Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

Just a few years ago this depraved post, based on a fake Rob Reiner tweet, would have rightfully got Loomer cancelled as a legitimate public voice. Thanks to Trump plunging American discourse into the sewer, it's now rewarded with high engagement. The MAGA movement is an assault on human decency.

How we feel about this is how the whole rest of the world feels about Americans.

Our information space is dominated by a system that demands and rewards continous and immediate emotional gratification, so you can't even begin to have a discussion about complex issues. It's a bright cancer that spreads and multiplies with every interaction.

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

"Fuck AI. It’s something that’s making everything worse in every single way — I don’t get it ... what the fuck are we doing?" — Rian Johnson (via THR)

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

Decorating my antifa tree

Incredible. Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

Americans have 400 days to save their democracy | Timothy Garton Ash

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

NEW: What went wrong with Dragon Age: The Veilguard? Why was the writing so tonally inconsistent? Why did it feel so shallow? Why were there so few choices? Really, after ten years of turbulence, it was a miracle that anything came out at all. This is the story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Nick Offerman slams some ‘dumb fuck’ who used a homophobic ‘Parks and Rec’ meme “Ron Swanson was best man at a gay wedding you dumb fuck”

I stopped engaging with the Dragon Age fandom after Veilguard because the harassment and hostility towards the devs was absolutely insane to see. People who can't disagree while still being respectful are nothing but entitled assholes.

1) I write the two paragraphs on the left 2) Bottom-feeding video game websites publish headlines like the one on the right 3) Aggregators like Reddit and Google plaster those headlines everywhere, misleading countless readers Healthy media ecosystem we’ve got here

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

This is all very reasonable though unfair to Chamberlain who, mistaken though he was, tried to appease —before— a war. Trump is siding with a fascist aggressor after three years of war. kyivindependent.com/european-for...

Never.

offered terms of surrender to the military, proved how pointless the war against Ukraine was. We actually did much more than that.

The moment the orange convicted felon was sent back to our White House instead of to prison for his crimes is the moment democracy died in America. Both Hillary Clinton and VP Kamala Harris warned everyone that he would be a lawless tyrant and that has come true.

All this. TWICE. Because Americans can’t stomach a female president.

up next: bluesky user uses tunnelling electron microscope to find violin

Thank you and congratulations to all the Americans who voted for the candidate promising to raise prices because they were concerned about high prices, and thought curbing pandemic inflation faster than any other developed economy was bad economic management.

gaming communities are now open to shitting on the anti-woke gaming world, vibe shift incoming

"I used AI to make a Studio Ghibl-"

Here's @adamprz.bsky.social, telling it like it is... I could not agree more.

There is definitely a misinformation campaign, just not the one she is describing

i’m losing it

I want to know why president Musk wasn't in the signal chat.

Friendly reminder

Electing Trump (for the second time!) is like playing a strategy game and when you have almost won the game, you hand over your overpowered nation that has many allies and friends, to the most stupid AI you can find - and just watch how it fucks up everything it touches...

Perhaps the Gamers are alright

Everyone hopping onto Assassins Creed right now take note of the options that go from "Low, Medium, High, Very High, Ultra High". Please do not shove things to "Ultra High" and complain about game perf. As in many games, "Medium" or "Low" can be amazing looking and it is merely a naming scheme.

It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you

A reminder that it's getting easier and easier to try Veilguard, whether through discounts or its inclusion as a PS Plus game. There are already plenty of folks discovering it's better than the angry youtube men indicated (shocking!) so please enjoy.

4/4. Russia has no more right to dictate anything that happens inside Ukraine than Ukraine has to dictate what happens inside Russia. And the "root causes" of this war are all inside Russia, as the Russians are reminding us.

Calling machine learning algorithms "artificial intelligence" has to be the greatest rebranding effort in history. The amount of people who legitimately think these things are some kind of futuristic new technology is incredibly depressing

If Russia successfully interfered in Romanian elections via social media, and we make a theoretical assumption that a similar operation helped elect isolationists in the US to undermine NATO, it would be the most successful intelligence operation in history. Just a theoretical speculation

BREAKING NEWS: Canadian Premier Wab Kinew of Manitoba MOCKS Trump by signing a “beautiful” order that officially removes ALL American liquor from Canadian stores in his province. Donald Trump just caused massive economic damage to our country. How sad and embarrassing.

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European leaders need to free themselves from the delusion that rational arguments will have any effect on the MAGA White House. They are not rational. MAGA is a cult of personality fueled by weaponized lies. They speak only the language of power. Europe must speak it back.