The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.
It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.
Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!
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The plan to demonize creativity, the arts and entrepreneurship while simultaneously shoving AI products down our throats that seemingly make 99% of things worse isn't going to work. We need the robots do the laundry while the people make stuff robots can't dream of. That's a good future.
I have a modest proposal. We just start running billionaires yachts through the strait until it’s all cleaned up.
A reminder— for most of the trump-vance era: vast majority of stuff you’ve read about or heard about re: the administration’s mass detention & mass deportation regime? The stuff that appalls you? Gotta keep in mind almost all of it you didn’t see live-streamed. The horrors go on behind closed doors…
Some of you rich men have to be taught that all the world cannot be bribed into condoning your offences.
RFK Jr. fired all of the legitimate scientific experts on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and replaced them with unqualified political appointees.
A judge just ruled that the new members were not appropriately appointed, so ACIP cannot meet this week to spread more misinformation.
We’re told there’s no money for universal healthcare or to end hunger in this country. But somehow $200 billion more for war will likely move through Congress without question.
Not another penny for another endless war.
In fact, I’m going to have a little rant about this. I’m sick and tired of journalists from reputable outlets talking about “the threat of AI” to software companies without ever explaining what they mean or any of the economic effects involved. Adobe isn’t being killed by “AI” - we’re at the end of the hypergrowth era of software, and the only thing that grows forever is cancer. It also gives executives Narayen cover for running operations built on deceit, exploitation, extraction and capital deployment. Years of evaluating these companies entirely based on their revenues and imagined things like “the threat of AI” without any connection to actual fucking software makes the majority of the analysis of software entirely useless. Nothing even really has to change about reporting. Just use the product! Use it and tell me how you feel. Talk to some customers. Spend more than 20 minutes on Facebook. Use Photoshop tell me how many popups you get, or whether it inexplicably slows down or starts eating up RAM. You’ll quickly see that we’re in a crisis that’s less about AI and more about creating a tech industry powered by creating mediocre software and putting far more effort into making a business impossible to avoid. Decades of this psuedo-journalism mean that a great many business reporters are simply unprepared to discuss what’s actually happening, evaluating software companies based on 10-Ks and shadows on the wall of a fucking cave. The tech industry has done a great job of scaring reporters into thinking that having a negative opinion is somehow “not supporting innovation,” and I want to be clear that refusing to criticize the tech industry is what’s actually stopping innovation. Letting these companies get away with ruining either the products they build or the products they buy is creating a climate in which the most-successful companies are the ones that crowd out the competition and raise prices. Adobe’s growth has come from being a fucking asshole. It…
Products that provide value are enshittified, and the products they acquire have been (or came pre-) enshittified. The prices have gone up. The nags to consumers have increased. Revenues have gone up because these companies have been allowed to buy effectively anyone they want - though Adobe was, thankfully, stopped from acquiring Figma - and increase prices whenever they want, and when it’s come time to evaluate the health or strength or actual value of these companies, all that anybody ever looks at is revenues. Perhaps your argument might be that the markets don’t care about how good something is, except the markets are influenced by journalism and financial analysts. The markets celebrate dogshit companies like Meta that make broken, harmful products because their disgusting monopolies allow them to brutalize businesses and consumers alike. What we’re seeing in the software industry are the limits of how much one can abuse a customer, a business model that SaaS enabled and both the tech media and analysts celebrated because it worked, in the sense that it worked at making the software companies rich. And because the people at the top have chased out anybody who knows what “good” looks like and empowered vacuous growth-perverts at every level, these companies have no idea what to do to stop the tide from coming in. Your argument might be that these companies couldn’t grow so fast without fucking customers over or making their products worse - and at that point you should ask yourself what you want the world to look like, and how willingly you’ve participated in making it look how it does today. The decline has yet to fully begin, but a CEO doesn’t suddenly decide to quit their company after 18 years during record results because the future looks bright. The real SaaSpocalypse is the comeuppance for decades of focusing businesses on growth by any means possible, and the hysterical non-analysis of blaming it on AI is a sign that those responsible can’t be…
I also want to address the fictitious "AI is destroying software companies" narrative. Adobe and other software companies' biggest threat is that they're terrible businesses run by screwing over customers. AI has nothing to do with it.
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get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.
Unidos somos América.
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
GEORGIA — @ossoff.senate.gov : “This is a SEISMIC event. This should have people across 🇺🇸 absolutely shook. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office… this is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections.” (H/T @atrupar.com )
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
he knows that we know he's lying. he's telling us we're all terrorists to him. he's telling us that to dissent is now a capital crime. he's telling us they'll shoot us, too, and they'll say we deserved it.
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come
This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
Every ICE officer should be tried for crimes against humanity.
JD Vance V @JDVance I want every ICE officer to know that their president, vice president, and the entire administration stands behind them. To the radicals assaulting them, doxxing them, and threatening them: congratulations, we're going to work even harder to enforce the law.
Never mind that this isn’t the definition of doxing in the first place, but you can’t dox a federal employee. If you’re a public servant, your identity isn’t “hidden.” It’s on public records. People can access those public records.
Before we go, I have to acknowledge the ICE summary execution of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. This 37-year old woman leaves behind a young child whose father has already passed away. Like many of you, I'm in a state of shock after watching the two different video angles of the final moments of her life. She posed no danger to ICE at all, they shot her through her windshield anyway, and then DHS Secretary Kristi Noem—in full contradiction of the video evidence—lied, saying that Good attempted to ram the officers. Supported by Donald Trump, she called it an act of terrorism. Well, there was an act of terrorism, and ICE committed it. Justice for Renee Nicole Good.
I’m not going to lie. I’ve been writing about the War on Terror in its depravity my whole adult life. And the brazen execution of Renee Nicole Good has left me in a state since the moment I watched it.
I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
Make it viral.
There is a grave moral consequence to letting this go on. Shut down the government, have a general strike, grind the country to a halt, hit the streets. But not treating a demented administration lying about its thugs committing cold-blooded murder as an emergency? That is an emergency in itself.
NEW: The ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, the Venezuela attack, the new White House Jan. 6 website—these each convey a powerful & unsettling message from Trump, Miller, and their crew: Violence is ours to use, at home and abroad, to get what we want. Beware.
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i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all
They would gladly kill you and slander you despite overwhelming evidence and footage and eyewitnesses that it was murder.
This isn’t something that elections will fix. It’s going to take a massive reformation and these criminals will have to be punished.
