Nervously watching what's unfolding in Belfast as racist bigots use a stabbing as an excuse to wreck havoc and mayhem, burning cars & buses, homes, and businesses of ethnic minority residents
Meanwhile, Elon Musk is doing his best to escalate the violence. This is a good 🧵 of his efforts on Twitter
You hate to see it
Perfectly sums up my summer of discontent with the World Cup, my favorite sporting event since I was old enough to remember. As I live in a host city, hoping to catch some spontaneous joy with tourists outside of the stadium.
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Man, as a World Cup fanatic this hits hard.
Laura‘s @lebassett.bsky.social latest dispatch as she settles into Brazil is a must read.
Her writing is becoming more prolific, so it’s a great time to become a paid subscriber.
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Even at the pundit level, if what you want is a party that hates trans people and women, that valorizes a kind of rural white masculinity, and that organizes around contempt for all things urban, educated, and liberal… well, they already have that, and maybe you should just be on the side you’re on.
He is one or two more election stories away from uttering the fourteen words.
In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial:
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