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I'll just leave this important reminder here, useful for whenever you share anything as a link. (The image in the quoted post doesn't have alt text but there's a link to the reddit post it's screenshotted from in the replies of the post.)
mamdani had his fourth meeting with jeffries, and jeffries continues to withhold an endorsement in a race against a corrupt cop, a fascist, and a sex criminal who intentionally handed the state senate to republicans and gerrymandered against the democrats.
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I came for the frog saunas, and stayed for the dick-punch to capitalism:
This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
It's been a long time heh ! Just wanted to share with you guys my latest #illustration made for a french drawing contest launched by a local con. The theme was "morning" and I had fun with it ! #procreate #art #digitalart #noAI
Another cryptic fella, at least 2 more to go :D Completed for @cosmacher.bsky.social! #oc #anthro #bodyhorror
Playing around with the lighting
Knights of Guinevere is a psychological thriller that welcomes you to a planet-wide theme park in the clouds!… And the shadows below, where a broken Princess Android is two dreamers’ tickets to better lives, or the end of them. :3 💙
Thinking about her today ❤️
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
if i use harsh language to complain about you, a leech and a worm who should never touch my life and rots the joy of humanity, i get banned! every lungful of air you pickpocket from the world is another tiny tragedy
you are not innovating and disrupting and nobody likes you or thinks you are clever!!! you live in a harem of fart sommeliers and you shit up my life to jack off your ego!!! why can’t i choose to be free of your influence??? fuck off!!!!!!!!!!!
these fucking suits sneak it in, day by day, to earn another buck because we can’t kick them in the dick and say fuck off!!! fuck off!!! you are being a prick and anti social behaviour should anti social outcomes!!! every wound you inflict should be one received!! fuck off!!!!!!!!!!!!
so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!
The start of every 80s movie:
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
Hey, why is everything I've ever signed up for online "updating" their terms of service all of a sudden
This article is huge. Billionaires spend millions to tell us Universal Basic Income doesn't work. Same playbook as companies pumping money to smear unions, same as US Army targeting any socialist government on Earth.
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it'll be funny when the news is like "a nation is mourning" and then can't find a single live shot that doesn't include people very clearly partying their asses off
infamy propagates beyond its inception
i think it's because he's infamously smelly because of it
a samus for my patrons #metroid
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 get why this is not something foreign governments would do easily, but they ought to consider X to be a subversion operation and ban it
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
This is an immense sign of weakness and the only viable reaction is to push HARD against MAHA and paint the entire RW movement as culpable for it. Be hard, be cruel, be offensive, do not let them worm their way out of the label of idiots thoughtlessly killing children for no reason.
Obsessed with images of a giant promotional statue of King Kong that accidentally caught fire
People obsessed with this country's "heritage" are violently opposed to ever actually addressing its real heritage, so all they're left with are consumerism and symbols chosen for their plausible deniability. Imagine claiming the Cracker Barrel logo as your birthright.
absolutely the best punchline in serialized television to, three years later, have it turn out that he means "huffing aviation gasoline" by this
vibrating
when creepypasta protagonists talk about hyper-realistic graphics this is actually what they mean
Tangential but it’s notable that when California does things it gets reported as “Newsom” and when Illinois does things it gets reported as “Illinois”
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.
If we could go back to when it was a crime to perjure yourself during your Senate confirmation that’d be great
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
This sounds like a pure shitpost but is actually an 100% accurate description of a policy proposal by actual people in a position of influence
me but about sweats
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️
We're completely down the rabbit hole with statistics. There will be no ability to contest anything these liars say using data going forward. I guess it's all down to vibes now.
through this lens, one of the big issues with this entire generation of dem leadership is the degree to which they've internalized the humiliations of both the post-9/11 foreign policy failures and the last decade of reactionary rage
a pretty good summary of the 21st century is that the humiliation of america's defeats in the middle east post-9/11 curdled into a reactionary politics that seeks affirmation in the humiliation of anyone who is an other: liberals, minorities, the global south, china, europe, whoever.
New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc
"finally, a worthy opponent"
So, to be clear The people who grow the food are underpaid or UNPAID The people who transport the food are underpaid The people who display and ring up the food are underpaid EVERYONE is paying more for food Nothing will ever be enough for the line go up forever cancerous billionaire class
Do you know how bad you need to fuck up for the state founded on anticommunism to drift away from its imperial patron and towards China? If Trump admin were consciously trying to erase US global influence I don’t know what they would do any differently
An immigrant saving someone is more dangerous to them than an immigrant killing someone.
you'll know it's happened when four different palace coups try to fit through the same door
Undertale
Whenever it happens it’ll be so funny to see the Gavin Newsom account drop kayfabe and be all respectful
Honestly itd be just like him to dip out right before everything that he set up to break really starts to break in earnest and leave that for the guy coming in after him to deal with
bah gawd that's the president's music
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
What I learned from the USAID dismantling: speed is the most important thing in fighting back. Public heath dorks (myself included) have a tendency to want to be 100% accurate w citations blah blah blah. This is not the time. Call them what they are: fucking psychopaths who are going to kill people.
the government has already tried to mandate the speech of AI products share the administration's political preferences by making it a criteria of the bidding process, a system under which it is prioritizing giving contracts to Elon's Grok over Google
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
one thing to remember about "ICE is going to occupy Democrat strongholds" is that ICE, if it hires to capacity, will employ about 26k people by the end of 2026, which is 1/3 smaller than the NYPD, which is not a large enough police force to occupy New York City itself.
Finally playing Bloodborne for the first time ever! Challenging myself to draw every boss that I beat. I'm so in love with the game, and it's all I can think about 🤍
we live in "butlerian fascism" where it's all a rinky dink performance of totalitarianism but somehow everyone goes along with it for insane, also performative reasons
Your going to find Trump stuff, trans stuff, gaming, internet culture, guns, obsession with massive violence, and a host of other shit. No one thing is *the thing*.
A warning I often repeat for those working with attacker manifestos, like the one in Minnesota: resist the temptation to seize on one element that aligns with your own political or policy concern and elevate it as the only motive. Don't strip-mine manifestos to suit your current political project.
only difference is we now have billions of dollars invested in convincing trolls they are gods' gift to humanity, are always right, and deserve an audience of millions to grift and humiliate and we gave them narcissus creation machines
Muslim person does something bad - All Muslim people are bad Trans person does something bad - All trans people are bad Black person does something bad - All Black people are bad Cis white guy does something bad - He had mental health problems
I don't post much any more, but for everyone poring over the manifesto, scrawlings, and footprint following the Minneapolis shooting, here's a timesaver. The aim is to be remembered, discussed, to turn oneself into content that then becomes the next reference on a gun.
Wow, Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein were in cahoots? Wild that Gawker published Epstein's black book back in 2015, and then Peter Thiel funded a load of nuisance lawsuits (not just the Hulk Hogan one) to shut it down.
we all love Saving America by horsetrading the lives of marginalized and vulnerable populations who are merely Cultural War signifiers and Objects of Policy rather than flesh and blood human beings or mature, rational, and realistic political Subjects like ourselves
the complete embrace of nihilism and the rejection of being genuine is the greatest danger to humanity right now
This video by Alex Pearlman does a really good job explaining why branding changes like his aren't "woke" they're just another chapter in the big book of "Capitalism and the adventure of endless growth for the shareholders".
Rural whites voted for a society where members have no reciprocal duties towards one another. We voted for a society where members accept a set of reciprocal duties towards others. It's weird how mad ppl get when I say that they should get the society they want and we should get the one we want
I think a lot about the phrase "a well armed society is a polite society" because it's implicitly premised on this kind of "freedom as domination" that everyone will be polite to you otherwise you shoot them
You hit the open world map, you start wandering around, stumble onto a high level area. Blitz past some mods and in a hurry, stumble down into the super boss area. "You seem a few dozen levels short to be here~" Absolutely gorgeous piece of Bruja's cosmic form done by @4te.bsky.social
Everything from the Newsom social media PR campaign, to the Third Way list of naughty words only the right says, to the facile Argument for staying on X, to corporate terrorism by manufactured participatory outrage against Cracker Barrel are indexical of this problem. This power is an illusion.
I think the only way Dems, libs, and the left, et al, are going to move past the current moment is by breaking out of the “hall of mirrors” imposed by media performance, and attempting to win by doing more effective media performance on platforms and infrastructures created for right wing power
If bluesky cared about users being able to control their own social media experience, a good place to start would be facilitating our ability to choose to not share the same network graph as the bot farms and other inauthentic accounts that basically rule this site by volume
Biotech, cryptocurrencies, quantum computing, NFTs, metaverse, and AI are a scam circular with a rotating cast of the same people moving from one grift startup to the next depending on which “tech” is currently trending
"The purpose of a system is what it does" You design for engagement, and this is the result. I simply cannot abide companies acting shocked, chagrined, doing the "we need to do better" routine. we have decades of research on the social effects of engagement-optimized design. enough already.
a huge part of the problem with AI and delusional spirals at the moment is that the "AI safety" people were busy with their own fantasies of Skynet, AGI, and paperclip maximization being the danger and seem to have done zero due diligence on the *actual* risk factors of the product.
There's going to be a horrible two way swing with this man's destructive influence; numerous frontiers of research into health problems are currently about mitochondrial dysfunction and malfunction. Fatigue syndromes, for example. He's going to make those words and topics toxic to reference.
What if wealthy businessman repeatedly failed to takeover over a company, then that company was the target of right-wing social media anti-woke outrage, then a competing company (owned by that same businessman) repeatedly publicly engaged in the right-wing social media anti-woke outrage…
The only tech product, ever, is underpaid labor to operate unsafe machines
having goals gives you clarity. right now the dems' goal is "win more seats in the midterms" and that gives them clarity of purpose; unfortunately, it is actually extremely damaging to spend 2 years of spreading authoritarianism stepping out of the way because you think it'll help you next election
This is such a no-brainer that the lack of a coordinated response feels deeply damning. A Democratic leadership team that can't mobilize an instant all-hands-on-deck effort on RFK Jr. isn't a leadership team at all.
the CDC purge is bad but also the health secretary just said in public that he can read people’s auras, I don’t understand why he isn’t immediately dragged in front of congress and asked “what the fuck are you talking about” and impeached for mental unfitness
RFK Jr. needs to go. Like, right now.
Did you need another reason to not use the planet-killing constantly wrong plagiarism machine? Now if you trip some unknown keyword or threshold it will call the cops on you. Fuck that noise.
I’m really curious if someone has written about the role of projection in the conspiracism-to-fascsim turn in America, as a topic in its own right. Something like a review of all the different conspiracy fears they are now simply supporting, unpacking the psychology of projected fantasies, etc
“There is no message” is the message communicated by this entire society and by all of its activity and anti-sociality
It’s crazy that America just like. Destroyed science. Just looked at its golden goose and went “wow should we kill this? And not for the gold, but just because we fucking hate this thing” And if you tell random people about it they go “no, that doesn’t seem true” and just refuse to believe you
Very concerning that mass shooters are starting to adopt a style of "shitposting" that combines the aesthetics of Tarrant-style Nazism with a self-aware, terminally-online-zoomer nihilism. Nothing in these manifestos (or written on AR-15s) should be taken literally.
these attacks aren't accelerationism, at least not in the way that some of the progenitors imagined it. they are acute and horrific expressions driven by the creeping tendrils of social rot, enabled by the mountain of weapons we have built instead of a safety net, aimed toward nothing but death
for the entire time I have been politically aware, the right has directed an endless stream of hatred towards the left, to which the left has historically responded with a kind of bemused indifference
this "it's all a diversion" thing is fucking sTUPID
the most irritating thing is that Microsoft refuses to take "no" as enough with this shit. every couple weeks i re open Word and i have to say no to copilot again, or I get prompted to enable it when doing something else on my machine leave me the fuck alone, @microsoft.com
If it weren’t for everything else Trump has done, this one episode for DOGE would be the biggest scandal in American history. They stole EVERYONE’s Social Security files. (And likely fed it into their proprietary AI.) bsky.app/profile/crai...