ScottTheHoople
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"Don't you hate these clever people
And all these clever people parties?"
And all these clever people parties?"
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Part of what Mamdani is doing is explaining to people how government works. We've had 50 years of the GOP making sure it doesn't do anything but hurt and troll, while they yell that it's useless.
Mamdani is like "no, it's for fixing shit and making decisions" and
Mamdani is like "no, it's for fixing shit and making decisions" and
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September 18, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Part of what Mamdani is doing is explaining to people how government works. We've had 50 years of the GOP making sure it doesn't do anything but hurt and troll, while they yell that it's useless.
Mamdani is like "no, it's for fixing shit and making decisions" and
Mamdani is like "no, it's for fixing shit and making decisions" and
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If you want a sense of how integral the Kennedy Center is to the DC skyline, watch this landing video. It’s the first thing people see when crossing the Potomac from Virginia. This is what Trump wants to demolish because he can’t put his name on it.
I must have made this approach a hundred times and I never tire of it.
Pro tip: Always get a window seat on the left side if you’re lucky enough to fly into DCA from the western approach. The view is breathtaking.
Pro tip: Always get a window seat on the left side if you’re lucky enough to fly into DCA from the western approach. The view is breathtaking.
September 18, 2026 at 1:01 PM
If you want a sense of how integral the Kennedy Center is to the DC skyline, watch this landing video. It’s the first thing people see when crossing the Potomac from Virginia. This is what Trump wants to demolish because he can’t put his name on it.
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Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!?
Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed
Voters: This guy is cool
Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed
Voters: This guy is cool
Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
September 18, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!?
Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed
Voters: This guy is cool
Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed
Voters: This guy is cool
Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
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I know this is hard for a lot of people to believe but sometimes you don’t need a chart or a focus group to realize what is simply the right thing to do
September 16, 2026 at 11:24 AM
I know this is hard for a lot of people to believe but sometimes you don’t need a chart or a focus group to realize what is simply the right thing to do
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This is the Republican Party. Corrupt as hell, constantly starting wars, blowing up the deficit, giving tax cuts for billionaires, bailing out corporations, cutting health care, making everything more expensive, while serving up culture war drivel to distract you from all that.
September 18, 2026 at 1:34 AM
This is the Republican Party. Corrupt as hell, constantly starting wars, blowing up the deficit, giving tax cuts for billionaires, bailing out corporations, cutting health care, making everything more expensive, while serving up culture war drivel to distract you from all that.
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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 6:48 PM
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
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Tired: calling them fucking pigs
Wired: calling them pig fuckers
Wired: calling them pig fuckers
September 17, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Tired: calling them fucking pigs
Wired: calling them pig fuckers
Wired: calling them pig fuckers
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him and jd vance need to go on a "baby, come back" tour
Mike Johnson begs for a second chance in the midterms:
"In the next two years, you're gonna see a continued trend making affordability better for every American"
"In the next two years, you're gonna see a continued trend making affordability better for every American"
September 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM
him and jd vance need to go on a "baby, come back" tour
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"No one is going to vote for a Democrat because they came out for a trans sports ban. No one is on the fence being like, "If they just came out for a trans sports ban, then I would vote for them. I don't think that person exists," says @evanurquhart.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2154...
September 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
"No one is going to vote for a Democrat because they came out for a trans sports ban. No one is on the fence being like, "If they just came out for a trans sports ban, then I would vote for them. I don't think that person exists," says @evanurquhart.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2154...
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Interesting that they don’t apply “we’re not smart enough to regulate this” to, for example, abortion.
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 7:56 PM
Interesting that they don’t apply “we’re not smart enough to regulate this” to, for example, abortion.
Eat shit Donnie…
KENNEDY CENTER UPDATE: A federal judge has ordered that President Trump must give 30 days’ notice to any changes or renovations he wants to make.
September 17, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Eat shit Donnie…
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Pretty insightful stuff here from Bret Stephens, who admits he's literally as out of touch as possible with every New Yorker alive right now. Zohran is the most popular politician in the country, Dem leadership is historically unpopular, and he's just... the opposite. And he works for the NY Times.
September 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Pretty insightful stuff here from Bret Stephens, who admits he's literally as out of touch as possible with every New Yorker alive right now. Zohran is the most popular politician in the country, Dem leadership is historically unpopular, and he's just... the opposite. And he works for the NY Times.
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Will genuinely venmo a reporter $50 to ask Mitch mcconnell “what day is it”
September 17, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Will genuinely venmo a reporter $50 to ask Mitch mcconnell “what day is it”
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I aspire to being this high someday
Mitch McConnell leaves the Senate after not having a clue what he voted for or where he is.
September 17, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I aspire to being this high someday
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I don’t want to go hard and I don’t want to go home. Is there even a place for me in today’s world?
September 17, 2026 at 1:53 PM
I don’t want to go hard and I don’t want to go home. Is there even a place for me in today’s world?
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Hayley Williams' Forest Hills pre-show playlist featured all the acts who quit Ed Sheeran's tour
Hayley Williams Playlist Features Acts Who Left Ed Sheeran Tour
A week ago, it might’ve been surprising to go see Hayley Williams and to hear Macklemore and Lukas Graham on the pre-show playlist. Now, it looks like a righteous statement of solidarity. Late last we...
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September 17, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Hayley Williams' Forest Hills pre-show playlist featured all the acts who quit Ed Sheeran's tour
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it was funny that nobody in the tech press last week thought to ask this 27-year-old anthropic doomsday "whistleblower" if he voted for the corrupt authoritarian sociopath that cheerfully destroyed U.S. regulatory autonomy (including numerous essential cybersecurity programs)
As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed".
Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.
Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.
September 17, 2026 at 1:34 PM
it was funny that nobody in the tech press last week thought to ask this 27-year-old anthropic doomsday "whistleblower" if he voted for the corrupt authoritarian sociopath that cheerfully destroyed U.S. regulatory autonomy (including numerous essential cybersecurity programs)
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Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
September 17, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
September 17, 2026 at 12:15 PM
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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September 15, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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I’ve been arguing for years that he doesn’t know what a tariff is, but I’ve got to be honest, I thought the basic concept of trade was obvious enough that he would grasp it
September 17, 2026 at 2:45 AM
I’ve been arguing for years that he doesn’t know what a tariff is, but I’ve got to be honest, I thought the basic concept of trade was obvious enough that he would grasp it
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"why does the left distrust AI" certainly has plenty to do with the technology itself but at its core I think it is about the fact that everyone building it is a wannabe fascist oligarch and nobody trusts them on a god damn thing
way to go, you fucking morons. I hope you're happy with how things are going
September 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
"why does the left distrust AI" certainly has plenty to do with the technology itself but at its core I think it is about the fact that everyone building it is a wannabe fascist oligarch and nobody trusts them on a god damn thing