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misanthropic humanist. brooklyn. he/him (pfp is because it's a still from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, not because it's Jack)

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I know. That story is why I said that

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Pollsters are having so much trouble getting any responses they’re going to start using AI whole damn thing is broken

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I really and truly don’t mean this to imply it’s somehow bad to do so, but george clooney in the nyt is a pretty easy example of not being worth the time to engage with

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They’re openly talking about using AI to “solve” low response rates. I don’t know that they even have “data” anymore

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If I was a more paranoid person I might almost think that there's a global alliance among the fascist right based on things like them having public meetings about creating alliances then behaving as if they've formed alliances and saying they've formed alliances

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Let me just put it this way. Look at the world and the sources we rely on for information about it. Can you think of a single one which you think is better at what they do than they were 10 years ago?

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the NYT front page is a neobaby throwing a tantrum because Biden won't kiss the ring. I no longer have sufficient faith in our institutions such that I take it as given that the pollsters even want an accurate answer I mean this more in an agnostic than conspiratorial way, or maybe just nihilistic

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my thing about being a "polls are fucked now" guy is that in addition to the very obvious sampling problems such that they are openly talking about using AI in polls... look at the media itself our information dispersal systems are broken, by design of its owners

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Especially now with a vibes based careerist press who are all in the Hamptons trying to show Sulzberger they should be the last one fired before they burn down the building

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I am more than old enough to know July and August in an election year are always a living hell and that was true back in the blissful peace of Clinton/Dole, never mind the stupidest darkest timeline where everything is always on fire

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I know. I should have learned my lesson back when McMegan wrote a book about how being wrong makes her more right than people who are right

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I unironically think the end of summer will result in a lot of "what was I angry about again"

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Pundits are certified experts in the field of expertise. They learn by atmospheric osmosis, when a topic appears in the wild they will already know it inside and out before becoming consciously aware of it they're kinda like Buddha

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They fear Sulzberger doubting their commitment to sparklemotion

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lots of people think sperm have little angel babies in them that the egg just provides a place to chill and grow in

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Brighton Beach will welcome the Russian "advisors"

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Director, Basque Space Program's avatar Director, Basque Space Program @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
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This account is fundraising for a neo-nazi and trying to appeal to pro-Palestinian sentiment to do it. Block

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other outlets factchecking your reporting as false is good, right

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I have had a couple folks here get very upset that an account named brad is cranky hasn't felt a duty to engage with them so they can tell me in great detail why I should feel bad for existing eventually I'm just going to answer; "turn this around. would you owe me any words?"

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I know it’s mostly the wrong people pushing it. The same fucks behind her emails, wmds, the birth certificate, and all the fucking rest. But I just don’t fucking care

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The thing about whether Biden is replaced is that honestly, I don’t fucking care. There will be no meaningful policy differences between a Biden and Harris admin, and the political future of Joe fucking Biden means nothing to me. I don’t know the right answer here, and I’m sick of the question

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John Herrman's avatar John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social
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Honestly impressed with the deranged persistence of Meta’s Science Experiment Sidekick bot

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I’m also coming back repeatedly to the fact that these polls would suggest a historic shift in votes, a 15 million or so swing in some cases I can see where Biden has lost some marginal votes from 2020, but not where Trump has gained anything like the numbers needed

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well, maybe it does in that it speaks to her not being particularly bright

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it has no bearing on her being a meanspirited bigot, but I will never get over the fact that Rowling decided wizards used to shit themselves then magicked it clean, instead of a spell one casts when one feels the need “expelleranus no needums”

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Matt Gabriele's avatar Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com
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not unnoticed is this lawmaker saying who the president "used" against "us"

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Jon Stewart talking about whether Biden should retire is a reminder that no matter how hard we try irony cannot be killed

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Barack Obama lived in the White House, from this we can conclude that he was actually white

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The zero to 60 rate just keeps increasing exponentially. There's become an attitude of "I hurt therefore I get to" even among people following it up by reskeeting aid requests

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This is why they’re running from plan 2025 and dobbs

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something I really wonder is to what degree the NYT is fucking themselves with their core demographic with "BIDEN SO OLD" on constant blare. a rare thing I should actually ask my parents how they feel about. but older, Dem voting upper (middle) class white folk are all they got in life these days

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I hate giving the French any credit for anything ever, but well done you assholes. Now leave Africa alone

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Daddy Trump won't stop hitting you no matter how much you kiss his ass

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in short, I was a bit dumb on the internet, and I won some stupid prizes

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center as in make them the central if not sole priority the point I was trying to make was unneeded, and in the context it’s mainly on me for not recognizing it that it would read in a way that even explicitly saying it was not intended wouldn’t be accepted by some

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I did fail to recognize the context and have proper respect for the others in it, and that’s on me

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I'm not going to engage with the things being said about me because... why the fuck would I. if that bothers you, I suppose I apologize

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if anyone really wants to say that I don't believe women or center victims because I have questions about the source of the Gaiman accusations, I don't think there's anything I can say to make you feel otherwise

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The sheer madness over there now is almost frightening, the things they’re willing to say. Not to mention the panic driving others

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I'm seeing jokes about it in the feed, maybe that was you reskeeting. or just it percolating out I really did not want to experience 1968 number 2

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I kinda stopped ending up there recently because the comments have become such a trash fire since 10/7, I assume this is Loomis and I don’t really want to look

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i should, at least, know better than to opine on something where my opinion is so unneeded and inconsequential, that much is true

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