DC single-issue voter for making buses reliable

If you can afford to hire Quinn Emmanuel you don't need to be asking an LLM for legal advice lmao

See also: the Q-Line in Detroit

We are planning to make chai pumpkin pie this year at Thanksgiving. Chai gelt is a natural next step

I read this as the Desi chai and not the Hebrew chai and thought this was actually a huge win for the Hinjew community.

Oh my god it was right after the chorus dropped too

Turns out that selling something people don't need is a transferable skill!

Re-upping this for the afternoon:

Every thousand-page click-through consumer contract is a policy failure.

Murderbot is getting a season 2 on Apple TV Plus Apple TV Plus is doubling down on its Murderbot adaptation.

Happy Murderbot renewal day!!!

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I have (Hindu) Lohana heritage and this was fascinating to learn! My friend married an Ismaili recently, and attending their wedding was delightful because of how much we have in common. Now I understand the roots of it in more detail - we truly are so similar!

We lost the election by 114 votes, and she never faced any consequences.

Honestly? That event radicalized me. For some reason, UF SG was a beacon for morally corrupt power-seekers. It was a microcosm of the worst tendencies of our national politics. And now, it's become our national politics.

Screenshot of a NYTimes article with the following text. A loyal partisan In February 2012, Ms. Miller was a 20-year-old student government fixture at the University of Florida when her political allies received some unwelcome news: The head football coach, perhaps the ranking authority on any Southern campus, was endorsing against their preferred vice-presidential candidate. But voters could not know what they did not see. So around 9 a.m. one Monday, according to eyewitnesses at the time, Ms. Miller and a colleague from their “Unite Party” swiped 268 copies of the student newspaper chronicling the endorsement and deposited them in the trash. When confronted, Ms. Miller denied any involvement, even amid follow-up coverage from the student paper and an eventual apology letter from her peer that named Ms. Miller and placed her at the scene.

When I was a freshman at UF, I campaigned for some friends who were running for student government.

The day before the election, Katie Miller (then Katie Waldman) and one of her friends threw away copies of the student newspaper that reported an endorsement for our party.

First and foremost, the models that drive this tech were created illegally. That's not hyperbole. We have the evidence that these companies went out of their way to find and download copywrited and trademarked works to train the models.
bsky.app/profile/polo...

I want a prime minister chosen by a parliament elected through mixed member proportional representation with publicly funded campaigns

Screenshot of New York Times article with the last sentence highlighted. Text: Mr. Trump addressed the “No Kings” protests directly for the first time on Thursday, brushing off their central message. “I don’t feel like a king, I have to go through hell to get stuff approved,” Mr. Trump said, appearing to refer to the opposition he faces from Democrats. “We’re not a king at all, thank you very much,” he added.

The linguistic irony of Trump denying his authoritarian tendencies while using the ROYAL WE.

emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

screenshot of the Clickhole article titled "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point"

It isn't just that this is such a dumb take (which should be immediately apparent to anyone who has heard of a CMS).

I used to follow Sahil on Twitter. He took a predictable turn in recent years, but seeing his name in this article was still a jumpscare.

idk why this of all things got me

PSA: it’s about to be April Fools’ Day on the internet

They're going to kill Libby and all your other library book reading apps, programs funded by Congress which the administration (and certainly not Elon or his teen Nazi psychopath goons) has no power to shut down.

Maybe a day to call all your reps again and to demand action

Jeremy and colleagues, Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional notice. This is mine. Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum (i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, ii) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity groups and related initiatives. This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not continue to work here.

Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email:

"Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

Anyone unfamiliar with how these systems work might think that an SSN makes for a natural primary key by itself.

But spouses can share a single SSN. People can and do have multiple, legal SSNs for a variety of reasons.

I guarantee you that Musk has no fucking clue what he is talking about.

"We've got too many people here. They're up against the barricade. We're losing the barricade"-- phllly pd scanner rn and also les mis, victor hugo, 1862

I wonder why my phone reported that I'm consistently up 3 hours past my planned bedtime. And why my most used app is the browser where I read news.

Strange!

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

I am still formulating my thoughts on this so happy to hear others’ thoughts

But in general, countering Trump with “whack-a-mole-by-judge” does not seem like a comprehensive longterm strategy to say the least