George White
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That is some genuine, Grade-A American-made ahistorical fascist bullshit right there
this extremely fashy Trump cult of personality ad featuring Kristi Noem ran this morning on Fox & Friends
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
That is some genuine, Grade-A American-made ahistorical fascist bullshit right there
I have long felt that two core challenges need to be addressed:
1. Level off the top: tax the rich!
2. Raise the floor: more benefits for everyone else!
Showing that the real poverty line is much higher than the calculation suggests makes #2 a priority.
1. Level off the top: tax the rich!
2. Raise the floor: more benefits for everyone else!
Showing that the real poverty line is much higher than the calculation suggests makes #2 a priority.
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I have long felt that two core challenges need to be addressed:
1. Level off the top: tax the rich!
2. Raise the floor: more benefits for everyone else!
Showing that the real poverty line is much higher than the calculation suggests makes #2 a priority.
1. Level off the top: tax the rich!
2. Raise the floor: more benefits for everyone else!
Showing that the real poverty line is much higher than the calculation suggests makes #2 a priority.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Trump is a monster. An absolute nightmare with zero regard for decency.
Trump: "Instead of pardons, some of my more enthusiastic staffers were already drafting the paperwork to ship Gobble and Waddle straight to the Terrorist Confinement Center in El Salvador."
November 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Trump is a monster. An absolute nightmare with zero regard for decency.
NO
(To both the question posed on the cover and to the embarrassing frame of Killer Bobby as anything but a dangerous crank who's been given access to the tools to harm millions)
(To both the question posed on the cover and to the embarrassing frame of Killer Bobby as anything but a dangerous crank who's been given access to the tools to harm millions)
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
NO
(To both the question posed on the cover and to the embarrassing frame of Killer Bobby as anything but a dangerous crank who's been given access to the tools to harm millions)
(To both the question posed on the cover and to the embarrassing frame of Killer Bobby as anything but a dangerous crank who's been given access to the tools to harm millions)
"THe Harder They Come" was a constant listen for kid me. It was in heavy rotation from the minute I learned to drop the stylus.
Rolling Stone ranked Jimmy Cliff's 'The Harder They Come' original soundtrack as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time: "This album took reggae worldwide."
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"THe Harder They Come" was a constant listen for kid me. It was in heavy rotation from the minute I learned to drop the stylus.
We are heading to NYC in a couple of weeks just to see the Ruth Asawa show at MoMA.
So excited, we already bought the book at the MFA, after seeing the amazing work of Rachel Ruysch and Martin Puryear.
So excited, we already bought the book at the MFA, after seeing the amazing work of Rachel Ruysch and Martin Puryear.
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We are heading to NYC in a couple of weeks just to see the Ruth Asawa show at MoMA.
So excited, we already bought the book at the MFA, after seeing the amazing work of Rachel Ruysch and Martin Puryear.
So excited, we already bought the book at the MFA, after seeing the amazing work of Rachel Ruysch and Martin Puryear.
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Checking in on MechaHitler
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Checking in on MechaHitler
This is probably bad news for the "human in the loop" theory for checking and correcting machine behaviors and outputs.
Humans aren't guaranteed effective guardrails in human-AI collaboration because it's a SYSTEM and the parts influence each other; the human component doesn't stand alone.
Humans aren't guaranteed effective guardrails in human-AI collaboration because it's a SYSTEM and the parts influence each other; the human component doesn't stand alone.
Paper suggests users are “unaware of the extent of the AI’s influence, rendering them more susceptible to it … a mechanism wherein AI systems amplify biases, which are further internalized by humans, triggering a snowball effect where small errors in judgement escalate into much larger ones.” (2024)
How human–AI feedback loops alter human perceptual, emotional and social judgements - Nature Human Behaviour
Glickman and Sharot reveal a human–AI feedback loop, where AI amplifies subtle human biases, which are then further internalized by humans. This cycle, observed across various domains, leads to substa...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This is probably bad news for the "human in the loop" theory for checking and correcting machine behaviors and outputs.
Humans aren't guaranteed effective guardrails in human-AI collaboration because it's a SYSTEM and the parts influence each other; the human component doesn't stand alone.
Humans aren't guaranteed effective guardrails in human-AI collaboration because it's a SYSTEM and the parts influence each other; the human component doesn't stand alone.
Trump has produced spectacular examples of utter failure, embodied, that in turn end up being new units of measure. For example, we were gifted a new unit of time, the Scaramucci.
Now we have the Halligan, the mass of a cubic meter of incompetence.
Now we have the Halligan, the mass of a cubic meter of incompetence.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Trump has produced spectacular examples of utter failure, embodied, that in turn end up being new units of measure. For example, we were gifted a new unit of time, the Scaramucci.
Now we have the Halligan, the mass of a cubic meter of incompetence.
Now we have the Halligan, the mass of a cubic meter of incompetence.
Why would they even make this available?!
We are so cooked
We are so cooked
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Why would they even make this available?!
We are so cooked
We are so cooked
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The first edition of Conversational Design is available as a free download. I think more people should read it before they go making every interface into chatbots.
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
Conversational Design — MULE BOOKS
The interaction design book that explains why chatbots tend to suck
www.mulebooks.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The first edition of Conversational Design is available as a free download. I think more people should read it before they go making every interface into chatbots.
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
Sadly, I will be out of town for MICE this year. Seems like I'm going to something awesome with this @alexandragallant.com reading.
Really excited to share that I will be part of the Science Comics Carousel at MICE this year on December 6th from 1-2PM. I'll be reading from my new comic, BRAINS, which is a love letter to the brain and a giant middle finger to AI and I hope to see you there! mice2025.sched.com/event/2Bdqa/...
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Sadly, I will be out of town for MICE this year. Seems like I'm going to something awesome with this @alexandragallant.com reading.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Relearning a 3D printing lesson you'd think I would have gotten by now: shitty old filament makes it very hard to get good prints.
I've got two semi-ancient reels of PLA that I'd like to use up, but it just fails.
I've got two semi-ancient reels of PLA that I'd like to use up, but it just fails.
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Relearning a 3D printing lesson you'd think I would have gotten by now: shitty old filament makes it very hard to get good prints.
I've got two semi-ancient reels of PLA that I'd like to use up, but it just fails.
I've got two semi-ancient reels of PLA that I'd like to use up, but it just fails.
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An important side note about today's Epstein/Trump revelations.
They show that Todd Blanche's questioning of Maxwell was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump.
Either way, he is not fit to serve as Deputy Attorney General.
They show that Todd Blanche's questioning of Maxwell was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump.
Either way, he is not fit to serve as Deputy Attorney General.
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
An important side note about today's Epstein/Trump revelations.
They show that Todd Blanche's questioning of Maxwell was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump.
Either way, he is not fit to serve as Deputy Attorney General.
They show that Todd Blanche's questioning of Maxwell was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump.
Either way, he is not fit to serve as Deputy Attorney General.
Yes, and we all need to put in time, not just money. We can't buy the right kind of candidates, we are going to have to be them or build them with our own hands.
Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Yes, and we all need to put in time, not just money. We can't buy the right kind of candidates, we are going to have to be them or build them with our own hands.
Well, thank fuck for that
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Well, thank fuck for that
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great point. as opposed to when the government wasn't shut down and Trump was scrupulously following the law to the letter bsky.app/profile/heid...
The full clip may be even worse. He explains that it “didn’t work” bc Trump took advantage of it to do a bunch of unlawful things. This is the same elite cowardice that has gotten us exactly nowhere. “Gosh, Trump is breaking the law and hurting people. Guess we’d better cave.”
Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
great point. as opposed to when the government wasn't shut down and Trump was scrupulously following the law to the letter bsky.app/profile/heid...
Is there a meme for the worst person you know is wrong AGAIN?
Shaheen on Fox & Friends: "I believe there are number of Republicans who are gonna join us in trying to address healthcare costs ... we are gonna be able to continue to right about healthcare because we're gonna have a vote in December."
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Is there a meme for the worst person you know is wrong AGAIN?
The next big thing from AI is vibe economy crashing.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The next big thing from AI is vibe economy crashing.
The systems we have are failing, because the most powerful actors in those systems have consistently failed to deliver good things for a lot of people. When systems fail, we often turn to faith.
This time, for a lot of folks, it's faith in a magical machine that will solve all our problems. 👎🏾
This time, for a lot of folks, it's faith in a magical machine that will solve all our problems. 👎🏾
"The only thing we can do regarding the forthcoming bursting of the AI bubble is…pray? Are we so helpless in the face of our tech overlords that we must hope for the Almighty to save us, rather than, say, enacting some regulations and employing some critical thinking?"
Thou shalt not falsify the AI bubble
Serenity now, serenity now
buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The systems we have are failing, because the most powerful actors in those systems have consistently failed to deliver good things for a lot of people. When systems fail, we often turn to faith.
This time, for a lot of folks, it's faith in a magical machine that will solve all our problems. 👎🏾
This time, for a lot of folks, it's faith in a magical machine that will solve all our problems. 👎🏾