Gosh, if only there were other sources of energy that we could have switched to in the last 30+ years.
Maybe Trump Bombed Some Schools, But At Least Gas Prices Are Going Higher And Higher
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Dyshan Best, a Black man, who was shot by police and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for an ambulance after an officer having a “mild anxiety attack” took the first one that arrived at the scene
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Rage rage rage
This is the Way.
"Washington’s Governor Bob Ferguson is expected to sign a bill on Wednesday that accomplishes one very narrow goal: It taxes the hell out of any electricity generated by the TransAlta Centralia coal plant, effectively pricing it out of the market."
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The New York Times published an extraordinary study of the role of billionaires in politics earlier this week, that naturally got lost in everything that is going on, including in Iran.
Here is a gift link to the article, and a few select quotes:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
Why did I click on this? Why did I spare one second thinking about Carolyn Bessette and JFK JR? Maybe it was to witness this, the dumbest sentence ever to appear in the NYT, on the early 90s romance of rich white beautiful super-connected people: "This is a paean to a lost meritocratic New York."
In New Hampshire’s comically large state House, a one-seat flip won’t significantly alter the GOP majority of 216 to 176 over Democrats. Unless, of course, this is a portent of another 2017-style blue wave.
Where Are Democrats Stomping Republican Incumbents Today?
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Nick Clegg, former president of global affairs at Meta, has a lot to say about tech under the Trump admin ("endless ring-kissing"), the EU's AI regulation ("a ludicrous act of self-harm"), and much more.
An excellent @wired.com interview from @joelkhalili.bsky.social.
you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths
from this recent Dorsey interview:
Clones. What else could it mean? 🤔
I can remember a lot of Brain In A Box science fiction stories, but I doubt that's of any help.
We meet again, Commissioner Bele.
Star Trek TOS, Season 3, episode 15, "Let That Be Your Last Litterbox"
The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.
AI is Diana Moon Glampers from "Harrison Bergeron"?
You preferred human writing. You’re either sharply attuned to the qualities that make for great writing, or a lucky guesser. Maybe you also noticed that human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian,” caused by the author’s aversion to punctuation: “As well ask men what they think of stone.” A.I. used to make mistakes like these. But today’s systems are much more fluid than their predecessors — so fluid, in fact, that finding grammatical errors or nonstandard syntax is often a hint that you’re looking at a human’s prose, not a machine’s.
"Clunky phrases"
"AI used to make mistakes like these"
-NYT, in reference to the writing of CORMAC MCCARTHY
We need to bring back dueling. Pistols at dawn
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Today's AI systems would never produce scientific impossibilities like "My mother is a fish" or "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."
The thing you never stop hearing about the Dem elite — that their messaging on certain issues was captured by a noisy sliver of the population who don’t talk like normal people — is all that’s happening to the entirety of elite gop, admin and otherwise — comms and policymakers
Cojones is both too naughty and too Mexican; chutzpah is too Jewish.
Now expect wingnut influencers to start saying that "having the cahoots" has always been a thing.
The opportunities for malicious compliance are endless.
Tell the parents, so the child can be shipped immediately to conversion therapy or just kicked out of the house.
Jesus Christ my idiot state.
WRONG!
Mr. Rogers' Neighbor's Lawnmower
Betty White Power
The Kyle MacLachlan Group
I suppose a good username for something might be "Christian Sleater-Kinney."
On the one hand, I believe democracy is a good thing.
On the other, I am astounded how many MAGAs are mad at the person on Twitter who goes by "Liam Nissan" because they wish celebrities would stick to acting and not talk about politics.
Gotta pay for roads some other way than a gas tax, but some places hit EVs with taxes way out of proportion to what a comparable gas vehicle would pay
A visceral hatred of "press 1 for English" still has massive explanatory power for Republican psychology
