This is sociopathy masquerading as socialism.

Hey friends, please boost Dr. Ala Stanford who is running for PA-3 against a candidate who’s rallying with Hasan piker this week. This woman is impressive as hell, and they are of course attacking her.

Just as a raw politics level, Janet Mills vetoing a bill that could have killed job prospects for a dying town after being denied a carveout for said town suggests that maybe she gives a shit about people and nuance, which makes her persona non grata to a certain kind of dumbass.

are we really pining for pre-Microsoft GitHub

Completely separate from Israel and Zionism, Julian Casablancas wants a populist politics of “the people” vs. “the elite,” but his own family background means he can’t define “elites” on strictly economic grounds. That makes antisemitism a tempting place to go.

TERFs be normal one day in your life challenge

Part of the problem with this new smirking brand of antisemitism is only the faintest connection to Israel is necessary for a huge chorus of defenders — many of whom should know better — to come rushing to your defense

We don’t talk enough just how much “Ron Paul” (like the candidate and the idea of the candidate) permeated the discourse of anyone who attended college in 2007.

This is correct. Best available estimates suggest that the destruction of USAID, in which musk played a central role, will kill over 14 million people by 2030, 1/3 of them children aged < 5 years www.thelancet.com/article/S014...

one reason I'm increasingly intolerant of "data centers gave me lyme disease" type fear mongering is it spreads www.propublica.org/article/mich...

The first photo here is fake. A still from the same moment shows that Trump's head wasn't drooping like that. Also, he'd just adjusted his tie, which is why the guy two to the left of RFK is looking at him. Actual still at right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ctx...

Web designer huh

These are the same people who think we're weird for using a bicycle to pick up some groceries.

Big if true

the overwhelming majority of “poor working class people” do not steal because they correctly understand that stealing is wrong

Now that’s a thumbnail

all the shoplifting discourse makes you realize how many people are simply incapable of even conceiving of the concept of second-order effects

It is 2034. Every 108 minutes, President Vance must go to the situation room and type the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 into a terminal to extend the Iran ceasefire.

In one year alone, Elon Musk was responsible for an estimated 700,000 deaths due to USAID cuts. www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

“THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION” I scream as I board an automated subway car in D.C. in 1976

If you are a person who has been complaining Dems aren’t trying to do this and you didn’t know this was happening I would ask myself why that is

They're bad people who support bad policies that hurt everyone around them. It is good that they feel no politicians represent them. They do not deserve to be represented. A decent society would offer them no representation

(She would not be perfectly fine if the internet ceased to exist one day)

An entire generation of pundits and contrarians made this their pet issue and now that it is happening at a level never seen before, it’s just:

Fucking liberals, man.

There is in fact only one real way to make housing broadly affordable to everyone: build enough homes to meet the demand for housing in the places people want to live.

Culture critic for LAT I guess. well, I suppose that’s a criticism of culture

Bluesky is the only place where well articulated sentences get misinterpreted. You can say “I don’t like pancakes, they’re too mushy” and somebody will say “It’s always the pancakes that people hate the flavor of, huh?” No bitch, that’s a whole new sentence wtf is you talkin bout

broken windows policing is evil and racist but i get why rich people coming in and saying "it's actually awesome that the windows are broken" don't hold much appeal

Well, the thing is, we were probably going to get these kinds of requirements if Harris had won the election. How do I know this? Well, buckle up buckaroos, it’s time for us to read through the *policy documents that everyone ignored* during the 2024 election!

the people should be forcefully sent to the countryside to engage in manual farm labor until they no longer oppose tractors and trains

I don’t think Snoopy said this

I just randomly had to see a fair amount of Hamilton for the first time. I’m not really a musical theater guy but it seems unobjectionable maybe even good? Idk maybe there should be some reflection over the fact that there’s no non-insane reason it became such a left twitter hate object circa 2016?

If Bluesky brings carousels back, they should look like this

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You will soon be able to purchase or use almost no new software of any sort whose development was not assisted by LLMs. Even if some small studio decides to follow an arbitrary artisanal discipline of avoiding, it will be built on other libraries and software maintained with LLMs

absolute fucking clown shit

Honestly I think an important takeaway is that some Jews prefer to distance themselves from the label while still ascribing to the principles. That's probably not true for everybody, but but I don't see how one can say Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state and not be a Zionist

77 people appear to have not noticed this was a bot

"sports are gender-segregated to protect the men" is such a good example of internet post-truth, where this obviously false but emotionally satisfying idea risks pinging around and being repeated by so many people that it becomes treated as broadly true.

i can’t believe this website is free

Honestly can’t tell which Jia Tolentino idea is more psychotic: “It’s perfectly fine steal from Whole Foods,” or whatever the hell she thought she meant here

Is any Green Party anywhere in the world normal

this has been my experience as well — knowing people are still posting it despite knowing they will get replies like "YOU ARE BURNING AN AMAZON RIVER WORTH OF FRESH WATER EVERY TIME YOU QUERY THE SYSTEM" actually lends pro-AI claims here a weird credibility they don't have elsewhere

"The rich don't play by the rules, why should I?" is the primary reason why Russian society looks the way it does

Look I don't like DHH's politics either but I don't think this is accurate

Climate change denial takes many forms. The demand for state subsidized home insurance in wildfire, hurricane, and flood risk areas is one of them.

I think this site would be a lot better off if its users didn’t designate random nobodies posting under pseudonymous accounts with names like “Pookieblinky” as authority figures

I actually *don’t* think the Democratic Party should associate with this person.