Gilgamesh

Mostly Alabama politics and inexorable rage at the entity known as the Republican Party.

Abundance Democrat.

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[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

The entity known as the Republican Party must be destroyed.

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@gelliottmorris Stevens was not polling "just as bad", she was running ahead of El-Sayed by ~5% across high rated non-partisan pollsters.

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@aldotcom What an idiot. We need to be building way more.

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@sciaticus_finch Rent control helps a small, incumbent, usually affluent population at the expense of thousands upon thousands of others who bear the cost.

People like you are incapable of internalizing the second order effects that fuck people over.

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@OceaniaElects OPPORTUNITY SURGE

[Peach State Politics @AugustaPatriot]

Fair map of Alabama. Closest district in this map is the 6th at Harris+7

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@AugustaPatriot @jakehicks1206 Now THAT is interesting. I know the old map for CD5 was still Moore even with the part of Lauderdale containing Florence included, which was cut out in the new maps.

What drove that result? The Colbert-Morgan trade?

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@AugustaPatriot @jakehicks1206 Well yeah, there's not really much you can do with the red nukes of Jackson, Lawrence, Lauderdale, and Morgan. Madison was even only barely blue in the first round of the primaries when partisan primary turnout was only R+15 statewide.

That was an expression of personal despair.

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@jakehicks1206 @AugustaPatriot Nope. People keep saying that for some reason but it isn't true. Trump won CD5 by 29% in 2024.

Publicly available here but I mapped it myself a bit ago.

https://t.co/XtZBAD17FX

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@AugustaPatriot @jakehicks1206 > Fair map
> Partisan lean of CD5 is exactly the same

FUCK

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@OceaniaElects TOP is viable??? When the fuck did this happen they're like the best party in the world

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@abundanceinst @loyalfordogs Bean Delphiki type shit

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@d_h_sanders For about a fourth of people it used to be "be born and die"

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@LinkofSunshine Because they have a reactionary hatred of anyone who makes money for any reason.

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

Social Security's biggest benefits go to its richest retirees: The top 20% collect about as much as the bottom 40% combined. Cato's @RominaBoccia argues the worker-funded program should fight poverty, not enrich top earners, with a sustainable, flatter benefit and more room for private saving.

Watch Romina debate Brookings’ Wendell Primus August 14th, where they will present two different visions for Social Security's future.

https://t.co/JsHtFP6HDi

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@EiratheIntern For projects lately I've been using Codex to draw up a spec document and make suggestions before using Claude to implement things. Been seeing a lot of success with that.

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@theoluminati @Hidden_Collect Complete nonsense. Cuomo would've lost to literally any D with a pulse.

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@_fat_ugly_rat_ Tbh its not their fault Sarah Rodriguez's campaign committed fraud, that kind of lit everyone's hair on fire with the skeletons Mandela Barnes apparently has

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@xwanyex Oh my God shut the fuck up, model class mobility as a stochastic matrix problem where welfare support increases the likelihood of lower quintiles transitioning to higher quintiles.

[Gilgamesh @Lugalabama]

@theoluminati @Hidden_Collect Zohran's electability was also bad. Any normal progressive Democrat slaughters Cuomo by 20+.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Fascinating chart - you'd think that cheap Indian outsourcing would one of the industries hardest hit by AI, but it's actually booming.

There is still a LOT we don't know about how AI is going to impact the economy. Errors bars are very wide.