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Bluesky is such a weird bubble. People here are not eager to sacrifice their children to ba'al - something extremely popular in the group chat, on X the everything app, and in Ohio diners

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

“Oh so some fella with an Irish-sounding name has gone and desecrated The Odyssey, is that it? Homer’s own Odyssey? The absolute cheek. And tis the talk of the town, is that what I understand you to be saying to me? And people very upset altogether? Sure I never heard the like in all my born days.”

Knowledge tends to accumulate around a consensus based on data and evidence; ignorance tends to have a wide diversity of wrong ideas.

did you hear about the horrifying thing that youre powerless to do anything about

I really love the ones where Everett’s outbursts are so severe that you only get to see the ominous aftermath. So much left to your imagination… how terrifying

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

"Jews and Black people" is how you say "cosmopolitan communists and race hustlers" in English.

incredibly funny that this bullshit trust and safety team is going to Streisand Effect themselves into everyone knowing about this restore @cara.city you miserable babies

If you thought elaborately faking being good at videogames to impress a bunch of manchildren was embarrassing, consider elaborately faking that your mother loves you.

griffin defines fascism as "palingenetic ultranationalism", palingenesis being the mythical rebirth from the ashes, the return to an ahistorical "golden age" from before the scapegoated minorities destroyed it the phrase "MAGA" told us everything we needed to know in 2016. they have nothing else

At the carnival.

The Claude Delusion

“If it could be made infallible by simply telling it to be infallible, its creators would have coded "be infallible" into its programming. If technology could be instructed to simply switch off its own capacity for failure, the world would be a profoundly different place.”

This one is old but not old enough to be included in the Nerd Inferno omnibus. The saddest thing about it is that it isn't just for freelancers anymore. Good luck to us all.

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

Exactly one year ago today:

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy: There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

So many of us are now textual Case Pollards, physically averse to pre-digested, mass extruded machine verbiage just as William Gibson's Pattern Recognition protagonist was made physically sick by fashion and brands.

If you think Killmonger was the good guy while he is practically twirling his moustache and talking about world conquest, just because he uses a few phrases that sound radical, you are actually not media literate enough to discuss this movie made for people 13 and over.

to all who celebrate...

I am not prepared to exist in this fucking timeline

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

All of us are dissociated and dissociating to make it through today. I hope you give yourself and others grace.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Try extending that graph to the left. There's a reason it was truncated there. This is a perfectly normal usage profile. Whenever a user joins a given site, there's a standard falloff curve where a fraction leaves. Since Bluesky's users have mainly come in spikes, that's just the normal curve.

i appreciate npm being such a shitshow, it's such an obvious and vulnerable target for supply chain attacks (since javascript devs never pin their dependency versions) that it's like a sacrificial zinc anode that you attach your ship's hull, pulling the corrosion away from more important things

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Last night was the night that Donald Trump truly became president forever.

Good fortune.

Yep. Neoliberalism is not liberatory, but it is very different from fascism. Fascism is ideologically anti-liberatory, neoliberalism is simply ideologically unconcerned with liberation.

I think this is a faultline that runs throughout the administration: They have no theory of mind, and are completely baffled by any motivation more complicated than immediate material gain.

you should continue to be upset at Anthropic/OpenAI/et al you should be much, much angrier at Palantir and you should be incensed beyond normal human limits at the people who decided to automate the murder of human beings in the first place

There's also the fact that Harry Potter just kind of sucks and always has

if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

The legacy of Mueller is that if you do diligent methodical careful work on a damning report, trusting to our institutions to do the right thing, damned liars will just tell damned lies about your work and the lies will stand, because institutions won't confront power and nobody does the reading.

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

a reminder that hypocrisy is the foundation of conservative thought. everyone should feel free to keep this screenshot handy for when The Time Comes, but pointing out that the right holds different standards of behavior for different people just reinforces that foundation

The Metaverse.

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

can think of at least 50 artists who, if you gave them each even like 100 thousand dollars, it would absolutely change the culture we live in for the better. 5 million is pocket change in the scheme of things. but we have to live in a world where all of that capital is wasted on bullshit like this.

It might have been a mistake to put the dumbest motherfucker alive in charge of the most powerful government on earth.

And no, Israel is not Judaism. But it's important to understand that in the antisemitic imagination, the two are one and the same

This may be too subtle for folks not well-versed in traditional antisemitism, so just to make the implicit explicit here: the idea is, it's easy to make Jews carry the blame for our attacks on Iran. The argument that Jews betrayed and killed Christ sets the rhetorical stage.

this thread is important context for anyone who might want to applaud Kent for quitting that said, it does appear that the cracks between the various breeds of fascists in this administration are starting to widen, re: