Athul K. Acharya

our boy's on it

That's the actual definition of "a Dem trifecta."

We call them 'S-tier lawyers

Helps bail out Trump from his own idiotic decisions, while reducing gov revenue and will earn no credit from voters in the process. Brilliant.

lol DOJ is down to the people who put an apostrophe before a plural ‘s’

Trump DOJ officials are almost impossible to parody.

god I hope his surgeons don’t believe in washing their hands or masking and that they bathe in raw milk before doing this

Just 🔥🔥🔥 from @davidjbier.bsky.social - incredible work by the principled libertarians at @cato.org

More’s the pity, though

The Times will sanewash Trump’s deranged tweets, but this is how they cover a politician they dislike

I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.

Not according to Rotten Tomatoes!

I’ve been finally watching the Star Trek movies, in order, and maybe I’m in a minority of one on this, but:

The Final Frontier >>>>>>>>> The Motion Picture

Somehow I suspect this won't garner nearly the coverage and outrage "Peacock" did

me: i am accessible, plain-spoken, even folksy at times

gmail: have you considered sounding more like a lawyer

fuck you gmail i meant what i said

I think people who say things like this, especially prominent people with power, should be shamed and shunned and reviled — cancelled, if you will.

“Free speech culture” disapproves of that sentiment — says that it’s worse than what Ogles said.

Judge it thus.

A fun corollary is that we both agree that sentient creatures get sentient rights but disagree pretty acutely on the content of those rights (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social this is your music)

And on your definition dogs are sentient, so that’s a reasonable baseline but not one on which many people disagree.

(I think I’ve only seen the reasonable takes from the LLM crowd, so I didn’t fully get the subtweet.)

I guess it conveys the (in your view) futility of reasoning by analogy in this domain

On further consideration: “Only humans get human rights, only Vulcans get Vulcan rights, only positronic lifeforms get positronic rights, and I am saying nothing about the content of those respective categories of rights” gets very close to tautology imo

I love Cory Booker because he’s ongoing proof that voters can tell a faker. He doesn’t give two shits about anything other than his ambition, but he’s quite good at playing the game (eg: longest “filibuster” that filibustered nothing). So far, at least, primary voters have always been able to tell

The unstated premise is that “felony murder” simply is not “murder”, in the same way that “fool’s gold” is not gold. It is at least a defensible premise and this is a very strange hill to choose to die on

Yeah okay, this is fair. I will say I suspect it’s not what most people gathered from your initial post

Trump yelling at kid mowing lawn meme

“KID, WE NEED YOUR GAS”

Perfectly open to the idea that I’ve just misunderstood you btw

“human” isn’t a right, and the argument Star Trek makes is very clearly that Data deserves all rights humans have. What are you actually arguing here?

In similar vein, “May he” sounds so much harder than “I hope he.”

“I hope he never has another good night of sleep in his life”: wishful, impotent, meaningless

“May he sleep but fitfully evermore”: a literal curse

* well, it would half apply to Spock, given that he’s half human, but I felt “Sarek” was an inferior example for several reasons