Back when I was a full-time debunker, I would have meetings with Very Important People about how to defeat fake news. What tools would we use? Apps? Anti-disinfo schools?? Warning labels?? I would say "support antiracism and antimisogyny initiatives" and watch the light go out of their eyes

The Economy being good means nothing to me because it's a measure of how confident assholes feel in their line going up, and everything they do to make the line go up hurts me and devastates everyone who's doing worse than me. This isn't fucking rocket surgery.

If anything, Kris is likely the USAmerican third-sex known as a "gender ideology pronouns drag queen story hour", a hard-to-translate concept that basically refers to a kind of celibate priest class

Libs are really like, "Barney Frank was right. He's been advocating for an incremental approach to transgender rights for several decades now, dating all the way back to when transgender people had more rights."

truly tragic

we need to protect early transition girls so much they're so vulnerable. half of them are so naive they're still trusting their endocrinologist's official hrt dosage recommendation - they might as well be wearing a propeller hat and eating a lollipop waiting for someone to take advantage

feel like one of the (multiple) reasons people still argue with this is they know, consciously or unconsciously, they have basically no influence on the party, the party is almost sure to tell everyone on the left to eat shit again, so they get mad at people they do feel like they can influence

its going to be VERY hard to prosecute ice. the right-wing media machine will be in full force calling it a war on cops. your local police departments will refuse to cooperate and probably impede. it will be difficult, it has to be done, why should i believe you have the stomach for it?

No, Aaron. I get you’re in a tough spot, but I cannot permit you to run from this.

dusting off a classic

Once again, I cannot permit an evasion of responsibility on behalf of admins.

I love Facebook marketplace.

i remember people yelling at me to "let people enjoy things" for pointing out that pseudo-scientific taxonomy of peoples by arbitrary factors (like their birth month) is bad because it's a step away from measuring the shape of their skull to decide their potential

really putting the lie to bluesky's claim that all of our activity has to be as public as possible because "principles" about free and open information or whatever. we can't have private accounts or private blocks but bsky CAN ban accounts that publicize what should be public information.

I can't stop thinking about this video since I saw it last night

They should invent a website where the moderators like their users.

for posterity

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He may be a liar. And he may be a nazi. But mainstream Democrats are coalescing behind Graham Platner because in the end he believes in the same core value they do: asking for $5

Games should probably cost more if that money actually went to the right places but it’s impossible to hear a bank say this without adding “mwahaha” afterwards

the dems still refusing to release the 2024 autopsy - and ken martin getting waaaay more hostile every time it gets brought up - really reminding me now of when that department of education memo about 'can the prez cancel student debt' got FOIAd and they redacted the entire thing lmao

Its so frustrating watching a century of SCOTUS rulings declaring the president can do pretty much anything he wanted, even do concentration camps, and the Dems are still trying to convince us that the president has no power to explain why Biden didn't fulfill his promises.

didn't you put your phone in the pool because it was too hot or something?

horseshoe theory is real. leftists almost got kat abughazaleh elected into congress and now it comes out that her boyfriend owns infowars…

Me: Has anyone else been having this problem with this software? Boss: Please can you send me a screenshot? Me: ..... No, because it has miraculously fixed itself after refusing to play for an hour and two restarts but apparently it just needed to embarrass me in front of my peers and superiors.

Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’ https://theonion.com/chuck-schumer-the-american-people-deserve-a-president-1835697625/

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

thanks for proving my point within hours of me posting this, btw

Sure seems like a lot of those accounts manage to directly or indirectly sic their enormous follower count on rando strangers who are frequently harassed and even forced to deactivate, but don't get days of Bluechecks clutching pearls or even a cursory acknowledgement by all the Nuance Understanders

A common thing you hear from Journalism Knowers is something like "Do you want people to write 'and that is bad' every time?" and the answer is yes. I do want that.

in general, "you can't be racist against group x because they are not a race" is a not very subtle expression of racism against group x.

Permission structure to doubt: “Everyone, in other words, has been granted license to choose which images they will and will not believe, and they can elect to unsee an image simply because it doesn’t confirm their priors: the mere *possibility* of its algorithmic generation opens it to suspicion.”

This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.

"Distraction from the Epstein files" as a talking point from neoliberal types really is revealing about their mindset that if everyone just gets super duper outraged they'll get a Watergate moment and then things will be Normal because they took out the Singular Bad Guy causing things to be Abnormal

"Our reporting on the position of the AMA is factual. Please don't listen to the AMA themselves when they say it isn't, the AMA is not a reliable source for what the AMA thinks."

revisiting the ancient ritual where i tell ppl presidents can do things & they insist presidents can't do the things bc if they could then biden would be doing the things & they accuse me of trolling & being bad at my job & block me & 2yrs later a president immediately does all the things

look I don't want to count my chickens or downplay the extent to which the right has fascist aspirations. but if the GOP had an unassailable, undetectable election rigging strategy - or the juice to openly do the detectable kind - you do kind of suspect they would've started here

Early mobile web interfaces were unreliable and buggy. That's fine for browsing, but if I'm buying something big I don't want to be double charged or have the order never go through. I feel like mobile interfaces got better, but the reputation stuck with those who experienced it.