Crazy Uncles on Facebook beware, you're about to be getting a lot of "that's a satire site" in your replies.

lol suck it.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Economists warned California not to raise the minimum wage to $20. They were wrong in almost every way so far, another economist says “The results are nowhere as dire as predicted,” Berkeley’s Michael Reich told Fortune.

"But nearly two years after the law’s passage, economists are seeing very different results than what was initially feared...the policy increased average weekly wages for eligible workers by 11% and did not reduce employment."

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But hey, remember when nobody wanted to fight for universal healthcare? Because it was pie in the sky? How’s that working out? Any follow up on that?

There’s so little we can change about everything awful in the world but one thing we can do is to not write a headline about a “shocking death” on a show as if not naming the character means you have somehow avoided a spoiler, as you also put the picture of said character under that headline.

Nothing says “I’m planning another coup” like…

The weird thing about rebooting Escape From New York is that when the original came out it felt vaguely plausible the NYC could just have been sealed off as an open air prison, but now Mamdani’s the face of the city so the vibe is all wrong.

I assumed he controlled all the levers and could just cheat his way out of anything, so he either had less control than it seemed, is really bad at cheating, or it was just to overwhelming to fix? In any case, a hopefully sign for us as well—Trump has less control and is way less competent.

JD Vance is on a historic roll:

He campaigns for AfD in Germany - they lose.

Invited the Pope to come to US for Trump’s big event - Pope refuses.

Leads peace negotiations with Iran - fails miserably.

Campaigns in Hungary for Orbán - who gets smoked.

The only joy in all of this is watching Vance try to gnaw his own arm off like a coyote to save what’s left of his political future.

Again there's simply no comparison between the scope, scale, & tone of the JOE BIDEN EPICALLY AND INCOMPETENTLY FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN coverage of August/September 2021 & the "just the facts, very measured" reporting of what's going on with Iran & Trump now.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Quote-tweeting a post about Swalwell's campaign statement about sexual assault allegations, Katie Miller tweets: "As someone who doesn’t normally believe all women, I believe her — and the many lined up behind her. Eric Swalwell’s behavior was the worst kept secret on Capitol Hill. I’m positive she was not the only intern."

"As someone who doesn’t normally believe all women ..." The Millers are just truly awful people.

Thanks so much!

I'm just gonna mute the word "hammer" for a week. I don't need to even see it described. Apologies to everybody out there posting about carpentry and such.

My kid is obsessed with this game. Congrats!

Wow, great news: the CDC has a study proving COVID vaccines slashed hospitalizations by 55%. Bad news: RFK Jr.’s team killed it before publication because facts were inconvenient. They are literally hiding data that could save your life.

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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From the Two Things Can Be True At Once files.

The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world.

In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear.

Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error.

Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!

there's getting out ahead of a story and then getting out so far ahead of it that you're breaking it yourself.

Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

It's underrated how much of Trump's political power is directly tied to his cultivating and inspiring a base willing to do violence on his behalf. He's politically toxic and is going to lose a lot of Republicans their jobs. But they won't go against him because they're afraid for their lives.

Amazing. No notes

The rare conflict resolution that meets the political objectives that both countries have prioritised. Iran has been obsessed with the Hormuz Strait for decades and it's in their lap. USA has been obsessed with eggs for 2 years and it's in on their face.

The Art of the Deal

Maybe TACO should stand for Trump Always Cashes Out.

Yeah, I get the feeling behind it but calling someone as ego-driven and empty as Trump chicken is really only asking for him to prove he isn’t.

If Trump had said at the start of this war that the goal was to give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz, unify the country under the same regime and turn the entire world against the U.S., even his base would have recognized that as insane goals, but that's exactly what he's done.

Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic, because Israel and Judaism are not one and the same.

Here’s proof: