Mastodawn

Ken Paxton’s Senate bid leans on misogynistic, transphobic attacks and performative MAGA masculinity, but it can't hide his corruption, deceit, and incompetence that every Texas voter can see: https://plus.flux.community/p/in-texas-senate-seat-showdown-depraved

In Texas senate showdown, Ken Paxton’s rhetoric about masculinity could backfire

The race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico suggests that taking on MAGA requires Democrats to fully engage in fights over values as well as policy proposals

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Matthew Sheffield 7h ago

YES!

Insane grifters like Worms Kennedy will never, ever compromise or be reasonable. They want to destroy and politicize all science..

You cannot treat them like a normal person. They have to be opposed on every single front--including in public debates with careful moderation to prevent them from filibustering and changing the topic.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/10/ama-doctors-physicians-rfk-vaccines-00957489

#healthcare #vaccines #vaccinessavelives #science

Matthew Sheffield 9h ago

The Mercury News 9h ago

The facts didn’t fit Trump’s California conspiracy theory. So he adjusted the conspiracy theory
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/06/11/the-facts-didnt-fit-trumps-california-conspiracy-theory-so-he-adjusted-the-conspiracy-theory/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into California Primary Election News @california-primary-election-news-MercNews

The facts didn’t fit Trump’s California conspiracy theory. So he adjusted the conspiracy theory

(CNN) — If you’re pushing the baseless conspiracy theory that the results of last week’s California primary elections were rigged against Republicans like gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, it would seem highly…

The Mercury News

Matthew Sheffield 10h ago

BrianKrebs 15h ago

From the WTAF dept:

Malware developers are now adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware to evade AI-based security scanners.

tl;dr: The inclusion of content that LLMs are trained to refuse -- such as information about nukes and bioweapons -- can effectively prevent the LLM from continuing to analyze the threat.

"This header appears designed for AI-mediated analysis, not for Node, Bun, or Python. It attempts to derail scanners or analyst copilots that feed the beginning of a file to a language model without clearly isolating the content as untrusted data. In weak pipelines, this can cause refusal behavior, prompt confusion, context pollution, or premature classification before the scanner reaches the actual malware."

https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-worms-target-bioinformatics-and-mcp-developers-via-malicious

IDK why, but this reminds me of the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon where Calvin asks his mom for stuff she will never give him in a million years, and then he just asks for a cookie.

Matthew Sheffield 10h ago

iFixit 11h ago

First The Verge spotted the resemblance. Then NBC brought the Trump Phone to our San Luis Obispo office so we could get past the gold paint.

CT scans and a full teardown confirmed it: the T1 is nearly identical to the HTC U24 Pro. Same internals. Same layout. Same story, just with a louder outfit. Check out the full blog below and their teardown on YouTube!

https://www.ifixit.com/News/117789/teardown-confirms-the-trump-phone-is-a-gold-painted-htc-u24-pro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHpP5otFv4M

Matthew Sheffield 22h ago

Information Is Beautiful 1d ago

What’s actually worth doing to make a climate difference, according to data?
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/what-can-we-do-personally-to-reduce-emissions/

Matthew Sheffield 1d ago

Ok this is insanely cool and random. Someone is trying the idea of porting Doom to a quantum computer.

Still very early though! Can't get past loading the title screen! https://www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/comments/1torxfl/got_doom_running_on_a_quantum_computer/

#quantumcomputing

Matthew Sheffield 2d ago

Flux 2d ago

The U.S. is inexperienced as a democracy, and it’s showing

Media and political historian Lisa Corrigan joined @mattsheffield on the latest "Theory of Change" on how Democrats have failed to understand what's necessary to preserve democracy, and how conservative Americans have come to fear it: https://plus.flux.community/p/the-us-is-inexperienced-as-a-democracy

The U.S. is inexperienced as a democracy, and it’s showing

Historian Lisa Corrigan on how Democrats haven’t learned how to wield power to preserve democracy

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Matthew Sheffield 2d ago

It is not a paradox that nations with the best militaries are the most democratically structured.

Effective organizations are inclusive of citizens, listen to what low-ranking people have to say, and spend big on education and science to maximize their understanding https://www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-as-a-military-technology/

Liberalism as a Military Technology

To exclude individuals on the basis of sex, color, class, or creed now means to hobble the strength of the state.

Liberal Currents

Matthew Sheffield 2d ago

Only 14.7% of LA voters are registered Republicans.

Of course Spencer Pratt, a joke candidate with no experience and no actual positions, did not make it into the top two candidates.

Source: https://www.laalmanac.com/election/el18.php

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