eric alterman called this 40 years ago. wrote a whole book about it. "what liberal media"
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eric alterman called this 40 years ago. wrote a whole book about it. "what liberal media"
listen, we've put your resume on the blockchain and are actually using it to trade as a memecoin. congrats! you've just made us 10000 units.
it all seems so quaint, really. like, what could any of these people do that could even create an iran-contra? we are so far beyond that we can't even see it in the rearview anymore. (i'm still enraged that the kerry people didn't listen to me about using his takedown of BCCI when he ran for pres)
sure, although this is a second tier thought exercise, since the first tier is "do we agree on the outcome of a specific thing being done" which voting is a layer below. housing discourse is where this is playing out most extremely right now.
and of course the reason that Andreesen couldn't imagine a system that has in fact been working for decades in other places, it was because IT IS AN IDEA OF THE LEFT AND IS THEREFORE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED. that's how this kind of brain works, and it's the opposite of what moulton thinks it is.
this @moultano.bsky.social dude didn't seem to notice that in andreesen's essay he doesn't manage to discuss social housing. as always, it's SV doing a "what if there was a vehicle that carried people to where they wanted to go" and when you say "you mean a bus" they tell you you have NO VISION
the other side is...non-existential, which means this shouldn't be much of a fight.
david you've murdered 10^27 people you fucking monster.
ok, i did this with a prius i hacked in 2008 and an inverter off of sunrun panels at my house in LA. i just ran a line from the inverter to the (battery-swapped out and plug-in installed) car and voila! i was running my car off the sun!!! it's all doable. and has been for a long time.
This is the best character on TV right now. T-Ocullus, i love you and want you to win.
Listening to this beautiful song by billy bragg “existence is resistance” about Palestine and Palestinian struggles for justice, I’m reminded of when billy came to my college campus (88?) and walked around with a backpack amp and a guitar, what a hero https://youtu.be/1axjhKB96to?si=PI2wE1E_3qZCln4H
in what way, exactly?
i've been saying this for years: there is no country more smug, and no country more full of shit, than norway. everyone driving EVs is good for norway's air, but everyone being able to afford to because equinor is pumping oil endlessly is bad for everyone else. youtu.be/zYjooTz_1lA?...
astrology was created by, and for, idiots. lovable ones, sure, and hell i've even married some of them, but still.
i lived in boston, i'm from massachusetts. i do not recognize the authenticity or even the reality of "BBQ Boston sauce" at least not as it relates to the one in the US.
when my fb page started flooding with LA women who thought jenny mccarthy was someone worth listening to on how to raise their own children with strong negative opinions about vaccines, it will shock you to learn that indeed many of those women were stupid. and into astrology.
"this group" being whom, exactly. does ben-gvir represent "this group" who seem to want to exterminate all non-jews? he sure says he does. and he's the israeli government. and unlike hamas, he's actually DOING IT i'm sorry, i'm done with you. i get it. you love murder. you love genocide. congrats.
anyway, mostly: you good with israel's current genocide they are committing, in real time, as we speak, like right now? that cool with you? you into that? are you into genocide? are you into apartheid? do these things make you feel good about yourself?
dunno. does this group have the power to do so, in any way? and would this group be representing a group of people whose land was stolen, the very land where the fight was happening?
it's like "the aristocrats" joke except it's history
on the first point, you know what? when your people are being genocided as the world watches, or actively participates, i'm going to give you an astounding large amount of leeway for your anger.
i'm reading the second of her two posts and i'm struggling to find any flaw in the logic or the sentiment. if you need me to say "as a jew and one whose family etc. etc." i can and it is true, we've been in the fight a long time, but on her second point she is 100% correct. no notes.
i saw jane's addiction at L'amour with a half metal/half punk audience in 88. it was quintessential on several levels.
nirvana at tower records on broadway and 8th the week before Nevermind came out. me and about 5 people, with them playing Negative Creep after i asked kurt to.
so @espiers.bsky.social has been saying writing editing or doing smart things for a LONG ASS TIME in the internet media world. longer than most. i would strongly suggest everyone interested in Dems winning anything read her excellent post. like she says, AIr America was 20 years ago.
A good policy for AI and universities.
actually that was chatGPT
repo man somehow the perfect movie of this era
this new thing has some problems which this other new thing solves but that causes other problems which this new new thing fixes although that itself requires this new new new new thing* which helps you write su$cide notes while trading forex
my father wrote an essay on being able to tell the difference between being an anti-semite and being anti-israel. it's in tony kushner's book "wrestling with zion" you might want to take a look.
it's nuclear fusion 2.0, exactly, in every way. there's a REAL use case, it's actually REALLY VALUABLE and could GENUINELY CHANGE EVERYTHING, and it's just some indeterminate amount of time away. but to scientists, it's not un-achievable if someone would give them enough runway. so here we are.
can you drop these from fighter jets onto hospitals? you can use the holes created by the bombs to get them inside, and they can land on a pile of dead nurses for a soft landing.
jonny cardoso has to be one of the best ball winning midfielders in the world, right now.
Much as i would love you, i would rather eat lead paint.
i believe we can convince newsom to be less terrible on trans rights. i don't believe we can convince republicans to stop being fascists.
i'm sure this is a valuable and well written argument on the meaning of the meeting. it's too bad it's published in Der Sturmer and i won't get a chance to read it.
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"You cannot fight without fighting about how you fight." a vital sentence from a great essay by @andrealongchu.bsky.social with copious (e.g., just the right amount) of quotes from James Baldwin. www.vulture.com/article/post...
so United Airlines is grounded, but we have Sean "shittiest reality star" duffy making sure our starbucks delivery drones can be powered by a nuclear reactor on the moon. all is well.
laws which, as applied by my ex-wife, a photographer, were in fact lucrative and effective. THERE. IS. ALREADY. A. SYSTEM.
when an absolutely execrable piece of 💩 like larry "fired for being a sexist pig, hired to run the economy badly, friend to jeffrey epstein" summers is being interviewed as a "voice of the left" we are well and truly screwed.
great, this fucking guy is the voice of this? the guy who was fired for being a sexist piece of shit, who failed as the head of the economy, and who chilled with epstein. FML
it was a guy. i know the guy. i've cast the guy before. it was a guy.
did she learn to lie while at an ostensibly catholic institution? i guess since you are irish you know all about lying catholic institutions.
looks very similar to apartments i lived in in silverlake (on lucile). almost same size/concept. built in the 80s.
those intersection "treatments" are insanely awful, insofar as they don't exist! no warning that cyclists are here, nothing.
i dunno. he's got 550k followers on youtube, his streams get 10s of thousands, and his YT vids get over 100k along with thousands of comments. i think he's fine. kinky, and weird, but fine.
would that it was so simple. substack isn't a "nazi pub" per se. it's a platform that for reasons that i truly can't fathom has specifically chosen to promote nazis (like, actual ones) directly in its newsletter, this past week. just astounding. whether it's a nazi pub is a more tendentious question
if it don't throb it ain't gristle
has this particular person, this...mark zumberg? not sure. point is, has this person made predictions in the past? how have they played out? going to go use my VR headset to use the number one platform of young people, facebook, to get the answer.
look, i understand how hard it is to give up a community that has been painstakingly built, and i am not here to pretend that's not really hard, especially to go to a new model like ghost/patreon etc. but still, nazis, you know? fucking nazis. our grandparents knew what to do with them.
if your blog publisher is platforming nazis - leave
virginia giuffre's life was a shakespearean tragedy. rest in peace queen.
sadly none of this matters anymore because no one is going to do anything about any of it. sigh.
Better than the Reagan era.
if you've never heard Squirrelbait's cover of "Tape from California" let me tell you you are in for a treat.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o... Rest In Piss you racist scab, to put it bluntly.,
Columbia University is embarrassing. it should shut itself down immediately. this capitulation, and the lying that is now being done about it by the administration at columbia, is shocking. real fascism right here right now.
social media
Literally anything eats “a drive” through an old town. Anything. This is hideous and you have shown how much you hate old towns.
i'ts NOT OK
I’d just call it the “Mountainhead”, what’s “anti” about it
BUT THEY ARE SO GOOD LIVE but also i understand. saw them in london last month and it was amazing.
if you aren't watching streamers you aren't participating in the new media in a useful way.
walk bleecker between 7th and 8th avenue. lots of great boutique stores.
like the bad speakers are going to scare everyone else away, analogous here to human traffickers and cartels and north korean missile procurers making us more-than-normies not associate crytpo with "free speech" but rather "be libertarian do crimes"
insofar as elon musk believedin free speech, he meant "speech that i am controlling to make sure that it isn't impacting me negatively" beyond which i guess he was well-meaning? but like...is that well-meaning at all? and that's before we get to the whole nazi bar parable or karl popper.
sea lion here, interrogating your hypothetical: the actual people who need free speech from MC/Visa(say, my friend cindy gallop trying to raise money for her safe porn site) need it in such a way that it would require the people who control crypto to in fact be well-meaning, and they aren't.
that is insane. save of the year.
give me a couple of months and we can discuss this very thing. (i actually worked with morgan and quite liked him before things fell apart)
given the inability of this report to differentiate between actual anti-semitism and protest against israel, it is effectively useless. what a waste of time and money.
we are moving on panama like a bitch tho
also, and this is key: don't be owned by daniel levy
how does liverpool have an infinite money glitch?
but if only you used AI this problem would solve itself. or be solved by 7 underpaid software devs in india, but you get the point.
don't forget giuliani, who underfunded infrastructure and upkeep for the subway for his whole term. monsters, both of them.
that's my old station. amazingly, 28th st was, in the 17th century, a creek. as were many of the places that flood in manhattan. nature always has the last word, especially in the newly sub-tropical city of new york. #climatechange
that's my old station. amazingly, 28th was, in the 17th century, a creek. as were many of the places that flood in manhattan. nature always has the last word.
and yet it's what was read in what you said. maybe my fault, maybe not.
i join simon jenkins in hating our children and our future, and i want it to burn.
i join everyone in wanting to do something about climate change, just not HERE by something I CARE ABOUT. maybe over there. i think over there would be better.
it's tough when you can't post on a nazi website because your ability to talk to nazis is proscribed. lot of tears for you.
As an Eric Alterman said 30 years ago: “what liberal media?”
Dan’s kind of a genius, and i love what he did.
so glad that derbyshire council voted against solar panels. they really care about their own children.
this has to be a joke. blocking. blocking. blocking.
the days where a local county like kerr county in texas can decide whether or not to fund protections for their citizens when the results of them failing to do so mean THE REST OF US PAY TO CLEAN UP THE AFTERMATH OF THEIR FAILURES has to end. www.ksat.com/news/local/2...
james, your work has informed me and made me think for over 30 years. i have, at times, not agreed with all of your conclusions, but that's for me to discuss on my own timeline. you have earned the respect you demand here 1000x over and i hope you know that so many of us feel this way.
But it was, and has been, the net effect for Palestinians in need, whatever the intentions were. I can’t change that, and if you read this thread you will see how it has made people’s lives materially worse.
i ran into them, including people i very much respect like @cascoinfoundation.org and others. it's utterly perplexing in the face of a genocide. cannot wrap my head around it.
even the one freeway that is near us in that neighborhood--westway--should be eliminated, as all it does is separate neighborhoods from each other while adding nothing of value
tony blair still isn't in prison, huh? weird.
the floods in texas were fully precedented. people were living in something called a "flood zone". people were forced, by high housing prices, to buy houses in those flood zones. which, you know, flood. and then flooded. in a precedented way. as it will again.
are you going to engage with "he also wrote in Ugandan" or are you NOT going to engage with that point, which destroys everything you are saying. so no, you won't.
anyone who, in their attempt to both sides this, says things like the above is just saying "n" word under their breath over and over, whether they want you to know it or not.
not good enough. you need to have a platform of arresting any member of ICE who has committed any crime including kidnapping, and that anyone taken without a warrant has been kidnapped. if you don't use jail as a stick, good luck. (see, 6, jan)
what do you mean by "appreciate" what do you mean by "examination" define "20" what is "hate" when i say bait do i mean what you mean when you say bait aiofnmepanmfeipomfaopfmaopmw
I'd take this further: democrats need to say that when they are in power ICE agents who follow these orders are going to jail. Maybe in some of the new camps we are hearing about.
there's a thing about him. i agree with some of his ideas, but there's a thing about him. i agree with some of his ideas, but there's a thing about him....(this goes on for several days) he's muslim is the thing.