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Criticizing the government for spending money on the space program rather than social welfare on Earth is hardly new. Haven’t you heard Whitey on the Moon? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_...

There is really no one better than Brian Merchant to write about violent resistance to technologies displacing workers:

Why the AI backlash has turned violent And why it's probably only going to get worse from here.

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center.

Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

Nachos are underrated

trump is doing conservative tears posts now? lmfao. good luck, probably a sustainable movement

If a person impersonates a doctor or lawyer and then provides bad advice, they can be held liable.

@kristengonzalez.bsky.social says the same standard should apply to AI chatbots: www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2026...

Unsurprisingly, NYC-DSA voted to endorse AOC for reelection, as attention shifts to 2028.

Here’s my report, with additional quotes from last week’s DSA candidate forum with her: www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

The Mamdani administration today announced its own click to cancel rule, to make sure that every subscription transaction in the city is as easy to end as it is to start.
The FTC did this in 2023, it was challenged in court & Trump's FTC wouldn't defend it. NYC is doing it themselves.

New York Is Closing In on Amazon’s Shady Delivery System Amazon has long exploited subcontracting to avoid taking responsibility for its delivery drivers. A bill introduced by socialist New York City Councilor Tiffany Cabán would force the e-commerce giant to directly employ its drivers.

Amazon has long exploited subcontracting to avoid taking responsibility for its delivery drivers.

A bill introduced by socialist New York City Councilor Tiffany Cabán would force the e-commerce giant to directly employ its drivers.

Teen who went to photograph L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland S...

"Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent and is now blind."

For the Americans who have never been below a drone that wasn't theirs, there's really no way to communicate how it feels. I only had to experience it once, outside Bethlehem in Palestine, watching it circle slowly above our group. It is a profoundly unsettling and disturbing experience.

"Peter Sterne is a former DSA member, probably one of the best as far as insider information on all of the comings and goings of DSA." - Hasan Piker www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdwz...

Trump Threatens to Kill Thousands More Iranians in Unnerving Tirades In a blunt warning, Senator Chris Murphy tells us that “everybody in that chain of command has to think hard” about carrying out such a hideously inhumane order, which he described as “war crimes.”

If Trump bombs power plants in Iran, the humanitarian crisis will be horrific. Experts tell me to expect water shortages, closed hospitals, many deaths.

“We’ve never had a US president so proudly promise to commit war crimes," Sen Chris Murphy says. 1/

(new piece)
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“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

City Hall cut references to ‘DEI’ from NYC racial equity plan The Mamdani administration is worried about the Trump administration’s reaction to its legally mandated report.

SCOOP: A whistleblower tells me that early drafts of NYC's racial equity plan included explicit references to DEI, which City Hall cut to avoid drawing the wrath of the Trump administration. www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2026/...

Trump Wants to Make Deportation Deals. Autocrats Are Ready to Listen.

Trump is bribing & pressuring his would-be-vassal-state autocrats to build a global network of concentration camps.

This is the foreign policy side of the “pretermission” crisis in immigration court. 🧵

I think a key dividing line between young millennials and elder Gen Z is whether or not pandemic lockdowns impacted your high school/college experience.

I graduated college in 2014, so I can’t imagine what it would be like to do Zoom classes for a year – but younger folks lived through it.

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Have you seen the old sketch where Mamdani (and state Sen. Jabari Brisport) imagine if the fire department worked like our health insurance system? www.facebook.com/NYHCampaign/...

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

A screenshot of a tweet from Peter Sterne from May 29, 2016: "Gawker has a slackbot that replies 'Fuckboy?' every time my name is mentioned" Attached is a a screenshot of a Slack conversation showing a slackbot doing just that.

Remember this?

Honestly, the dynamic I once had with Gawker – where their staffers leaked to me so often that it became an inside joke, and I was seen as the leading journalist covering the company – is not that dissimilar from the dynamic I now have with NYC-DSA.

At DSA forum, AOC pledges not to vote for any military aid to Israel Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez previously said she supported sending “defensive” arms to Israel, which had led some DSA members to oppose endorsing her for reelection.

Read the full story on NYC-DSA's forum with AOC here: www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

At DSA forum, AOC pledges not to vote for any military aid to Israel Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez previously said she supported sending “defensive” arms to Israel, which had led some DSA members to oppose endorsing her for reelection.

Late-night scoop: At DSA forum, AOC pledges not to vote for any military aid to Israel – including so-called "defensive" weapons www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

At DSA forum, AOC pledges not to vote for any military aid to Israel Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez previously said she supported sending “defensive” arms to Israel, which had led some DSA members to oppose endorsing her for reelection.

Read the full story on NYC-DSA's forum with AOC here: www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: At tonight’s NYC-DSA electoral forum, @aoc.bsky.social committed to voting against “any spending on arms for Israel, including so-called defensive capabilities.”

Tonight (right now actually) NYC-DSA is holding a virtual candidate forum with AOC as they consider whether to endorse her for reelection.

The endorsement itself hardly matters – AOC will obviously win reelection – but it’s significant as DSA and AOC prep for a potential presidential run in 2028.

But the court, like the American legal system writ large, is a complex institution that influences and is influenced by larger society but also justifies its actions by its own internal logic (i.e. principles of constitutional common law).

Its decisions can & should be interpreted in both contexts.

These are often parallel conversations between people who reject the court’s legitimacy and see it as a purely political institution and lawyers/legal experts who implicitly accept the court’s legitimacy and only consider whether a court ruling correctly applies existing case law.

When evaluating Supreme Court rulings, we should consider both whether they are good decisions and whether they are good law. The former is exogenous, looking at the SC in the context of larger politics & society. The latter is endogenous, looking at whether the decision is consistent with case law.

Regulating a therapeutic intervention is different from banning speech. You can say whatever you want in your personal life, but you can't harm your clients. I can't believe two of the liberal justices were convinced differently.