the Final Fantasy Tactics to Marxist-Leninist pipeline
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the Final Fantasy Tactics to Marxist-Leninist pipeline
Vinay Prasad had YouTube censor Jonathan Howard’s channel because he didn’t like how it made him look. A petty act by a vindictive, unqualified hack. And more evidence that these frEe sPeEcH warriors have always been petty censors out to silence criticism that they just can’t cope with.
I hate this timeline so so much
(*nods sadly*)
Putting on my elitist cap once again: I think one of the core reasons 2025 is worse than 2017 is that supporting Donald Trump is no longer seen as a low status signifier in many elite circles.
Those are some nice charts, too. I need to pull some data from Jax's sources myself. Appreciate this.
100% Nafnlaus.
It's always good to keep the eye on the ball. Mike points out that Bluesky now sends way more traffic to his site than Twitter ever did. Because facts matter.
Major Canadian grocery stores caught labelling American items as ‘made in Canada’ “Canada’s grocery oligopoly appears to be engaging in false advertising.”
Hey, fun fact, I wrote about this future pivot just this morning!
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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.
As we're again hearing nonsense about fraud in the 2020 election, I'm glad to see our (cc @ianshapiro.bsky.social) open access paper was published last week at @polbehavior.bsky.social. A thread, but tl;dr: belief in fraud in 2020 was fully rooted in white racial resentment doi.org/10.1007/s111...
Everyone, I found another hidden AI setting for FB finally. It’s at the bottom of Memories settings. If this bullshit happens to you, look at the VERY BOTTOM and click on the tiny link that says Memories Settings. Scroll to the bottom and turn off letting AI use your memories. Turn this off!
Man, AI slop being used to grift well-meaning people who want to support the wartorn in Palestine REALLY makes me angry.
"bluesky will never grow because the userbase is too hostile" it's awfully peaceful once you block and mute all the assholes. maybe stop engaging and encouraging them in hopes of their approval they'll get pretty bored when they've faded into the background. just say no to rage bait, kids anyway
Very happy to see that Pleias multilingual data processing pipelines have contributed to the largest open pretraining project in Europe. From their tech report: huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Ape...
Happy COVID Tuesday everybody! Dr. Tara Moriarty will be speaking tonight about how the forecast is created. We'd love for you to join us. covid19resources.ca/discussions/ @moriartylab.bsky.social @netgaines.bsky.social @wikisteff.bsky.social @allenescott.bsky.social @ryantennant.ca
Exactly this. It was a hot mess, with an extremely clever drip-drip-drip campaign in the media to keep it in the news for months. I used the mess to argue that Trump would win in 2016, alongside @sarahkendzior.bsky.social , and I am sad to say, we were right. :/
Agree. That was what made it hard explaining to people why Wikileaks was not a valid source & Assange is evil. USSR Propaganda 101. Much of the trove was untampered emails stolen in criminal hacks. But the ones it was relying on for disinformation were NOT, either wholly invented or cobbled pieces.
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social Sarah, how could I get ahold of you to send you an interview request for work? It's on the shifting world order, for a foresight project we are doing...
Yes please
Rest in peace, brother. Rest in peace.
What a crazy random happenstance
Bait and switch, ding ding ding!
Something something ignore the Epstein survivors’ presser something
lotta headlines this AM *TRUMP’S LA TROOP DEPLOYMENT VIOLATED FEDERAL LAW, JUDGE RULES
This is beyond genius.
"Normally they charge a steep price for their services, but not for me! In fact THEY gave ME two coins, the most beautiful gold coins you've ever seen." This post was approved by Bastet's namesake:
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
I did a family member a favor… and my reward is they dropped something heavy on my pollinator pots. Two stems snapped. *sigh* #Garden #GardenSky Please admire this pretty Sulphur Cosmos so she didn’t die/get smooshed in vain.😔 Hope some bee nibbles real quick. #BloomScroll
Having a bad day?? Here's a pick me up... 😊 #bluesky #nature #animals
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Verdict and sentencing phase of Bolsonaro's attempted coup trial begins in Brazil. @apnews.com
Chile is one of the safest places for LGBTQ+ to reside. They have some of the worlds strongest anti discrimination laws. Green Day plays Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen right before they hit the stage. Here are 50,000 Chileans losing their shit this past weekend. #HumanRights #Chile #MusicSky
Aaargh no!!!
The light finds its way in #photography #classicmono
This one hurts. Rest in power sir. 💔😭 deadline.com/2025/09/grah...
Fucking hell
So it begins.
Monday bunday!! The first day of September, Peanut’s birth month. It’s hard to believe he is 9 this month. Truly living his grumpy old bun life. He’s always been a grumpy bun, more interested in naps and snacks than zooming around, but he gets to embody being old with it too these last few years
Agree with Philip. We are very far from this being feasible, and a fake product launch next year won't change that.
You will almost never see the mainstream media criticize each other. They barely even criticize right wing media like Fox. At a certain point it begins to resemble the mafia.
/hattip
Twitter and Grok are built and updated with this animating belief, this is the baseline
Any time I see their complaints about Bluesky filtering back here it's striking that nobody seems to think it's worth noting that Twitter exists entirely to promulgate Elon Musk's personal politics
It's not all down to all of them being on Twitter all day but I think an awful lot of it is
Seems bad that the gulf between the reality you can go outside and see and experience yourself, and the one the political press describes, is widening very rapidly
To put the effects of this distinction in more concrete terms: The order *does not* require the Trump administration to withdraw the remaining national guard troops. It can still use them for things like protecting federal property. But not for domestic law enforcement. bsky.app/profile/anna...
TL: DR; today's ruling is a narrowly composed one which goes only to the question of *what* the troops deployed to LA were specifically being used for, not whether it's legal to call up the National Guard in the first place (which is the subject of ongoing litigation in the 9th Circuit).
FOX BUSINESS: “My goodness. $5 BILLION. Eye-popping numbers… crypto-friendly legislation coming from the president who is in turn cashing in on crypto. A conflict of interest.” Even Fox sees how insanely corrupt Trump’s crypto grift is. (H/T @ab21.bsky.social )
However, DDOS has a pretty good reputation, and the sources are as strong as they are, in open source land anyway.
(*nods emphatically*) I view Wikileaks as largely a Russian op at this point.
This is why you are smarter than me. You check before reposting.
Search for Vekselberg.
The source is highly interesting in its own right: archive.is/202508280702...
The article semi-locked or locked, so I can't edit it directly (I'm not that grade of editor on Wikipedia), but I made a note on the talk page with the reference and where to edit. Should be soon.
100% fair.
Also PuTTY for SSH. Although the name "has no official meaning", the website is standard HTML and the tool does one thing well.
the specific ones that were coming to mind in making this post were Scott's Window Resizing Utility and Tom's MIDI Player btw. they both do the thing they say www.scottandmichelle.com/scott/progra... www.grandgent.com/tom/projects...
This is absolutely correct.
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
Go on. Take a wild guess who was president both times.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Apparently "liberal" includes Thatcher and Reagan.
Russia trying to murder European Commission president.
Let's see if the US government gets to decide if papers get retracted. If so, it's time to publish outside the US, people.
Probably not. But Marc is smart and capable, and weak presidents pick even weaker VPs to make sure that don't get ambitious, so Andreessen is out. Probably either some backbencher Senator or a C-list techbro. Ramaswamy?
No, it's a typo in the original. I fixed it in my alt text. I should go log in and fix it in the wiki, too.
Maxwell even said herself in the interview released that epstein had developed a software program to find out who's taking money off the top at a company. He worked with all different kinds of companies around the world including Bear Stearns, deustchebank, foreign governments etc. Not financier
This actually explains everything, doesn't it? Fun fact: bsky.app/profile/wiki...
N.B. While researching this, I came across this gem that just ties together just about every damn thing that is happening now.
N.B. While researching this, I came across this gem that just ties together just about every damn thing that is happening now.
New York Times Stops Referring to Serial Child Rapist and Sex Trafficker as Respectable Businessmen challenge level infinity.
"Artist Adolf Hitler is facing accusations about some of his recent works." "Newspaper editor Josef Stalin takes a strong stand on grain quotas in Kharkiv and Kyiv." "School teachers Mussolini and Pol Pot were honoured today in a special exhibit on their lives and works."
You have the skills, Leen. Mad skills. Respect. ✌
Apropos of this, for my non-Canadian friends: bsky.app/profile/did:...
"The statement from the family came after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said it would subpoena him to testify on Tuesday as part of its inquiry into the federal government's handling of the investigations and prosecutions of sex slaver Mr. Epstein."
No one said they were smart.
*other, not the
P.S. You win, it is BOTH On Farming and De agri cultura. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_agri...
Yeah, I find it hard to believe that "Vic Stans" violated anything.
I read Cato and Varro’s “On Agricultural” once (or was it “On Farming”?) and was horrified. The slavery! The abuse!
It is very very hard to play historical fantasy straight without unbounded quotidian horror.
Thank you, I am looking for these narratives. 💜
Yes, and what we do have isn't nearly as widely known as it should be. I've seen even Tacitus' "make a desert and call it peace" quote wake some up on this front because they'd never heard it before. And yeah, very intentional hagiography meant to prop up very intentional politics today.
Hey Firefox users.
What in the absolute fuck, tech firms?!!?!
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
just got off a call with Paypal that lasted 50 minutes(!). i asked about sexy romance novels, and about whether i can sell suggestive artwork, and about the appeals process. they didn't have a canned response about most of this -- so they're not sick of us yet. let's fix that. #savespeech
This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.
I think it's because (a) we don't have many detailed records from the enslaved class, and (b) post facto hagiography of Empire. Maybe the reasons too.
they act like sports fairness shit is unwinnable but it's not! this is deeply fucking easy to say no to! you don't even have to give a shit about trans people to make the argument!
i am almost 40 and i literally do not have any point in my life where the right wing has not been doing moral panics about imaginary child abuse while institutionally working to enable real abuse of real children. if it's not the satanic panic it's fucking pronouns.
"What are ways humans can have societies?" never fails to load my brain with nightmare fuel for later when I have dementia and can't block it out.
He doesn't really come across as a coalition-builder, does he?
Why does this always work on me, Erin? Why?!!
You have to do a fair amount of prompt optimization to get something that fascist.