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Politics is about agreeing on the numbers

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A question scholars of authoritarianism always ask is "how did otherwise normal people come to support a political movement that was so destructive & went against many of the values they claimed to hold?" It is, IMO, a very relevant question for our times. sethcotlar.substack.com/p/normal-peo...

Normal people in an authoritarian partysethcotlar.substack.com On the Oregon Republican response to the attempt on Donald Trump's life

A 1976 Honda Civic was my first car. It weighed about 1,500 lbs. Most cars today weigh at least twice that, and electric cars, with their heavy batteries, weigh even more. The Tesla CyberTruck weighs nearly 6,000 lbs. www.thedrive.com/new-cars/197...

The 1974 Honda Civic CVCC Is a Timeless Lesson From a Troubled Erawww.thedrive.com Driving a first-generation Honda Civic CVCC can show us a path for a better future.

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BRING OUT THE... HEAD OF LETTUCE! 🥬

Like a harbinger of doom, Liz Truss has arrived at the RNC.

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Institutions work until they don’t. It’s banal but true. Courts as institutions worked when Trump tried to steal the election, but FedSoc has been chipping away at them for decades, and I think it is very rational to doubt they will work any more to restrain an executive.

WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

“Pro-Trump Christian extremists use scripture to justify violent goals” Modern Christianity is an oxymoron.

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I have been working on this for the past two months, after growing increasingly concerned about the influence this industry is trying to exert. Did you know crypto companies have spent more this cycle than the oil or pharmaceutical industries, despite being a small fraction of the size?

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Also - Dear furry tech people: Heritage is run by people who are connected and well-resourced, although not necessarily all that sharp. So please remember that even if nothing else you did or know about is remotely illegal, it's a felony to lie to the feds and every day is STFU Friday, m'kay?

I'll bet beer money that any IP evidence from this hack traces back to the public wifi at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA.

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It’s giving me “Principal Security Researcher, presented at Black Hat 2019” vibes

Waymo robotaxi pulled over by Phoenix police after driving into the wrong lane techcrunch.com/2024/07/06/w...

Waymo robotaxi pulled over by Phoenix police after driving into the wrong lane | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com A police officer pulled over a self-driving Waymo vehicle in Phoenix after it ran a red light and pulled into a lane of oncoming traffic, according to

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The Self-Satisfied and Often Wrong Media Frenzy www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/07/t...

The Self-Satisfied and Often Wrong Media Frenzy - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net Joe Biden has a point that the mob calling for him to drop out of the race have often been proven wrong about elections in the past. But the mob has a point that he may not have the stamina to run whi...

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Bracket Symbols xkcd.com/2954

Mütter Museum, an historic medical museum in Philadelphia. Amusing caption.

Sexually Suggestive

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On Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Unsettled science on social mediawww.science.org Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, is a hot seller that makes the case that smartphones and social media a...

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/2 Naturally Bill Maher loves it. You could set Bill Maher’s dick on fire with a crème brûlée torch and he’d think it was hilarious if you told him it was mocking liberals. The funniest part of this is conservative people will miserably and devoid of joy watch it, suffering to own the libs.

“The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s political action committee spent nearly $15 million on the primary, filling airwaves and mailboxes with negative ads in an effort to unseat Bowman” apnews.com/article/bowm...

George Latimer, a pro-Israel centrist, defeats Rep. Jamaal Bowman in New York Democratic primaryapnews.com Latimer got into the race at the urging of Jewish leaders upset with Bowman’s criticism of Israel.

“The law enforcement sources said the event was advertised in Friday’s issue of the Jewish Journal promising to provide information on “housing projects in all the best Anglo neighborhoods in Israel.” “Anglo” is a direct translation from Hebrew meaning “English-speaking.”

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And if you don’t exactly know what you want, say what you’re enthusiastic about. When you’re open about what you love, your people can find you. If you haven’t made a lot of stuff yet, being full of enthusiasm (and ideally knowledge about your enthusiasms) will give a good signal of who you are.

If there were one piece of advice which I would give to a young person that I think is applicable to every career (and other parts of life) it would be: You have to say what you want, out loud. No one can see inside your head. If you want to do a job or get into an area, you need to say so.

A month later, this is still my sense, except Dobbs may hurt him a little more and his criming a bit less. Maybe better to focus on the swing states of AZ, NV, GA, MI, and WI, but FL has abortion rights on the ballot and that cd push they’re local races more purple.

My gut is telling me 1. Trump’s J6 criming will cost him 3-5 points vs 2020, and 5-7 points if he’s convicted again 2. Dobbs will cost him 1-2 pts; more in states with abortion on the ballot 3. Yet he’ll pick up 1-2 points because Biden’s old, inflation isn’t forgotten, and Covid *is* forgotten

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it's time to bring this wonderful image (created by Anthony Michael Kreis) over to Bluesky

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery. Or not.

We need fewer Democrat appointees with a stick up there. I mean, would you have a beer with this guy? He’ll tell you how inspirational Tipper Gore was to him when growing up.

Today’s suggestion by the Surgeon General that online speech be labeled as dangerous is extraordinary, and puts him in the same category as censorious public officials like Anthony Comstock.

The Surgeon General's Fear-Mongering, Unconstitutional Effort towww.eff.org Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s extraordinarily misguided and speech-chilling call this week to label social media platforms as harmful to adolescents is shameful fear-mongering that lacks scientific

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The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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i wrote about ann powers' phenomenal book on joni mitchell which came out earlier this week: jukeboxgraduate.com/ann-powers-o...

Ann Powers on Joni Mitchelljukeboxgraduate.com Ann Powers’ book on Joni Mitchell is not just the best book on Joni Mitchell that exists. It’s one of the best books about music.

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Look. The Trump admin was spreading vaccine disinformation on Xitter.

From Reuters: The U.S. military launched a secret propaganda effort during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to cast doubt on China's lifesaving vaccine, essentially running an anti-vax campaign in the Philippines. www.reuters.com/investigates...

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/2 The argument FOR the regulatory state is more or less a confession of the failure of American politics: if you relied on Congress, women would still be taking Thalidomide for morning sickness, because there’s no democratic consensus for health and safety regulation.

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“I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.’” — Steven Wright

Cute idea: “We paired [Apple silicon] hardware with a new operating system: a hardened subset of the foundations of iOS and macOS tailored to support Large Language Model (LLM) inference workloads while presenting an extremely narrow attack surface.” security.apple.com/blog/private...

Blog - Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud - Apple Security Researchsecurity.apple.com Secure and private AI processing in the cloud poses a formidable new challenge. To support advanced features of Apple Intelligence with larger foundation models, we created Private Cloud Compute (PCC)...

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Magnet Fishing xkcd.com/2944