@haahr
San Franciscan, raised in New York. Father of two, husband of one. Software engineer and recovering manager who works on Search at Google. Old time liberal, missing the days when Silicon Valley was thought of as too progressive rather than fascist.
I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is.
People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)
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Cover of The Lancet:
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Why have I been getting at least one "tax relief center" phishing call every weekday for the past several weeks? Nobody else I've talked to, with similar phone numbers, is getting this rate of them.
Trump pardoned a billionaire who had pledged to illegally route foreign money into U.S. elections as part of a scheme to bribe Puerto Ricoβs governor β after the billionaire's daughter gave $3.5M to Trump's super PAC.
But the facts point to another legal violation. campaignlegal.org/update/seeki...
19-Down? Really? #nytxw
Turns out one of the benefits of mass deportation is low growth and anemic job creation.
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. Itβs in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
I didn't realize the prophecy about Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane was about the fall of the Patriots.
So much of GOP conspiracy land is simply not understanding how counting works. No one is ever βaheadβ or βbehindβ until the counting is over.
NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.
Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. Weβre living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.
This is insane
Notes on LLMs and Main Character Syndrome -- their tendency to ascribe actions of lower prominence characters to higher prominence characters.
glad they're on this. i've noticed this and you probably have too. shattering drivers side car windows appears to be a top and preferred tactic for ICE. even when nothing is happening that makes it necessary or even on the most generous interpretation warranted. it's terror tactic.
βDo not engage in a winter campaign in bitterly cold areas. You will lose not just your army, but most likely your throne.β - literally every military historian ever
βGET IN THE CAR, LOSERS, WEβRE GONNA INVADE MINNESOTA IN LATE JANUARYβ - the Trump administration
I read my own entry on βGrokipedia,β Elon Muskβs Grok-generated βalternativeβ to Wikipedia, and within a few paragraphs it included a false allegation of sexual assault against a man who, to my knowledge, has never been accused of it
Fun! So much younger then...
The United States needs military access to Greenland, which it already has, to defend the Arctic, which it already does, from Russian and Chinese ships, which arenβt actually there, and this is so important we should destroy the Western alliance to get it, do I have that right?
Names aren't classified, publishing a government higher-up's name is not "doxxing," and journalists are entitled to publish news, even if it is classified, as long as they don't break the law to get it.
It's not the press's job to keep the government's secrets.
βOh but if Democrats did that Republicans would just vote it down, wouldnβt convict and would rally their base to defend Trumpβs crimes.β
Yeah, okay, make them do that then.
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Oh. Cool. Just as the President is using every power he can to suppress dissent and stifle speech, @whitehouse.senate.gov and the @judiciarydems.senate.gov are trying to hand Trump a new tool to suppress speech online.
What a joke.
Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship.
That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/
Quite the ending to that story. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
If you were a tech company employee who moderated content overseas β say, trying to prevent a repeat of the Myanmar genocide! or maybe policing CSAM! Or hate speech illegal in your country! β you are a βcensorβ under the definitions of the Republicans in power.
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"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable Asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong."
~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788.
Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.
Stephen Millerβs ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.