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Elon: we're moving the data centers to space where no one can hurt them
Han: never tell me the odds
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Andrew Benedict-Nelson
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mastodon 4.6.6"Colloquially expressed, but essentially correct." -Spock.
Writer at my core, but also sometimes a strategist, consultant, advisor, coach, instructor, designer, journalist, and ne'er-do-well. Elder Millennial, (somewhat) recent dad. I've worked on lots of tough challenges with organizations you've heard of, many of them in the areas of nonprofit, government, health care, and social welfare.
Currently looking for my next gig: https://www.andrewbenedictnelson.com
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@susankayequinn this doesn’t sound like a plot point from a cyberpunk dystopian future at all…
So the Supreme Court has ratified one of America’s great lies, that fighting racism in elections is itself racist. Yet another day when the stakes get higher and the possibility of compromise slips away. We have to stop these fascists from returning this country to White minority rule. #uspol
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social this is like the Westenberg Corollary of the Dunning-Kruger effect
Trump’s twisted use of diplomatic rhetoric is part of the sham of this war. The press is acting as if when the ceasefire expires the cruise missiles will automatically start flying again. In fact, it would be completely within the President’s power not to kill children, not to waste resources, not to deepen global chaos. Perhaps we would have to live with a toll on the strait, but that’s nothing compared to the price of the war itself. We live under Trump’s whims, not any kind of articulated policy, and we need to be more honest about that. #uspol #iran
Hot take: the US-UK "special relationship" is the most oversold pile of crap in all of global relations. It doesn't deserve a second of analysis by anyone, anywhere. #uspol
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The press is doing a lot of parsing of Trump's stated military objectives etc. That's High Church sanewashing. We need to be more honest. The war has no real objectives that the military, diplomats, etc. can process in a rational way. (Obviously there is stuff like "distract from Epstein" but that's external to the logic that would either win or end the war -- that is, you can't put it in the ceasefire or surrender terms.)
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@geekysteven@beige.party My response is usually something like, "AI yes, LLMs no." My technical knowledge doesn't go much deeper than that, but if the other person has no coherent response to that, they're just BSing anyway.
So now we know...
1. Democrats can defeat incumbent Republicans in special elections in 2026.
2. *Republicans* can defeat incumbent Republicans in special elections in 2026.
Conclusion: incumbent Republicans are going down in elections in 2026! #uspol
@molly0xfff is this some sort of nightmare mad lib?
I had heard Claude Code was getting better so I had it build me a little game where you guess whether an actor was ever on Star Trek. We ended up arguing over whether Kirsten Dunst played Young Guinan in “Rascals.”
@billyjoebowers@mastodon.online the essence of all Trump "policy." Everyone gets a kickback except the people who actually need it.
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We need a better way to articulate that when it comes to #Iran there is no coherent policy and all we are experiencing is disorganized terror and violence.
We need to be more honest about the fact that Trump and Hegseth will attack whenever they feel like it and they are not rational actors.
As far as I can tell the only way this ends is with Congress clearly and objectively restraining their ability to make war. I expect they would immediately violate that constraint, but then we're playing a different game entirely. #uspol
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@nasa@social.beachcom.org as long as this keeps happening maybe this whole humanity thing will have been worth it
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@albaillustration@socel.net happy birthday! I’m 42 in a few days and I’m pretty sure nothing much has improved since 2006 anyway
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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social @geekysteven@beige.party I know some folks using ML for legit purposes in healthcare… I keep warning them that a backlash is coming because of how much the chatbots are screwing up everything, even though their work has nothing to do with that. And imagine when the bubble bursts…
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@flexghost@mastodon.social these cases fascinate me in a horrific way. Like even if the ICE guys’ wiring is as simple as “white people good, nonwhite people bad” what the heck do they imagine they are doing in these cases?
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@ZaneSelvans@social.coop I think about this every time I'm there, which is more often than I'd like. They think it works because their customers know what Christmas is "really" about, even though that's completely external to the Seuss story.
I liked this analysis of why Chicago Pope does not bow to Trump. It's not so much commentary as explanatory journalism with quotes from Milton. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/24/trump-pope-leo-catholics
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@jargoggles@kolektiva.social @davidsirota@mastodon.online the Oankali, but it's complicated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith%27s_Brood