One of the most depressing things I’ve read, but absolutely engrossing. Which is kind of how it goes with John Steinbeck. I don’t have netflix, but I’d be interested to see how they’ve reworked it to center on Florence Pugh’s character.

Must be out of the running for press secretary if Jennings is willing to show this tiniest sliver of decency.

The Warren Court, from 1953-1969. Which is when most of the advances to civil rights that are currently being unmade took place.

I just can’t believe that Tafoya has any chance at Minnesota. Watching her campaign it’s like she got contact CTE from being on the sidelines of all those nfl games. As part of an interview she not only said she was an out of stater from California, but also said when Minnesotans vacation in Ohio (lol) they are ashamed to admit they are from Minnesota. Unbelievable that she spent a career as a reporter after listening to her speak.

For real, El-Sayed had such a strong response that he’s posting it on his campaign socials and they are claiming it had a negative news cycle. If they want to keep sending kids out to stand awkwardly as they get made a fool of before walking out with their head low, then go right ahead.

There's a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old, you know?

She should not be able to walk down the street without constant reminder of making this statement about victims of sex trafficking. Absolute monster of a person.

Potecting the stability of its shareholders was prioritized and this store -and its workforce- were deemed expendable.

Holy shit that’s cold. Ignoring the whole radical left bs, that’s insane callousness. Imagine veing the poor minimum wage employee that had to put that sign up before clocking out for the last time.

Thanks for the 4 years tuition though!

I could see them barring them from walking for their degree, but to hold it completely is messed up. Bullshit that ‘the corporation’ overruled the faculty vote.

And yet, not a single republican I know, has ever even considered changing their vote. These articles are hopium, diminishing his base is not going to happen.

Hopefully they also have a credit in their bank account.

Alternate headline: Nancy Mace manages to direct the focus away from Epstein’s survivors to herself.

Oh no, sounds like I should avoid this reddit you speak of. Any suggestions for alternatives?

Someone on bluesky reposted this image from user @yeetkunedo that I find describes (one aspect of) my disdain for AI.

Text reads: Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

The fact that these problems are present at the beginning stages show that this was always the intended result. Obviously none of this is shocking, but it does amaze me that they don’t even have the patience to pretend that it was ‘a good plan that went sour along the way’. Shows that if you have half of the nation fully captured then optics don’t even matter anymore.

The impeachment was a farce and resulted from an obvious fishing expedition that never should have happened. However, based on the massive power difference between an intern and the literal president of the US, consent is nebulous at best, and he is a despicable person for it among other things. No one should be going to bat for Bill Clinton.

Coming soon: Trump admin changes course, will replace entire white house with a Trump tower.

There’s like 4 different cameramen walking with her. State sanctioned reality show.

Dude is going to surrender Ukraine and claim to be a peacemaker, while sweetening the deal with a chunk of Alaska.

He’s an evangelical, so the only requirement he has is saying ‘I’m a pastor.’ This particular one already has a litany of controversial quotes and, like many evangelicals, is staunchly anti-catholic, calling them a satanic Babylonian cult at one point.

He did do this during the first term. There wasn’t anything interesting, but it did distract the conspiracy folks.