Their cruelty is by-design.

Awesome.

@gwestr.me are you at thunderhill today?
My buddy Greg is there in a 3RS.

I saw this one and had to save it, it was so good!

I love this place , could just hang out here all day

And there it is... The 2nd part to Trump's played out but destructive playbook. First, he manufactures a crisis (via tariffs) and then he solves said crisis (he just announced a pause on tariffs on Mexico) for in the end what will be some marginal advancement on some goal of his.

Oh my god 😂

X post: Elon Musk @elonmusk We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead.

U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means. The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy. First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

@warren.senate.gov we need you to use cameras and physical bodies.
No secrets. Schumer is weak. You, @sanders.senate.gov , @aoc.bsky.social and @jasmineforus.bsky.social along with an honorable mention for my home state dudes @wyden.senate.gov and @jeff-merkley.bsky.social need to band together

Ruth Bader Ginsburg wisely said, “The true symbol of the United States is not the bald eagle—it is the pendulum.”

Today, that pendulum has swung too far from justice, democracy, and freedom.

It’s on us to push it back. To fight, to protest, to rise. The future is ours to reclaim.

Way back in 2016,
@GOP
believed the truth: the economy is just a complex set of interactions between people, and govt should facilitate that. Tariffs are the opposite. It’s big govt.

And they say I changed. LOL

Just like last time but way more organized and deliberate … if you wanted to destroy America’s influence and role globally, your playbook would essentially be the Trump Show.

Yeah, I don’t miss it.

Not this one. I’m quite sure it’s gonna get pretty bad.
I’m just really hoping we get a chance to elect a replacement in 4 years.

“Republicanism”

Too much hype. Not enough understanding.

After I spent multiple years of painful technology and product development on them, the day AirPods shipped I showed them to my dad and he said “I’m not sure these are going to be successful” 🤦🏻‍♂️

you know he's being disingenuous because he used the phrase "... on ideological grounds".... when in actuality the goal was to limit disinformation and hateful / abusive content.

Oh, I'm fairly sure I watched this back then!

This blew my mind.

Don’t let him forget.

A point from this that I hadn’t previously considered was how strange this approach is for a company and CEO who claim to embrace and have developed world class AI capabilities. Instead of further develop them to make screening better, they’re throwing them out the window.

I think that car… is just gorgeous.

I love this. The system reminds me of my old Sony MHC-1600

Thanks to @siggy.bsky.social this now live rent free in my brain.

Someone said similar things about Poland once I think…

Over the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation.

Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.

Maybe we could use light … shine it in the body.

Same.