Because who doesn't want a "market-driven" army. Can't possibly fathom where that might go wrong. Meanwhile, is there a prediction market taking bets on how badly this will all turn out?

Doing things the "right" way, burning out and then realizing there is another option, coming back and winning it all with no fucks given? Yes please tell me that story forever.

It boggles the mind

Using one of the oldest tricks in the book to propagate the oppression of minorities, conservatives are making the push to label trans people as inherently violent. Read this week's TWIBS here, brought to you by @alyssaur.bsky.social

"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.

bullying always works

I can't believe mainstream media is trying the "dapper Nazi" thing again.

Countries that do not use Fritos as currency could be "left behind," says Frito-Lay CEO Ken Biddleman

Google is spending $185 billion on AI this year alone

Every one of them should know this fear.

I don't think this has really sunk in for people — if even most, not all, of these candidates win this year, the number of Justice Democrats in Congress will *double*

Reminder for people who might forget: Ryan is one of the journalists who used a white supremacist as a source for that Mamdani college application story, without revealing that the source was a white supremacist, which is fucking relevant to the privacy breach in the story!!

The kind of abuse and harassment that sex workers face when their real names are exposed is uniquely gross.

crazy what happens when you do journalism based on how people actually are instead of writing “reported fiction” about how you imagine them to be

Sexism is actually wrong, but it’s not chastised. Stumbling over your words is not wrong, everyone does it, but here it’s framed as more newsworthy than the actual points AOC was making. Then the press quotes foreign leaders saying America isn’t quite ready for her without a shred of self awareness

But the reality of this is that MSM outlets writing this “gaffe” into existence (and/or legitimizing bad faith critiques) is a stepping stone to Trump being emboldened to launch sexist smears against AOC, which MSM does not rebuke with nearly the same fervor as AOC’s so-called “gaffe”

When metrics inevitably drop, the blame is placed on the user: they need to be "educated" so that they can "realize the value." Apps get taken over by welcome tours and shitty popup labels demanding that you stop doing what YOU want to accomplish, and attend to the PRODUCT's needs: its features.

Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology. Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"

This is well put. So *many* technologies are joyous and progressive. The web was invented in a PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITY! It is, in fact, an aberration that the fascist VCs think they're the default with their approach to tech. They were only ever supposed to be a tiny fraction of the ecosystem.

The news cycle around AOC’s “gaffe” is, in my humble opinion, a clear manufacturing of a “gaffe” where there was none. But it’s indicative of the belief undergirding a lot of MSM that if one “side” is behaving badly, the other “side” must be positioned as doing something wrong, too, for “fairness”

U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky has withdrawn her endorsement of Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller in the 2nd Congressional District race over Miller receiving campaign funding from AIPAC.

this isn't freedom

💥 CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER 💥

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

personally i think journalism is better when someone involved in making claims to the public asks "is it though?" seventeen times before anyone presses publish but hey

this democratic party bsky account loves saying things that we all already know and not what their members are actually doing about those things.

“Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism...it is following those two things—money and power—that have made me a critic of AI and the claims of corporations like Anthropic and OpenAI.”

i read that stupid blog about the left "missing out" on AI and got big mad aftermath.site/anthropic-cl...

all this stuff makes much more sense if you understand “anti wokeness” as a general backlash to elite accountability more generally, even if you have criticisms of left wing egalitarianism bsky.app/profile/kevi...

this is incredibly important to me

Billionaire CEOs don't create wealth. Workers do.

Deplorable state of U.S. media on display here, deliberately misleading the public. You can literally type into Google the same question @aoc.bsky.social was asked and the AI will give you her same answer because "strategic ambiguity" has been official U.S. policy her whole life.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state

seeing this shit while donald trump is president is enough to melt my brain

Newsom’s siding with the billionaires.

gatdammit

Yeah, so about your claim that The Argument wouldn't be running anti-trans pieces @jerusalem.bsky.social... I knew it.

We should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that terrorizes children and forces them to spend their dying days trying to see their father one last time.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Elon Musk is a monstrous hatemonger and if you're still merrily posting bullshit on X like it's a normal place I'm judging you.

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

This Samuel Huntington quote helps make sense of Rubio's call to arms: "the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do."

Good old Epstein-adjacent radical feminism at work again

오이를 서리하는 고슴도치 민화랑 비슷하네요. 귀여움.

oh captain our captain