We did a whole episode with Laurel about this recently. It’s important to understand the impacts of these types of decisions. usa.streetsblog.org/2026/04/02/t...
The obsession with getting instantaneous election results is weird and unhealthy, serves no real purpose, and feeds conspiratorial nonsense. Increasingly thinking we might be better off just embargoing all results for like a week.
Let's talk about "disparate impact" — and why the Trump administration wants to gut it.
Damn straight. The idea that California elections have to match MAGA conspiracy theorist ideals should be dead on arrival.
We seem to be approaching a self-inflicted societal inability to understand reality. Disbelief will become self-defense, creating a world in which everything seems possible, yet no shared understanding of reality exists. Looking forward to logging off a lot more until the nukes go off.
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Far past time to kill the contract with Flock.
Next up: Connect Bay Area qualifies for the ballot, and then it'll be time to win two campaigns for funding this November!
The real singularity is when we erase any shared understanding of reality.
“I can’t stand this place anymore. These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit. They’re not interested in anything that’s going to slow them down.”
Then again, who needs AI when a third of the country has less media literacy than corvidae, and believes this sort of drivel?
"It gets dumber" really is the motto of the U.S. right now.