We call it a “tariff” instead of an import tax on Americans. A “plurality” becomes a popular vote mandate. An authoritarian movement gets called “conservative.” Language isn’t neutral. Every word is an argument. We’ve been making theirs.
2024 U.S. Presidential Election results map and summary. Republican Donald J. Trump (with J.D. Vance) won with 312 electoral votes (58%) and 77,303,568 popular votes (49.81%). Democrat Kamala Harris (with Tim Walz) received 226 electoral votes (42%) and 75,019,230 popular votes (48.34%). Third-party candidates received 2,878,359 votes (1.85%). The electoral map shows a majority of states in red (Republican), with blue states concentrated on the coasts and upper Midwest. Nebraska’s 2nd district and Maine’s 1st district split their electoral votes, shown in purple.
Trump lost the popular vote.
Located in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, “Waiting for the Interurban” is a 1978 aluminum sculpture by Richard Beyer. It depicts six figures (and a dog with a human face) waiting for a streetcar that no longer runs.
Located in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, “Waiting for the Interurban” is a 1978 aluminum sculpture by Richard Beyer. It has six figures (and a dog with a human face) waiting for a streetcar that no longer runs.
I was scrolling past and thought it was an old photo of Thomas Dolby.
A cream and golden-tan Silken Windhound reclines regally on an orange upholstered armchair, one long feathered leg draped over the armrest. The dog gazes directly at the camera with dark, attentive eyes. Behind it rests a decorative throw pillow printed with a hare motif — an irony the dog appears entirely unbothered by. Warm, dim ambient lighting gives the scene a painterly quality.
Two screenshots, one from the New York Times, the other from the AP. NYT: Trump Attacks Pope Leo as Too Liberal and Weak on Crime President Trump's lengthy post on social media showed there were really no boundaries when it comes to people he might target, including the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. AP: Justice Department moves to toss seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys
The Pope: too soft on crime.
The seditious conspirators who attacked the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the government: that’s actually fine, let them go.
This is the insane (a)moral framework we’re dealing with. 🙄
Screenshot of a New York Times post. A photo of JD Vance, and a headline that reads: Vance Says Pope Leo Should Stay Out of U.S. Affairs www.nytimes.com
A screenshot of a BBC post, featuring a photo of JD Vance shaking hands with now former Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán, and a headline that reads: JD Vance backs Orbán's reelection bid in Budapest visit and hits out at EU Nick Thorpe, Budapest correspondent and Paul Kirby, Europe digital editor
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Screenshot of a post by Donald Trump showing an AI-generated image depicting himself in the pose and visual iconography of Jesus Christ performing a faith healing — his hand on the forehead of a recumbent ill man, radiating divine light. Trump wears white robes with a red sash. Surrounding figures include a praying woman, a soldier, a nurse, and men in MAGA caps, all gazing upward reverently. The background features an American flag, bald eagles, the Statue of Liberty, fireworks, military jets, and ascending angelic figures bathed in heavenly light. The image borrows directly from Christian devotional painting conventions to present Trump as a messianic savior figure.
And not to put too fine a point on it, but the lunatic just posted this. He’s dangerously unhinged. America is an embarrassment, and has become a pariah state. This insane, obscene, hollow little man has done generational damage.
They could literally do it every single day for the next three years. But instead, I keep seeing them blather on about the 25th, when they could spend that time taking an action they actually have some control over. It will get tabled. But force it. If you are an opposition party, oppose.
Dem House members need to stop talking about the 25th Amendment. Cabinet members aren’t going to remove Trump.
Any House Democrat can introduce impeachment articles today, and use privilege to bring it to the floor. The minority leader can do it without even giving notice.
A BBC news headline image from November 4, 2024, reporting on Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election. “Donald Trump wins 2024 US election in historic comeback • 4 November 2024”
Some things are, you know, just bad ideas…
This graphic from Brady United presents three gun violence statistics about the United States: 35% — The U.S. accounts for 35% of global firearm suicides, despite representing only 4% of the world's population. 1 million — Over 1 million people in America have been shot in the past decade. 40-year high — Gun deaths reached a 40-year high in 2021, with 48,830 deaths that year. Each stat is sourced and presented as part of Brady United's gun violence prevention advocacy.
And we should all listen to @santiagomayer.com on this one…
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Protest sign: “HEY TRUMP NO ONE PAID US TO BE HERE WE ALL HATE YOU FOR FREE!”
Tomorrow is No Kings Day. 3,000+ events, all 50 states.
This week Trump put his signature on your money.
George Washington refused to go on a coin while he was alive. Called it monarchical.
nokings.org. Show up however you can.
So, are we to believe a regime that has a long history of deception, corruption, misogyny, violence against its own citizens, and embrace of religious bigotry – or do we believe the Iranian government?
This sort of sounds like the kind of thing you’d say because you are worried that sometime in the future, someone might be sitting in a courtroom, saying, “Pam is the architect of making all these plans work.”
A social media post by Donald Trump on 3/22/2026: “Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democrat Party! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT”
Who knows what foul, urine-like fluid is coursing through his cranium. But even acknowledging that he has a bottomless capacity for reprehensible remarks, this is particularly obscene.
Oh yeah. Nothing like masked, thuggish hotheads shooting Americans in crowded airports to speed up those security lines. FFS. 🙄
I’m fortunate in that I use these tools a lot, and have learned to leverage specialized data repositories, persona-based prompting, good techniques and methods, etc. But general, commercially marketed LLM instances don’t offer or emphasize that stuff.
But an LLM responds very differently to a vague question versus a well-scoped one with context and constraints. It’s just how the tool works. But the industry not being out front saying “you need to learn how to use this” is its own form of misleading users.
But one very underappreciated piece, I’d say: prompting skills, and understanding of how prompting works, matters enormously. And most commercial products seem to actively obscure that. They’re marketed as answer engines. Just ask, and you’ll get truth, accuracy, etc.
Where I’d gently push back: fit for purpose matters a lot here. An LLM used as a real-time, factual database is, I think, misapplied. Used for drafting, brainstorming, or synthesis, the results can be good. The problem is the product doesn’t really signal that distinction.
And your specialist knowledge test does reveal another genuine gap, in that training data skews toward popular, generalist content, so niche technical depth is often just missing.
I’d agree the vacation planning type of failures are real and well-documented: LLMs confabulate confidently, which is certainly a structural issue.
