There are any number of legitimate reasons to use the passive voice, including not knowing who did the action you’re describing, or the whom is more interesting/germane than the who. Exonerating the Gestapo is not one of those legitimate reasons.

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lol an SPD motorcycle cruiser through a stop sign and crosswalk and nearly ran me over so how is your morning

“Women’s bodies aren’t constructed to carry 60-120 lb rucksacks” it’s always funny to me how much the army thinks it has a monopoly on heavy backpacks. I know women mountaineers who carry this load for a month up a slope no problem, what the fuck are you talking about

It was only 15 years ago that a cop doing this to students at UC Davis was a weeklong national scandal

the law is real until it gets to SCOTUS at which point it becomes fake, which doesn't bother the six reactionaries at the top but does undermine literally everyone else in the profession

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The way we save this country is to abolish from the minds of leaders the diseased idea that every political or legal act must be rationalized for an imagined Real American audience of yokels, slobs, racists, and nativists that are presumed to be watching from some indeterminate Midwestern locality.

Authors, what will your WIP smell like and who will sponsor it? I’ll go: mine will smell like a water bottle that didn’t dry out fully before being screwed shut for six months, brought to you by REI

Increasingly, I feel as if these self-proclaimed coalition builders talking about "winning the middle" aren't talking about the people they hope to win over. Rather, they're talking about themselves, and defining what it will take to keep them in the tent. Not opposed to purity tests; issuing them.

Or perhaps what they want is to redefine the middle; to pick up the center pole and move it so that the center now includes not more people but different ones; people with whom these pole-movers feel they have more in common, towards whom they are less comfortable being impolite about atrocities.

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I actually think this is why, in many ways, indie publishing is in a healthier place. Marketing is still largely at small bookstores, word of mouth, author events, and subscriptions, and the low print runs give them small overhead to market directly to their select audiences

I want to be angry but actually I’m just sad that someone has this relationship with art. What a hollow, colorless existence.

jk this perspective is WAY funnier. Go dawgs

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play go fuckin Huskies Nazi UW students fuck off

The Trump regime is dissolving the Union unilaterally, that's what these actions *are*—repudiation of the American constitutional order vis-a-vis federalism.

California leading the way on starting to set up guardrails for AI. Good for governor Newsom for signing this. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Dude if the Democratic Party has a place for anti-trans and anti-abortion candidates then I’m not a democrat and I won’t vote for one I don’t know what to tell you man, there’s already a political party who believes these things It’s not a “big tent” to have zero fixed values in pursuit of power

Honestly this man could hold his own against 2002 George W Bush

I am reminded of a piece written in 2016 or early 2017 about how the structure and administration of ICE set it up to be an unaccountable private army and the article just kinda went nowhere and I haven’t been able to find it again. So, like, idk man. People were saying it.

I bet he sucks at HOI4

My top 4: Disco Elysium Outer Wilds Pathologic 2 This War of Mine

Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice

I mean, he also spoke about deploying the US military on civilians in cities that support his political opposition and called them an enemy within, but yeah man he likes firefighters too I guess

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

For no particular reason thinking about Hannah Arendt's judgment of Adolf Eichmann: "Politics is not like the nursery; in politics, obedience and support are the same"

like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Hold the fort. Raycon does it too.

Man it’s a shame Shokz are the only bone conduction headphones around because my god do they suck so bad

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

Man I sure hope @schumer.senate.gov deploys his STERNEST words over the president of the United States speaking to the top generals about deploying their forces in American cities run by his political opposition to fight a “war from within”!

If ur not a war criminal ur gay

*Me in front of every high-ranking officer in the U.S. military, all of whom I've summoned to an emergency meeting in D.C.* In some ways, you could say that Steely Dan are a proto-cyberpunk band. Not so much because of any literally science fictional lyrics but in the thematic content of, for examp

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

So much to unpack about the dangerous and violent rhetoric of “deserving peace”

When you don't view someone as being human, you can't fathom the possibility that other people might care enough about them to do that work

Also, not for nothing, but the deplorables comment was a decade ago now and we live in a very different environment, both politically, in terms of media, and materially! It’s literally no different than saying Obama lost us the 2024 election because of his tan suit!

fun fact that while trump v. us says that the president cannot be held criminally liable for using his core powers, this does not extend to his officers

I remember a convo I had with an AI guy who was trying to hit me with the gotcha “what if you read a story and liked it and found meaning in it but then it turned out it was AI” And I was just like “I’d change my mind???” Poor dude simply couldn’t handle it. RIP.

He has professional experience as both kinds of goon

Even when I was an undergrad the texts I needed could not be found online. They couldn’t even be found in most libraries except for very specific ones. The belief that the internet is (or even ever COULD be!) a perfect repository of human knowledge is a very tech-brain belief.

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A substantial part of American academic culture is that technology is the only true field of study, and that everything else is either in service to it (science), or a frivolity we are allowed by its beneficence (arts and humanities)

Le taureau, by Léopold Survage, 1932

Imagine living in a country that has the Sierra Nevada, the Everglades, and also Philadelphia, and wanting to flatten all of that and turn it into the Squidward ethnostate. Embarrassing behavior.

Debates concerning The End of History and its correctness or shortcomings not withstanding, it does seem to me that there is a massive inability of mainstream, contemporary political thinkers to grapple with the phenomenon of people who genuinely, truly, deeply believe in something.

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