The fact that no major outlet is covering what a cesspoll Twitter has become is alarming in of itself.

This is *still* an insult to the late Redford.

The Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza puts lie to that.

I mean at least eight protesters have been killed, the stakes of NK are, for now, considerably lower.

There's *always* one person under a post like this who thinks "wow this unprecented level of propaganda and sycophancy in American media reminds me of North Korea, famously the most propagandized dictatorship on earth" somehow means "Americans are just inherently better than those filthy Asians"

I know, yeah, it's AI, but it just utterly wild to me, speaking as someone who grew up *in London in the time period being depicted here* that people are doing nostalgia for *London in the 90s*!

People have responded to you multiple times and you've ignored them all?

That being said, it should be the task of people to not deny the existence of any nation but to insist on its continued improvement, and to address and transcend the original sins it was born with

I’ve argued it over and over, but the core driver of the worldwide collapse into populist madness is a very specific economic trend: THE FALLING COST OF PUBLISHING That has created almost infinite access to media, which allows consumers to be highly selective and forces publishers to compete.

Political behavior is controlled by ideas and beliefs, which people inherit from each other and not from their material position in society. This concept makes many people mad and they overlook that changes in the spread of ideas and beliefs are themselves linked to economic and technological change

The simple Persian is not capable of being fed up with government ineptitude and cruelty without the perfidious (((meddling))) of the Culinary Institute of America

People read Stancil as rejecting material explanations for politics, but “new technology and shifts in modes of production put everyone at the mercy of devices designed to make them insane” is a pretty material explanation if you ask me

Amazing how many of our problems boil down to “I’m not young anymore so you must die.”

Russia can't even control the Black Sea or large chunks of its own Army any more lol.

You know, I think it is not really anyone’s business how much I do or do not love America. I’m an adult, you’re adults, you can evaluate my love for America by how well I respect it. But I will note that people who actually love a thing don’t usually stand around declaring love for it all the time

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

This *is* just antisemitism.

an annoying thing about realists insisting they're the no-nonsense reality-based group is that few of their predictions have been based in reality

@goldwagnathan.bsky.social Thought.

The morality of Zionism is completely irrelevant to its outcome being real. I can not undo the unification of Italy no matter how many Italians I might convince that Garibaldi was a Satanic hologram.

my one plea as we ring in the new year with Zohran being sworn in as mayor is to take some fucking wins he’s not going to be perfect, there will be setbacks and disappointments, but take some joy and some pride in the good that comes out of this good things are more durable when we celebrate them

I live in the curry capital of the UK mate.

guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story

She's right. Utterly vile substance.

Too many people think AIs are alive and sentient.

So Hitler's position in 1940/1941 is not a good position ruined by foolish decisions, but in fact a deceptively weak position that is almost certainly doomed, leading to insane gambles that only make it worse. The catastrophic mistake was having a war, a result of the worse mistake of being a Nazi.

Every option leads to regime extinction. In practice, of course, Hitler split the difference on (2) and (3) and so got buried by American steel and Russians at the same time.

There's a common thing I've seen of people acting like if they deny Israel exists and/or deny the reality of Zionism long enough, Israel will go away. Somehow.

The Bundists wre all *murdered* in industrial killing factories.

Got this for Xmas for myself.

What I mean when I talk about liberal socialism.

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

Images that make sense to the deranged [laudatory].

Just the worst kind of snivelling cowards.

Liberty means the freedom to be small and quite yet still heard.

A 10 percent crueller version of Dwight works for ICE.

It was the most freedom that a normal average German person who doesnt like killing his neighbours had until 1949 in the West and 1989 in the East, even in the longue duree comparison to all of previous history. It should be mourned, not mocked.

None like him [thank god].

these kinds of people are like two steps away from endorsing an internal passport system

always wild when people do woke nativism

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

I stand corrected!

On Liberty, John Stuart Mill.

They've often fought and otganised because of liberalism, or ideologies that have been greatly influences by liberalism.

The iron law of land reform is that you have to have it reflect the local model of small land holding.

Always appreciate a good coat.

This is why treason is *so* reviled now days.

As I said at the time, if they hadn't been so smug and twee about it, if they'd *owned* it, they would have been way better off. You can't be a smolbean woe is me poaster and work for LM, it doesn't work.

And this tension is *still* ongoing.