This is what the internet is for

we all know I have no life, so:

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

Gas prices are at their highest level since the pandemic.

Inflation is surging.

Grocery prices are near record highs.

Housing costs are through the roof.

Does that sound like a golden age to you?

Update #2: Quicksilver, a detector for AI-generated music.

Most folks today are not aware that AI-generated music (entire songs generated by AI models) are growing rapidly. Today, there are more AI-generated songs than human-created songs arriving each week on platforms like Spotify.

How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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In MY day, we all managed to misconfigure our DNS and DDOS ourselves to oblivion without even needing any AI help. And we could even do it in the snow, doing uphill both ways.

… sheesh, the kids these days.

keep the old ways alive

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Match Group Doesn't Want You to Find Love Dating apps have built billion-dollar businesses on our most human need. They have every reason to make sure it goes unsatisfied, writes Emma Leiken.

The tech accountability community should be as clear-eyed about dating apps as it is about social media — demanding better design, more accountability, and more honesty about what they're actually built to do, writes Emma Leiken.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-has-cut-legal-immigration-more-illegal-immigration

Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration, as I predicted. While illegal entries have fallen, they continued a prior trend, falling more before he came back. Meanwhile, Trump has drastically cut legal entries, reversing the prior upward trend. www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...

I wasn’t kidding, lol. Idek where you source this shit

This is spectacular

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

If you like that cover, you’ll love finding out about the release date for that album

This is the same thing as “9 out of 10 dentists agree”

and we all know those dentists don’t exist and the ones that do are being paid for their endorsement

Pie is generally bad. Ice cream redeems it.

Jokes on you, employer, because I need to that offer to be as high as possible to pay off this debt

We look forward to Pete moving on to a special new role created just for him in the Shield of Americas with Kristi Noel.

Meme showing the Confederate flag ("show me the real confederate flag", a white flag ("I said the real Confederate flag"), and ashes (Sherman saying "perfection").

Happy Appomattox Day to all who celebrate and I expect each and every one of you to celebrate.

My Presidents' Day opinion is that we should replace it with Union Day on April 9, where the POTUS, VP, Cabinet, 535 members of Congress, 9 SCOTUS Justices, & 50 governors assembled at Appomattox to remember who actually won the war & why we fought it & that we should finally finish Reconstruction.

description from Huntington library: "A lithograph printed on heavy paper. Satirical "death certificate" issued for the Southern Confederacy. Mourning border, each line in different typeface, with: Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, / on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, / The Southern Confederacy, / Aged Four Years, / Conceived in Sin, Born in iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of / a Chronic Attack of Punch. / Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. / U.S. Grant, Undertaker. / Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Below in smaller print an epitaph that ends with: And this one line shall grace your grave-- / Your death gave freedom to the slave." https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll6/id/5033

to all who celebrate...

if you really are from the future, JERRY, you should be able to tell when the edit button comes

Did you hear the story of the one man $1.8 billion business built by AI as portrayed in the @nytimes.com? Turns out basically every aspect of that story is bullshit and the story should be retracted.

back to bed for me

That’s how I feel about Silicon Valley the shown

We didn't deserve this day.