I ask my best friend for $40.

Yeah, this Tyler Robinson guy, from these messages comes off as a “kinda normal Gen Z kid” to me. Trying to assign a political alignment to any of those messages seems like a huge stretch. Facts never get in the way of a rightwing narrative though.

Has anyone (in Utah) asked: What was he wearing when this happened to him????????

From NYT (cw: gift link to live report with details of shooting):

“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?” a person asks. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk responds right before he is shot.

According to NYT (cw: gift link to live report with details of shooting) the moments before the shooting were even more fitting:

Video posted on social media shows the moment Charlie Kirk was shot and the seconds leading to the incident. Kirk was being asked questions about mass shootings in America.

“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?” a person asks. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk responds right before he is shot.

ETA Additional context: The person first asked how many mass shooters were transgender in the last ten years, Kirk said “Too many”, the person said it’s five, then asked the question about total mass shooters. I could infer it as an attempt to compare the two relative to amount of right-wing outrage over the gender identity of shooters.

Fake news. Everything posted to [email protected] is real factual information, no exceptions.

Yep. Every excuse Schumer had in March is gone.

The lower courts have stopped him for a while but the Supreme Court have overturned much of it, with little regard to constitutional protections.

DOGE is out.

Tariffs are here. They are bad for business, even if the economy is not actively crashing. No confusion there. Waiting for the midterms for the consequences of the Big Beautiful Bill to hit isn’t going to change a thing, the delusional ones will blame Democrats anyway.

Democrats have had months to prepare. Demonstrators are already out there, ready for a prolonged fight. Democrats had best have a plan, and if Schumer doesn’t, then he’d better make up one real quick to get the message out readying the public for a shutdown.

Instead of sneaker-net it will be rocket-net… and at a certain point you need an on-prem on-planet support team to just figure things out.

Thanks for going through the effort to make the links instance-agnostic.

Ken Martin should know that the penis mightier than the sword.

Great cheerleading words from Martin but I really think (and the Canadian New Democrats need to do this too) is put together a blueprint book for how they are going to achieve the ten-year vision or whatever Martin is talking about. The Democratic Project 2030. Right now party officials are kinda just running chaotically, but being relatively ineffectual.

Get everyone from the progressive socialist wing, to union leaders of many industries, to your socially-inclusive conservative Democrats to sit down and write a book. Even if the Heritage Foundation’s policies were very much in conflict with each other, they were able to get the ball rolling and are busy implementing everything they can. Democratic higherupa right are now a weak and divided mess. They need a gameplan that’s more than “Trump bad”.

If there is one short term goal, it is for the Democratic Party to help people on the ground who are helping others - be it groups looking out for ICE and resisting them, aid flotillas and humanitarian workers going to Palestine, and even red states that are being hit by FEMA cuts. They don’t seem to understand the profound effect that helping people that need it most has on them.

Watch some of the businesses cry council a river from the loss of parking/car traffic, but then see immense increase in foot traffic from subway and bus riders now considering it a cool place to hang out. It will be a net positive if they can think outside the status quo for just a minute.

blindly trust AI if it tells them what they want to hear

FTFY

Department of Offense: King’s Imperial Escort

Here’s your cliché small talk starter: the weather.

• Nice weather out today, huh? (Sprinkle sarcasm or adjust to match actual weather conditions)

UK version:

• Gloomy weather as usual, innit?

That is definitely a problem that needs to be dealt with, since AI scrapers hogging bandwidth or making sites inaccessible means it is hampering equal access to everyone. Ignoring conventions and not rate limiting itself are harmful to the open internet.

So yes, those kinds of AI scraping behaviours should be mitigated, but on the principle of AI ingesting my public data, I’m not against it, if it can access it reasonably and fairly like anyone else.

If I’m going to share my information and knowledge publicly on an Internet site, I’d like everyone to have fair and open access to it, not at the whims of a multinational corp to gatekeep for me. So the fact that AI can access it too doesn’t discourage me.

You have information from me because I choose to share it, not because a site has demanded I give it up without a clear benefit to me in return.

I’ve used Jerboa for years now, and have the press back twice to exit setting enabled:

My configuration for it is very minimal, to mimic RedReader that I used to use.

Seriously. I’d be somewhat less concerned about the impact if it was only voluntarily used. Instead, AI is compulsively shoved in every nook and cranny of digital product simply to justify its own existence.

The power requirement for training is ongoing, since mere days after Sam Altman released a very underehelming GPT-5, he begins hyping up the next one.

Absolutely love that there are Bluesky and Masto share buttons on this site!!!

General Reposti! You are a bold one.