for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺
Hungary for change (sorry not sorry)
Congrats to X's product team for discovering basic content moderation from first principles - it's a shame they couldn't be bothered to listen to the people who already worked all this out around 15 years ago
Philosophers are just so sick of getting asked that second question is comes up SO often
Mr Gorbachev, I’m building my own wall.
this is traditionally when the jedi council gets involved
I'm not sure how "the US starts claiming its blockading the strait of hormuz too" helps with unlocking the strait of hormuz but then i guess that's why trump is president and i'm not
‘Kenna appears to be a businessman for our times: channelling the hallucinations of chatbots and AI hype to conjure his own AI dream, and misleading plenty of people – including MPs and major companies – along the way.’
Incredible piece.
manchestermill.co.uk/is-chris-ken...
"However bad the Iran conflict has been for Trump, it has been worse for Vance…By choosing to re-emerge and make himself the face of the peace talks, Vance was taking a political gamble: if he could claim the credit for ending the unpopular war, maybe he could turn a weakness into a strength."
Huh, are you writing a book?
The most common response I get when I ask the question is that it was "boring", fwiw.
Holy hell
It would not be the first time. Though (and I may be wrong here) I wonder if I'll get a more muted reaction by more explicitly tying it to Trump.
The contempt for your own supporters of sharing stories they could disprove with a single Google aside, I do end up wondering whether Trump even remembers that he didn't actually do this, or whether he's so high on his own supply that he now thinks this actually happened as described.
A wordless quote post by Trump of a screengrab of a "Trump girl" post by @MAGA_Patriot
Minor but weird: Trump is sharing this viral slop about him "privately" buying Ed McMahon's home when he faced foreclosure in 2008.
In reality, he very publicly made this offer, through the media, and got lots of coverage. But the transaction never happened: McMahon sold to another buyer.
Politicians might feel like they have to pander to voters – though how's that working out? – but the rest of us shouldn't feel obliged to do the same.
The US electorate wasn't tricked in 2024, and they weren't responding to an economic crisis, either. They had it good, and they did what they did.
There are a lot of varieties of left and centre-left cope, and they always end badly for us.
After the brexit vote, for example, we had endless conversations about microtargeting and Russian influence to avoid actually having to look at why voters had chosen to back that terrible decision.
America had never been better off than it was in 2024 and a majority of Americans still felt the world owed them a better deal, and were willing to elect a corrupt sex pest who'd tried to overthrow their democracy to get it.
That needs to be reckoned with. Vibecession feels like a way to dodge it.
Hadn't thought about that tbf, thanks!
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Late last year, Alex Jones went after Candace Owens, suggesting that she was suffering from severe psychological issues.
Now he says, “Candace Owens was ahead of the curve, and I officially apologized to her.”
Happy anniversary to all who celebrate (the greatest celebrity-on-celebrity social media takedown of all time)
Hi guys!
I am at a wedding dominated by Labour types, including at least two MPs, and the number of layers of meaning to dancing to D:Ream would take a PhD to disentangle
Think also the thing here is...why are those two things even part of any application
Like why aren't both just auto-generated when the application is completed, who needs to even check those things, what is the fucking point
Yeah I realised I snapped more tetchily than I should have, too, so sorry in turn for that!
real "angry resident pointing at potholes for his local paper" energy to wes here, somehow
On the whole I'd rather err on the side of accessibility, of course. But the point I was making (badly due to brevity) is increasingly I don't feel it's for accessibility, it's more to avoid the aggro of cheap owns. And I do wonder if there are better solutions than alt text readily around now too.
I just worry it turns into something mostly performative. You see people who spend their lives jumping on people for not using alt text usually as an easy dunk. It seems quite rare to see people mentioning they actually use it – especially as we get to a point where tailored uses might be easier etc
I do the alt text thing. I feel like being scolded for not having the correct mental attitude while doing it is probably excessive even for bluesky.