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@matthewstoller Never ending wars did not help

Since Democrats care about winning, well Obama brought us Trump. And under Obama, the Democratic Party got utterly wrecked at a state and Federal level. Obama truly turned the Democrats away from their legacy as the party of the people.

Obama is one of the worst Presidents in American history, not quite as bad as Bush or Trump. But he destroyed our faith in democracy by offering amnesty for elite lawlessness. And when you look under every social crisis - opioids, gambling, big tech - it's often an Obama legacy.

@Gr82BA10ACVol @AngelMD1103 "Can I work in" its that simple

@AngelMD1103 I gotta withhold judgment, I’m curious about how long the woman has been on the machine, and if she stayed using it consistently. If she’s done what I see tons of gym-goers doing- sitting on a machine for 30 minutes-98% of that time playing on her phone, she needs to move.

A girl shares a frustrating gym experience and says she’ll never go back to a public gym again. She’s in the middle of a workout, using a machine and going through her sets. Suddenly, another woman interrupts her mid-set to ask how much longer she has left. She answers politely, “just 2 more sets.” Less than a minute later, the same woman comes back and demands she move immediately because she wants the machine, even threatening to complain at the front desk. It’s one of those situations where basic gym etiquette seems to go out the window. Most people understand you either wait your turn or ask to work in—not pressure someone mid-workout. Have you ever dealt with someone like this at the gym, and what do you think is the right way to handle it?

Watergate was fake. WMD’s were fake. J6 was fake. Charlottesville was fake. Almost every Boomer benchmark of reality is fake.

@SeanMcCarthyCom @DominikFascist How did they do it?

@DominikFascist China had a larger share of the population addicted than we did. For that matter even the Taliban treated addicts after returning to power. We don’t do it here because addicts are what makes the drug trade profitable and our government is up to its neck in the drug trade

Downtown LA is the contemporary United States in summary. Driverless Waymo cars and automated food delivery robots rolling by blocks and blocks of homelessness, addiction, mental illness and pure abject human misery that we ignore instead of treat

@1KimberlyBrooks @CohenSite @dickclucas Council can stay if and only if they solve this problem

@CohenSite @dickclucas You should get your head examined. Everywhere I go, the 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica Seafood, Montana Avenue, I risk getting stabbed by some crazy man alone. They are not enforcing the laws we voted for. They all need to go.

The Santa Monica “comeback” is greatly exaggerated. The entire city council needs to roll.

This morning, I joined a 5AM ride-along with the SMPD Homeless Liaison officers. These dedicated men and women are deeply compassionate and fully committed to their mission. What became clear is that housing is not the core problem. Drugs and untreated mental illness are. Repeat offenders are routinely offered housing, only to refuse it or abandon it shortly after. These officers are doing everything possible within the broken policies they are forced to operate under. The real failure lies with a system that ties their hands and prioritizes ideology over results. I stand fully behind these officers and believe they deserve the authority and support to do the job as they know it should be done, without bureaucratic interference.

I still can’t imagine the thought process that goes into deciding to do this

‘Blade Runner 2049’ (2017) dir. Denis Villeneuve dp. Roger Deakins

@justinbarsketis @scottmelker @glove Convenience

@scottmelker @glove Why did he choose to use the app store instead of the official website?

A close friend of mine lost his entire Bitcoin stack in a hack last week, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. This wasn’t some random anonymous person on the internet - it hits much closer to home. @glove is someone I’ve known for years. We toured and performed together back in my early DJ days, long before crypto. He’s been in Bitcoin since 2017, steadily stacking and treating it like a long-term safety net. Nearly a decade of savings, gone in an instant. The part that makes this even worse is how it happened. He downloaded what looked like a legitimate Ledger app from the Apple App Store. Same branding, same interface, nothing that would immediately raise a red flag. After I learned what happened, I went to check for myself, and I genuinely couldn’t tell what was real and what wasn’t. For lack of a better word, this is f***ed. If you can’t confidently identify the official app inside a place that’s supposed to be curated and trusted, something is fundamentally broken. The app prompted him to enter his 24-word seed phrase, which, in the context of setting up or restoring a wallet, feels completely normal. Except this wasn’t a real setup. It was a malicious app designed for one purpose: to capture that phrase. Once that’s entered, it’s over. Whoever has it can recreate the wallet and move the funds instantly. No device confirmation, no second step, no undo. A lot of people reacted by saying he should have known better, and that’s easy to say in hindsight. But for most people, especially those who aren’t deep in the technical side, the line between safe and unsafe isn’t always obvious - especially when the environment itself looks legitimate. That’s where it’s easy to let your guard down. There are a few hard lessons here. The first is that you can’t assume anything is real, even inside something like the App Store. If you’re downloading a wallet, you need to verify it through official sources every time. The second is that your seed phrase should never be entered anywhere except directly into a hardware device itself. The moment you type it into a phone, computer, or app connected to the internet, you’re taking a risk - and if you’re wrong once, it’s over. More broadly, this is the reality of self-custody. The tools can be secure, but the environment around them isn’t always. Interfaces can be confusing, processes aren’t intuitive, and even trusted platforms can become attack vectors. That creates a dangerous gap between how secure something is in theory and how it actually works in practice. And that’s what makes this so unforgiving. When your Bitcoin is stolen, there is no support line, no reversal, no second chance. Just one decision in one moment that can’t be taken back. If there’s anything to take from this, it’s to slow down and verify everything. Treat every interaction with your keys like it’s irreversible - because it is. Maybe consider throwing G. Love some Sats HERE: 3KMbvNuTHRW8FkGo2gCrkbTEpfFNnTN8HH

I KNOW THE BLOCKCHAIN SERVERS ARE LOCATED IN THERE, OPEN UP NOW DO U UNDERSTAND ME

@JoshDaws Good luck on your search

I was just laid off from The Walt Disney Company after 12.5 years with the company. Ask me anything.

The IRS is only weeks away from developing nukes.

nobody warned you it would feel like this. that you'd spend your 30s holding 47 things in your head at once the appointments, the snack preferences, the developmental milestones you're supposed to be hitting..all while someone on the internet tells you to be more present. be present. it goes so fast. cherish it. how do you cherish it when you're drowning in the logistics of it? there used to be a village. a sister down the street. a neighbor who knew your kids without an introduction. dinners that just happened because that's how life worked. that's gone. we traded it for a world that moves faster than we can keep up with and then wonders why we're exhausted. and now I'm raising two small humans knowing the jobs that will try to own them haven't been invented yet. the technology shaping their futures is the same technology people are telling me not to use to lighten my load today. every generation of women has adapted to the world they were handed. wars. workforce shifts. whatever survival required. the role changes. it always changes. the love doesn't. nobody is trying to replace motherhood. we're trying to claw back enough margin to actually be there for it. the outrage isn't really about AI. mothers can't do anything right... formula or breast, screens or no screens, work or stay home, gentle or firm, and now this. whatever choice we make, someone is ready to tell us we got it wrong. I'm tired of it. use your tools. hold your babies. both things are allowed.

This is bullshit. These people will get you fucked. By all means revolt, by taxes and whatever other means. But do not trust in technicalitarians who claim that they know the secret loophole. Face the risks clear-eyed. Peter Schiff's father died in prison over this bullshit.

Bizarre situation brewing in LA public schools, as reported by WSJ today Teachers and parents say schools regularly run out of cleaning supplies and toilet paper But per-student spending rose from $11.7k to $29.3k since 2014 — about 5x the rate of inflation Notably…. the district doubled spending on outside vendors and digital tools over that time period The superintendent personally received "no-bid emergency authority" to close 72% of those contracts — and nearly 70% went over budget, per WSJ (District spokesperson says increased spending is due to virtual learning, tutoring and rising costs of special ed…)

@sircalebhammer @EKrietlow Bitcoin baby

@EKrietlow Yes, I'd rather be required to invest the same amount, taxed, into the S&P, and have that specific account taxed at some percentage at 65 to help fund a retirement safety net. Not an actual policy I'm advocating for as I have not done the math, but curious if it would work.

I'm sorry, but no. SS will have a mandatory benefits cut of 23% by 2032 1) life expectancy has climbed from when it was made 65 to 67 2) Income cap has not been adjusted in decades Fastest growing category in fed budget is interest on debt. We cannot afford populist policies

People have an instinctive revulsion toward AI in the home because we've seen what personal devices did to kids with excessive screen time. However, AI is a fundamentally different technology. Parents gave kids screens so they'd be occupied while they got things done. AI can get things done while parents are occupied with their kids. @jessegenet is demonstrating how.

@cryptopunk7213 This is what Replit does?

lmao anthropic team will not rest until every competitor is beat - looks like they’re going after cursor / lovable ($56B combined val): new full-stack app development platform with baked in IDE, design tools, feature toggles etc anthropic now has: - openclaw competitor - #1 ai coding terminal - leading coding model - end-to-end automated software creation - ai security test suite - remote control coding - managed agent builder (AWS for coding) they’re building an operating system for the entire software engineering loop

@mavericksmovies @ChrisMonan All the stuff in Moonraker before they actually go into space is great

@ChrisMonan Eh about half of the Roger Moore ones are pretty good

Bond in the 70s and 80s is so great because of how shamelessly they’re driven by what genres were popular at the time, regardless of how tenuously connected to spycraft they were. Live and Let Die cribbing from blaxploitation, Man with the Golden Gun working in the kung fu craze, License to Kill piggybacking on Miami Vice/Scarface hype