This is only fueling my speculation about the car crash story
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This is only fueling my speculation about the car crash story
Twist: the media is going to suddenly decide they like Corbyn now
Yeah I feel like some of this comes from people who know "it's hard for me to monetize on Bluesky" isn't persuasive, so they try to push the culture of this place to one VCs want to throw cash at. Which of course means adopting the libertarian framework of allowing little a bigotry as a treat
it's inconceivable to these people that some use social media for reasons other than maximizing investor/shareholder value for the platform
Typical moral puritan, dismissing the reasonable concerns of well-meaning people...
Block lists were a twitter legacy feature and were used for the exact same purpose over there
Have you considered that people being mean about the "wrongthink" of racists are just as bad, if not worse than racists?
You think Bluesky is dying due to annoying scolds, and you want to address it by being an annoying scold? It's almost as if you're not against annoying scold-dom, just when it's directed at people/ideas YOU personally like. Sounds like you don't want behavior change, just a change to the taboo line
Checked Twitter for this and lol. Supporters are theorizing that he was intentionally rear-ended by the one abusing the person he helped (because why else mention it) and want it looked into; the security chief is making increasingly desperate replies of "NO, unrelated, random and accidental"
I'm going with "got caught in a solicitation sting and drove away too fast"
Wild how I conquered the part of my brain that said "you cant be this because then youre contributing to a reactionary narrative about trends in mental health" when it came to transitioning, then let myself be smothered by that same thinking when it came to autism and ADHD
Maybe I'm the type of deranged leftist the author describes (as opposed to the open bigots, who the author sees as just representing an "ideological quirk"), but this reads to me like someone wanting their anti-woke payday but embarrassed at the thought of fam/friends knowing that's what he's doing
For those keeping score at home, the Navy has sent 3 destroyers, a guided-missile cruiser, a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine and an amphibious ready group with a Marine Expeditionary Unit to the southern Caribbean. New @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-sh...
I think it's because when people try LLMs and are disappointed with its limitations, they're being convinced by the AI companies that it's because they just don't know the secrets to asking the genie for the right wish
It was a public health emergency that led to the last wave of talks about these intra-national pacts. I think it might go further than talks this time
As tedious as it probably gets for you, I'm glad bigger trans accounts like your's have been making this case early and often. We know the "inevitability" game they play come primary season; at least make them all say years before Iowa that the candidates they like are the ONLY options vs the GOP
Even though they're not mentioned, this thread made me want to see what Say Anything's been up to in the 12-ish years since I last paid attention and...oh no. Oh Max, no. Oh god
Norma
Ah, yes, for all you young people: there was a relentless effort to manufacture a consensus that Columbine was caused by Goth culture, industrial music, and videogames. The neo-Nazism was buried, and anyone who pointed to easy access to guns was denounced as a liberty-hating tyrant.
what are we going to do, this is getting so scary. it feels like there's no real counter-force to this, unless you count the push against us from the other direction
Snort laughed at work
7 months into his presidency and we're as far as the HHS "looking into" whether HRT causes violence, where the fuck do these people think we're going to be in late 2027 that an attitude of "we can't use activist language like 'pronoun' or look weird to voters" won't be overtly monstrous
Fundraising goal met, thank you all so much <3 things are looking scary for me but i'll find a way through
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.
the way they use the term "the groups" is downright sinister
This is a cashout, plain and simple, and SoftBank is "committing to invest $1bn" in it at a $500bn valuation, a transparent attempt to boost the value of their already-purhased stock. Surely this is not what you do if you believe in the long-term health of your company/that you'll IPO?
This shit sucks but I also do feel like she is probably being explicitly threatened here.
Cis people: This is where you fucking step up. Do everything you can to support trans people in the coming days. You're going to hear horrible, hurtful rhetoric about us. Shut it down. Don't let it stand. And buy the trans people in your life a drink.
news is fucking me up. news is fucking me up
God I love when pundits mistake their dilletente's understanding of a field for real understanding, then continue to hold a tone of smug superiority even when it's clear they're learning the actual facts/major positions of the discussion as they go!
Did Will Stancil do a rebrand or something
Not lefty favorite Stavvy actually REASSURING a comedian questioning whether to play a festival in Riyadh on the grounds that all entertainment money is blood money so who cares: www.humorism.xyz/heres-how-co...
Wow, the person who has deep genuine concerns about youth transition also "likes'em young" and defends middle-age creepers as part of the natural order of things. Literally every time
Here's a fun challenge: try to find any words on this list that wouldn't also be on a list of banned terms sent by the White House to the Smithsonian
Saw the image before the accompanying story and thought this was a list sent to the Smithsonian regarding banned terms for exhibits. These people are so cooked
Microsoft copilot for Excel has a warning not to use it for “business critical” calculations because the answer may not be accurate. Would someone explain why I might *ever* want to use a spreadsheet where results are unreliable?
one part of the downfall i like is how it became a machine only capable of creating the gesamptkunstwerk of technofascism. All literature is ad copy. All cinema is dead center advertising. All music is muzak or yacht jams. All visuals are greebly Kinkade, hyperrealism or anime gatcha art.
I couldn't sleep without noise as a kid, and due to the options available i ended up falling asleep to the Focus on the Family radio show for a good chunk of my childhood. Not a fan!
Between this and the Guardian article earlier this month interviewing starving families affected by "scammer" bans, it's accurate to say that safety.bsky.app is doing serious damage to the reputation and long-term prospects of this place.
SUGGESTION [Challenging: Failure] — The reporter hands you back the bag of Herr's Sour Cream & Onion potato chips, saying she can't accept your bribe. The red envelope inside falls out. 1. - "I make a mistake. I’m so sorry. I don’t know. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry. I feel so bad right now."
My favorite technique from this channel is the creator playing longer audio clip and saying "yeah. uh huh. I agree with this" over it
I never had a big problem with that part, but so many people still see him as the only NYT ed writer worth reading because he's one of the only people in MSM who doesn't speak to the left like obstinate children who Don't Understand How The World Works. So when he does, it's like "why bother, then"
Yeah I'm calling it now: if this org does end up producing a big ground operation, it will be because they'll dump enough money into it to be able to pay everyone and not rely on anyone being inspired enough by their platform to volunteer a milisecond of time fighting for it
I'm sure those mass defections and refusals to follow unlawful orders are right around the corner, eh Mr. Bouie?
I know it's not the important thing now, but remember that a LOT of the most respected "left" voices on this site spent much of this year arrogantly lecturing us about how the US military's culture wouldn't allow them to be used like this. Purely pollyanna shit from our serious progressive thinkers
I try to be understanding, but jesus christ, the whole story is about how infiltration (which I’ve also covered for years) is not necessary when agencies are openly recruiting them, and they’ve volunteering, and their missions are now the same
No reasonable, intelligent person could have known there was a dead body in this room until the rotting stench became unbearable, which means the tribalist fear-mongerers who spent the last several days pointing out all the severed body parts and blood splatters in the room were still wrong
When these stories first broke I shrugged it off as Quibi 2, but the more I see the effect of "short-form content" on people's brains, the more I'm convinced this garbage is going to be more common and profitable than "long-form entertainment" in 20 years www.npr.org/2025/03/19/n...
www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.
What other issues should we publicly have the wrong opinion about in order not to alienate people? I hear Gavin Newsom has a list
I have never been more targeted in my entire fucking life
The best part is that even when this move "works" it further reinforces the argument that AI art is trash. Art is context and conversation- holding up a piece of art and saying "this was made by AI" causing people's subjective viewpoint on it to worsen even if it's secretly human-made isn't a "win"
It's cool how all the worst messages my brain tells me when I'm at my lowest have equivalent thriving online communities that encourage people to wrap themselves in those messages
Realizing that unless the bubble pops soon (or elections get cancelled), the next US elections will be decided heavily by whatever weights the big LLMs associate with the question "who should i vote for" on the day of. I'm sure the likes of Altman and Musk are above taking advantage of that at all
Yeah it's more like a Far Side comic: unintelligent person faces negative results after doing unintelligent thing, but is unable or unwilling to draw the correct conclusions from it
But fr, the more realistic result of this triangulation is that his opponents will attack him MORE for supporting the evil radical TRA gender ideology, and his unwillingness to forcefully push back will make the attacks stick better than they would if he owned it. Just like the centrists he opposes
Badenoch and Starmer worried at first, but then realized they can hide behind a giant cardboard sign that says "trans people" on it and Corbyn will never see them or say anything about them
Always love when the liberals get honest =)
need to try out using "...hmmm" instead of "hmmm..."
This may be an unfair take, but it feels like the DSA has moved into the "Fox News will have a field day if we do or support [sensible/objectively correct thing] so we're going to make intentionally bad decisions to appeal to normies" routine, at which point they should maybe just merge with the DNC
I've gotten a lot of mileage out of this puppy so far
So where are we going after this
one of the greatest youtube replies of All Time
The tone and timing on the second "Screamville" are great. He's so incredulous about Screamville not getting a scream
So much of the way people on here talk about what they like to read/watch/play/whatever seems like it’s designed to immediately and preemptively deflect criticism or analysis. The stuff you like is “degenerate”? It’s “slop”? It’s “trope trash”? That’s how you talk about what you enjoy?
God you're right why didn't anyone else think of that, capitalism makes it hard to read for fun so we should never ever criticize the social conditions that encourage people to become less literate
Yeah I'm humble enough to admit I don't have any insight about this case, and I hope theyre right. This thread is mostly just my bitterness from working in repro justice in the years leading to Dobbs, watching it slowly play out and futilely begging the lib establishment to prepare for the aftermath
And to be clear, their arguments do make sense in the context of a more "typical" court, but given the multiple cases they've taken up in the past few years where the petitioner literally had no standing, why do you think issues of scope, jurisdiction, standing, etc still matter?
*Obergefell, over a decade later and I still struggle with the spelling on that one
So far I've tried this with writers named Mark Joseph Stern and Matt Ford, and who'd've thunk it, neither of them seemed to have published one word about Dobbs until after the decision! They were clearly caught off-guard by the scope of it even after the leaks, so why trust their judgment this time?
From now on, when I see a published legal thinker say with confidence that the Davis petition won't lead to an overturn of Obfergell, I check and see their published predictions about the Dobbs case between MS petitioning the court in June 2020 and the ruling coming down. The results may shock you
Trump could order 1000 daily sacrifices to make sure the sun keeps rising, and these scum-suckers would publish pieces about how Trump is totally right to be concerned with the sun, listing all the ways it sustains life, with only occasional mention of how human sacrifice has no effect on any of it
I think the biggest thing that would lend your argument legitimacy would be to show what you were writing about Dobbs in the months leading up to that decision, as proof that you are able to tell when SCOTUS really is prepared to overturn a right? Surely the scope of Dobbs didnt catch you off-guard?
So it wasn't too "messy" to dismantle abortion rights despite the collapse of multiple states' entire OB/GYN infrastructure, spikes in childbirth-related deaths, etc, but it would be way too messy to make some couples no longer eligible for certain tax breaks? Do you even hear yourself?
Wow, you can really tell this guy actually gives a shit about people harmed by bad policy and isn't solely motivated by which politicians are "winning"
People need to get more comfortable with shame: you see a person in need and can't help. It feels bad. It SHOULD feel bad. The solution is not to invent some wild slander about them to quiet the little voice in your head screaming about how wrong it all is.
If you do 1% worse at school than a racist it's because you're biologically incapable of higher thought; if you do 1% better at school than a racist you're an exam-maxxing striver monster who only got there due to family connections (which are good unless racists don't benefit)
I know it's not novel to point out that racists live in constant cognitive dissonance but it's always incredible to see that the people who use formal education metrics as a stand-in for intellectual capacity/human worthiness have so many slurs for people who succeed in formal education
3 months ago, the same voices were calling opposition to ICE raids a purity test issue to distract from the real issue of tariffs. Dem leadership had to be dragged kicking and screaming on that issue by those awful "purity test" people. It's always a shell game with the "sensible" types, isn't it?
Oh yeah, I can parse it a lot better in that context. Maybe I don't expect the capacity for self-deprecation from certain ideological bents
I see that a ton of people have made this exact response already, but I was also like 90% sure this was a Mamdani campaign video even with the FP watermark there
However you feel about news paywalls, this doesn't seem ideal
He hasn't commented on it at all. One of his staffers made a press statement about it, but there are none of the angry Truth Social posts you'd expect to see if the man himself was even aware this show existed. Joy Behar is clearly much better at getting to him than the SP guys
*people who have dismissed any vaguely anti-authoritarian theme in any media from the past decade as lazy Orange-Man-Bad writing* depicting Trump as a gheyfer with a tiny dick? This is why these guys are the masters
What do you mean, "washed?" That's 3 more GPTs!
This has been my cynical assumption as well. Seeing the likes of her and Hillary Clinton all suddenly switch over to acknowledging this at the same time, this far into the atrocities, tells me they feel like it's too late to stop it
Yep, even when they eventually admit to "mistakes" or "misjudgments," it's always presented side-by-side with an argument that anyone who came around to the truth even a second earlier than them was motivated by irrational, extremist "tribalism" and were thus still wrong.
Adding to this after opening YT to see 3 different videos crowing about how Trump is PISSED and TRIGGERED by South Park based on a mild WH press statement. The real takeaway here is that The View is 10000% better at "triggering Trump" than South Park. Odds are he doesn't even know what the latter is
Awesome how expressing 100% identical opinions to the likes of Stephen Pinker and George Will still makes you some kind of brave iconoclast
"They make fun of everyone equally" was always a cover. After years of directly skewering (mostly lib) pols, they make him one of their own characters in disguise, and show him as a reasonable guy who doesn't *really* believe the crazy things he says. As close to an endorsement as they could've come
#prt i really can't believe how many people are acting like South Park directly mocking Trump for the very first time yesterday is a mark of bravery and not just a highlight on the fact they've been too chickenshit to do so for the past 10 years
whole thing feels like the dog that caught the car. racist and bigoted jokes are openly celebrated, no one cares about anything, all political discussion with a regular person ends in a “all the politicians are crooks” cliches. they won the culture war and it’s not fun anymore.
ENDURANCE - Several years ago, a shrill and irrational wöman voiced a WRONG opinion about a game you like. You MUST obsess over the wrongness of this wöman and use her wrongness as an in-group shibboleth, forevermore.
It's been an exceptionally bad week for me, but I'm not giving up yet
Can you give an example of a piece at Waypoint that represented this unprofessional editorial standard, or are you just badmouthing your colleagues based on vibes? Is "this is ultimately management's fault for not supporting the incompetent writers" supposed to make this seem less petty/cruel?
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