Jeff Wheeler, The Minnesota Star Tribune

Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.

Part of our constitutional crisis is that Republicans are stopping Congress from playing its fundamental oversight role.

People have got to stop framing existential threats to our democracy in terms of simple policy disagreements

Our Polish friends deserve much better from us.

“We call it Brown Nose Gold”

Do I know anyone who works at IG or knows someone who works at IG who can handle a fake account impersonating/harassing someone? Would appreciate a DM.

if Steve Jobs was right and the computer is a "bicycle for the mind" then we were fools to ever take it onto the "information super-highway"

These fascist goons are mobilizing the whole power of the US government to persecute this one man and ruin his life, because he embarrassed them.

LAPD shoot US woman with a rubber bullet for trying to get into her home, they were blocking her entrance and there was no protest in sight.

“Holy fuck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” ( www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlore) #3E #StopICE

Earlier this evening, the Univision crew grabbed their gear and started running when federal police began shooting pepper balls at us. @lataco.bsky.social

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

I don’t need to have Karl Rove of FoxNews to tell me what to do. The guy’s a total Loser who’s been wrong about almost everything!

old man yells at TV

no one hates america more than the people currently shredding the constitution and our democracy because they can't tolerate the existence of minorities and to do so in the name of patriotism and national devotion is the biggest lie of all

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"

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A portion of John Quincy Adams' Amistad argument before SCOTUS: "I will not recur to the Declaration of Independence--your Honors have it implanted in your hearts--but one of the grievous charges brought against George III. was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. The whole of the reasoning is not applicable to this case, but I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of Africans, and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court."

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

OMG

"This issue was addressed by using HTTPS when sending information over the network."

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

You don’t have to ask <if> or <when> the democratic backsliding will occur. It’s already well underway & people are only just realizing how far down the rabbit hole we’ve gone.

One reason Americans have no idea how much their government benefits them is that it never actually shuts down when Congress can’t pass a budget. Thousands of essential personnel keep doing their jobs and not getting paid. No American has really experienced a true government shut down.

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JD Vance V @JDVance Follow Here's my view: I obviously disagree with some of Elez's posts, but I don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life. We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever. So I say bring him back. If he's a bad dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that. T Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • 2h Bring back @DOGE staffer who made inappropriate statements via a now deleted pseudonym? Show this poll

This is called a reframe.The focus is being shifted from the beliefs of the person in question to how they were exposed.

The absolutism make little sense if you think about it - what if a reporter exposes crimes? What’s a “bad dude”? The goal is for moral outrage to cloud rational thought.

Competition is good!

OpenAI o3-mini is showing it CoT.

Republican candidate: “I’m a black Nazi”

Me: “this guy is a nazi”

Median voter: “you can’t keep calling everyone you don’t like a nazi. He’s black, he can’t be a Nazi.”

/based on a true story.

Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

headlines from a week ago as an incident near DCA appears to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 9/11 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

If DeepSeek showing reasoning traces makes OpenAI react to consumer market pressure and show the o1 reasoning traces in ChatGPT it'll be a wonderful, beautiful outcome.

Really subtle, unexpected interaction effect I wasn't expecting being way too deep in AI. We have much to learn in UX.

Some addicts still on the bird site are under the delusion that they're not influenced by the algorithm because they only use the "following feed". This either intentionally or naively ignores that people you follow use the algorithmic feed. So you're still seeing content promoted by the algorithm.

/2 It’s something anyone can do. Caring about whether something is true or not, and calling out lies, defies Trumpism. Treating people as humans even if Trumpists don’t think they are is defiance of Trumpism. Refusing to hate and revile Trumpists’ targets defies Trumpism. You can do that.