not just in art, either, there are guys who would go around obsessively fixing every clogged pipe in a 10-mile radius if they had the free time and social infrastructure to do so

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

be the propaganda/community-building printed materials you want to see in the world

They don't care that the cover-ups are clumsy. Their goal isn't to take over the news, it's to destroy it. To destroy our sense-making capacity. To destroy truth.

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

Leak ! Leak ! Leak ! Leak ! Leak!

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

I hope everyone enjoys the zoom

the music of nicki minaj got me thru a very hard time in my life but now I wouldn't spit on her if she was on fire

Minaj’s brother was convicted in 2020 for child rape. She’s kissing MAGA ass for pardon by Trump. It’s a pedophile apologist performing for pedophile protectors to get her pedophile brother out of jail. As someone who’s never liked Minaj I hope this is the final nail in her career’s coffin

For all the mocking of liberal white guilt, conservative white guilt is the same feeling, just mobilized to more destructive and self-destructive ends (upward redistribution of income and class domination, not to mention pervasive censorship).

Fwiw I think the “apologize for being white” thing is very clearly about making sure white people don’t feel an obligation to alleviate past injustices or make society fairer. Ultimately to do that you have to raise taxes and the billionaires holding Vance’s leash don’t want that.

THERAPIST: It’s normal to go through the stages of grief ERIKA KIRK: Get on stages for my grief? THERAPIST: No no I sai- ERIKA KIRK: Yeah I’ll take it from here

the vice president is a klansman

[preparing to get screamed at] I think I officially don’t need to know if you’re mad that an article is paywalled. Perhaps that can be an Inside Thought

Your regular reminder that the city of LA has no mechanism to enforce illegal Airbnb rentals as World Cup bookings skyrocket. "Last year, the LA Housing Department estimated that 7,500 short-term rentals were violating the city’s Home Sharing Ordinance, but the city only issued 300 citations"

MAGA folks think Trump is on his way out, imo, and are trying to pivot their excitement to Vance but Vance is a fucky little weasel.

Marc Maron throwing the propaganda arm of the US government known as podcasts into total disarray proves my theory: No Act of Liberalism Too Small

unfortunately the leopard is going to eat all of our faces too

I find the idea that you need to know “how to use” AI tools really funny, as if it isn’t incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it

Failed Waymo robot blocking emergency services during a widespread emergency: Grant St at Sacramento, heart of Chinatown, San Francisco I've been warning about this scenario for ~7 yrs. Safety drivers fix this in seconds. SFPD will prob have to drive this out of the way. OP:tiktok.joolyana

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

Those of us who are not Jewish have to be more on our guard against antisemitism than ever right now, not just in the world but inside of our own hearts No one is fully immune to the propaganda flooding social media from all directions or the rising hysteria of this moment

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

hell yeah

Logan Paul and Andrew Tate both wrecked within hours of each other. The light is beginning to return.

There’s a reason why flattery works! It’s the core to any con game , the mark has to think theyre too smart to be conned and the con man has to flatter him that he is

Yglesias getting so high on his own supply that centrist Democrats start going "man, what?" is great news actually

I honestly still can’t believe they did this it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried

every time a Paul is humiliated we get closer to a nicer future

This is such a bad take I had to block the person no matter how many smart people I like follow them lmao This is presumes that all creative output must be availed to the public. This is stupid. You do not owe everyone a behind-the-scenes look at your development if you don’t want to.

I will fight the subway takes man if given the opportunity

Speaking of Epstein file redactions, here are a few of my favorites:

Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one

A tow truck driver who towed an ICE SUV that was blocking a driveway while the agents kidnapped Angelanos back in September was just found NOT GUILTY on the only charge against him (theft of government property). THAT'S ANOTHER WIN FOR "FUCK YOU; MAKE ME"

I have used my now functioning riso to create a zine I call “random Epstein files I clicked on”

Hey folks, the FBI has always been incompetent. Career folks always blame the political appointees. Check out the murder case solve rates for your local police and beyond. Public safety theater fails on every metric that matters

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

I would fire Bill Clinton out of a cannon, if given the opportunity

I enjoyed this and it reminded me that, on a fundamental level, people against “alarmism” or “emotion" about politics usually come to that position because they enjoy how things are. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

good sign

As with public schools, the nice thing about standardized vaccines is they take some of the burden off overtaxed and underfunded parents. Making every aspect of childhood a bespoke experience that the mother has to figure out on her own isn't "choice." It's piling on duties that some can't handle.

Can we at least all agree on one thing? Everything that's been made of Epstein & people he's associated with has been about everything but justice & healing for the survivors.

Surveillance boosters and people who sell cameras are shameless in that any tragedy is an argument for more cameras. The actual number is irrelevant, rather it’s seen by them as an opportunity to increase the existing number until every square inch of the earth is blanketed.

excited when companies pivot again to sell us third-party subscription-based tools to remove AI from internet searches, etc.

America's loss. I am so glad that little boy is safe and back with his father.

lmao this is the worst possible way they could have done it, you gotta leave him in some non-terrible stuff so you can argue that's all there is "he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly

update: she delivered the painting which she “fixed and even improved” and donald trump talked to her for an hour and god led her there.

$200 million in liability payouts per year but they’ll tell you we can’t house everyone 😒