Maybe Platner's ex-girlfriend is lying. Maybe he accidentally QT'd neo-nazi Stew Peters. Maybe he didn't know it was a Totenkopf. Maybe it's irrelevant that his campaign staff keeps quitting. Maybe his comments about women were one-offs. Maybe

Oh, I see how it is

the old anarchist quote about how “if voting mattered they’d make it illegal” actually is true! And they are trying!

The problem with Bluesky, a website where people are constantly arguing and correcting each other, is that everyone thinks identically

The human brain, which we evolved, famously works a whole lot better with only as much electricity as a small LED lightbulb

[clears throat] Mark Cuban is the Matt Yglesias of Peter Thiels

Never in my life have I seen such a perfect depiction of this moment in our history

if somebody asked me what my trophy was for and i had to tell them it was my cis participation trophy i think i would kms

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Ken Zucker took pictures of nude trans children to "make them appreciate their bodies" with 0 clinical/scientific actual reason behind it, and he is working for Northwestern University along with Littman *right now* to study trans people to try and "cure" us. He still has access to trans children.

As someone whose hospital was so overrun with COVID patients that the oxygen supply lines were literally not able to keep up, fuck you all for sitting here smugly talking about this like it wasn’t the existential crisis we lived through- except for the million + that didn’t

At a beach resort that everyone loves for a conference that everyone loves just looking at pics of my bf and our cats at home

My vote is for Nathan Fielder

I just reached a special physiological stage of exhaustion I didn’t even know existed (bf recognized it) because of fucking grad school

Case in point: these are not the actions of an agency which is organized enough to engage in mass-scale pogroms of trans people. Words are cheap, mass state violence on a minority group when your approval ratings are in the 30s is expensive.

Fuck these petty assholes. It's a damn shame this country is run by the worst, least talented , least likeable, least having of any redeeming qualities people alive.

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

Below are two newspaper cartoons. One of the left was published in the Austrian Das Kleine Blatt in 1939; the one on the right was published in the Daily Mail in 2015

the giant banners with his stupid fucking face on them are less annoying than the fact that he's made us the city with the highest unemployment rate in the country

woooo yeaha babyyy woooooo !!!

tbf they have kept many Democrats occupied

"I'm the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns". An actual Abraham Lincoln quote

To put this into perspective: Wyoming (~580k people) and California (~39 million people) have the same number of Senate seats. A state with the population of Fresno has as many Senate votes as all of California. If California and Wyoming had equal representation, CA would have about 133 Senators.

DC, Maryland, Virginia

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

Soviet long-distance trains were so cheap that Aeroflot was flying empty planes on most domestic routes, so the airline received a special exemption in the 70s to run that most decadent of capitalist concepts, an advertising campaign. The slogan they came up with was: "Fly the planes of Aeroflot."

“Learn AI” is nonsense career advice: either you’re already in an institution with an enterprise-grade ChatGPT license or you’re not. Anything below the Pro model will spit out nonsense no matter what. So what is there for someone on the job market to “learn” and how is “learning” even evaluated?

you couldn’t really find a more apt metaphor for elite politics in Trump II. Something absolutely crazy occurs, there is a momentary burst of panic, and then the people present at the gala go back and pretend like nothing happens. the gala itself is an attempt to paper over crazy

“Politics” was not “invented” Politics as in the state, parties, arose from irreconcilable class antagonisms. It emerges as a sphere necessarily from violent class exploitation and the need of ruling classes to maintain dominance via violence and bodies of armed men. It organizes violence.

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of: “people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

These people are living in the so-called "anti-woke" world now and they don't seem to like it either.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

All the more reason to use Tor. It anonymizes you and helps Tor users by providing abundant innoccuous data to mix secret comms in with. Tor works better if they're a bunch of normal users on it as well as the activists, spies, and criminals.

NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap. Lawmakers who've done the math want answers. My latest @wired.com:

the problem is that, in america, "big tent" means "centrism" which means "appeasers, collaborationists, and sex pest careerists"

Man idk how to express how demoralizing it is to see people doing joke support for the Pope as the Catholic Church implements the most draconian trans healthcare ban anywhere in the US. It's a FULL ADULT TRANS HEALTHCARE BAN!!!THEY KEEP BUYING MORE HOSPITALS!!!!!!! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

“Pope Leo is WEAK on crime” followed by a post of an AI slop painting of Trump as Jesus healing someone from the heavens with an angel Statue of Liberty behind him. There’s no fever high enough to hallucinate this stuff

Terrible take from the NYT: “Orban’s defeat is a setback for the global nationalist revival promoted by President Trump.” Is that what we’re calling Fascism these days? (Also, it started with Putin.)

JD Vance is America’s Liz Truss. She killed the Queen. He killed the Pope and now, metaphorically, Viktor Orbán.

them: cognition is a miracle me: aang from avatar is technically an air friar

I have an ongoing delusion that if I do the Most Rigorous™ Science possible then the serious people will be forced to ignore my trans status and engage with my work straight up. It’s working so far but surely there’s an upper limit, e.g. gotta be >2x better than every cis applicant on the job market

One of the most reassuring things I learned from Artemis II is that the public does give a shit about crewed space flight, they just don't care about SpaceX. When NASA does something it feels like a collective accomplishment of humanity. SpaceX? Not so much.

Update: according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society, 763 schools have been bombed since the war started.

This is catastrophic.

The US military dropped World War I bombs and chemical weapons on 10,000 coal miners at Blair Mountain in 1921 to break a strike. They rained hot lead from machine guns into the miners and sent raiding parties to shoot and burn the encampments their families lived in.

“why are college campuses so quiet?”

I think this is really important, and I'm worried it's never going to filter into the mainstream: Finland is producing studies that their researchers claim cast doubt on gender affirming care for youth, but they hide the ways their idiosyncratic approach itself could be to blame.