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‘Decreased revenue’ is a very dry way of saying ‘successful tax evasion by rich people’.

I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call

Okay, 10x is a big increase, but the correct number of kids to have in ICE detention is zero.

I wish I could declare a moratorium on ‘distraction’ in political discussions tbh. They’re just doing many dumb and bad things at the same time, and we all need to deal with that.

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Wow no shit?

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25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

Trump is clearly an unstable warmonger at odds with the will of the people. YouTube video by Senator Markey

A war powers resolution will not be enough. Yes. We need to assert congressional authority and stop this illegal war in Iran. But, Trump is clearly an unstable warmonger at odds with the will of the people. Removal is the top priority. No more war criminal in the White House.

if one more person tells me andy weir can’t manage to form opinions because he was a programmer back in the day i’m going to snap

I think that might still be social commentary. Art that emphasizes the absence of the medium often is.

AI writing is inherently and unavoidably demeaning. It asserts by its very nature that my time as the prompter is valuable and cannot be spent writing this, but that your time as the reader is without value, and can thus be spent consuming it.

our game console turned out to be an investment asset and that seems like a bad sign tbh

It cannot be stressed enough how much legacy media hates activists. The whole basis of the "objectivity" artifice is that human dignity is up for debate, so anyone who thinks it isn't makes them uncomfortable and is inherently the enemy.

I worry, because humans are just not good at things that require constant attention but only infrequent intervention.

My similarly-uninformed reaction is ‘how many parties consented to this recording? Possibly none?’

I think in a way you’ve answered your own question: it’s been going on for more than a year now and the companies selling the thing have not felt sufficient consequences to change their approach.

I think ICE as it exists today is possible only because we didn’t reject TSA hard enough in the past.

TSA normalized the idea that ’safety’ required unaccountable government goons be allowed to racially-profile, question, search, demand papers from and even detain anyone they want.

"separating the art from the artist" is an analytical tool. it arrests the impulse to try to read the artist's mind when you're interpreting their work. if you want an adage to keep in your pocket when you're making consumer choices, try "follow the money."

Better for whom?

I am skeptical that this accurately characterizes what their lawyer said about the lawsuit.
For one thing, it doesn’t include ‘for fucks sake don’t do an interview about this, especially with one of the alleged victims, you idiot’.

If listening to a lawyer was part of their process they’d never have released this ‘feature’ in the first place.

Wow, if you can deploy people with no TSA training to do the TSA's job on a couple of day's notice, it really raises questions about how useful the TSA is in the first place.

Somehow no one is confused about how services work when it’s the fire department, but as soon as it’s mail delivery they get all MBA brain and want to see a balance sheet.

I’m still waiting for the day when one of his interviews ends with a note that it was cut short when the subject leapt out a window into the harbor.

Yes. Sycophantic chatbots are democratizing derangements previously exclusive to wealth.

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You want to run for office on a platform of ‘kids can’t have balloons anymore’?
Seems like an uphill battle at best.

they literally renamed the entire company after this