Elisabeth

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

My mom died in her late thirties and it basically broke my grandma to outlive her daughter. That is not a pain I would wish on any parent, and I can't comprehend how much some people are trying to normalize all the ways kids have been and will continue to die because of this administration.

I like how this describes both Daylight Savings Time and also everything about America.

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore.

If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

They bombed a girls school you pricks
THEY BOMBED A GIRLS SCHOOL

Felt wrong to tap a heart to "like" this, but also yes

My husband cleaned out our pantry and freezer while I was on a work trip last week and found frozen raspberries that were older than our children.

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states

I mean, that last one isn't inevitable. Trump is in really poor health at this point, the odds of lasting the year don't seem great.

I dunno if I was being a despotic fuck I probably wouldn't want to make "killing heads of state solves problem" an idea my own population might pick up on

This is right. And people hate to hear it, but Joe Biden’s single most important task was to Trump-proof the US.

His task was to destroy the Republican Party to punish them for Trump, salt the earth over them, and implement big structural reforms to stop future R minority extremism.
And he failed.

If you’re a Democratic member of Congress who trusts the Trump regime to take military action without Congressional authorization, you should immediately resign.

You’ve already abdicated your responsibility to uphold the constitution—please just vacate your seat. You are worse than useless.

Congress can convene, right now, should they so choose.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

If dem leadership weren't relentlessly ratfucking actual progressives in favor of blackrock mercs whom nazi tattoos and sleazy transphobes whom buddy podcast with nazis, their leadership could be making statements right now:

"What is happening in Kansas to trans people is bad."

You do not want the guy who makes cars that lock you inside when they’re on fire in charge of the Kessler Syndrome odds. You just don’t.

“The guy obsessed with us leaving the planet ironically was such a dipshit he made sure we could never leave the planet” is heavy handed but tonally appropriate.

This thread is a great framing of the time we're in. I'll add explicitly: the best time to act was 5-10 years ago (or maybe even more), the second best time is now.

I've been saying this for a while now, I expect prices to go up by orders of magnitude.

@tristanolson.bsky.social did put in a lot of work to call the store and let them know about the situation so they could flag her account, so hopefully next time Harini does actually get the groceries she ordered and paid for.

For those wondering if Harini figured out her address for the next order: no, no she did not, and we didn't manage to catch the delivery person this time so I guess we just get some free groceries?

Caught a delivery guy leaving a grocery order on my porch... but I didn't order any groceries. Address was correct but it was for someone named "Harini" so I sent them back. Harini, wherever you actually are, I hope you figure out your real address for the next one.

I never work on planes, I have to worry about gravity too much while in the air.

So I thought we'd all learned from Google that putting core business functions on tools that aren't turning a profit was dangerous at best, but here we are in the AI bubble. When the AI companies actually start charging market rates it's going to take down soooo many companies.

"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology.

mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.

But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

I think in the very near future, SWE jobs/ interviews are going to flip from "must use AI to succeed" to "must hate AI to be considered" especially for anyone early in career.

This thread is great, lots of connections I was unaware of.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Seriously, if you've ever considered running for office, now's the time. Go check out @runforsomething.net. This is looking like a 25+ point swing in TEXAS -- nearly doubling the average +13 swing we've been seeing.

Don't leave any seat unchallenged. Make the GOP spend all their resources.