Unelected acting president Stephen Miller announcing new xenophobic extralegal citizenship rules while Trump takes a nap. This timeline is just awesome.
"Look, everyone is using YouTube Music! We are successful and smart!" [because we shut down Google Play Music and forced users to install YouTube Music, and measured the stats before they all uninstalled it]
Sounds like he and AI deserve each other, and he should probably just start a new company with just him and AI to do all the work without those inefficient employees. In fact, he should ask AI if it's a good idea. If there's anything he's unsure about, AI could reassure him to go for it.
The depressing thing is he will never pay for his crimes. He could go to jail tomorrow, be put in solitary or on a chain gang for the rest of his life, and still not come close to paying back what he destroyed or stole - whether money, institutions, trust, standing, etc.
And many people would even accept that devil's bargain, if they could push all consequences in their life to the end when they're decrepit and demented, but do whatever they want until then. But he won't even give us that, and instead will tear the world apart to never face a single consequence, reflecting and amplifying all the consequences due to him back to us.
If you watch a full podcast (he has done a ton in the last couple weeks), he clearly identifies AI as not a mere hype technology, as something interesting and potentially useful from a technology perspective, and he definitely doesn't conflate a chatbot with all AI. That doesn't undermine the vast problems with it, how it's being used against regular workers, the threat the bubble poses to the economy, the criti-hype cycle, etc.
I think you're oversimplifying "Cory Doctorow" based on the article you're reading or specifically how he presents a more complex idea to different audiences.
Watch the Jon Stewart podcast interview if you want more nuance:
I'm pretty left from an ideological perspective - universal free healthcare, state-owned or funded basic necessities, food and safety nets, guaranteed worker protections, eliminate billionaires and restore sane worker wages through sane tax and maximum employee/ceo pay multipliers, public-funded childcare services, free or nearly-entirely state-funded tuition through at least college. That cost is a drop in the bucket compared to what we spend on war and pork barrel. And the way you get there is by taking steps toward it to eventually get there.
If one's position is all-or-nothing or that democrats are ineffectual so they're equally bad and therefore we must oppose both, that's basically saying to move from point A to point B, we must teleport rather than walk or drive or take the train. That ensures we never get there... because that metaphorical teleportation is fiction, and no, setting the world on fire doesn't magically create incentives or conditions that in any way help discover teleportation.
Their belief is probably just that his very Muslim-sounding name and chanting "socialist" is enough for them to propagandize his general election bid and scare off enough closet racists in the center.
I wish I could be confident that that won't work. But as Trump proved, propaganda can work and work well, and anti-Muslim sentiment has been a daily staple for Fox News and the right for decades. I just hope that people surprise me.
I'm reading this comment section and shaking my head.
I mean, Democrats deserve a lot of crap, and I have and will continue to give them crap, but we're in primary season. I seriously don't get the nihilism and defeatism about a primary. If you want any option in the general, now's your time to vote for who you actually want the most.
How did NYC get Mamdani? Was it burning our vote or discouraging people from voting because the establishment Dems and billionaires wanted freaking Cuomo, and woe is us because the fix is in? No, it was taking a stand and believing that you can make it happen.
We'll have different debates in the general since I'm sure progressives won't win every primary. But right now is the time to send Santa your wish list and stop dooming.
That would make sense, but it's just as likely they are thinking about life after the Senate.
If their only marketable associations are via the GOP, if the GOP has become MAGA, and if they are exiled from MAGA-ified GOP, then they may still be trying to look like they weren't really opposed to Trump because it'll help them nab that Fox News correspondent spot, that speaking engagement, that cushy lobbying firm role.
I'm not a Ken Martin expert, but it took more than half the article to identify what problem they have with him, and they all seem to come down to "The donors aren't getting enough attention." Am I missing something?
Absolutely nothing. This isn't even an "order" in that it affirmatively promises anything. It is an "order" that "rescinds" the prior "settlement" (if such a word is even coherent between two halves of the same party) to establish the fund and settlement. They can (and almost certainly will) do anything previously possible once Blanche is confirmed.
The bar already is too low for this to mean anything. A judge has blocked the proposed settlement already, so it's insanely suspicious that Trump was willing to withdraw Blanche if necessary to not give up the settlement in writing.
Two huge problems that probably make this worthless despite that it almost certainly will satisfy the GOP holdouts:
Now they have produced an "order," but it's not even clear what legal effect it has or why it can't be replaced with a new "order" reinstating it. The DOJ can't issue a court order and it's redundant to the court order. So it must be an internal order and if the DOJ has the power to issue it, it has the power to revoke it.
There is still a retroactive immunity! How this is never in the headlines, is just a reflection of how they've successfully poisoned the conversation. Here's the article:
The document released by Blanche on Sunday night also limits the scope of another provision of the settlement that provided broad immunity for Trump and members of his family from tax audits. It clarifies that the tax audit immunity agreement “applies only retroactively” to claims open at the time of the settlement and does not protect the president from examination of future tax filings.
I doubt "claims open at the time of the settlement" is genuinely limiting. So the president and his entire family gratuitously get exactly what they wanted, a free criminal immunity for their fraudulent tax returns. The prospective immunity was never going to be held up in court anyway.
Blanche is Trump's personal attorney. Not was, is. Just like Bondi. Cornyn and Tillis did this so they can lie to themselves that they had a backbone, that's all.
She also provides the most simple living reminder of how just weird and psychopathic the right is, and how much the Overton window has shifted since Mr. Rogers. "Don't kill children," "give children food," "give children medical care," "keep children safe" equals "radical leftist" if you go by the right's echo chamber, which is just...actually insane.
I was very strongly considering buying one of these, but the shipping is nearly an additional 40% of the price of the console.