JK
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· Apr 28
Arizona Public Service killed my mother
www.APSKilledMyMom.com
I put together a proper website
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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.
Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com
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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.
Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com
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-46 points among young voters. a 56 point swing.
tЯump losing young voters in some of the most stunning numbers that we have seen.
Take a look at his net approval rating among those under 30.
You go back to February, it was plus 10 points.
Take a look at his net approval rating among those under 30.
You go back to February, it was plus 10 points.
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
-46 points among young voters. a 56 point swing.
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Centrist Dems will use lip-service for cultural liberalism as a cudgel to beat back economic populism Tuesday and the lip-service for economic populism to beat back cultural liberalism on Thursday
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Centrist Dems will use lip-service for cultural liberalism as a cudgel to beat back economic populism Tuesday and the lip-service for economic populism to beat back cultural liberalism on Thursday
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re ryan grim and the various iterations of glenn greenwaldism...
the way this works isn't so much that they get seduced by the right as that they were already dreaming of a realignment of left and right populism against an imagined bland/evil center. 1
the way this works isn't so much that they get seduced by the right as that they were already dreaming of a realignment of left and right populism against an imagined bland/evil center. 1
December 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
re ryan grim and the various iterations of glenn greenwaldism...
the way this works isn't so much that they get seduced by the right as that they were already dreaming of a realignment of left and right populism against an imagined bland/evil center. 1
the way this works isn't so much that they get seduced by the right as that they were already dreaming of a realignment of left and right populism against an imagined bland/evil center. 1
December 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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this genuinely, for real, does make me feel better sometimes
every time you really land a joke, just remind yourself, "wow, all that money and Elon Musk still can't do that"
every time you really land a joke, just remind yourself, "wow, all that money and Elon Musk still can't do that"
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
this genuinely, for real, does make me feel better sometimes
every time you really land a joke, just remind yourself, "wow, all that money and Elon Musk still can't do that"
every time you really land a joke, just remind yourself, "wow, all that money and Elon Musk still can't do that"
I think we are talking about at least four things with enby —
My Gender Is A M/F Cocktail
My Gender Is A Secret Third Thing
My Gender Is No
My Gender Is Uh, Whatever
Our current Cambrian Explosion of novel gender taxonomies has not finished running its course.
My Gender Is A M/F Cocktail
My Gender Is A Secret Third Thing
My Gender Is No
My Gender Is Uh, Whatever
Our current Cambrian Explosion of novel gender taxonomies has not finished running its course.
December 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I think we are talking about at least four things with enby —
My Gender Is A M/F Cocktail
My Gender Is A Secret Third Thing
My Gender Is No
My Gender Is Uh, Whatever
Our current Cambrian Explosion of novel gender taxonomies has not finished running its course.
My Gender Is A M/F Cocktail
My Gender Is A Secret Third Thing
My Gender Is No
My Gender Is Uh, Whatever
Our current Cambrian Explosion of novel gender taxonomies has not finished running its course.
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Just a reminder that Aaron Swartz was threatened with 50 years of jail time for downloading public domain documents and meanwhile AI companies bulk download copyrighted works
December 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Just a reminder that Aaron Swartz was threatened with 50 years of jail time for downloading public domain documents and meanwhile AI companies bulk download copyrighted works
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A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.
I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.
14th Amendment thread
what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
14th Amendment thread
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What an interesting coincidence.
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What an interesting coincidence.
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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SPOILER: Mamdani promised tangible things that would make their lives better, were appropriate to their community and didn’t need to be explained to be understood.
The New York mayor-elect's victory has motivated the European left, with politicians casting themselves as their country's version of Mamdani, and strategists eager to study how he won.
Europe's left is energized after Mamdani's successful campaign for New York mayor
The New York mayor-elect's victory has motivated the European left, with politicians casting themselves as their country's version of Mamdani, and strategists eager to study how he won.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
SPOILER: Mamdani promised tangible things that would make their lives better, were appropriate to their community and didn’t need to be explained to be understood.
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We're in an inter-constitutional moment not dissimilar to the Civil War period where we have to write a new constitution via constitutional convention or achieve a position whereby we overhaul the existing one (only possible in a post-Civil War type situation where the GOP is out of the picture).
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We're in an inter-constitutional moment not dissimilar to the Civil War period where we have to write a new constitution via constitutional convention or achieve a position whereby we overhaul the existing one (only possible in a post-Civil War type situation where the GOP is out of the picture).
I am not sure it is good but I am sure that it is far short of the worst pop hit in a world where “My Humps” exists
“We Built This City” is a good song, actually www.pastemagazine.com/music/starsh... I never understood the hate for that song. There are truly terrible songs. This isn't one of them.
“We Built This City” is a good song, actually
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December 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I am not sure it is good but I am sure that it is far short of the worst pop hit in a world where “My Humps” exists
I’ll add that —
I favor a VERY broad reading of the Postal Clause
disaster planners are very happy to have an agency with the ability to knock on every door in the US in a single day
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I favor a VERY broad reading of the Postal Clause
disaster planners are very happy to have an agency with the ability to knock on every door in the US in a single day
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December 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I’ll add that —
I favor a VERY broad reading of the Postal Clause
disaster planners are very happy to have an agency with the ability to knock on every door in the US in a single day
< thread >
I favor a VERY broad reading of the Postal Clause
disaster planners are very happy to have an agency with the ability to knock on every door in the US in a single day
< thread >
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King tides bring a glimpse of the future, as sea levels rise. This photo is the highway north out of SF, in Sausalito. Imagine the billions of dollars to be spent on adaptation just in the Bay Area.
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
King tides bring a glimpse of the future, as sea levels rise. This photo is the highway north out of SF, in Sausalito. Imagine the billions of dollars to be spent on adaptation just in the Bay Area.
Deep discount on the e-book of Jesuits In Spaaace, a tale of screwing up first contact despite knowing all the cautionary tales about screwing up first contact
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December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Deep discount on the e-book of Jesuits In Spaaace, a tale of screwing up first contact despite knowing all the cautionary tales about screwing up first contact
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More proof of what @prisonculture.bsky.social says that most people in this country have no idea what's going on:
Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.
Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
More proof of what @prisonculture.bsky.social says that most people in this country have no idea what's going on:
Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.
Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.
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So, in effect, to self-persuade voters with LLMs, you need to deliberately unalign your model from reality, like Musk does with Grok or Trump does with Truth Social AI www.wired.com/story/i-fear... because otherwise, any aligned model gonna massage voters towards liberal perspectives.
Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate
Truth Search AI appears to rely heavily on conservative outlet Fox News to answer even the most basic questions.
www.wired.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
So, in effect, to self-persuade voters with LLMs, you need to deliberately unalign your model from reality, like Musk does with Grok or Trump does with Truth Social AI www.wired.com/story/i-fear... because otherwise, any aligned model gonna massage voters towards liberal perspectives.
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So much of this shit is gambling! Robinhood is fucking gambling! Crypto is gambling! Videogame business models are gambling! It's all fucking gambling! Laws need to really catch up to the fact that the brain can be hacked by this shit.
This is gambling, and we've essentially decided that it's okay to let it go on entirely unregulated for ??? Reasons.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
So much of this shit is gambling! Robinhood is fucking gambling! Crypto is gambling! Videogame business models are gambling! It's all fucking gambling! Laws need to really catch up to the fact that the brain can be hacked by this shit.
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Once again, it is a huge problem that if you were to straightforwardly describe what the government is doing and saying to someone who hasn’t been paying attention, they would think you were an obvious liar
I don't think normal people have any idea that the US Government just talks this way now.
It's not just Trump and some rando podcasters (which is bad enough). It's our government. In a democracy. Ours.
It's not just Trump and some rando podcasters (which is bad enough). It's our government. In a democracy. Ours.
This is a message from an official, tax-payer funded White House account, written by government employees barred by law from engaging in partisan politics
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Once again, it is a huge problem that if you were to straightforwardly describe what the government is doing and saying to someone who hasn’t been paying attention, they would think you were an obvious liar
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DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
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once again, "the supreme court will act as a bunch of partisan republican hacks" is the single most accurate heuristic for predicting its behavior, putting any coherent legal theory to shame
because fuck you, that's why
because fuck you, that's why
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
once again, "the supreme court will act as a bunch of partisan republican hacks" is the single most accurate heuristic for predicting its behavior, putting any coherent legal theory to shame
because fuck you, that's why
because fuck you, that's why