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- And/or 5,000+ years pre-Skywalker to cover some of the ground from Knights of the Old Republic.
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- “Stories bound up as a second season” is a great way to put it. Felt like the time skips undermined the tension and character building of the first episode, but Ghorman came *close* to matching Rix Road. Which is itself a feat. Still nothing for me will top the Narkina 5 arc. Star Wars at its best.
- Brilliant if clumsy reminder of how AI reflects human biases rather than transcending them
- Have any of the Silicon Valley VCs who were until very recently worried about AI risk weighed in on House Republicans pushing a ten-year ban on AI regulation? No?
- Subject matter experts like “savvy” businessmen are a dime a dozen. True “renaissance men” and polymaths are rare. Lots of media and political dysfunction stems from conflating the two. (This is a long way of saying Ackman’s a dumbass outside his narrow expertise and maybe within it too.)
- i am kind of amazed that the trump administration is trying to treat a health insurance program as akin to the dole www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
- Almost certainly going to be bungled in implementation too bsky.app/profile/trac...
- If you are not originally from Texas, but practice law here, a good thing to do is occasionally say things like "pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered" or "that man's got less sense than a peach orchard goat."
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- Exactly it’s all the same Megillah
- “Son that makes about as much sense as screen doors on submarines” And let me add another vote for “that dog won’t hunt”
- I knew the French JRPG was going to be French but it’s like two standard deviations more French than I was expecting.
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- Thank you!
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- What game is this?? I must have it
- this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.
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View full threadProud to live in a country famous for holding its elites accountable for failure and general misrule
- Side note I think we should talk more about how one of the only people to be penalized for their role in the financial crisis, Fabrice Tourre, is now a business school professor
- POV: You have made the mistake of asking me when the Roman Empire “fell”
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- It *is* how the Supreme Court has narrowed the definition of corruption. It is *not,* pointedly, how ordinary people understand and use the term.
- I’d like some mainstream voice to make one clear, historical point: if Abraham Lincoln couldn’t suspend habeas without a vote by Congress *to protect Washington, DC from being encircled,* then I doubt Stephen Miller can to more speedily deport toddlers
- I was glad to see the NYT taking this seriously enough to write a story about it. But then I read it, and there's not one iota of pushback, or critical context, not even a "critics say". Pure stenography. Absolutely shameful for something this outrageous. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
- the thing that angers me the most is that i know my heart and my soul have been so hardened and damaged by the last decade that they’ll never fully recover. certain levels of peace and happiness just aren’t really available to me anymore and probably never will be again.
- We will leave a better world for others, somehow. ❤️
- I cannot believe that 1) my wedding is in the New York Times 2) they didn't mention the many Star Trek references at my wedding Ya girl walked down the aisle as a string quartet played the DS9 theme 😁 and they did the TNG theme when we recessed as husband & wife! 🥰 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/s...
- I’m so happy for you!!!!
- “Drums. Drums in the deep.”
- Nowhere does this article mention that only Congress can suspend habeas corpus
- If we don’t get a scene of Guiteau belting “I AM GOING TO THE LORDY” at his execution I’m deleting Netflix and getting the Sondheim estate to write an angry letter
- Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
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- Glhf!
- *cut to scene of Justinian, breathing heavily*
- Maybe it will help a _little_ if I and others like me start saying publicly for the record that we just don’t use ChatGPT. Writing can be really hard — organizing a piece of writing can be especially hard — but I don’t use ChatGPT. If you read my stuff you’re reading something an LLM can’t do.
Those emdashes, though...- “Technically if it can translate or understand non-English content it’s a ‘large languages’ model”
- *Daniel Tiger jingle* 🎶 Defund the help-errrrs 🎶
- Justinian’s war to reconquer Italy set Western Europe back a century, maybe more.
- God forbid we have even one aspect of modern life free of ads youtu.be/XPGgTy5YJ-g?...
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- TIE Defender has no real world parallel imo because the entire concept is “what if a starfighter had no downsides?” Which is not say TIE Defenders aren’t cool, to be clear they’re very cool and I love them almost as much as Thrawn did
- Whatever you think of AI, it’s increasingly clear that Silicon Valley’s ham-fisted attempt to foist half-baked products onto unsuspecting users will backfire and slow mass adoption of the technology. People don’t like new stuff being shoved into their phones with no explanation. Just ask U2.
- For those too young to remember, in 2014 the band U2 teamed up with Apple to shove the former’s new album into the music libraries of every iPhone user, like it or not. It was a bracing, early demonstration of how your phone is not really yours. www.forbes.com/sites/davidp...
- Every summer GenCon brings 70,000+ board game players and $77 million into Indianapolis. This year the looming trade war means small game companies are pulling out or closing up shop, throwing the r/GenCon subreddit into a low-grade panic. Cc: @jeffstein.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/gencon/
- Once again the giant ash tree I pay $1,000 every year to keep alive has repaid me with a week-long full body reaction
- Probably for the best that Hanania’s chosen to part ways with MAGA but still feels more like a strategic rebranding than anything approaching personal growth or teshuvah
- Happy Indie Bookstore Day, please tell your local indoor bookstores that you love them, preferably by purchasing a book
- Why don’t outie bookstores ever get a day, smh
- This is it, this is what may finally break my elder millennial brain. It’s the geopolitical equivalent of “stop hitting yourself.”
- Republicans literally mocked Europeans, endlessly, for daring to second-guess what turned out to be faulty intel. There was even an “Office” bit about it!!! Does anybody remember anything ever?
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- And we’re already past the Marne
- there’s no reason not to do this. it’d probably end up with another kind of constitutional crisis, which is exactly why it should happen.
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- The cool zone should be at least a little cool
- Remember the early Obama years, when conservatives caricatured Justice Sotomayor for saying empathy was an important quality in judging?
- It is legally impossible to deport citizens. This is not deportation. Removing citizens to foreign prisons, knowing to a certainty that they will be subjected to treatment that violates the U.S. constitution, doesn’t deserve any label that connotes legal legitimacy.
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- It was a not-uncommon Roman punishment, where it was called exile
- Bullies interpret any effort at consensus-building as weakness. It’s true from the schoolyard to the Sudetenland.
- The president wants to exile American citizens beyond the reach of our law
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- To be clear I was against this from the start regardless of who was being illegally deported!
- How do you think this all ends? Best case scenario seems to be a national crisis or scandal so disastrous and discrediting that we’re forced into a major reforms. Feels like we’re now well past what a “normal” president of either party could fix.
- People toss around the word “unconstitutional” so it’s worth being specific. The rule being violated here — that the executive cannot arbitrarily punish its enemies — is a foundational concept in English law roughly 500 years older than the United States itself. It predates the fall of Byzantium.
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- 🌎 👨🏽🚀 “it’s all Roman history?” 🔫👩🏼🚀 “always has been”
- Listened to an episode of All-In, for my sins, and it’s very clear the hosts are just some rich guys who got their feelings hurt when Biden didn’t treat them like special little boys and backfilled their politics from there
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- Also learned diplomacy from Civ since they appear to think turning tariffs off and on has no effect on American internetional standing
- Ugh the typo. But the point stands!
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- What a triumph of a post — a victory even! Nika, nika!
- Getting disappeared to a Salvadoran black site for saying “happy holidays”
