kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

So, they went for the easier one to catch (well, not yet entirely, but you get the idea).

Translated from the original German

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A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.

Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Year of the horse, indeed 🤣

Alla voce ‘sfigato’ del dizionario.

It's also wild that this hasn't ended Trump's presidency immediately. We used to be a serious country, where things mattered. Or maybe we never were, & it's just the mask being fully ripped off. Hard to tell, frankly. Observationally equivalent. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

We have a winner (cit.) 🚀🚀

Can you occupy a country for a negative number of days?

Heroes wear pink Power Ranger suits.

remarkable how yet again, Donald Trump has found a way to betray *everyone* who is foolish enough to trust him.

Anyway, big congrats to Nobel Peace Laureate Maria Corina Machado for getting the war she practically begged for — only for it to blow up spectacularly in her face. And of course, to presidenta-por-vida Rodriguez for gaining a powerful new patron and everything else she ever could have wanted

More broadly, this is a depressing death knell to the idea — already on life support — that U.S. foreign policy cares *at all* about democracy and human rights, in Latin America or elsewhere. Now we love dictatorships, just so long as they're willing to give us a cut of the proceeds.

Parsing Trump, Rubio, and Hegseth statements, it sounds a lot like "we're going to drop all demands for democracy/elections, recognize Rodriguez in perpetuity, drop all sanctions, send lots of investment and technical assistance, and buy any oil Venezuela wants to sell."

All of which is to say, there's a good chance that the events of the last 16 hours basically change *nothing* about autocracy in Venezuela. There's a good chance Delcy simply inherits the consolidated dictatorship, just like Maduro did before her.

looks like someone is about to win the “fell for it again” award

I can only imagine the atmosphere in the Nordic and Baltic countries after yesterday.

It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Pensa prendere lezioni di democrazia pure da lei.

È un Iraq 3.0, con la differenza che almeno Bush faceva finta di parlare di democrazia, mentre Orangina dichiara palese che gli interessa solo del petrolio.

Chissà cosa ne pensa la recente Nobel per la pace…

Drinking game every time Trump says ‘people’! 🤦🏻‍♀️

I am currently being radicalized into the idea that Europe should NEVER AGAIN put its security in the hands of any third party Trusting the United States increasingly seems like a historical mistake of epic proportions

As usual, the French are the only ones left with a spine.

Quindi i venezuelani rimpiangeranno Maduro molto presto.

Now that they’ve started a war I’ve completely forgotten that they’re pedophiles.

RIP Dick Cheney, you would have finally found something to like about the Trump presidency (illegally overthrowing a government for oil)

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Accurate.

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

As simple as that.

Empire. Oil. Guyana.

Io pensavo che per lo stato di guerra avrebbero aspettato metà anno prima delle elezioni di mid-term e invece. Certo che i dati sull’economia e gli Epstein file devono fare proprio paura.

100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.

Xi currently looking at Taiwan like my dog looks at a barbecue

For those justifying everything saying it’s ok against a regime that authoritarian, answer what is your regime at the moment? If it is a pure democracy, proceed to step number two - the UN Charter.

Siamo alla follia più totale. Chi può impedirgli di farlo con qualsiasi altro paese se gli va?

it’s almost as if the FIFA Peace Prize didn’t mean anything at all www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

It’s also time to start wondering if some of these reporters are a little cooked by the bots themselves. Reporters aren’t inured to chatbot psychosis. In fact, some of them may have drank too much of the kool aid from sources selling them stuff. We’re in a new world of stupid. Adjust your credulity.

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

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An AI chatbot does not have PERSONHOOD. It has no agency. It cannot meaningfully apologise. It cannot speak on behalf of another. It cannot speak for itself; it has no self. Stop asking it for quotes for articles. Stop printing its quotes.