The opposite as in, black holes thought event horizons created us?

I am shocked that these political geniuses keep losing elections to Donald Trump.

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I just finished Citadel of the Autarch, concluding when I think is my second reread of the Book of the New Sun. Tomorrow I’ll start Urth of the New Sun. Might be my first reread of it. Note: In this house we are pro Urth of the New Sun

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

More like Skull and Blow Me amirite

Mrs. Henley Music announced she was going to watch the 1979 Tinker Taylor miniseries. I said I would pop down for a little bit, since it was on. Thus does an entire evening get consumed.

You’ve hipped your last tragedy

Fast casual is for plutes

I swear to god I know how to spell all the Targaryen names, but while I'm typing my brain has decided that if you throw enough a e and y in there, it's basically good enough

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I see this kind of comment, "but still the right will deny and delay..." Yeah they will. They will happily kill you and your relatives to suit their ambitions for a more brutal world built on wealth. It's not because they're stupid or ignorant it's because the waves of death do not matter to them.

Gregg Phillips is my name And MAGA is my nation Waffle House my dwelling place FEMA my destination (Apologies to Alfred Bester)

When Republicans win, establishment Democrats are chastened. They deserved to lose and need to regain voters’ trust. When progressives win, establishment Democrats are not chastened at all. They deserved to win and need to reassert their prerogatives.

A fair test. If can *pop back in* he gets to keep his job

“Landing page tax is the only tax.”—Cyber-Georgists.

What, specifically speaking, makes Shapiro an "advocate" for two-states other than that he claims to be one?

vance is basically nixon if nixon were a dipshit and not a genuinely impressive guy

This summer’s SCOTUS decisions make it clear the Supreme Court doesn’t just read, as the wag says, the election returns. They also read the polls, and it’s led the Opus Dei wing of the Court to lock in as much Republican power as possible ahead of November

You’ve crosbied your last stills, nash and young. WHA-at?!

You’ve held your last steady

Edward Hopper

noo please dont make the super charismatic guy who is great at public speaking and rebuttals as the poster boy for the democcrats, nooo

under no circumstances should anyone dox the murderer of Renee Good. Jonathan Ross has had a hard enough time already.

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Challenged to stick to the forensics of the crime scene rather than spin out *cui bono* webs of motive, conspiracists can only do the assignment for half a sentence or so

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Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk’s politics, because he is desperate to brand himself an insurgent against the powerful elite, but as the world’s first trillionaire, he needs a definition of “elite” not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

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Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.

As a gentle reminder: "Wolfdogs" are not a great thing to breed or own, for various solid reasons, and if you just REALLY want to own a wolf-lookin' creature, you can always just get a Tamaskan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamaska...

Haha yes without Russia no center-left party in the West would elevate soulless stooges to do the bidding of the ultrarich and the bigoted

it’s “National,” “DCA,” or, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing, “Air Traffic Controllers Collective Bargaining Rights Memorial Airport”

“Fuck the Empire.”

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The value of the humanities isn’t that they boost GDP; it’s that they help prevent you from turning into the sort of soulless drone who would imagine they needed to be justified in those terms.

TV series pitch: A British detective is handed a case that threatens to distract him from his feelings.

A nation cannot survive when this is the unironic epistemological framework of one of its only two major political parties. Although to be fair, I've seen it come up more and more in non-political conversations. The "crime is out of control!" argument, for example.

Checks out

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Aside from all the racial animosity inherent with people who complain about Juneteenth: it's a fucking summer holiday, you bozo. Grill some dogs and drink some beers and stop exhibiting bitch behavior

I think he gives the general schema - tailoring it to specific situations like "come out as gay, Ray" or "fake your own death, Seth" is left as an exercise for the reader

With greatest respect to the substantial and well informed community of Van Riper Truthers, if the point of the Millennium Challenge was to learn lessons, and one of those lessons was "be careful of Iranians using unconventional tactics" I would have to say it wasn't learnt well

<swirling, insistent theme music playing> Your Westeros correspondent has returned. Here's a House of the Dragon Season 3 primer to remind you who's who and what's what

God dammit Kelly. Why did you have paste yourself to my shit list like this? “Took us to war without a plan” is a pathetic criticism of a criminal war that should never have been launched. This is mid-00s-era weak sauce the Party should have outgrown

“Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality.”

Jesus Christ this song is still breathtaking