we’ve been making a legal inquiry looking at what the state of the law was on the books. The kind of assessment gauging public opinion or public reaction would not be a legal assessment, nor would it be one that was focused in the way that our substantive due process doctrine focuses the inquiry in cases like Dobbs.
October 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
people with unique names should be a bit more careful with large political donations imo

apparently bruce harrell took a $1,000 donation from a los angeles "entrepreneur" who recently settled a class action case alleging wage theft

real champion of the working class over here
excerpt from settlement agreement and class action notice naming roderick henley, who donated to bruce harrell's campaign The proposed Settlement has two main parts: (1) a Class Settlement requiring DEFENDANTS to fund Individual Class Payments, and (2) a PAGA Settlement requiring DEFENDANTS to fund Individual PAGA Payments and pay penalties to the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency (“LWDA”).
October 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
the budget memo isn't exactly subtle in noting that the underspend assumption is sketchy!
Underspend is by its very nature one-time cash. While this cash can then be used in the next year’s budget to support ongoing spending, doing so only contributes to financial unsustainability. The fact that an underspend assumption is relied on in the revised budget, the current budget and now future projections, and yet a higher deficit is still being projected, is perhaps a warning sign.
October 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
the age range to join young republicans is 18-40; the age limit to be a congressperson is 25, to be a senator is 30, and president is 35. jd vance was a "young republican" until two months ago. he's not a "young boy". this is a spurious claim.
“The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys,” Vance said on “The Charlie Kirk Show.” “They tell edgy, offensive jokes. That’s what kids do. And I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke — telling a very offensive, stupid joke — is cause to ruin their lives.”
October 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
extremely sorry for this
9. At all times relevant herein, Defendant, Sam Altman, groomed and manipulated Plaintiff, Ann Altman, into believing the aforementioned sexual acts were her idea, despite the fact she was under the age of five years old when the sexual abuse began and Defendant was nearly a teenager. 10. Beginning in approximately 1999 or 2000, Defendant, Sam Altman, began to penetrate Plaintiff, Ann Altman, with his penis both vaginally and anally. 11. The foregoing level of childhood sexual abuse continued for a period of approximately eight or nine years until Plaintiff was eleven or twelve years old wherein Defendant, Sam Altman, regularly continued to commit numerous acts of rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse, molestation, sodomy, and battery upon Plaintiff, Ann Altman.
October 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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consider the source: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
why would anyone expect less than "terribly creepy"?
Beginning in approximately 1999 or 2000, Defendant, Sam Altman, began to penetrate Plaintiff, Ann Altman, with his penis both vaginally and anally. 11. The foregoing level of childhood sexual abuse continued for a period of approximately eight or nine years until Plaintiff was eleven or twelve years old wherein Defendant, Sam Altman, regularly continued to commit numerous acts of rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse, molestation, sodomy, and battery upon Plaintiff, Ann Altman
October 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM