People Really, Really Despise AI — Even More Than ICE, Poll Finds According to a new national survey conducted by NBC News, AI is viewed even more negatively than the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Just dropping this here

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The Forces of Scarcity Hitting Asia May Soon Spread Across the World

As I said at the outset: this is a deeply stupid war being waged by a deeply unstable and doddering old man and his deeply incompetent administration.

But the depth of the stupidity, and the lasting global repercussions, are even greater than I anticipated.

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Win or lose, there remains a real measure of promise and decency in America that is worth the fight. And win or lose, there is no dignity for any of us unwilling to have that fight.

Firing and jailing RFK is the moderate position

So much for being politically homeless.

Kash Patel chugging a beer

you’re telling me this guy has a drinking problem

kash patel meeting with his security detail

I'm also trying to imagine what the equivalent of "You need to let us steal all of your copyrighted material and use up all the water to do this" re: cellphones and I'm coming up empty-handed.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

Chuck Schumer's two votes tonight in favor of bombs and bulldozers to Israel is yet another reason Senate Democrats must vote to remove him as leader post the midterms.

One of our (many) problems in America is elites unwilling to acknowledge self-evident realities, and then apologizing if they ever acknowledge one by accident

“I don’t want to see the pope as a politician”

lady I got some news for you about how you get elected pope by a conclave of powerful men who all have strong opinions on how one of the oldest institutions in the world should be run

“People who don’t understand the ‘just war doctrine’ are asking some tough questions misunderstanding the people who do.”

i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.

I don't know if young people these days understand that this kind of grotesque gutter racism was simply not acceptable in public... not that long ago!

Love seeing conservatives argue for separation between church and state but only when religious doctrine conflicts with blowing people up

With Orbán gone, has the British far right lost its magic money tree? Hungary’s new PM has described his predecessor’s funding of propaganda bodies as criminal and vowed to investigate. This could be bad news for ultraconservatives in the UK – and around the rest of the...

NEW Hungary’s new PM has described Viktor Orbán’s funding of propaganda bodies as criminal and vowed to investigate.

Bad news for ultraconservatives in the UK!

Alice McCool's deep dive into Orban, his propaganda college MCC – and its links to the British right ⏬

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This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win

Diplo Says Creatives Need To Use AI Or 'Give Up' Given basically everything we know about him, from his luxury expedition to Antarctica to his friendship with RFK Jr., Diplo profiles as an AI bro. It turns out he is. A few weeks ago, Diplo discussed...

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Diplo: “ You're not gonna win. There's no fighting AI. You have to just work your best to be the best at it right now. You're wasting your time. You're just wasting a year of being like, ‘Eh,’ because everybody else is gonna just use it and not give a fuck of what you think.”

The inevitability argument is so infuriating, particularly when it’s an artist making it.

Even if Diplo turns out to be right — and there’s no way to know in advance whether he is — what self-respecting artist wouldn’t want to go down swinging rather than accept that slop will ultimately prevail?

He is a grown-ass man of 20, legally and morally responsible for his actions.

I hope they haunt him forever. He's a monster.

i spoke to a classroom of fifth graders today about being a journalist and it was a blast. kids are great!

JD Vance's speech in Hungary was widely mocked, and deservedly so. But I think it deserves our attention. As vile as he is, he made common cause with right-populists abroad. He laid out a vision of a shared international future. We shouldn't cede that turf. 4/

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Trump’s Humiliation in Orbán Defeat Stunner Is Only Just Beginning For Viktor Orbán’s epic loss in Hungary to have real meaning in America, Democrats and liberals need to proclaim themselves part of the global anti-authoritarian movement.

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/

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“Their narrative of inevitability is a way of getting people to comply in advance. Nothing humans do is inevitable, I said. It is all determined by politics, money and power. And if we lacked money and power, perhaps we had politics.”

As the author of the screenshot, let me state it clearly: I do not consider myself a "bully" but if "bullying" is necessary to keep influential people from working on behalf of scams like Kalshi and Coinbase, I think it's worth the cost. Working for private enterprise is fine. Selling their BS isn't