When a loved one comes out to you, your positive reaction becomes the story they tell for the rest of their life about the moment they knew they were safe. Make it a story worth telling.

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody: I feel Cal Newport is making a lot of sense here.

Well, it’s a quick take, and no doubt data will come in, but it sure looks like based on today’s evidence that a lot of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot work depends directly on Russian data centers.

Asked about the US strike on a school in Minab, Iran that killed 123 children, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar blames "human error" rather than Palantir's AI. He then complains that "Targeting is kind of this very salacious word."

Unfortunately not everything. Yet.

Europe needs an independent defense industry. The US is leveraging its defense industry to undermine European national security interests. There is no going back, the US can’t be trusted.

"Do something." Front page of NYT, 9/10/26 — credit Jeff Roberson, AP.

And states that hate Black voters make it more difficult for them to get back onto voting rolls by putting in "Exact Match" restrictions. In the US we play this silly game where even when the GOP admits in writing that they are doing this on purpose, dudes still try to pretend that they don't.🤷🏿‍♂️

*sigh* It is a partisan thing. The people that do it, admit that it is a partisan thing. The purges are times to be maximally effective at suppressing the vote. Low income Black voters tend to move more frequently. And they tend to have different forms of government ID than wealthy homeowners.

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Oh, the world is super dangerous right now, but if we stand for nothing, then we have nothing to fight for.

He already got the FIFA prize and he took Machados prize, and he’s superglued gilded crap all over the Oval Office. I think that’s enough for a lifetime.

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“My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.” These titans of business. These masters of the universe.

Trump wants the US to fund Putin’s evil regime.

Oh dear, I think the orange toddler is mad at us. On behalf of the people of Norway: ROFL

good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed