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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 16h

I was accosted by an angry public commentator at a recent Santa Monica Council meeting and he told me that "[he] wouldn't feel safe on the train even if [he] had an Uzi"

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Monica de la Cruz @monicadlc.bsky.social · 16h

I got celebrated in a meeting for being brave enough to take LA Metro from our team dinner in Little Tokyo to catch an Amtrak home because my coworkers "still don't trust it." It was one stop to Union Station at 7:15 on a Thursday. We have the Conservative Guy Afraid of Cities on our side, too.

Monica de la Cruz @monicadlc.bsky.social · 5d

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 17h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

a real water is wet scenario here

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 22h

If you want to really feel the housing crisis, browse the Census microdata for LA households with lots of people in them. About 16,000 houses in LA County have three bedrooms and 8+ people.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22h

"it is your turn to study statistical mechanics" is the funniest way to say "kys" which will not get you banned

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1d

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 1d

I prefer to shop at Trader Joe's, Pavilions or Ralphs (normal)

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 1d

It's not even good man, I don't understand the appeal

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 1d

The biggest mystery about LA to me is who shops for groceries at Erewhon? Normal people can’t afford to pay $20 for a single carrot, and I assume anyone rich enough to justify that just sends their staff to pick up fresh produce from the farmers market. So who is buying this shit?

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't vote for her in the Senate primary because of this exact issue

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smol bean language machine @mightycw.bsky.social · 1d

social media is bad for all of our brains, but there are certain issues that tend to capture people who are susceptible to this way of thinking in a way that may not be intuitively obvious if you haven't seen it.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

i am going to try to give a framework of my own understanding which laypeople can understand.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 1d

yeah - I was impressed by the token-prediction as being as powerful as it is, but there's more going on than that and I don't really follow it any more.

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 1d

If you guessed "someone's trying to build a new apartment building," you'd be correct!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

apparently “bari weiss doesn’t actually know what journalism is” extends to getting basic facts like the name of a subject right

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 1d

Name a more classic combo than california and truly idiotic landuse propositions

Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that California golf courses have a special massive property tax benefit over and above Prop 13. www.evolve-ca.org/news/hole-in...

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 2d

Bret Deveraux has a (largely correct) recurring point about how the only thing humans fear more than death is shame and this motivates a lot of pro-social behavior and the increasing shamelessness across human society is kind of a massive problem for that