James Sanders

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Senior Analyst at TechInsights. Cheerful pessimist. Hype resistant. Ex-journalist. Seattle. (He/Him.)
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I've always tried to avoid labels, as I don't want the pressure of having to stick to a position as circumstances change. But, after a great deal of consideration, I've bought a Brother self-adhesive label maker.

milk the rich

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Good work -- actual journalism -- from ABC News. h/t Joy Reid 'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. abcnews.go.com/Politics/bla...

'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.abcnews.go.com President Donald Trump insists he deserves no blame for divisions in America.

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog! Did you know you don't have to write every thought you have on the computer? That's right - believe it or not there are many cases where the thrill of likes and reposts do not outweigh the potential real world consequences, regardless of how unlikely they are!

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vibes are seriously off on this website, and have been since the debate

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hey everyone we're all having a normal evening I assume

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Just going to note, regarding "political violence" that three and a half years ago, Trump was encouraging a mob of people who wanted to hang his own VP.

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This is an excellent story on an excellent observation. Thanks, Greg.

Remarkable finding in new Marist poll: By 68-32, voters say they're more concerned about a president who doesn't tell the truth than one who is too old to serve. Maybe we should cover Trump's serial lying as a sign of his unfitness for the presidency. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1837...

Shocker Poll Suggests Trump’s Lying May Be Huge Weakness for Himnewrepublic.com One possible reason the polls haven’t moved as much as pundits expected: Voters still don’t like or trust Trump. Can the Democrats shift focus to that?

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While I appreciate this may be *a* reason I think the reason people hate tech right now is that basically every major platform has fallen into ruin in lockstep with the highest corporate profits in history, and when asked, companies like Meta say "yeah it'll get shittier too"

This Target is really trying to get me to buy some Twix… except there is no price posted.

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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

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If for any reason Joe Biden can't complete a 2nd term, we know who will take over. Her name is Kamala Harris and America already voted for her once. If Donald Trump can't complete a 2nd term, we have no idea who will take over because he TRIED TO HAVE HIS LAST VP MURDERED.

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Days later, and still no one has coined it better than Keith Ellison did less than 15 minutes after the debate was over.

Keith is a team player.

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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

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microblogging sites will give you a solid read on the thoughts of our nation’s literate unemployed class and our middle class that has too much free time

hot take: all microblogging sites are unique echo chambers and none are representative of the country at large, and also all opinion pages are Just Some Person Posting (derogatory)

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It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.

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If they’re comfortable killing other people, they will eventually be comfortable killing you. You can learn that lesson the easy way or the hard way.

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I’m not going to go join the pile on in the food writer’s mentions but, for the last time, threatening to withhold your vote does not influence policy. Being part of a coalition does — and that happens over a period of YEARS

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Hey, folks? Fight the real enemy. A hint: He's orange and bigoted...

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Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.

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Shorter Supreme Court this term: criminal law is for little people.

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At this point, it is 100% undeniable that the Supreme Court majority is attempting to destroy democracy and seize total power over the US. They're not even trying to hide it. Since the media refuses to clearly convey this fact to the public, tell everyone you know.

Feels like we could sure use a Constitutional Crisis right about now

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.

“We bought the certain dog, and that was incredible” wtf

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DANA BASH: Mr. Trump, are Putin's terms for ending the war acceptable to you. TRUMP: DANA BASH: Sits there like a goddamned turnip.

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WHY WOULD YOU CONCEDE THAT INFLATION IS STILL BAD????? YEAR OVER YEAR INFLATION IS LOW! REAL WAGES ARE UP!

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Be the elephant you wish to see in the room.