Dutch East India Company, Royal African Company, and the Abir Congo Company are high on my list

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"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

As a Millennial (I was born in 1984), STFU, you fucking bootlicker. You don't speak for me. You're a fucking slave to the nightmare of capitalism that's destroying the planet and humanity. And you apparently enjoy being exploited! You're horrifically pathetic. Fuck you. 🖕🏻

"I sacrificed any part of myself that didn't matter to capitalism and I don't know how to get it back so I've convinced myself that this is normal and fine. And I need you to think it's fine, too, or you might remind me of what I've missed out on in my one and only life."

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

real “can we have class outside” vibe rn

Every good programmer I know has been saying this to me for months; meanwhile every not-great programmer I know has been trying to outsource their work to ai, causing more issues/delays than they if did it themselves. A lot of these tools only seem good to people who are not great at their jobs.

the authoritarian techbro cult wishes to subjugate humanity - the good news is that these are pathetic creeps and we can beat them

The Trump admin has been targeting trans people, but there’s no new verifiable information in this report, just a single unnamed official who “feels” like trans people could be labeled Nihilist Violent Extremists. In his previous reporting Klippenstein has misunderstood the NVE label, it’s for 764.

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Enough is enough is enough

This is such an important thread, but this post really made me sad, because the broader scholarly infrastructure has (been) eroded to the point that knowledge exchange simply can't exist in the way it used to and there's little that journals can do about it. Because that infrastructure was people.

Just a heads up to search LibGen itself, not use the Atlantic's site. My books didn’t pop up under the latter

Life is short and the hour of our death is a mystery, so no, I will not rate my transaction

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Remind me again who the danger is on our streets?

cosign. i met James Dobson in person when i was a kid growing up in evangelical churches. that rat bastard is part of why i was subjected to conversion “therapy” as a child. his soul was as rancid as his rightwing ideology. rot in piss, you fascist fossil. the world is better without you in it.

Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.

Fuckin whack ass planet. Things on it n' shit. The fuck is that

The list of public benefits that urban trees provide is so long that growing the tree canopy in cities is practically a no-brainer. But do they also reduce crime and make cities safer? @motherjones.com investigates (and yes, they consider correlation vs causation). HT @clarajeffery.bsky.social

ok here’s a thread of some rough and unedited observations about the situation in dc that i haven’t seen anyone else say and it’s just driving me wild part ? here we go

if you live in britain or the united states and you see your country as a force for good in the world, you’re already fundamentally wrong about the most basic aspects of global history, politics, and economics. it is quite simply impossible for you to be correct about anything else you think or say

I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally

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Voters clearly said they wanted a wealth tax to fund schools. Ferguson said no to both. No surprise that voters reacted negatively. A few tax increases here, a few spending cuts there isn’t something any voter wants. Politically, fiscally, Ferguson has no choice but to pass a wealth tax.

Can we just fucking not today? Like for one god damn day let’s fucking not

A thread from yesterday, and a follow up question for my fellow US residents, if you’re noticing similar things: What kinds of things, big or small, are you doing/trying to counteract relationship strain?

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Nermin. Nermin was an assistant architectural engineer and had a house she built herself. She lost all this and is struggling to survive with her husband and children Fares, 13, Noreen, 14 and Diala, 15. She has lupus and is really struggling.

Our governments are forcing us to watch Palestinians starve to death A bipartisan endeavor We kept saying genocide and it has been and also that can make it hard to appreciate this is a new level to it Mass, irreversible starvation

lol wtf

btw did you know you can subscribe to PBS for only like $5/mo or a $60 one-time for a year donation, and get access to their Passport streaming service? They mail you a little live programming guide and everything, too. The 40-something seasons of NOVA alone are worth it.

When what amounts to essential communications infrastructure is privatized, you get problems like this. Platforms ought to be run like the post office (used to be run, back when such collective goods were broadly valued as such)

i think perhaps it’s just worth pointing out, for your consideration, as part of my contribution to this discussion, that gavin newsom is a worthless fucking piece of shit

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Anti-LGBTQ orgs have explicitly stated they USE sports as a "gateway drug" to undermine trans people's rights. They've also said this is how they eventually roll back all progress on LGBTQ rights. Newsom falls for it hook, line, and sinker.

In Latin America, LGBTQ+ history collections are a form of resistance. Grassroots projects are using the memories of community members to fight against systematic violence and demand justice. www.wired.com/story/lgbtq-...

Skateboarding and live-streaming to be deemed “violent tactics” to justify the arrest of those expressing their first amendment rights. This is what an authoritarian police state looks like.

You know who keeps getting completely boxed out of this conversation is the (third world) feminist left, who has always known this, who DOES in fact live with the material and measurable consequences of white western man’s big stupid feelings, and has been trying to mf tell you.

Texas officials appeared to be almost entirely issuing vital emergency alerts about the deadly Kerr County flooding via Facebook and Twitter/X. Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.

Oh fuck all the way off, you complicit fascist cowards.

Given that the vast majority of Americans who sell blood primarily do so first and foremost for money, yes it does reflect the economic hardships of the United States. Really do wish more people would read my book!

There's a cool special feature on the Nosferatu blu-ray where they detail Robert Eggers' famously meticulous research methods and there's even a thing where you can explore his actual Google search history