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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3h

These are not my peers

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe the Post could spring for a stepladder. Asking a lot, I know.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 4d

LinkedIn has pushed GenAI posting hard enough that presumably much of the content there is now written with it, and the remarkable thing is how little that changed the experience.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 5d

Also, the flag has only 11 stripes, which seems to be A Thing with slop images recently.

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Vermont Public @vermontpublic.org · 6d

BREAKING: The Vermont state senator was the subject of a Politico story that revealed a leaked group chat between members of Young Republican chapters in four states.

Vermont Sen. Samuel Douglass will resign after participating in racist group chat

The Vermont state senator who’s been under pressure to resign since revelations surfaced this week of his participation in a racist group chat announced Friday evening that he’s leaving public office.

www.vermontpublic.org

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 7d

The very wealthy frequently take much stupider gambles than you’ll find in Vegas, but for some reason dropping millions on a wild bet that Jimmy Techbro is going to make a trillion-dollar chatbot is treated as visionary.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 9d

I wish ‘how dare you call people this word I made up for them’ was too stupid to work but I’m not optimistic.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 9d

That‘s still just racism, though. It’s a bit less ‘personal hate’ and more ‘fail to understand systemic bias’, but racism is both of those things.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 16d

Congresscritters on average like being powerless. It means they can truthfully say they didn’t vote for whatever you’re mad about when they run again. They want to stay in office more than they want the power that’s supposed to come with the office.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 17d

Evergreen since at least 2016.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 17d

Going to start telling the CX team that the server is throwing 500 errors on login for a greater good

The Filthy Uniate @thefilthyuniate.bsky.social · 17d

1) that’s not at all how we use that phrase; 2) are you fucking losing me with this right now?

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18d

Yep. We have a massive political machine for teaching normal people to feel shame & "oh I guess my opinions & needs are less Real & Important" because.... of not being landed gentry.

And it WORKS.

Sarah Birnbaum ❌👑 @sarahvb.bsky.social · 20d

It‘s all just “decades of RW media have successfully convinced me that farmers are Real Americans and we City Folk are Not.” I have a lot of trouble escaping this mindset myself.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 18d

fun fact, federal judges, as a rule, really don’t like it when you try to weasel out of obeying their orders

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18d

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 18d

I try not to read too much into these things, but, like, if the judge was going to be cool with the government’s action, I have to imagine she wouldn’t be calling a hearing on 45m notice on a Sunday evening.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 21d

Yeah, Meta tilts hard into the ‘know but choose not to care’ side of things.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 21d

Yeah, but… it’s been years. There has been ample time to figure out who your users are and what they value. Failing to do so is either incompetence or a choice not to care.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21d

Every single person involved in these murders up and down the chain of command needs to be tried for it.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21d

Trump has blown up another fishing boat off Venezuela. Four dead.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 21d

I’ve noticed that too much time on this site - or others like it - can be bad for the mental and emotional health. If you extrapolate that to this being someone’s entire full-time career…

Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 21d

*squints over and the smoking and Nazi-infested ruins of Twitter*

Can’t say it has a stellar track record, no.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 22d

It seems to me that the only reasonable response to ‘we can’t control what they’ll do’ is ‘then what’s the point of negotiating with you?’.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 23d

Yeah, I’ve been in so many ‘how could this be misused?’ conversations about, like, an email notification setting, or a data export. That they’re just putting these things out there with no thought at all is wild.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 24d

Only takes a simple majority to set the size of the Court. Set it to one, then set it to 13 and fill the 12 vacancies.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 28d

Honestly, no, I suspect they’ve gone to some effort to make the ‘left‘ wedge as large as it is, and would want to check their data and methods before trusting the findings.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 28d

This is some truly next-level ’meeting could have been an email’.

Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 28d

lol I fucking KNEW IT

“…to hear him make a short speech on military standards and the ‘warrior ethos’”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · Sep 24

As I get older, I begin to see the appeal of ‘international travel, but a luxury hotel with a staff fluent in your language follows you around as you visit different places’, which is how the kind of cruise I’d go on feels.

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