and Daniel Johnston

If you can use AI to get your degree, don’t be surprised if it replaces you.

I’d recommend these in particle board.

There is no backdoor in Apple’s encryption. That’s the reason the US and UK governments have prosecuted Apple repeatedly. They can obtain iCloud data with a warrant, but are repeatedly pressing for real-time surveillance. The UK banned encryption without a backdoor, so Apple turned off encryption rather than compromising their standard.

Thanks. I was up early. It’s probably a little too heady for the hour. It’s funnier after coffee.

It was meant as a joke. Score is another word for fuck.

Gross. The wealthy will fuck anything but consenting adults.

No, that’s LFO. You’re thinking of the outdated term for an alien spaceship.

First PBS, now Superman. Maybe it’s time to realize they just grew up to be shitty people.🤷‍♂️

Unfortunately, 15% is above the national average for congressional primaries. That’s all we need to change to change the Democratic Party. All the funding in the world won’t matter if we all take it upon ourselves to research the candidates on the ballot and show up at the polls.

For a point of reference, Mamdani broke the record for NYC Mayoral Democratic Primary turnout with just 30%, up from 21% last election. We just need to outnumber the retirees.

I’m referring specifically to the congressional primaries. That’s where we replace the centrist Democrats with progressives who will move the Overton Window back towards the left.

Looks like you had 15.1% statewide in 2024

A lack of challengers is exceedingly rare. I was just discussing Fetterman’s election in another thread, where someone was saying he was better than Dr. Oz, but both options sucked. He also had three challengers in a primary that only saw 8.5% attendance.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/results/pennsylvania/democratic-primaries/senate

The Overton Window shift in the US is mostly due to persistent low primary attendance.

Congressional primaries have seen <15% attendance for the last 40 years. Retirees never miss a vote, and have very different needs than the working class. They’re the ones who have been packing our ballots with centrists and conservatives.

We should be voting twice every two years, not once every four, for federal elections alone. Sign up for mailers if you forget. Research the candidates on the ballot, rather than relying on advertising to coerce you into doing your civic duty.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

I hope so. Tesla would be banned next week too.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/grok-ai-be-available-tesla-vehicles-next-week-musk-says-2025-07-10/

Gotta make you understand

It’s proven to have worked in several dictatorships.

The alternative is copying the communists in 1939 Germany, inciting small-scale violence (the Reichstag fire), then being persecuted and removed from the resistance. Remember how that story ended?

Refusing to walk into a trap set by the dumbest president in the history of the United States is not cowardice. It’s strategy.

We need to grow our numbers! The only way we can do that is with continued non-violent organized protest. Violence will only reduce our numbers and suppress our resistance.

Erica Chenoweth has a very well researched presentation on the success of non-violent resistance overthrowing dictatorships with only 3.5% of the population. I highly recommend it.

Come out today for the Free America protest! We also have the Good Trouble Lives On protest on July 17th.

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