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🏛️ Democrats didn’t just rebound. They dominated.

2025-11-06 04:41:31

Politico

Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill cruised to double-digit victories in Virginia and New Jersey. Two Georgia Democrats flipped seats on the state’s Public Service Commission, the first non-federal statewide wins for a Democrat in nearly two decades. Democrats flipped a pair of Republican-held state Senate seats in Mississippi, cracking the GOP supermajority in a deep-red state. And a successful California ballot measure delivered five additional seats for the party’s House margins ahead of the 2026 midterms, offsetting Texas’ redistricting push.

Finally some good news for once. Although, it kind of makes me even angrier at the lack of turnout from democrats in 2024. We knew exactly how bad things could get and still, people stayed home out of laziness or protest against Democrats, knowing full well that another Trump term would bring devastation.

🤖 Prove this photo is real

2025-10-29 02:06:34

Roc Camera

AI has blurred the line. Now, how we take, share, and create images has changed. Social media has made sharing images easy. Generative AI now creates any image we can imagine…By combining attested sensor data, zero-knowledge proofs, and a tamper-proof environment, we've built Roc Camera to capture verifiably real photos.

This is a technical solution for what I think is more of a social and cultural problem. It suggests a dystopian future where any form of media is assumed to be fake unless it is verified. I hope that trust and accountability can remain at the center of our social contract, but tools like this may find a place in certain contexts.

🏀 Billups, Rozier arrested in gambling investigations

2025-10-25 00:54:39

ESPN

There are still a lot of unknowns about this, and I’ve seen passing mention that the FBI might be overstating how big of a bust this is and maybe conflating a few different things to make it look bigger to put a black eye on the NBA, but given how early this is, that’s all conjecture.

🌠 Disney Nixed a Ben Solo ‘Star Wars’ Movie Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Adam Driver Says

2025-10-24 12:20:06

TheWrap

I typically reserve this kind of link for Foofaraw, but the idea of Steven Soderbergh doing a Star Wars movie is just too fascinating. I feel like you could add up the budget of his last ten movies and they still wouldn’t equal a Star Wars movie.

🤖 OpenAI buys Sky, an AI interface for Mac

2025-10-24 12:17:50

TechCrunch

Sky is a product I actually thought could have some real utility. Security was always the issue though, and now that OpenAI controls them, I’m not sure I’d want OpenAI to be able to essentially see everything I do on my computer.

🤡 Trump Keeps Attacking Americans. Why Does He Get Away With It?

2025-10-24 12:13:59

The New Republic

And the media, with its long-standing bias toward treating Republican grievances as more legitimate than Democratic ones, follows the lead of whichever party is making the most noise. Republicans scream about “deplorables” for weeks, so it becomes a story. Democrats shrug at Trump’s latest attack on blue America, so it doesn’t.

Trump and his administration (and minions) are all guilty of basically everything they accuse democrats of doing. They’re the biggest snowflakes there are.