“The indispensability of a liberal education is the freedom from being tied to the zeitgeist of one’s age or situation to love what is true, good, and beautiful, and to be initiated into the world while cultivating a love for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/upholding-li...
let's go!
they pair well with salsas & misc other dips too!
I gotta hand it to Altman here, deciding to sign up to be the new face of the regime’s AI efforts right as they start an unpopular and out of control war with Iran was a real masterstroke in PR
bonus points for letting a major competitor position themselves as The Ethical AI Company
“If we raise taxes back to the rates we had in the 1970s, no one will found the next Microsoft or Apple!” 🤡
Easily one of the top charts of all time
BREAKING: A group of WA House Democrats is FINALLY taking a stand against the half billionaire corporate giveaway in the millionaires tax. They urge the House Finance committee to pass the tax WITHOUT a sweetner for big business on Friday www.theburnerseattle.com/post/group-o...
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Remember Seattle no jaywalking when swarming the streets 😂😂😂🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
all glory to the pacific northwest
go seagulls
Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings.
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
This needs to be repeated:
Our housing plans should not revolve around "Corridors."
Homes belong in neighborhoods.
We voted for new leadership on housing. Unfortunately, it has not yet arrived.
Jeffries is not a wartime consiglieri
REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
Please examine what body cams *didn’t do* to stop police violence over the last decade plus since they were initially touted as a solution and understand that some of you are now rallying behind a false solution that will be a tool of criminalization more often than anything else.
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
Here is the full transcript of Trump saying he isn't planning to use force in Greenland.
What stands out to me is the incoherence of his comments: there are so many internal contradictions in this short passage that it's hard to treat as a credible renunciation of violence.
The moment it was crystal clear we were in the worse case scenario, was exactly a year ago when Trump pardoned every single Jan 6 perpetrator, including the ones that beat the crap out of cops and were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
all the books of Becky Chambers. 1) they're books, which are awesome 2) quietly utopian sci-fi where not much happens, just people (some of whom are aliens, robots, and AIs) trying to figure themselves out in interesting world circumstances
Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."
In competitive authoritarian regimes, the government deters and undermines opposition by using its powers to inflict costs on those who challenge it rather than recognizing their legitimacy as democratic opponents
riddle me this: has Dowd ever had an insight worth sharing? i can't think of any
I think the most straightforward framing that captures the severity of the situation is that the government of the United States has been seized by a mad authoritarian regime not meaningfully distinct from Putin or Kim or, well, Maduro, and its members must be brought to harsh justice
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