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Dave Kasten@davekasten.bsky.social |
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Do what seems cool next. "You need to learn WHY things work on a starship."-Admiral James T. Kirk
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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If Trump were to personally shoot someone on Fifth Avenue: Not immune. (Probably. Maybe.) If he were to order the army to massacre thousands on Fifth Avenue: Immune. (Very clearly, under the decision.) But from a constitutional perspective, the latter is the grave danger to guard against.
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Don't let it be the only thing you do, but have something that is concrete and specific that you can go work on when you're feeling despair that isn't doomposting! It is critical for not succumbing to the despair!
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Maybe your spot is keeping your local school board out of the hands of bigots or organizing people to advocate for climate policy or providing tech services to a local candidate's campaign. Maybe it's writing postcards to voters or phone banking or doing jail support. Pick something. Anything.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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i think it's really important that everyone understands that you, shitposter, reading this now: you have a much better understanding of what happens to people who do favors for donald trump than at least six elite-educated supreme court justices, and probably all nine of them.
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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I am totally on board with that, Rabbi, but most people* aren't doing that, they're just demanding their coalition partners tie themselves to deadweight idiotic strategies that don't build power *Not you! Loved the NCJW protest on abortion rights at the Capitol, for example!
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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a vote for the Democratic candidate is, among many other things that are also good, a vote for being allowed to continue to vote in the future
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Eric Rauchway
@rauchway.bsky.social
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For historians, the retrospective legitimation of essentially every criminal act Nixon committed while in office is quite mind-boggling. Ford’s pardon was utterly unnecessary.
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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This Originalist™ court has effectively immunized both the president and all federal law enforcement officers from any meaningful accountability. Because if there are two things the Founders cherished, it's the power of a king-like executive and armed agents of the government to act with impunity.
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Zach Dorfman
@zachsdorfman.bsky.social
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Post-Nixon Era of Cynicism on a speedrun
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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if somebody in california wants to sue the department of the interior and get a circuit court to ban all oil leasing, now's the time
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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tweeted this four years ago and it pretty much sums up my feelings on this shit
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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i'm gathering that CNN was lying about cutting microphones
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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The correct response is to say, "I don't understand why other countries should have any right to keep people who dream the American dream so hard they're willing to walk thousands of miles bleeding from their boots to get here."
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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the hill I'll die on here is "who gives a shit why they left, it's fucking great they chose to come here"
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@dystopiabreaker.xyz
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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I will give you $10 if you can introduce me to a currently-alive believer in Actual Russian Cosmism
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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"Silly point" is a legitimate fielding position
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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This is insane. The country is facing the fall of democracy - why won’t these people fucking fight?
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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You want it to be punchy, and localized: "This man is a convicted felon. A fraud. He defrauded *you*. He has never stopped defrauding you. I'm sorry that so many people haven't yet come to terms with that, but it is no longer hidden, and is who he is. He belongs in prison, not in the White House"
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James Downie
@jamescdownie.bsky.social
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This thinking from Democrats (www.semafor.com/article/05/3...) is just wrong. As @gregsargent.bsky.social has noted, a poll of persuadable swing-state voters found that only *31 percent* had heard "dictator for a day," "poisoning the blood" etc. And hearing those statements raised Trump's negatives!
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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You should talk to Dave Guarino, who is doing really fascinating work on that in the benefits space
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Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.bsky.social
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As someone who is terminally online it brings me no joy to report the truth that showing up to a public meeting, calling an elected representative, writing a public comment for a regulation, and voting has more positive impact than 92,000 posts.
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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If you know and believe the atrocities are happening and are already taking every action that you can possibly take to prevent or stop them, there is no benefit and considerable downside to personally exposing yourself to images or video of them.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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as someone who looks at a ton of atrocity videos for my work: you do NOT need to be looking at that stuff unless you have a specific genuine purpose for doing so you are NOT helping anybody by traumatizing yourself
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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What's kind of amazing is that we're actually living through a huge technology revolution where our entire power grid is being replaced by solar panels and battery storage and you hear less about it in the press than you did about the totally fake "tech" of NFTs
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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Why does every TERF ideologue lack the self-awareness of a small puppy
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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I will give you $100 if you can introduce me to a genuine cosmist who is alive today
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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One of the very weird things about chatgpt is that it reveals a previously unknown dimension of human mental experience -- the extent to which getting a shitty, wrong first draft is EXTREMELY HELPFUL OR NOT for your brain
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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it's pickling time
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
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If there's one message I wish I could convey to every single politics posting addict, it's that there is nothing ennobling about being miserable. One of the nice things about doing therapy is realizing there aren't any good principled reasons for feeding your own depression.
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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Not quite what you're asking for, but have you read @zey.bsky.social 's "Twitter and Tear Gas"?
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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As someone who studies government, I want to say as clearly as possible that Trump 2.0 will not be the disorganized shitshow that the first term was. They have a credible plan to govern in an explicitly authoritarian model.
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Elle Ess
@viamarsala18.bsky.social
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Thank god our reputation in Minnesota has extended so far that people in Russia know to settle here. Thank god he made it. This story has me near tears.
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logo ⓘ suffering online
@logophobe.bsky.social
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"Imagine if idling your car produced solved sudokus you could trade for heroin" THE PROPHECY IS FULFILLED
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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honest Q: to what degree does this work because editors see themselves as responsible for bringing order out of disordered journalist work, and thus see chaos as the worst sin
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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I remember when he tried to tell my congregation that Donald Trump would be good for the Jews as President
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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If only California famously had another resource constraint that can be addressed, but only at tremendous energy cost
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Kashana
@kashana.bsky.social
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Two years ago: you’ll be fine if you lose roe, you’re just freaking out. Today: you ever thought about getting an pregnancy emergency helicopter frequent customer card?
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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cross campus or beinecke plaza?
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Fee-to-register actually makes the percentage of registration that's malicious traffic *higher*, because it reduces legitimate signups significantly but the malicious traffic just grabs a stolen credit card (and increases your chargeback rate)
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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I’m not convinced Trump will suffer any real consequences here but he at least has to sit in federal court and be shown a succession of extremely rude memes shitting on him and you know, that’s not nothing
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A.L. Goldfuss
@ghoulpus.bsky.social
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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Hey @darthbluesky.bsky.social did I mention I made the smoshed potatoes and they were tasty because of the smosh with the cup and thank you
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Dave Kasten
@davekasten.bsky.social
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Working in AI policy is literally a speedrun of every single social science and humanities class I have ever taken.
It is WILD.
(Admittedly two useful classes were Trust and Safety electives I took nondegree during pandemic from @stamos.org and @riana.bsky.social that are INDISPENSIBLE)
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
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If someone tells you one thing and tells another audience something completely different, that means they're lying to *someone.* But so many D.C. reporters think they're too smart and savvy to be the ones getting conned. Which of course just means that they're particularly easy marks.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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In the next 6 months, we're going to see one of the largest propaganda pushes in American history to spread the lie that Donald Trump is a moderate on abortion.
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Amateur Expert Opinions
@amateurexpertop.bsky.social
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this accords 100% with my notion that the Word Of The Era is "fecklessness." the competence & diligence of institutional executives are assumed on the basis of ""someone else"" doing any necessary hard work. sometimes the execs are so bumbling/apathetic they forget even to pass the buck correctly
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My IRL friends call me Chris
@christyceeck.bsky.social
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Israel murdered 7 team members of aid group World Central Kitchen. One of the murdered was a Canadian citizen. They were: -in a deconflicted zone -in 2 armored cars branded with the WCK logo -in contact w/IDF to coordinate movements Israel is systematically murdering people trying to feed Gazans.
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Jaya Saxena
@jayasax.bsky.social
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"In a press release, WCK says its team was traveling in a de-conflicted zone in cars clearly marked with the organization’s logo, and that it had coordinated its movements with the IDF." www.eater.com/24118856/isr...
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