Striking a boat full of unarmed civilians is murder. The first strike was murder. The followup strike was also murder. We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

Thinking about the feeling I get when I see stories about the incredible infrastructure projects China has achieved over the past decade, and wondering how they'd compare to a Chinese person in the 1950s hearing about America's accomplishments.

What do the editors of this magazine think their job is? "Too many kids are getting extra time on tests!" should immediately be followed by "how many kids are getting extra time on tests?" If you don't know, either find out or write about something you do know.

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OU saying loudly and proudly that they are not a place to get an education, but simply somewhere students can buy a fancy piece of paper and learn nothing.

"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.

Strong Floor, No Ceiling is considerably worse than No Rules, Just Right. Can’t believe we’re gonna lose the messaging war to Outback Steakhouse.

In my short time working in schools, got a lot of use out of sentiments like this, and also Alex Horne's "All the instructions are in the task."

Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936 Right: 1936 electoral map

Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.

every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually

The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.

I just found a ramen noodle packet with a use by date in 2021 and folks, I am here to tell you they can absolutely go bad.

"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them

Before there was Loss dot jpg, Loss dot jpg was there

Wicked For Good sounds like a Boston area non profit

top notch mascottin'

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

The microscale fight in Zeztz #11 was really cool!

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

[I turn on the TV and every channel is showing me being burned in effigy] This can't be good

The bit with the drone and the garbage in Pluribus was the best short film of the year

I know a lot of footage and commentary is swirling about today but it’s important to convey that the people who gathered outside that ICE garage in lower Manhattan were *so* ten toes down focused. This person who gets maced and just calmly flips the bird & keeps going is *quintessential.*

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

Healthy. Spare. Kidneys. Walking around. Unused. This is the person in charge of the Center for Disease Control. In a country driving the vast majority of its citizenry towards abject poverty, they are soft launching the ability to SELL ONE’S ORGANS. This shit is so ghoulish I’m at a loss.

He’s threatening a fake cartel in a country sitting on a ton of oil while freeing an actual narcotrafficking ex-president who he likes. This isn’t hard to understand unless you want to make it hard to understand.

me: *googling symptoms* webmd: you’re being murdered murderer: see i told you

Coming home for the holidays means your mom wants to stream some period drama no one has ever heard of titled some shit like “The Pealing Bells of Melloncollie” and you better believe she’s gonna let you know Olivia Colman is in it

The right is full of grown-ass adults who are afraid of vaccines, kid's books, and anyone Twitter or OAN tells them to fear, including the entirety of NYC, and NYC is full of people who cheerfully chase federal agents out of the state and then do stunts on Citibikes; you tell ME who's going to win.

Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.

The question that raises for me is if a CEO has ever done any real work in the history of CEOs

Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.

the whole thing reminds me a lot of a post i saw, i forget if it was here or elsewhere, went something like "i opened a game's accessibility menu and found a bunch of cheat codes and no option to resize the subtitles"

in abstract this really represents how the larger game industry much prefers to have loyal fandoms do all the unpaid work to represent the interests of big companies while treating the actual people who work on games as completely disposable

it’s very funny that turning point released this, demonstrating that it absolutely did not meet any of the criteria in the very explicit grading rubric for the assignment

Really enjoyed WAKE UP DEAD MAN. Not as tightly constructed as KNIVES OUT, but the character drama felt more sincere and lived-in than the previous movies.

The Benoit Blanc trilogy might end up as one of the best artistic statements on the diseased conservatism of our era, and l think Wake Up Dead Man is my favorite of the trilogy, largely because it’s Rian Johnson trying to understand Christianity and its adherents more than having a definitive take.

I'm afraid this date is a lot closer than we think. Also, AI and social media may have killed people's ability to engage with difficult material, but students also ask what the point of education is when we're careening twoard a future of underpaid gigs w/ no security and institutional idiocracy.

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life

I know everyone is dunking on the robot here but look at how much space is devoted to cars in this scenario. The sidewalk should be bigger and the road smaller.

I don’t think Malcolm Harris is here so I’ll repeat what he used to say on twitter: the aim of the ads is to show you something similar to what it thinks *you already spent money on* so the app can tell its advertisers “60% of customers bought a thing like this within 14 days of seeing ad.”

The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks

Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

your 14yr old nephew is addicted to at least 4 different gambling apps on his phone where he's actively betting daily on the outcome of individual skirmishes in a real life war happening on the other side of the globe

Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.