You were a libertarian like four years ago. The red scare crew have been right wingers longer than you’ve nominally been a liberal.

NEW: One of the nation's most important far-right sheriffs, Bob Songer, is leaving. Why is he that important? He is a big member of the 'constitutional sheriff' movement, and sits on that group's board. We report on what his retirement & upcoming elections means for his legacy—& his county.

democrats will throw you under the bus and then get mad at you for not being on the bus

WINAMP - another detail from the background animation for the Born Digital podcast with @helenor.bsky.social and @daiquiriheiress.bsky.social!

This is all disgusting. I've had people accuse me of using AI when I do shit like use an em-dash. I struggle to avoid yelling but HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES AND AT LEAST TWO BOOKS I WROTE have been scraped by OpenAI. I'm part of why your chatbots write the way they do. They're copying me.

The Russian bot farm story spreading far and wide is completely untrue

you will see this Max Muncy quote several places, on the Dodgers trailing the Brewers 3 games to none: "It's a pretty simple answer. We're playing like shit, and they're playing great. No reason to overcomplicate it."

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i wrote about why i think everyone (esp people working on climate) should see digger. unfortunately i had to spoil digger in order to write about digger. so do me a favor and see digger and then come back and read my review

Yesterday afternoon in my town, ICE kidnapped a man walking home from Dunkin Donuts with coffee for his family right off the street. New Jersey is under siege. This is the least violent kidnapping we’ve had, but it’s still a kidnapping.

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Lost for words

The worst Ebola outbreak in the world is ongoing in the DRC and you’re not being informed about it in part because the reason it is spiralling is US politics. At least one person who was suffering from the disease crossed into Uganda by road and then flew from Kampala to Nairobi where he died.