From a guy who used to work there: Rachel is a remarkable person and the best TV news talent there is. If she says something is fucked up, it is. Getting rid of Joy, who dared to see through this fascism bullshit years ago and had the gall of occasionally being funny about it, is dumb.
Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
I’ve known and worked with for over a decade and it’s been, well, a joy. She’s brilliant and fierce and irreplaceable. One of my favorite nights ever was getting to interview her for this live podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
The researchers collected their first data in October 2023 and March 2024. Initially, they were struck by how inconsistently Google showed its warnings. A deep learning model they built to analyze the queries suggested that the warnings should have appeared between 29 and 58 times as often as they did in practice. For motivated conspiracy peddlers, they were easy to evade: just adding quotation marks or a single letter to a query was typically enough to make the banner disappear.

The researchers were beginning to collect additional data last September when they discovered something unexpected: Google had stopped showing low-quality banners entirely, weeks before early voting began, without disclosing it.
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it’s hard to know where anything in this country is going politically but i am 100% positive that dan bongino will accidentally shoot the gun at himself at least once
Thanks for posting here Chris. How do you think his peers and people that report to him will respond ? And if I’m asking this wrong, please correct me, but if he makes a ridiculous decision to bring charges, which court is it appealed to if he wins the case ? All insights welcome
This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".
Don't Get Up. 😪
A witch sitting on the floor with their ghost cat on their lap. They're flipping through the pages of a book while being in their living room.
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Penguin makes it onto land as ice breaks 🐧
Thats how they dap in the “wood”.
youngkin is term limited for governor but i expect this quote to make the rounds when he tries to run for senate in two years
Spanberger by a billion, gonna put up Stalin numbers, son.
This is the plot of Goldfinger
Trump: "We've actually going to Ft Knox to see if the gold is there. Because maybe somebody stole the gold. Tons of gold."
We are just fucked beyond belief.
NEW: Info gathered from Musk's 5 accomplishments email is expected to be run through an AI system to determine whether or not someone's work is mission-critical, according to three sources with knowledge of the system www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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ai wrote my son a very impressive resume, and his only work experience is moderating a subreddit about giving yourself diarrhea on purpose
Is that one of Red Skelton’s clown paintings on the wall of Joe Pesci’s bedroom in CASINO?
Fountain-pen friends: I just got my first new fountain pen in years, and I love it! But I'm also remembering that using a fountain pen means having to adjust the paper/pads I use to account for different levels of ink absorption. Any advice on that process, or is it just a matter of trial and error?
As software development tools and frameworks continue to improve, I gotta feeling sales and marketing will become the most important departments at smaller tech companies.
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