you just created a million Dicks Cheney

'You'll go down as a wimp:' Pence's never-before-published notes key evidence in case against Trump, book says Donald Trump berated Mike Pence, calling his then-vice president a "wimp" during their final phone call on Jan. 6, 2021.

ironically the biggest wimp in this story is Merrick fucking Garland

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ebay having a live widget for items that i’ve bid on is going to be very dangerous for my spending habits

maaaany such cases

maga has lost their goddamn minds

in 2028 I’m voting for whoever is willing to go scorched earth on these fascists and right now that’s Gavin Newsom

This is an insane reaction from MSNBC. Dowd said nothing wrong. We can lament and condemn violence while still acknowledging the (well-documented!) reality of Charlie Kirk’s career. Kirk was incredibly divisive and he did traffic in hatred against liberals, LGBTQ people, racial minorities, and women

Moderate voices in the US, particularly in the UK, need to recognise you can decry political violence, “offer sympathies” whilst also recognise that Kirk was a despicable person who touted extremist views and profited off the fear of minorities.

It is possible to express these concurrent thoughts.

i think to some extent the commentariat in the US sees 'being part of the commentariat' as their class interest and are seeking to defend that

I want to be nice but like… the fact that America mourns Charlie Kirk but America does not mourn Melissa Hortman is the whole problem.

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

/4 But it’s perfectly reasonable to point out that the people who will wave the bloody shirt over this — the people who support Charlie Kirk — are evil hypocrites who endorse and excuse violence every day. Refraining from celebrating doesn’t mean tolerating bullshit.

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Oh no not this, I am going to have to take off my Bill Clinton Hat and return all of my Bill Clinton Coin and stop reading my Bill Clinton Bible

I love watching Aaron Rodgers get his shit rocked

I logged onto twitter today and holy shit what happened to the API it’s excruciatingly slow

This is a damning anecdote from Rep Jim McGovern. He tells me that during debate over Trump's big budget bill, House Rs privately admitted to him that it would screw over their own constituents, yet they had to vote for it anyway.

Read all of it. He wrecks them:

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I’m becoming negatively polarized into an anti-anti-Burning Man position by all the wokescolds on my timeline allergic to fun

What could be more obvious than the fact that, whatever intelligence a computer can muster, however it may be acquired, it must always and necessarily be absolutely alien to any and all authentic human concerns? The very asking of the question, "What does a judge (or a psychiatrist) know that we cannot tell a computer?" is a monstrous obscenity. That it has to be put into print at all, even for the purpose of exposing its morbidity, is a sign of the madness of our times. Computers can make judicial decisions, computers can make psychiatric judgments. They can flip coins in much more sophisticated ways than can the most patient human being. The point is that they ought not be given such tasks. They may even be able to arrive at "correct" decisions in some cases-but always and necessarily on bases no human being should be willing to accept. There have been many debates on "Computers and Mind." What I conclude here is that the relevant issues are neither technological nor even mathematical; they are ethical. They cannot be settled by asking questions beginning with "can." The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts. What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.

There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with:

“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”

the early bedtimes will continue until morale improves @jpbrammer.bsky.social

i think one issue is that this approach has proven to be a total failure. a partisan who sees the right as morally deficient will have had a better track record at predicting the events of the last few years than someone who is endlessly trying to demonstrate their nuance.

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that’s not what “POV” means but you know what you’re hot so…sure

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

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The bosses all understood this is what voting for Trump was voting for. If youre a worker and you thought it was for cheaper groceries or lower rent or access to burrito taxis or whatever you got conned

I would literally rather you leave c*m in the sink than all your little whiskers

quick question for the people who shave at the gym: what the fuck is wrong with you

Timeline cleanse: Insta video of Allen Dershowitz being told by Martha's Vineyard police to stop harassing vendors or be charged with trespassing after three different sellers refused him service. 1/3

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