jacklandsnide
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"Weird" was OK, but I really wish someone would call Republican voters what they are: Suckers. These are dumb rubes who fall for the wallet inspector routine over and over again. They spend their last pennies on magic beans because are in the constant thrall of some grifter. Be meaner to them.
This is why “weird” was working in the first part of the 2024 campaign and I was dumbfounded when they made Walz stop.
September 17, 2026 at 10:44 PM
"Weird" was OK, but I really wish someone would call Republican voters what they are: Suckers. These are dumb rubes who fall for the wallet inspector routine over and over again. They spend their last pennies on magic beans because are in the constant thrall of some grifter. Be meaner to them.
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The key to getting low-information voters to vote for Democrats or just to sit out elections is to do everything possible to brand Republicans and especially Trump as stupid losers that are embarrassing to associate with. Make them the NY Jets fans of politics.
I almost spat out my soda laughing at this. Like rats deserting the sinking MAGA ship.
September 17, 2026 at 10:34 PM
The key to getting low-information voters to vote for Democrats or just to sit out elections is to do everything possible to brand Republicans and especially Trump as stupid losers that are embarrassing to associate with. Make them the NY Jets fans of politics.
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Oh my god he admit it
www.msn.com/en-us/techno...
www.msn.com/en-us/techno...
September 17, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Oh my god he admit it
www.msn.com/en-us/techno...
www.msn.com/en-us/techno...
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Exactly. AI is made by the worst people for the laziest idiots we got. This is Microsofts own guy saying that.
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
www.orlandosentinel.com
September 17, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Exactly. AI is made by the worst people for the laziest idiots we got. This is Microsofts own guy saying that.
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Hoo boy if a Democrat ever even thought this, some Republican with telepathy would've sniffed it out and the automotive industry would've gotten a PR campaign going about how Americans Are Born To Drive
But instead, a Republican said it and I find out about this the day after
But instead, a Republican said it and I find out about this the day after
US Energy Secretary says Americans need to drive less to achieve lower gas prices.
September 17, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Hoo boy if a Democrat ever even thought this, some Republican with telepathy would've sniffed it out and the automotive industry would've gotten a PR campaign going about how Americans Are Born To Drive
But instead, a Republican said it and I find out about this the day after
But instead, a Republican said it and I find out about this the day after
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“Largest theft of labor in human history.” What a quote.
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
September 17, 2026 at 8:32 PM
“Largest theft of labor in human history.” What a quote.
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If anyone should know what happens when companies are left to do the right thing on their own, it's Rick Scott, whose healthcare company paid nearly $2 billion in lawsuits related to fraud that occurred while he was CEO
Rick Scott: "With regard to destroying mankind, these companies need to do the right thing on their own. We're not going to get smart enough to regulate them. We're not going to get something done up here."
September 17, 2026 at 8:19 PM
If anyone should know what happens when companies are left to do the right thing on their own, it's Rick Scott, whose healthcare company paid nearly $2 billion in lawsuits related to fraud that occurred while he was CEO
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i think that one major thing that laypeople need to understand is the near-total disanalogy between programming and machine learning
it is not "acting out" it is doing exactly what it's being programmed to do, and the failures come because it's being overseen by incompetent people with no ethics
'Be Transparent Only If Asked': OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed Ways
The stories were published as part of OpenAI's new effort to disclose more such incidents.
gizmodo.com
September 17, 2026 at 8:20 PM
i think that one major thing that laypeople need to understand is the near-total disanalogy between programming and machine learning
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it's actually insane how terrible AI executives like Alex Karp here are marketing their products. he sounds like a complete lunatic on CNBC right now.
September 17, 2026 at 3:27 PM
it's actually insane how terrible AI executives like Alex Karp here are marketing their products. he sounds like a complete lunatic on CNBC right now.
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It sucks. But apparently, we really need to work on being able to explain to people why it's bad to have a president who'd let you die and lie about your death as trucks filled up with dead bodies lined the streets.
September 17, 2026 at 8:24 PM
It sucks. But apparently, we really need to work on being able to explain to people why it's bad to have a president who'd let you die and lie about your death as trucks filled up with dead bodies lined the streets.
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I'm always in the mood for a nice Cruzifixion.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-future-o...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-future-o...
September 17, 2026 at 3:54 PM
I'm always in the mood for a nice Cruzifixion.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-future-o...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-future-o...
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Perfect answer from Abdul El-Sayed on Piker's comments about al-Qaeda being worse than the United States. Good for him.
September 17, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Perfect answer from Abdul El-Sayed on Piker's comments about al-Qaeda being worse than the United States. Good for him.
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I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!
September 17, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!
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A lot of Dems could take a lesson from this and openly acknowledge that their opponents are bigots. The resistance (mostly from establishment centrists) to stating plainly what's happening instead of using weasel words for the sake of civility is what makes voters think we're spineless.
Now the bigot wants a promotion. But this year we’ll end his political career instead.
September 17, 2026 at 11:53 AM
A lot of Dems could take a lesson from this and openly acknowledge that their opponents are bigots. The resistance (mostly from establishment centrists) to stating plainly what's happening instead of using weasel words for the sake of civility is what makes voters think we're spineless.
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Americans do not understand that the United States is currently a dual state, in which the 'immigration system' (& spending via OMB, etc.) is operating as a lawless totalitarian prerogative state, alongside more normal processes of the normative state in other areas of law & policy.
September 17, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Americans do not understand that the United States is currently a dual state, in which the 'immigration system' (& spending via OMB, etc.) is operating as a lawless totalitarian prerogative state, alongside more normal processes of the normative state in other areas of law & policy.
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This is good, more please.
Ossoff: Blanche is a joke and a hack. These folks are not just corrupt, they're clowns. Here you have a Kremlin connected Russian oligarch giving massive cash gifts to the president's son…
September 17, 2026 at 1:03 PM
This is good, more please.
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Still can’t believe they rolled a severely brain-damaged 84-year-old out of his 92-day-long paid medical leave just to vote against paid medical leave for every other American
September 16, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Still can’t believe they rolled a severely brain-damaged 84-year-old out of his 92-day-long paid medical leave just to vote against paid medical leave for every other American
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I know I am not the median voter. But when I watch Trump performances like the one we just endured in North Carolina, I can't escape the feeling that our problems go much deeper than "affordability" and we're whistling past the graveyard if we reduce our politics to that issue.
September 17, 2026 at 1:12 AM
I know I am not the median voter. But when I watch Trump performances like the one we just endured in North Carolina, I can't escape the feeling that our problems go much deeper than "affordability" and we're whistling past the graveyard if we reduce our politics to that issue.
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The GOP has collapsed so far into far right authoritarianism that it has lost <checks notes> Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, George Will, & Bill Kristol, & yet somehow our National Conversation™️ remains focused disproportionately on whether Democrats are veering too far left into socialism 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Karl Rove comes off the sidelines www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
September 17, 2026 at 5:50 AM
The GOP has collapsed so far into far right authoritarianism that it has lost <checks notes> Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, George Will, & Bill Kristol, & yet somehow our National Conversation™️ remains focused disproportionately on whether Democrats are veering too far left into socialism 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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I’m glad that we’re showing pictures of people with measles now instead of people getting vaccinated for measles because one of these two things is much worse than the other
September 17, 2026 at 5:25 AM
I’m glad that we’re showing pictures of people with measles now instead of people getting vaccinated for measles because one of these two things is much worse than the other
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a tale of two 15-year-olds. on raheem sterling, jj gabriel and football's army of child labour
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Raheem Sterling’s bleak tale a reminder of absurd path young footballers face | Jonathan Liew
The winger was one of the first big-money academy transfers, part of a child labour market that has barely been questioned
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2026 at 7:31 AM
a tale of two 15-year-olds. on raheem sterling, jj gabriel and football's army of child labour
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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It's OK to think that the people who voted for this are un-American.
Trump: "We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding. You're waiting for some additional funding. I'm gonna get that to you. Now if Michael loses, I'm not sending it."
Crowd: *groans*
Crowd: *groans*
September 17, 2026 at 12:29 AM
It's OK to think that the people who voted for this are un-American.
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In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.
Trump: "We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding. You're waiting for some additional funding. I'm gonna get that to you. Now if Michael loses, I'm not sending it."
Crowd: *groans*
Crowd: *groans*
September 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM
In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.
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The Lancet: DOGE is responsible for millions of deaths.
WSJ oped: DOGE Works. Let’s Keep It Going.
WSJ oped: DOGE Works. Let’s Keep It Going.
September 17, 2026 at 1:03 AM
The Lancet: DOGE is responsible for millions of deaths.
WSJ oped: DOGE Works. Let’s Keep It Going.
WSJ oped: DOGE Works. Let’s Keep It Going.
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It takes a special kind of Guy to look at all the circumstances of Brett Kavanaugh's career arc and reach the passive-voice conclusion that Kavanaugh "was forced" to join the Supreme Court's conservative wing. But Noah Feldman? He is that special kind of Guy. noahfeldman.substack.com/p/brett-kava...
September 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
It takes a special kind of Guy to look at all the circumstances of Brett Kavanaugh's career arc and reach the passive-voice conclusion that Kavanaugh "was forced" to join the Supreme Court's conservative wing. But Noah Feldman? He is that special kind of Guy. noahfeldman.substack.com/p/brett-kava...