Not sure I’d read a book on Catholicism by a guy who keeps getting personally called out by the Vatican for not understanding Catholicism.

Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility and I'll take the opportunity to once again say that trans people matter, their lives have meaning, and what's being done to them by so many politicians and people in this country is wrong.

No matter how much it's talked about, it's still not talked about enough that the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case on whether the words in the 14th amendment mean what the words in the 14th amendment mean.

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

Stupid racist

it's not that LLMs have no utility, I think that's an extremely silly claim to make, it's that their utility is limited right now and you have to understand the constraints and weaknesses. instead it feels like the most enthusiastic LLM users are just dull and lazy and lacking shame and standards

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.

@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:

It won't happen, but every headline tomorrow should emphasize that Trump is the one blocking a solution to the airport crisis. He owns the shutdown now.

Too much money to be made off of gaming the show.

Comparing the Democrats to a country he’s bombing. This is authoritarian demagoguery. If a Republican doesn’t denounce this, s/he is enabling it.

If there is one thing I’ve learned is that if a project is struggling, adding a bunch of new trainees always helps, especially if they’re being paid and you’re not, and they’re the reason you’re not being paid

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame.

13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find.

Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️

Seems like a kind of bewildering proportion of the people extralegally concentrated at these facilities wind up dead. What do you call that

“ICE does not merely have a compliance problem,” said Alaink Kemple of the Mass Blackout Coalition. “It has a documented record of killing people in custody, sexually abusing children, detaining and deporting American citizens, and defying federal courts.”

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit.
www.cato.org/white-paper/...

Like getting pregnant in the United States?

Man these DOGE videos are like the parody of the fantastical version of “unelected bureaucrats” Republicans have railed on for years

twould be nice

Was going to quote something like "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them" but no, he is just plain fuckin stupid.

These people are, to be blunt, substantially less intelligent than they believe they are.

Definitely trying their damnedest to test the floor of that approval rating...

Called for a tow from the scene of an accident nearly three hours ago. Still waiting.

Thanks for the lovely afternoon long wait, Subaru/Toyota roadside assistance… #StillWaiting

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

Remember how Trump's SOTU included a line about how he'd stopped eight wars, including Israel v. Iran?

“Mr President, your approval ratings are in the toilet, the economy is looking increasingly brittle, and you are sailing one tide ahead of a swarm of personal and corruption scandals. The midterms are looking ominous.”

“What if I started a war of choice and made gas $7 per gallon this summer?”

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy