Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.

"Making day care free, while offering nothing to stay-at-home parents, appeals to the educated, urban, affluent voters who have come to make up the Democratic base, but not to the electorate at large," Marc Novicoff argues:

👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...)

This is one I have a hard time explaining to people: Some very brilliant people have believed some absolute bat shit stuff over the ages. Parsons is a good example here since it sort of hits wild new thing, engineering innovation, with a bunch of deeply weird absolute nonsense.

If you want to understand just how pathetic the clean energy is on politics, read this excellent piece in @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social. There are like a half-dozen quotes in here that make me want to jump off a fucking roof.

Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.

does anyone want a free dog. actually I will pay you ten thousand dollars to take this one. no refunds

Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

they are putting out a biopic about jimmy stewart’s wwii which honestly is interesting to me but the lead is doing a ridiculous jimmy stewart voice

I feel like this has the potential to make all the anti-AI and all the anti-Wittgenstein crowd happy, and this is basically 100% of the philosophy population.

President Trump’s war on Iran, now in its seventh month, has led to a plunge in the consumption of oil and gas around the world as fighting disrupts production and transportation. https://wapo.st/4ycPvNA

Oh Yud talked about neural nets back then: specifically he was skeptical that they were all that revolutionary. www.lesswrong.com/posts/juomoq...

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This is an absolutely insane list lol

rolled out of my bed this morning and barreled down Linwood for 10 minutes to have the privilege of watching a neighbor get kidnapped with his son in front of a YMCA and high school, busses full of kids watching, while a kcpd officer joyfully cooperated. It was a car crash. How did ICE know?

first Bernie is meeting with Yudkowsky, now the streamers are podcasting with Nate Soares. sheesh youtu.be/TP1o74C_XgE?...

Of all the aspects I had actually not even thought about how silly it is to go out to a bar and wear a mask. It’s an establishment that exists for putting liquids in your mouth and having words come out of your mouth, all in an enclosed space.

"In general, if doom prophecies are worth money, people will produce more." www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

What was really up with all that "vibe shift" stuff after the 2024 election? Like, what was the environment like, what was going on with members of the media that they bought this? I'm genuinely curious.