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It strikes me as problematic the extent to which knowing how something works or even wanting to know is seen as endorsement of it.
February 13, 2026 at 1:55 AM
It strikes me as problematic the extent to which knowing how something works or even wanting to know is seen as endorsement of it.
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There needs to be some serious accountability for the colossal harm to life these absolute demons have caused, and will cause. Life in prison is the moderate option.
February 13, 2026 at 12:45 AM
There needs to be some serious accountability for the colossal harm to life these absolute demons have caused, and will cause. Life in prison is the moderate option.
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so how much time per day does kristi noem spend in littlespace
“…in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem's blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.”
February 13, 2026 at 3:16 AM
so how much time per day does kristi noem spend in littlespace
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I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out
February 12, 2026 at 10:53 PM
I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out
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I don’t think the rubes are ready for us to hate them as much as they hate us.
There were a couple themes of the 2024 election but one was a declaration of war on American cities by American rural/exurban voters
He’s also doing this in Memphis…no one is reporting on it
February 12, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I don’t think the rubes are ready for us to hate them as much as they hate us.
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My honest take is that trans people are a low salience issue for most swing voters who are unlikely to specifically vote for the purposes of purging us but also wouldn’t view it as a dealbreaker if someone they thought will make gas cheaper promised to do so.
You say that like the current Lavender Scare has enough fuel in the tank to make it to 2030.
February 12, 2026 at 7:54 PM
My honest take is that trans people are a low salience issue for most swing voters who are unlikely to specifically vote for the purposes of purging us but also wouldn’t view it as a dealbreaker if someone they thought will make gas cheaper promised to do so.
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Reiterating my belief that any trans person in a blue area who thinks there is no difference between parties has a moral obligation to switch homes with a trans person in Bumfuck, Mississippi who believes otherwise.
Your reminder that Jon Bel Edwards, a legit conservative and the last Dem governor of Louisiana, was pro trans rights while being anti choice. "Dems don't support queer people" is like the most easily disproven lie. If JBE, Kelly, Cooper, and Beshear are all pro trans.
hasan, who is not trans or queer, saying that Dems would shoot every trans person in the head to win elections, is just straight up ratfucking, indefensible
February 12, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Reiterating my belief that any trans person in a blue area who thinks there is no difference between parties has a moral obligation to switch homes with a trans person in Bumfuck, Mississippi who believes otherwise.
pointing out someone's revealed preference is a legitimate rhetorical technique
February 13, 2026 at 12:27 AM
pointing out someone's revealed preference is a legitimate rhetorical technique
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Oh but when hunter biden does it off some Latina titties it’s a national problem
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Oh but when hunter biden does it off some Latina titties it’s a national problem
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I think a big part of the reason a lot of trans people expect Democrats to abandon them is because we're a very online community and do look internationally and JESUS FUCKING CHRIST LABOUR
February 12, 2026 at 10:45 PM
I think a big part of the reason a lot of trans people expect Democrats to abandon them is because we're a very online community and do look internationally and JESUS FUCKING CHRIST LABOUR
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Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them!
The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
This draft guidance reproduces Cass insisting that clinicians must be involved in decisions about *social transition* which actually should be none of their damn business
They take the line that this "non-directive" intervention should force things to be "keeping options open and flexible"...
They take the line that this "non-directive" intervention should force things to be "keeping options open and flexible"...
February 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them!
The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
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we would be better if the onion didn't exist
unfortunately American pop culture has spent decades aggressively encouraging the notion that anyone who seeks political office is somewhere between incompetant and malicious, and thus inherently suspect
and now here we are
and now here we are
February 12, 2026 at 5:14 PM
we would be better if the onion didn't exist
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When people read current writing on immigration a few decades from now, it'll hit the same as a reading the way people wrote about "the Jewish problem" in the 1930s. Just loads of well-educated and seemingly normal people accepting a monstrous normative frame as though it's natural.
really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement
Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
February 12, 2026 at 4:48 PM
When people read current writing on immigration a few decades from now, it'll hit the same as a reading the way people wrote about "the Jewish problem" in the 1930s. Just loads of well-educated and seemingly normal people accepting a monstrous normative frame as though it's natural.
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in general, people are awful at understanding composition effects
say the average new home would get an “efficiency score” of 8/10 while an old home gets a 2/10. If you pass a law requiring new homes are a 9/10, but the increased costs reduce homebuilding by 25%, overall efficiency decreases
say the average new home would get an “efficiency score” of 8/10 while an old home gets a 2/10. If you pass a law requiring new homes are a 9/10, but the increased costs reduce homebuilding by 25%, overall efficiency decreases
I’d question the premise that California’s housing stock is actually built to higher efficiency standards than Texas’s. California’s housing stock is twice the age of Texas’s, and it builds new housing (the only housing subject to current standards) at one-third the rate of Texas.
Despite CA having 2x the electricity price as TX, Texans pay 28% more per capita for electricity yearly because TX uses 2.7x the elec per capita as CA (vs 2.1x in 2001, so nothing to do with weather) even with 2 mil more EVs in CA than TX
Why? Stronger effic & building standards & more BTM PV in CA
Why? Stronger effic & building standards & more BTM PV in CA
February 12, 2026 at 2:29 PM
in general, people are awful at understanding composition effects
say the average new home would get an “efficiency score” of 8/10 while an old home gets a 2/10. If you pass a law requiring new homes are a 9/10, but the increased costs reduce homebuilding by 25%, overall efficiency decreases
say the average new home would get an “efficiency score” of 8/10 while an old home gets a 2/10. If you pass a law requiring new homes are a 9/10, but the increased costs reduce homebuilding by 25%, overall efficiency decreases
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At least some part of this is the fact that large parts of American life -- pretty much any dealing with the financial sector, every commercial during sports events about gambling, the modal interaction with blue collar professionals -- is either an actual scam or feels like one.
Voters take an extremely expansive view of corruption that borders on the idea that any disagreement about policy is per se corrupt.
www.slowboring.com/p/americans-...
www.slowboring.com/p/americans-...
February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
At least some part of this is the fact that large parts of American life -- pretty much any dealing with the financial sector, every commercial during sports events about gambling, the modal interaction with blue collar professionals -- is either an actual scam or feels like one.
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Inspiring! This transgender person is made to engage in a global humiliation ritual on the largest stage on earth - but turns it into an Epic Win by skiing in the segregated category with head held high! Progress to be celebrated! :)
February 12, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Inspiring! This transgender person is made to engage in a global humiliation ritual on the largest stage on earth - but turns it into an Epic Win by skiing in the segregated category with head held high! Progress to be celebrated! :)
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Imagine if there were regular polls on "diabetic issues", as well as breathless news articles on "diabetic ideology" and politicians giving speeches about the "diabetic agenda".
Healthcare is healthcare, period.
Healthcare is healthcare, period.
Polling on trans issues is difficult to interpret. It becomes even more difficult when pollsters use politically charged terms like 'transgender ideology.'
Great new analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Great new analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
When Trans Issues Become ‘Ideology’ — Assigned
Two surveys of Americans, published just days apart, reveal the limitations and revelations of polling.
www.assignedmedia.org
February 11, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Imagine if there were regular polls on "diabetic issues", as well as breathless news articles on "diabetic ideology" and politicians giving speeches about the "diabetic agenda".
Healthcare is healthcare, period.
Healthcare is healthcare, period.
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Basically every downstream negative effect is a byproduct of it being deeply useful and the hype being at least partially true. Increasingly pretending this isn’t the case marks you as a proudly incurious person.
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Basically every downstream negative effect is a byproduct of it being deeply useful and the hype being at least partially true. Increasingly pretending this isn’t the case marks you as a proudly incurious person.
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"LLMs raise absolutely no philosophical questions whatsoever, because the issue of what intelligence consists of was settled a long before they existed" is an insane statement even if you cede the incorrect "it was a settled question" point to the other side.
February 11, 2026 at 4:34 PM
"LLMs raise absolutely no philosophical questions whatsoever, because the issue of what intelligence consists of was settled a long before they existed" is an insane statement even if you cede the incorrect "it was a settled question" point to the other side.
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prosecutors & judges love to tell juries that your job is just to determine if the facts presented meet the burden of proof established in law, but actually no we the people are sovereign and we also get to determine if the law should be applied at all, that is quite literally our sovereign right
February 11, 2026 at 4:25 PM
prosecutors & judges love to tell juries that your job is just to determine if the facts presented meet the burden of proof established in law, but actually no we the people are sovereign and we also get to determine if the law should be applied at all, that is quite literally our sovereign right
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I sorta think “thought-terminating cliche” is too generous a term for this kind of reaction because I see no evidence that the people posting like this ever begin to think in the first place
February 11, 2026 at 3:21 PM
I sorta think “thought-terminating cliche” is too generous a term for this kind of reaction because I see no evidence that the people posting like this ever begin to think in the first place
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Well-meaning Cis artist trying to draw 'realistic' trans woman accidentally ends up creating devastating troonjak
February 11, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Well-meaning Cis artist trying to draw 'realistic' trans woman accidentally ends up creating devastating troonjak
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notification: u have been perceived. there is no undo button
February 11, 2026 at 7:09 AM
notification: u have been perceived. there is no undo button
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Look, calling the anti-AI crowd stochastic parrots is super overdone and totally unoriginal at this point.
That doesn't mean it's not still funny as Hell, and it sure as *fuck* does not mean I'm gonna stop doing it lmao
That doesn't mean it's not still funny as Hell, and it sure as *fuck* does not mean I'm gonna stop doing it lmao
most of the anti AI people are really funny because they're rehashing someone else's opinion about it and spouting points they don't actually know anything about and won't take the time to learn about. I wonder what other thing is really good at rehashing other's opinions hmmm
"they had 3 commits that used AI wahh isn't that terrible? point and shame!" can we be so serious right now
February 11, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Look, calling the anti-AI crowd stochastic parrots is super overdone and totally unoriginal at this point.
That doesn't mean it's not still funny as Hell, and it sure as *fuck* does not mean I'm gonna stop doing it lmao
That doesn't mean it's not still funny as Hell, and it sure as *fuck* does not mean I'm gonna stop doing it lmao