Thank you very much, but I don't want AI assistance. In fact, I generally want AI desistance.
I truth, I want AI to be a tool* that I pick up as I prefer, not some haunted software artifact that repeatedly tries to leap into my hand unbidden.
*for coding, not content generation
Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."
If this shit isn't stopped, we are going to reach a point in my lifetime where face-to-face conversation is the only way to know for sure that we are talking to another actual human being.
Loudoun was a clear early sign of trouble in 2021. That was the indicator that Youngkin could pull it off.
NEW: Three rulings in the past week show the scope and breadth of efforts to fight anti-trans attacks.
A Montana Supreme Court decision protecting birth certificates, a ruling on Trump's anti-trans prison policies, and final judgment vacating RFK Jr.'s anti-trans "declaration."
Law Dork:
BREAKING: In a win for Virginians, a court greenlit an agreement barring the state from removing voters from the rolls within 90 days of federal elections.
The case challenged a policy — which purged 1.6k+ voters before the 2024 election — that flagged suspected noncitizens using outdated records.
And Iran has said that there will be no deal as long as Trump keeps his blockade in place, that it violates the ceasefire.
Jeffries on Kash Patel: "We have to stop putting all the blame on the people who nominated this incompetent, toxic, malignant individual. What about the people who confirmed him? It's extraordinary to me that Senate Republican confirmed people like Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, RFK Jr, and Patel."
I’d completely forgotten
Oh wow! I never heard about patch the pirate but we did a lot of Psalty. Even did a Psalty musical at one point
"In the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes."
Me on Saturday's @nytimes.com scoop in today's "One First":
As we all (should) grapple with that online rape training:
Every man must be honest about where you fall here. Yeah, even you “progressive” ones who “just” try to seduce every woman on your staff, turn them against each other and/or make them sign NDAs if you’re the boss. You’re a sex predator too.
Inquiring minds want to know
Yep I think this is what it is. He’s jealous, and believes he deserves bigger/better than Macron. That was also why he wanted the military birthday parade that was such a snooze fest last year
Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"
Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a blog post about rape and men, calling on men to DO SOMETHING about rape culture. It kinda sorta exploded. Today, I read about a website that teaches men to drug their partners so they can rape them. 62M views in a month.
two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
Years ago @mikeduncan.bsky.social told me "you can rewrite shit but you can't rewrite nothing" and it's made every draft easier since.
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
If Dems retake either house, they must launch an investigation into this. There's no easier way to highlight the corruption of this era and to establish that Dems are committed to fighting it.
Pretty sure @wyden.senate.gov and Maxine Waters would be the chairs to do it.
Freedom is only a hop away. Can he make it?
EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.
The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
This is a fantastic use of a labeler (on an idea some of us discussed a couple years ago. If you are out of fucks to give like the first post @fucks.supply posted and you will show up (to anyone who subscribed to its labeler) as being all out of fucks to give.
White-collar crime (fraud, insider trading, etc) is now legal in America. Wall Street has captured the Department of Justice and as long as you pay off the Trump family, you can now steal as much as you want from the American people.
“A Supreme Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is not merely conservative. It is untethered from democratic reality.”
It took George W. Bush almost 8 years to reach 50% of the public "strongly" disapproving of him. Trump did it in like 14 months
www.pewresearch.org/politics/200...
Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms (🧵 1/3)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
takes a true scholar of the bible to struggle with naming a favorite testament
