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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also we used to have people redesigning boarding passes all the time. what's wrong with the kids these days are they too tired to redesign streaming apps
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
also we used to have people redesigning boarding passes all the time. what's wrong with the kids these days are they too tired to redesign streaming apps
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One of the best-sketched characters in an incredibly character-rich show: a fascist whose (potentially real!) redeeming qualities are continually undercut by his monumental pride, bigotry, entitlement and pettiness
The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
One of the best-sketched characters in an incredibly character-rich show: a fascist whose (potentially real!) redeeming qualities are continually undercut by his monumental pride, bigotry, entitlement and pettiness
Thread about the structural challenges of the information environment
People lump everything under “fake news,” but misinformation, disinformation and malinformation are different. They can come from different actors and operate differently, mixing them into one category hides how these systems form, adapt and reinforce themselves.
December 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Thread about the structural challenges of the information environment
If one has never seen the Director’s Edition, I cannot recommend it highly enough. A true labor of love, to give us the best version of what the film was trying to be.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released 46 years ago today.
This film is truly unique within this franchise. I understand that it may not be the most accessible, but I love its tension, mystery, atmosphere, and curiosity.
This film is truly unique within this franchise. I understand that it may not be the most accessible, but I love its tension, mystery, atmosphere, and curiosity.
December 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
If one has never seen the Director’s Edition, I cannot recommend it highly enough. A true labor of love, to give us the best version of what the film was trying to be.
Related:
I get ads for intriguing products on social media … then when I get to the vendor’s site there is LESS product information there than in the ad.
WTF?
I get ads for intriguing products on social media … then when I get to the vendor’s site there is LESS product information there than in the ad.
WTF?
It's ironic that when you're not searching for a commercial product or service, you can't get any other results AND when you DO want to search for information about a product, you CAN'T get any results either!
Everything is white noise vaguely in the shape of the old internet. A hollow simulacrum.
Everything is white noise vaguely in the shape of the old internet. A hollow simulacrum.
It's completely impossible to search for anything that somebody sells as a product, and I'm losing my mind. I can't find simple basic facts about anything anymore.
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Related:
I get ads for intriguing products on social media … then when I get to the vendor’s site there is LESS product information there than in the ad.
WTF?
I get ads for intriguing products on social media … then when I get to the vendor’s site there is LESS product information there than in the ad.
WTF?
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Fellow HOW ITS MADE heads will know that anything made in relatively small volumes has a janky and handmade workflow even if it's very high tech and if you want to see some real sicko industrial full automation you need to see how they make extremely high volume boring shit like nails.
How It's Made: Nails and Staples
YouTube video by Yuri Slisaruk
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Fellow HOW ITS MADE heads will know that anything made in relatively small volumes has a janky and handmade workflow even if it's very high tech and if you want to see some real sicko industrial full automation you need to see how they make extremely high volume boring shit like nails.
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I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
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This. “Businesses” get destroyed by bad decisions, changes in consumer fashion, hostile takeovers, or just plain bad luck.
Business is about risk. Institutions need to be about stability, otherwise everything is at risk, all the way down.
Business is about risk. Institutions need to be about stability, otherwise everything is at risk, all the way down.
the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This. “Businesses” get destroyed by bad decisions, changes in consumer fashion, hostile takeovers, or just plain bad luck.
Business is about risk. Institutions need to be about stability, otherwise everything is at risk, all the way down.
Business is about risk. Institutions need to be about stability, otherwise everything is at risk, all the way down.
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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