The GNU guys would be even worse, but Stallman doing “well what if she consented though” stuff about Epstein has shut them up.

the only thing more frustrating than realizing all the 90s linux guys were right is the knowledge that they realize it too.

I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened macrotracker, and thy $25 office worker bowl slop.

Yes, the owner is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the developing world, and yes, he has an AI that generates CSAM on demand. But this one time I saw a post there that speculated on the behavior of George Lucas if an autism vaccine was developed… so I’ll keep chasing that high.

Status quo bias is wild. No politician in this country would *join* a Nazi website with an AI that creates child porn on demand. But because they're already on the site, well, that's different somehow

i think that x dot com proves that some people are willing to tolerate virtually any crime before giving up something because of network effects

They want you to engage them in endless handwringing about statistical outcomes, IQ, crime rates; whatever. Either you can recognize this for what it is or you’re the kind of person who would have ignored the smoke coming out of the crematorium.

You don’t need to know a single fact about Somali Americans to know the campaign against them is morally hideous. Either you can recognize that these campaigns are wrong a priori, or you are in your heart a racist.

I was wondering why their is so much random racist discourse on Somalis on the TL rn but oh it’s election season for governor rn lol

Ugh, first the Bible, then A Christmas Carol, and now Merriam-Webster are all pushing this on me.

Will never not be funny that the most YIMBY pro-immigrant big city mayor was not even ranked in the top 5 by the supposedly YIMBY, pro-immigrant organization that put a guy who wanted ICE on Rikers in the number one spot.

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

Messed it up already, actually 2027 will be my year.

Oh is something happening in calendarball?

Wait Mamdani's inauguration website explicitly states you're not allowed to bring Raspberry Pis to the event (or Flipper Zeroes) to his inauguration? What? www.transition2025.com/inauguration

Messed it up already, actually 2027 will be my year.

The last thing a white ethnic Long Island homeowner sees before a Marxist-Leninist polycule gentrifies his neighborhood.

As of 15 minutes ago the Central Time states have been moved a year forward; most into 2026, Mississippi into 1856.

The Brooklyn Transplants Choir to perform a tribute to Cameron Winter at the Zohran Mamdani inaugural celebration.

BlueSky: in 2026 may we see a Reconstruction Caucus elected to Congress to scourge the evil-doer inshallah Twitter: 2026—year of the orbiting data center? This new year’s, my resolution is to do all I can to help put AI in space. Threads: is it just me or does 2026 has less aura than 2025?

Accidentally messaged the subaltern periphery group chat "may your new year be full of imperial superprofits" and the metropole labor aristocrat group chat "may Babylon finally fall this year," so 2025 is starting off great 😒

Feliz año nuevo para todos mis amigos españoles! A los otros pueblos europeos… feliz año nuevo, supongo…

You don’t hear too much about San Diego, what’s going on down there

and New Yorkers look down at the rest of the country for being uncivilized

We're slipping into full-blown gutter racist pogrom politics and the reactions from most of the media/punditocracy/commentariat/elite/influencers/etc has tended from gleeful participation to "well, if that's what the people what it can't be that bad". Seems suboptimal, to me.

International aid organizations are under absolutely no obligation whatsoever, legally or morally, to provide information about their workers in a territory that Israel has no sovereignty over or any right to occupy.

This is getting into incredibly dangerous territory

It’s pretty crazy that Cindy McCain got appointed to the World Food Program and has since done genuine advocacy for Palestinians in Gaza while her useless daughter is always saying shit like “if my father were alive today he would say the 14 words.”

just out and out blood libel style scapegoating against somalis at this point

this could be real bad not least because daycares are disproportionately staffed by women of color and it is a mortal lock ICE is going to get involved

Nick Shirley is such a piece of shit

Was reading A Fantastic Failure and there’s one bit where Bill Clinton blows the fuck up upon hearing that bond traders can basically decide whether his first term is a success or not.

Senator Frank Porter Graham (D-NC) dares to try a "dope" (Coca-Cola) for the first time.

No he didn’t, he openly spoke of deporting more than twice as many people as there are illegal immigrants. If people were stupid enough to live in an alternate reality that sucks for them but I don’t see why I have to pretend that was what was going on too.

This is funny because she supported Joe Kennedy III in his race against Ed Markey.

Americans when someone challenges the bipartisan Arab-killing consensus: wow, I hope you Arabs get what’s coming to you.

Between this and the voting for Harris thing, it’s really funny that the big vaguely leftie lesbian pop star has right-coded social media scandals for some reason.

I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened macrotracker, and thy $25 office worker bowl slop.

Why don't churches offer high-protein communion wafers? Do they really oppose offering a more masculine option during this unprecedented era of male loneliness?

One of my more controversial opinions is that the US needs to significantly raise taxes to the tune of a couple % of GDP right now, even before any expansive social democratic reforms, and that means you—yes you, dear highly educated professional—will need to pay up, not just nebulous billionaires.

Why don't churches offer high-protein communion wafers? Do they really oppose offering a more masculine option during this unprecedented era of male loneliness?

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

These parents killed their kid. It’s not an ‘unthinkable tragedy’, it’s criminal negligence.

The year is 2035. California's entire base of taxation is young renters and their entire budget goes to insuring suburban McMansions built in fire hazard regions. Half of Florida is underwater financially and the other half literally. Illinois is fine but still fucks up transit funding constantly.