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not for senator they didn't

These ghouls act like they've discovered some novel secret: "Hey, guys, GUYS! Did you know that we can just kill people whenever we want?" Yes, you absolute idiot, that's ALWAYS been true. We just chose not to, for good and self-interested reasons which the entire world is about to learn yet again.

Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

yep. and this isn’t a new dynamic. the political press loved bush for the same reason and before him, reagan. a professional culture defined by laziness and indifference to substance.

AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?

It's interesting how easy it is for people to look at someone *wildly* succeeding at a horrific goal, and continue acting as if they are failing at a very different goal which they have repeatedly and loudly declared they do not have.

Politics really matters. Every bit of it. It's not about posting and it's not about vibes.

Carter: i am afraid so, joss
Carter: in hindsight, it seems like firefly was just lost cause mythos in space
Whedon: b-but the quips!
Whedon: you all love my quips!
Carter: there's been a reassessment on the quips too
Whedon: NO!

IMO, it is much more fun to blow Americans away with the price of gas in Europe.

(my back of the envelope conversion math suggests the price of gas in France right now is about $8.00 per gallon)

the newest version of iOS

hrm.

how do we feel about a sufficiently accurate simulation of something generally-accepted-to-be-conscious

simulation itself conscious, or no?

ah, but this is not an argument that AI *can't* be conscious

belief in the soul, more or less

hell, even the basic amount of philosophy you get in an intro level class can permanently warp your brain in *extravagant* ways.

there are wide bodies of work in philosophy that are just horrifying tarpits that trap and drown people

and a cosmic ray can flip bits

computers are just very complicated rocks

but he has a British accent!

(rant over, lol)

people are different, we're doing different work.

sometimes "creative output" is just the same kind of alienating work that exists anywhere else in capitalism.

sometimes it's not, and I love that for those folks. but it is simply *true* that not everyone is an author and an artist. that's okay.

100%

i keep thinking there's a big gap in understanding on this. in the world today, sometimes our "creative" output is just LABOR pure and simple.

not all writing is academic writing, or journalism, or novels. I understand that some people have a lot of identity bound up in this, but c'mon!

(exceptions exist, etc etc)

(this is, i think, the same set of people who are still mad about Bernie. that election was, i think, a formative moment for a lot of people's politics.)

a pretty vocal subset of people believe threats, and similar maximalist negotiation tactics, are the best way to win any political conflict.

this is because Trump won doing this.

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

removing the headphone jack had unforeseen consequences

well known, but not widely known

it's the d12, I'm afraid.

crunchier.

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

that's a fantastic bit