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Making millions of people stateless, in violation of both domestic and international law, to … own the libs i guess?

I'm in favor of Australian-style compulsory voting but that means (a) you can still spoil your ballot and (b) the punishment is a small fine. This guy is being ridiculous.

The thing about all this is that America hasn’t faced a *fiscal* crisis in a hundred years and the emergence of *any* fiscal crisis in the United States would have revolutionary (chosen deliberately) effects on the global fisc. America’s periodic financial crises are desperate times but this is more

"majority-culture"

if you can't even get up in the morning and put on shoes that fit, you should not be allowed to tell anyone anything

i genuinely cannot process how debased our ruling class is. these guys will walk around all day in shoes that don't fit rather than tell their boss he's wrong. this whole thing where they pretend a stupid evil guy with brain damage is qualified to run every aspect of everyone's life is unacceptable

iran doesn't even need to bother doing it, they could achieve the same effect just by having trump yell about it. say you have camouflaged havana syndrome lasers lining the shore, he'll release a press statement ordering you to take them down

everything else aside it is quite funny that trump got briefed about iran mining the strait and immediately opened his phone to start yelling about mines. zero thoughts about the consequences of the president posting "MINES! oh no!"

It's bizarre how they make their decisions.

I'm currently trying to do a sequel to Campfire Cards which was a huge hit.

@systemmastery.bsky.social have sold almost 200k (maybe 250k) across their cook/drink book line had a pitch rejected because "beer isn't doing well right now

I deeply agree that I want more people from the RPG world working with mainstream publishers.

I don't want to frame it as something people can just decide to to.

Working with a large corporation is always a situation where the artist has very little control over what happens.

In the early days of Claude I had somebody telling me that the LLM lets him program in languages he doesn't know. I asked how he plans to debug in a language he can't code in or read and haven't heard back.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

it's true that i'm a control freak

but it is also *the* best algorithm

also I spent £10 on a facebook ad for Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain and fb blocked it as crypto advertising and kept my money, so

I tend to talk about this stuff as it relates to the UK or in general terms but the "you don't get it; the USA is a big country!" thing is weird to me because when we lived in a country bigger than the USA in a city bigger than any in the USA, the only vehicles my family owned/needed were bicycles.

Bluesky agreeing to host this at an event in Texas purely so they don't have to talk to trans people.

It’s really the little details that are making this season. Like the Trump administration being blindsided by the fact that starting a war in Iran would drive up oil prices. Apparently Claude forgot to tell them that part in amidst picking which schools to bomb. Classic Leo.

Iran cannot participate in the 2026 World Cup after the United States killed their leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the sports minister, Ahmad Donyamali, said on Wednesday. The United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran nearly two weeks ago, killing the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, leading to a region-wide conflict in the Gulf. “Considering that this corrupt regime [the US] has assassinated our leader, under no circumstances can we participate in the World Cup,” the minister told state television. “Our children are not safe and, fundamentally, such conditions for participation do not exist. “Given the malicious actions they have carried out against Iran, they have forced two wars on us over eight or nine months and have killed and martyred thousands of our people. Therefore, we certainly cannot have such a presence.”

Iran will not participate in the men’s World Cup.

“Considering that this corrupt regime [the US] has assassinated our leader, under no circumstances can we participate in the World Cup. Our children are not safe and, fundamentally, such conditions for participation do not exist.”

Amen.

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it should be embarrassing for nyt contributors that the newspaper that employs them would take up this premise. why bother with bylines at all?

my only take on the nyt ai writing thing is that if you construct a relationship with reading where you're getting blasted in the face by ✨arbitrary text units✨, you get this junk

if you care about author's perspective/positionality then the entire exercise is incomprehensible

#BREAKING: Israel just bombed right next to the ancient temple of Baalbek, a UNESCO listed site in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley

When ISIS bombed Roman temples in Palmyra, Syria, the west launched an international coalition that send them fleeing to the ends of the Earth

The case of temporary visitors was more complicated at common law. The parents, if lawfully present, were under the temporary protection of the sovereign. That is why one judge in a famous case, Lynch v. Clarke, held in 1844 that a child born of temporary sojourners was a citizen. But the rule was contested because of increasing international travel and the resulting dual allegiances. Joseph Story suggested that an exception for temporary visitors would be a “reasonable qualification” to the rule. Henry St. George Tucker in his treatise stated flatly that temporary visitors fell outside the common-law

I'm afraid I can't just sit here and say nothing when another law professor gives false testimony to Congress about the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Ilan Wurman has given false testimony to Congress, being fully on notice of the falsity. I do not think this is fairly debatable. 1.

The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months, finds the CBO: 'Our fiscal problems will not solve themselves' | Fortune "We need policymakers to come together, agree to reduce deficits ... and put our national debt on a downward sustainable path as a share of the economy."

‘This cannot be sustainable’: The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months, the CBO says

ehfuckingscuseme???!!!

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It's the beginning of history - and an era where we'll see thorough tests of the assumptions of the AI bubble as a result of the war in Iran and the economic and social chaos to follow.

It's time to stop using the past as a guide to what happens next.

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Thinking about how social media convinced us all in the early days that everyone deserved information about/access to you at all times and how that really fried a lot of brains. Mine included. Bc 1. No one deserves 24/7 access to you, not even your partner 2. It created the sense that everyone (1/?)

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

lmaooooooo

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i keep this new years card/zine from @sarahmccarry.bsky.social open on my coffee table, because

Anyway vets like I was strongly actionably alluding to