Those owns are fun and good, but they’re not Newsome. His Twitter lady can just go work for a good candidate. He himself is worthless.

Biden didn’t win because he ran a great campaign, though he did at least give some lip service in an attempt to bring the progressives in after the primary, he won because Trump was currently in office and his chaos and damage was undeniable and at the top of people’s minds.

Instead of trying to parse out which of three centrist candidates was more centrist (not as obvious as you claim), there’s actually a simple pattern. Every one of those elections was won by the “change” candidate. As people get more and more ground down by the impacts of decades of neoliberalism draining wealth from the middle class, the non ideological segment of the electorate just keeps asking for “different from now”.

The picture in the article of the researcher with her owner is pretty great. That’s definitely a guy who keeps a cow as a pet and is proud of her being recognized for being special (or maybe not special, but able to demonstrate capabilities of her whole species).

Almost perfect, just needs more passive voice. “Police engaged” sounds like they might even be the cause of the death.

Or she was in on the coup and Trump’s initial statements about her running things for him weren’t just a product of the kakistocracy.

Public statement: “We will not bow down to US imperialism!”

Trump: “What the fuck, we had a deal, I’ll kill you.”

Private statement: “Jesus, do you not understand that I need to say that to rally support to take over?”

Trump: “I don’t understand anything at all, say the secret deal publicly or I’ll kill you.”

Public statement: “We look forward to giving our nominal enemy everything they want.”

Not to disagree with anything you said, but be careful applying American exceptionalism to the problem of fascism. This shit is international. We attract the worst people from around the globe to push hard here, but everywhere in the English-speaking world is backsliding under the same influence campaigns, and they see and support their fellow fascists in non-English countries. Many of our worst influences are foreign born (Musk, Thiel, Murdock) and hold no devotion to the US. It’s just the most profitable market to capture. But they won’t stop here.

I don’t think anyone should be surprised that the all-white party in the two party system was racist to the core, I’m just surprised so many people in the nominal middle have accepted that as just an acceptable political stance to hold openly rather than as lightly concealed dog whistles. This should be a single issue deal breaker that triggers immediate and increasingly vociferous opposition, not just one issue among many that’s not important if some college student asks you for your pronouns.

This, but without the implication it’s cheating. As someone who’s both a software engineer and trains ML models, choosing a language that’s commonly used for the general task area you’re tackling (ML or not) is very useful. If it’s popular for the task area you’ll have a lot of references for how to solve problems, you can find and use libraries designed and demonstrated for similar tasks, and yes, you can cut and paste code snippets.

Almost every language is capable of doing anything, and software engineers regularly use multiple languages in the course of their work. Libraries and support are a big deal in deciding which to use, and will often be more important than your personal language familiarity/preference.

They’re not doing just the facts. They’re telling us why they’re being recalled and doing it in a non-descriptive way that makes an unusual act sound usual. If it was just the facts they’d say “they’re being recalled” and end it there. Everything else about why is either the author injecting their interpretation or the administration’s press release.

Mainstream media does so much normalizing of Trump. It’s just “reshaping diplomatic posture for (undefined by the newspaper) ‘America first’ priorities” rather than firing public servants to install regime loyalists to threaten non-white governments.

Comrade Soda-Machine, is that you?

https://theinfosphere.org/Soda-machine_Robot

“I Support Palestine Action” is not intolerance. Simply saying that publicly is an arrestable offense in the UK. They dropped from ‘Open’ to ‘Less Restrictive’ in the Global Expression Report, an outlier among the traditional Western countries. They’re not as bad as ‘roving bands of secret police’, but painting this as just a quest against intolerance is nonsense apologia.

That sure is the company line.

This feels like rage bait. From the decision itself, to praising the executives rather than the techies, to putting them up on the girder like they were the common man doing a tough and dangerous job to build our modern city. You don’t just choose the worst thing at every possible decision point by accident.

Another story said he wiped it “using a code”, so it sounds like that.

https://atlpresscollective.com/2025/12/05/samuel-tunick-atlanta-activist-arrest/

They have broad latitude to initiate searches, but if there isn’t a specific crime they’re going after you for, you’re not destroying evidence. If they’re just fishing to see what you have in there, then there isn’t evidence being destroyed because they have no way to know whether you erased stuff because you were doing crimes or just didn’t want them to see your nudes.

Most compromised passwords are used by script kiddies in mass attacks, not targeted attacks by elite hacking squads. If a password fails verbatim, they just move on to the next compromised account of millions, not develop pattern recognition software to try to figure out replacement candidates for each website.

So like the same 50% opposition as in the US. This kind of seems like we’re all living under the same propaganda and international political machines.

Republicans are saying the same thing.

“Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day because it will be more than a trillion dollars in economic activity.”

“American companies can go in and fix the oil rigs and everything that has to do with the Venezuelan petroleum companies, with oil and the derivatives.”

“The Venezuelans have the largest reserves of oil in the world, more than Saudi Arabia. This is going to be a windfall for us when it comes to fossil fuels.”

They’re just saying it out loud.

https://www.newsweek.com/gop-rep-says-us-may-go-in-to-venezuela-11102970

That’s just where you put programs that sound good but no one wants to spend the money to actually accomplish them. 2050 might be the end of the world, but it’d be because all the stuff we needed to do to head it off were given “we’ll get to it eventually” deadlines.