...planning to present photographic and scientific evidence to a US court....
I honestly did not think the wife of a head-of-state would be one of the people having their genitals examined. Evidence that transphobia might have the opportunity to transcend class, I guess. Wew.
Apparently Bernie Sanders has finally decided to use the G word. Amazin'.
I guess that one is somewhat iffy, okay. Like, nominally he kind of acknowledges it:
What I'm doing is copying the tactics of the right in an attempt to defeat the right. And we're seeing this now with the gerrymandering fight too. You have the, "Oh, we're going to have five more seats in Texas," and then Gavin Newsom goes, "Okay, well, we're going to wipe that out and do five more Democratic seats in California," and then Beto O'Rourke comes out—Beto O'Rourke, who's a corporate Democrat—he goes, "Fuck the rules. There are no rules anymore. There are no referees. Whatever you do, we're going to do the same shit." And that's the mentality that people on the left have been screaming for the Democrats to have for the longest time.
But his whole notion that liberals and leftsts are going to form one big coalition, and that Democrats 100% taking back the government is a necessary (if now not sufficient) win condition, and basically defining himself as a leftist because he's simply dropping civility demands and memeing about gulags, I think bring back into question what he thinks of these people. Like, he seems to think the only things that distinguish liberals and leftists is stuff like what tactics they use and whether or not they want universal healthcare. He seems to be using this to self-identify. And he's definitely using it when talking about those others (Bernie, AOC, etc.). So if he doesn't think Newsom and O'Rourke are "leftists", then he seems to be a hair's breadth from convincing himself that they are in this narrative....
Reminder that his comrade Cenk Uygur (the capitalist and union buster) claims the U.S. military is a socialist institution. Kulinski seems to be making a beeline for the same attitude, if he isn't already there.
A specter is haunting Kyle Kulinski's brain cave.
Kyle Kulinski is now calling himself a "leftist" and saying maybe gulags weren't an awful idea and stuff. Of course, he still apparently thinks people like Cenk Uygur and Bernie and AOC and the rest of "The Squad", and probably half the Democrats in office—including fucking Gavin Newsom and Beto O'Rourke—are also leftists. And he's still like, "Elect Democrats! BlUe WaVe will start to fix things, even if now I think it won't be enough."
Time to remind ya' homies not to fall for it, and that SIMPLY dropping civility politics isn't enough to make you a leftist. Dude even openly admits he's just doing it for the clicks, because he sees the reactionaries doing so well with it. Holy shit.
Kyle Kulinski: Capitalism & the Brosphere | Doomscroll (PooTube)
Damn. It's good we live in a democracy. 
Damn. It's good we live in a democracy.
In the modern context, industrial capital can't compete with financial capital....in the short term and according to the capitalists' own metrics. And capitalists have boxed themselves into a corner where they are pretty fundamentally unable to break out of that model. Sorry, but (rate of increase of slope of) line went down this quarter; tear out the foundation so things at least superficially look better next quarter!
(And, of course, we all know that financialization is a very, very, very viable long-term strategy that is built on very real things....)
I think it's pretty hilarious that modern neoliberalism has also molded the state into something that's not going to step in to save the capitalists from their own shortsightedness. Which is a large part of what the state exists for in the first place. Sure, financial bailouts here and there, but nothing that'll actually get the capitalists to adopt production models that'll save their businesses for more than a decade or two.
I can actually agree with this take. Pattern matching is pattern matching. Will it be great at it? Probably not excellent. But it'll be fast at it. It'll likely be able to weed out tons and tons and tons of true negatives, and give humans—assuming the military is smart enough not to just trust the conclusions of the algorithms without verification—a greatly reduced area of interest to focus on.
Using stuff for what it is actually designed for and good at can help. Who knew?
Cops remain useless. Charlie Kirk's (alleged) assassin was turned in by his own family. Oof.
In unincorporated parts of California, the limit on rent increase for most occupied houses (using the term "rent control" is extremely generous!) is tied to the CPI. Specifically, the limit is
5% + CPI increase in %(max10%). So, you know, somewhere between 4x and 8x what anyone can possibly afford even if if starting at a reasonable initial amount.