As bell hooks would say, “Domination thinking.”
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As bell hooks would say, “Domination thinking.”
And he is so proud of this. Billionaires are to society like lampreys are to fish in the great lakes. For real.
suicidal 5 year olds seeking help. this world, man.
We lost our way, man. Not sure we will find it again.
we are a deeply unserious species
where is that meteor, anyway
seriously dog autism
This is the bad place.
Oh, hahah i forgot my link. beyondcourts.org/en/act/votin...
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Watching people wake up to strategically not indicting is a beautiful thing.
I share this everywhere I can. Also I love you, Will. Deep appreciation for your voice.
It was quite an experience. Science and actual medical expertise FTW.
Thanks! Me too! This thing is weird. Looks like a TENS unit but no sensation. I can't feel anything when it is on except sometimes my neck feels....kind of... tender. Bodies are odd.
Thanks! I feel mostly normal and can lift up to 50 pounds now.
I had a cervical fusion a few months ago and now I'm wearing a bone growth stimulator all day every day. Weird. They say it covers 9 levels and so I do not need to be careful about placement. Its kind of a hassle but, hey. Please increase my chances of a successful fusion.
This internet is chronically insecure lately.
wuuuuut?
A1 above the fold in the @nytimes.com. The message is getting through. Keep pushing everyone. We can save the #CDC, save the #NIH from the clutches of #RussellVought #StephenMiller and #DonaldTrump. Keep the pressure up on your members of Congress and the media (letters to editors, op-eds).
<3. Eat him.
And to be abundantly clear they were protesting the rise of fascism. We both know in the past one could not be sure that would be the case.
Right? Me toooooo!
A friend reports hundreds of people protested in Hannibal, MO this weekend. So sleepy much awakening.
Beautiful!
We got some.
A country who thinks poverty is a moral failing will opt for blame and punishment over compassion and investment most every time.
The ridiculously frail insufferability of Nate Silver.
The plan is completely illegal; it’s openly in violation of black letter law. Nevertheless, the Trump admin is trying to claim that the budget bill effectively amended the law; even though it was a budget bill, and cannot by definition amend the law.
JD Vance should be grateful so many fists do not find their way to his face.
Orange cats are so much fun.
“There are some human functions for which computers ought not to be substituted. It has nothing to do with what computers can or cannot be made to do. Respect, understanding, and love are not technical problems” (-Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976)
A classic shirt from a classic time.
Yep!
Right? Tired of all this bullshit.
We need to start announcing whenever a heinous act is done by cis or het people.
This is why I am SUCH A TIRESOME SCOLD about LLMs not having any agency, or not doing any thinking. Y'all it matters.
If you can't come up with a winning message about how the power mad dunce emperor marching federal troops into peaceful cities is bad, you should not have a job in politics
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
It truly is. Waiting for any consequences. A theme for 2025.
Companies with record profits are doing large layoffs in this time of "tech-wreckoning." And not because they over-hired.
What are we even doing here? Scroll up and read the whole thread and the articles therein.
Things I often say to business associates "I used to be a half-assed buddhist, now I am a full ass." It is true. Keeping me sane, baby. As sane as I can be in this world.
Nah. There are fewer true believers and more disgusting opportunists in MO GOP than it seems.
Love to see MO people saying things like this in GOP town halls - this one is Rep. Mark Alford's town hall. "Constituent: I am pissed, and I am pissed at you. The man is a dictator. He knows nothing about what he talks about. You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass.
It isn’t even cynical to point out that “the militarization of police” has been happening without functional opposition for so long that there’s vanishingly little distinction to be made between cops and troops. Obviously visually, but press a little harder and it vanishes elsewhere, too.
These kinds of things worry people who have never thought deeply about anything serious in their lives - never read a book, never cared about death, never considered the past, etc Wait, there’s a theme to those topics here…
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What is wrong with white tech dudes? C'mon, you know who is doing this, I'd bet a lot on that profile.
Same. Exactly same.
I mean if you think it will magically fix the Dem party in MO, pay rent for a year as an experiment. But what do I know?
This is dumb.
Again, not a New Yorker, but a mayoral candidate organizing a massive city-wide scavenger hunt as a combo campaign/public history event is one of the coolest things I've ever seen a politician do.
snoop dogg’s hateful rightward arc continues.
Mamdani is not just running a good campaign, his outlook and politics are the future of Dem/prog politics and yet the plutocrats who’ve had a stranglehold on the party for decades loathe him rather than embrace him
This fever pitch moment has been coming for a long time. I keep thinking we’ve hit maximum split but it keeps on going, getting more and more overt.
But if you disagree with the virtues being signaled (hire more women and people of color, redistribute power, tax the rich more, Palestinian lives mater, greater equality is possible) while calling yourself a liberal/Dem, your only course is vaguely attacking "virtue signaling."
I really, really don’t think what blue voters want to hear right now is “military takeover is redundant because we can crack down on crime more effectively.” They want to hear “this is fascism and we won’t stand for it” and vanishingly few national dems are doing that
Excellent thread. I'll just add that there's a long history of blaming liberals for reactionary political dynamics that were cultivated by coordinated political campaigns by the far right. There is no law of nature that produces "backlash politics." It's politics (and propaganda) that produces it.
Better for…
Deploying troops into cities is not about public safety it is about power. Uniformed people with guns do not make us safe.
Much better list. Thanks Max.
This situation is wild.
I’m surprisingly fired up about this. Maybe it is not a surprise.
Proximity to power often trumps longterm well-being.
I think we should emphasize this more because it really throws the entire question into a relief that shows it’s perfectly consistent with Republican efforts to push Black people from public life.
This is good. I use academic language sometimes but I can also switch gears. I want Democrats to do the same. But erasing some words will erase those we’ve fought so hard to bring forth from the margins of awareness. So, I will not be going back. dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/was-it-som...
How the fuck do you talk about queers? Too many words on this list describe very real power/identity issues. If you want to strike heteronormative how do you describe it? Or do you not want to describe it? Do you want to keep it? Nope.
Sure, how would he like queer people talked about? Or perhaps we do not talk about them. Or maybe they don’t exist. He wants to go back to the default setting of power. No thanks.
Not permanent members but contracted for the event? Baaad look. He should address the violence. What a weak ineffective milksop of a man.
Has Wesley Bell made any statement about the violence his security team inflicted on his constituents?
Holy shit yes. I say this constantly in infosec contexts. Technologists, security practitioners included, have a responsibility to actively prevent misuse of the things they build. Saying ‘well the user shouldn’t do that’ isn’t enough. If they shouldn’t do it, don’t build a product that lets them.
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
Worth noting that the description here itself is deeply suspicious. Disclosure of classified info is a criminal offense in many contexts. There’s no thing as “sensitive nat sec info” and damaging a persons reputation is not a crime.
Things are really heating up in the ongoing good time fun party purge.
Same.
Inquiring minds need to know who the dude in the green shirt is for sure.
lol
Now do a whole government.
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right into my veins
He's going to keep hitting the pinata until free candy stops coming out
Hahaha, thanks for reminding me I wrote that.
Protest more politely, they say. Register your concerns with more respectability, they say. Civility is of the utmost concern, they say. Peaceful protest? No, that'd be a parade I reply. We can be nonviolent, perhaps.That is an option I prefer for myself. But too often nonviolence is met w/what?
The best way to warm leftover pizza is a cast iron skillet. I will take as many questions as Wesley Bell at a town hall (which is none). Please do not hire cops and bullies to put their hands on me like he did his constituents.
I'm so late to this I am embarrassed! So fun.
Amazing and from STL!
I’m sorry but I’m still stuck on Grammarly marketing a service to students to psychologically profile professors and rewrite work based on the results and it’s barely made a splash. However effective, even the attempt is just anti-learning. It’s cultivating sycophancy, not thinking.
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Don’t you think we all used to be more smart?
But how did the shrimpfs run into the cesium?
A constant vibe.
Throw the whole man (and company) away.
our esteemed president is equal parts fascist and messy bitch
Perhaps there is a three dimensional chess reason for that conciliatory behavior but in my mind calling out lies, a lack of qualifications and thuggish behavior should have started on day one. We all could see what was looming and it is now our reality and real people are suffering and dying.
I do think there is an argument that anyone who voted to confirm any of Trump's appointees needs to pay a price - I'm not sure they need to be shown the door, but. Every single person confirmed is a new flavor of hell and no opposition party should have helped to put these people in power.
Genuinely if somebody uses “woke” in a pejorative sense, I don’t trust them. Either they are sympathetic to white supremacy or too ignorant to detect it.
Breakfast is most important meal of day!!
The American press and public really need to figure out how to simply dismiss Trump's pretextual claims for authoritarian attacks and then resist the attack itself, not debate the claim. We have spent months asking "but is the Ivy League really antisemitic?" and now "but is DC really crime-ridden?"
I do not live in Trump's vision of anything as I live in reality. Museums should as well. Imposing his cultural vision. Wow. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...