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The union needs a real fighter for its bargaining team. Also a rogue, a wizard, and a cleric.

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If I worked for Politico I would be trying to get JD Vance to give me an on-record soundbite about MALFOID. You know he would.

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I have no idea what is going on here and if you try to explain it to me I will have no choice but to block you

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Also just stuff like road diets. I suspect one reason (by no means the only reason) you see fewer mega-SUVs in, say, Japan is because it's a huge pain in the ass to drive those things in narrower lanes!

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I also think that instead of solely taking aim at the cars themselves you can also address part of the problem through a focus on transportation planning

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I agree that no Democratic candidate should ever use my Bluesky posts as messaging material

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Washington, D.C. already has one!

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There are so many levers you can pull on this issue, I don't think it's accurate to say all of them are fundamentally off the table.

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Right now society at large is paying most of the bill for people who drive giant pick-up trucks and SUVs, my humble proposal is that we should stop doing that and ask them to pay it themselves.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 05/10/2026

People won't voluntarily give up their Kid-Crusher 5000s unless we make driving them considerably more costly and inconvenient, which is precisely what we should do.

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CA voters, this is really helpful.

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Yes, it depends on who is making the argument. I think guys like Dario Amodei genuinely believe in apocalyptic AGI, while guys like Sam Altman are just confidence men.

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I don't think this is right. Even halfway-decent LLMs are now at the point where they can routinely pass the Turing test; the problem is that the Turing test turns out to not be a very good way to assess whether an entity is conscious.

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Say what you will about Hastert, it's inspiring* to see modern Republican politicians, all the way up to the president, carry his legacy forward

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Dennis Hastert? The former House Speaker who was jailed for violating banking laws?

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I think it's bad that the promotional pathway from "professional athlete" is turning into "modern-day Renfield who procures victims for Dracula"

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When you take away the eschatology, I suspect a lot of the "is AI conscious" debate is really about whether AI can be an independent moral agent, in which case its creators bear less legal and moral responsibility for its actions than if it's non-conscious tool.

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Yeah, I strongly suspect AB 1482 is the happy medium, protecting the vast majority of renters against price gouging without meaningfully impacting supply. AB 1482 thankfully *was* binding during pandemic-era inflation, although I'm not sure it was enforced very effectively.

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Reposted by Ned Resnikoff

Of note, one of this year's ballot measures is purportedly to fund necessary medical research, but a close examination reveals that it's basically a $4 billion taxpayer payout to a single sketchy nonprofit. That's why it's important to read the fine print.

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The PUBLIC COMMENT 2026 California Voter Guide — Part 2

Here's part 2 of my California voter guide. This one covers how I'm voting on all 14 propositions that are on the ballot this year: publiccomment.blog/p/the-public...

publiccomment.blog

The ballot propositions

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“I’m not an antisemitic conspiracist, I’m a cool conspiracist”

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A recurring controversy in left-wing spaces is "Was Person X being antisemitic or does he just call everyone he's arguing with a 'filthy lapdog of the globo-capitalist elites who should be liquidated along with his spawn'?" and I'm kind of tired of it, to be entirely honest.

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I am taking the fact that some professional AI-knowers have liked this post as vindication of my uneducated take.

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But the implementation point is just one of my concerns. Anyway, this is one of the measures where I think reasonable people can disagree.

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