we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

I beg of you, please, do not make me have to defend Bill Maher from government censorship

Discworld QOTD, from Pyramids “No one is more worried by the actual physical manifestation of a god than his priests; it's like having the auditors in unexpectedly.”

periodically I see the president doing things like “post crimes for his attorney general to do that were maybe supposed to be an unencrypted DM on his own personal social network” and I remember that he got elected in large part because of information security practices and I black out in rage

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Holy shit. The administration might be evacuating the ICE facility we've been protesting for weeks. If this ends up happening, it's a huge deal. Protests matter. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

stephen miller stop taking like sephiroth for five minutes challenge: impossible

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

how did libs get the f-35 in the national divorce

deeply resentful of the A-10 dipshit brigade for not allowing me to enjoy it in a fun way because they don’t understand modern warfare at all and keep trying to argue it’s not outdated

I dug deep into NexGen Stats and believe I have found the problem

Rumors aren't facts. But last fall the Finance/DC corridor was awash in chatter that bribes and cash payments were flying fast and furious. Given the nature of this crew, essentially zero chance Homan was alone in this.

Patriots please hold onto one (1) football I cannot take any more fumbling

I beg of you, please, do not make me have to defend Bill Maher from government censorship

Discworld QOTD, from Pyramids “No one is more worried by the actual physical manifestation of a god than his priests; it's like having the auditors in unexpectedly.”

apologies to the rabid Philly contingent on here but I am not a football purist and I believe you should have to be able to throw a forward pass to win in the modern NFL

maybe unpopular opinion but I like the new NFL kickoff rules, it’s fun to see actual returns again

I realize Vikings fans are screaming “no! no!!” but the funniest possible outcome here is Carson Wentz starting a true quarterback controversy with McCarthy

long overdue but good to see Israel’s monstrous campaign of genocide is finally shattering the international pro-apartheid consensus

exhibit 478 on why all the LLM-as-AGI stuff is nonsense, they are very impressive prediction machines but they do not think and they’re never going to stop producing bullshit

“should we reach out to Trump voters” conversations are always a mess because they’re just a bunch of people talking past each other one side is like, why are you trying to reach the hardcore MAGA base and the other side is like, why would you not want to flip the marginal voters both are correct

the biggest lesson of the last seventy-five years of politics is that the democrats should have done a lot more ratfucking

there was a large enough pro-life Dem caucus in the House that it almost sank Obamacare! basically all of them lost their seats in the Tea Party wave, and we’ve only seen congressional races get more nationalized since then shitty policy stances aren’t enough to win over these voters

the biggest lesson of the last seventy-five years of politics is that the democrats should have done a lot more ratfucking

They're racists & they're fascists but above all they are the pettiest two-bit criminals you've ever seen

Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky “You couldn’t say: It’s not my fault. You couldn’t say: It’s not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn’t have to want to. But you had to do it.”

there is no platform that depends on the black magic of its algorithm so much as tiktok, really good chance they fuck with it so much they kill the place dead

everything that Trump and co think they are accomplishing by dismantling USAID and various NGOs could actually be accomplished in reverse by dismantling the feudal car dealerships ruling towns everywhere

the greatest threat to a free society is not, with a handful of exceptions, the people you find the most annoying on the internet

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

there was a large enough pro-life Dem caucus in the House that it almost sank Obamacare! basically all of them lost their seats in the Tea Party wave, and we’ve only seen congressional races get more nationalized since then shitty policy stances aren’t enough to win over these voters

Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky “You couldn’t say: It’s not my fault. You couldn’t say: It’s not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn’t have to want to. But you had to do it.”

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

companies like disney and target spent years carefully calibrating their target customer base to “affluent liberals” and then Trump won the election with 49% of the vote and the executives all cooked their brains online and they decided to throw all of that away bad business decision!

So um. This is what's been up with me for the last year. I hate hate hate asking but very much appreciate your support. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...

imo a fair conclusion to draw about dem leadership's obstinance in the face of revolt from their voters is that they'd rather win an intra-party fight with their left wing & their own voters than maximize potential electoral gains in the midterms

I think the reason for this is pretty straightforward: the largest cohort of cross-pressured swing voters in the United States are people who are cross-pressured because they are secular but racist

the right wing writes more coffee-based fanfiction than the AU section on AO3 does

“Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore” that, in a nutshell, is why I avoid these things because no matter how convinced you are that it isn’t happening to you, it is happening to you these machines will suck your creativity dry and you’ll thank them for it

look I know this is a controversial position but I feel like we maybe shouldn’t have let the worst and most sociopathic tech bros on the planet amass infinite money and power holy hell

Disco Elysium is truly the most leftist game of all time, the studio immediately collapsing into bitter infighting demonstrates the depth of its authenticity

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

back in my day boys just used an entire can of axe body spray before heading out to loiter at the mall

tesla stock is, naturally, up today the rational market, everyone

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

you get to be "one of the good ones" right up until they decide they can go full mask off and don't need to pretend there are "good ones" anymore

everyone else in my family, 24 hours after vaccines: we’re fine! everything feels great! me 24 hours after vaccines: please stop hitting me with a mallet, you have made your point

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

as someone who is trash at platforming and has no patience for Git Gud-style gaming I am putting Silksong firmly in the category of "I'm happy for everyone this game is for, which does not include me"