Petey - DON'T TELL THE BOYS (Official Video) YouTube video by Petey USA

Do you know about this, @alexsteed.bsky.social

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ffs. I can’t tell you how careful we are at every tiny meeting of booksellers not to talk about pricing in any way. We’re already at a disadvantage and just knowing they’re doing this (on top of everything else!) and nothing is going to happen to them is so demoralizing.

Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

The Trump Admin paid a company $1 billion to cancel its offshore wind leases. They cited “national security” + “environmental” concerns.

Literally days later, they removed a critical endangered species protection to allow unfettered drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Just mindboggling hypocrisy.

Gasoline could drop below $4 in coming days Gasoline costs should start to fall soon, although a full recovery to pre-war prices is expected to take months. That's assuming that peace holds and traffic flows resume through the Strait of Hormuz.

I can't believe someone greenlit this hed. "Oh, I'm sure this is the ceasefire and Strait opening that's going to last. Print it."

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Nobody protects the interests of capital like John Roberts. If you haven't read this whole thing, you should:

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Oh, 100%. Anyone trying to paint Mills as some kind of progressive is just making shit up. She's a feminist, for sure, and has legit broken glass ceilings all over the place, but she's largely a social and fiscal moderate, in general. She's a rule-following cop with the heart of a poet.

Remember, kids: If you just started paying attention, that must mean that the school board just started talking about it.

Have you been wondering about that whole "trad wife" thing? You should read "Yesteryear." Maybe Hannah's favorite book of the year so far?

If Janet vetoes this bill over, like, 12 jobs in Jay, that's going to be pretty frustrating.

Agreed. At this point, I would be shocked if Platner is not the senator. Voters are fed up and he's a vessel for their anger.

This feels like a "throw them all out" election, and the Repuplicans clearly agree, with that batch of unenrollees running for senate.

I've never thought she wanted the job. I think the national dems knew about all the Platner skeletons and convinced her that if she didn't run, Platner would win the primary and then get eviscerated by the skeletons in the general. She's taking one for the team and it shows.

This is disingenuous even for Jim Fossel. He's seriously arguing the GOP's candidates are more accomplished than the Dems' in Maine's fed races?

He says Janet's too old, but Paul LePage is younger by ... a year?

I can't believe the Press Herald continues to publish this absolute nob.

Democrats planning to run in November’s midterm elections have been advised not to antagonise pro-AI campaign groups that have amassed more than $300mn to fight for the industry’s priorities. The warnings by top party consultants, corroborated by people close to four different campaigns and party strategists speaking on the condition of anonymity, come despite internal polling for Democrats showing widespread public support for tougher AI rules.

They're calling it the best democracy ever.

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WTF.

There’s something Eichmann-like in the way these people talk about starving and immiserating millions of people as a kind of technical problem.

This is solid ad for the primary. I continue to be surprised by the "nepo-baby" criticism of Hannah. She's politically very accomplished with big wins on her record. I'm genuinely fascinated by how the Dem governor primary turns out. Wish we were seeing more collaboration and appeals for #2s.

I mean, come on. It's infuriating.

Our school budget is an amazing piece of work. Administrators poring over thousands of line items, justifying every spend, long discussions about ROI, capital lifespans, strategic planning to produce immaculate results. Up 5%.

Feds are like: "How about ... another half trillion? Give or take?"

"What if we just used the one-to-one devices like kindles and replaced physical books with pdfs? Mightn't that be cheaper?"

It might, yeah. BUT WHAT IF WE JUST DIDN'T SHOOT MISSILES AT OTHER COUNTRIES FOR NO DISCERNIBLE REASON? COULD WE TRY THAT, TOO?

It's just so frustrating to scrounge for every dollar so that we can afford to replace 20-year-old treadmills for the PE classes and athletes, to come up with $50k for summer school for kids with disabilities, while we're raining million-dollar missiles down thousands of miles from our shores.

And why am I having 30-minute conversations about $16k in book-buying budget for the schools with VERY SERIOUS PEOPLE who are the very same people who think we should increase the defense budget by half a trillion dollars?

That question is insanely not hyperbole in any way.

Headlines could read, "TAXPAYERS ONLY BEING ASKED FOR 5% INCREASE!"

But they don't. Why not? Why is the de facto position "flat budget" when that is virtually impossible for any government to deliver?

Municipal budgets go up. They are largely made up of people, and people expect to get raises every year, because the economy needs to grow in this capitalistic system of ours, and things get slightly more expensive by design.

But every news story is like, "TAXPAYERS ASKED TO PAY MORE!"

Crazy, right?

Statement from UMAW in @pitchfork.com as Ticketmaster-Live Nation is found to be an illegal monopoly

Genuine lol at "yeah, we've been teaching just-war theory for 1000 years, actually."

I'm no fan of the Catholic Church, but that's a pretty solid retort.

Yes, that's what I meant. My understanding is that AI-generated code doesn't things you didn't ask for or hope for, that you have to then go fix, but I don't have direct experience of that, so don't have any real idea.

I think most of society is happy to have spatulas, flashlights, and headphones, while I think most people could live to 100 without a card-game simulator, was my argument, but that's why I allowed that "coding" writ large was useful.

You have no ethical qualms with AI's use of human work product?

I think of "useful" as having some kind of broader societal application, but I guess "helps you code faster" is the broader use you're talking about.

My understanding is that AI code is pretty buggy and untrustworthy, but I don't really having anything I want to code, so I'm no expert.