Brian Jones

You ain't seen nuthin' yet. Wait for the next 15 months

You have the right to take your idea to the Marketplace of Ideas.

There is no guarantee that anyone has to buy. Or even listen to your pitch.

70s style office building

Hello and welcome on the Terry Sanford Federal Building in beautiful downtown Raleigh, NC where I will be live-posting a show cause hearing starting at 4:00 ET

Look on the bright side! With oil prices that high, it will finally be profitable to drill baby drill!

/s

Clearly your third book should be about an author who inadvertently causes global catastrophes by writing books

The day after we forced a vote to subpoena Pam Bondi, her DOJ released more Epstein files. This department has to be pressured into doing things.

The American public wants all the files and names of co-conspirators released, and we won't stop until that happens.

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

A long time ago, I used to know a lot about foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) and study them.

I guess that makes me qualified to write a thread about them, especially in wake of Trump bombing Iran.

So here goes nothing. 🧵

Tbf I want to eat every baguette

Wolf Blitzer and CNN became a thing in the first Gulf war, 1991. Before that they had no business model. When it happened they were the only 24hr news that existed

The Senate must immediately return to Washington and use our Constitutional powers to pass a War Powers Resolution to stop this.

This war will not make us safer, nor will it help Americans afford groceries or health care or rent.

On the other hand, all OpenAI's warbot has to do is not shoot down their own drones with a laser. Or party balloons.

So the bar is low

Ah good ol' E5! I'm a Reds fan, so I remember him fondly

...to track them all down. Furthermore, the excess of prior FLARBLES could lead to an unreasonable burden on the defendant, who may well have to do nothing but NARB for several days. /rests

I see your point. However, the first FLARBLE occurred prior to the command. If the command were retroactive, Your Honor, we would have to NARB for all prior FLARBLES. As there is no comprehensive list of such prior FLARBLES, it would constitute an unreasonable burden on the defendant 1/

NARB
NARB

I heard you were a bot. Is it true?

I think there is another path forward. AI could be a giant disappointment, and it turns out that glorified search is actually a long way from generalized intelligence

Chocolate diamonds

No joke, Google it

The Muppet Show

Nobody with power is gonna like this, but there is going to need to be a thoughtful and organized process of detrumpification when this whole thing is over.

Okay but weak is kinda a subclass of electromagnetism, right. I think in the next edition WotC is gonna combine them

These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

1. AI isn't going to be that good
2. If it were, it wouldn't drive margins to zero. It would scheme to capture those margins for a few people. You would see hyper-enshittification.

Ouch. Harsh, but fair.

Small businesses would absolutely blossom. How many hardware stores and restaurants and nail salons would open if it didn't mean risking your family's ability to literally eat?

At least you could still eat the hot dog

One of the kind of fucked up parts of the ICE occupation here is that a lot of folks want to believe it’s over, and the media seems to tell us it’s over, but folks on the ground are still seeing tons of activity and vulnerable people are still (rightfully) terrified to go outside. We can’t stop yet.

I'm not in Texas, and with (waves at everything) I haven't done a deep dive on them.

Aren't they both better than average candidates, from a progressive viewpoint? If not, where do they fall short?

This is the correct answer. Rarely do I agree with any politician 💯 but this is one of those times