I remember once sitting in on a presentation being given by an archaeologist to a bunch of enthusiasts about documented Viking furniture and kitchen wares. An audience member kept trying to press the PhD about a technique. "Well they knew how to x, so they would x this object together, right?"

A billion dollars in the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work with the same intensity and ruthlessness to prevent the former as we do the latter.

This is why I talk about the aristocracy being immortal and mutable. It's always in the human bloodstream. It wakes up every day trying to win, and we need to wake up every day trying to destroy it. There is no finish line.

in point of fact, FDR’s open line of communication with black leaders like A. Philip Randolph absolutely strained his relationships with southern lawmakers and he did it anyway under the view that he was president for the whole country

"Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen. But with Tylenol, don't take it." The cogent medical commentary of the man who not long ago was trying to figure out whether it would be better to inject bleach into our veins or shine UV lights... internally.

These are in fact the two states between which I vacillate while on the job.

* Sewer Friends

Remember when Biden looked tired? Crazy times.

In the original form that spread the idea on American shores, the "Zombi" was rooted in a very reasonable Haitian cultural fear that someone could not only enslave you in life, but compel you in service after death, never to know even the freedom of the grave, forever to be exploited by another.

People who have been centered all their lives have tremendous trouble accepting that they are not always the center of things and learning from those who are. You cannot fight the system, much less lead that fight, if you are unwilling or unable to recognize and deconstruct what it has taught you.

Oh man I can’t believe we haven’t heard anything from icon Dave Chappelle on the unforgivable, worth everything to stand up against it, crime of cancelling comedy just because you don’t agree with it. Maybe he’s napping.

That darn spotty wifi, making your AI clearly repeatedly fail at the task you set before it in a coherent, repeatable but completely inaccurate manner. Audience should have laughed harder and never stopped.

the *cato* institute says less than 10% of politically motivated terrorism is caused by leftists. the *cato* institute. more than two-thirds is from the far-right.

TL;DR: Not only will the revolution not be televised, it will not be coordinated via default-opt-in email marketing/donation signup form.

IDK I just don't want my name so easily subpoenable in connection with a thing the admin could easily target. Some of the protests I've been to have turned into riots! Things lit on fire, stuff smashed, wjstever. I'm very glad my name isn't on any kid of list associated with those.

The fact that they can’t even take safety tips that would ultimately benefit them from a Black woman shows that the white supremacy is too ingrained. If they were well meaning they’d just say “ok” or “good looking out”.

1) Listen to Black women FFS. 2) If you are serious in your belief the government is dangerous, protest *with that understanding!* 3) If not, let people who ARE serious lead & set the standards. If you want to do more than cosplay \#Resistance to feel better, read this thread, take OPSEC seriously.

Evergreen meme

If you stop testing for diseases, they just stop spreading, and if you delete studies, the results just reverse magically...

LOL. Guys. We don’t register to protest. We just show up.

A thought I keep returning to is that a legacy corporation or a deep-pocketed investor-backed startup could hire an astonishing array of talent trying to leave the United States right now and make the best tech company in the world overnight.

Given the incredible established accuracy of ChatGPT itself, I trust this explicitly. Sorry, sorry, "expletively". I'm saying there's going to be a LOT of well-justified cursing.

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

This part is funny, though. "Trump has suffered harms. for example, he wasn't harmed at all"

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Once again, "socialist" programs are equally better for everyone AND more efficient than the exploitative cycles we've been driven into. I won't even get into the way that scaling benefits cost!

jesus christ

Look, I’m not saying that this photo of a really pleasing dry stone wall in front of spectacular mountain scenery will improve your morning even a tiny bit but yes actually that is exactly what I’m saying.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

This is 100% true. Dems/Libs/Leftists were already self-policing about this, but the fact that the right has a default setting of "outrage" and can only escalate to "violent purge of political enemies" really hampers their ability to exploit this fully.

Missing out on this would be like missing out on his amazing, prophetic vision of the Metaverse when it changed all our lives back in 2022! Imagine what your day to day life would look like without the immersive experience of the Metaverse, people!

Zuckerberg has money but he will never once in his whole life be cool, same as nearly every other billionaire, and that fact eats at all of those extremely rich losers

I just listened to a lot of Henry Rollins and then bought a synthesizer on eBay. That works too!

New precise measurement of how online you are: I am “I know about the Fuentes-Kirk feud, I know what groypers are, and I recognize the Pepe meme” online but not “recognize the video game references” online.

Hot tip, anytime someone drops the term "transgender ideology" or "gender ideology," the next thing outta their mouth is gonna be REAL WILD.

Brennan hyperfocusing on finding and conversing with one of our own and alienating every non-nerd in the audience feels like representation to me.

"How can you tell it was found to be yet another right-wing, white, cis male shooter?"

If you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring them inside

This is, honestly, a reasonable assertion. I don't think Charlie Kirk has the kind of profile to be someone's target of choice in political violence, whatever politically filtered investigators claim to have found engraved in bullet casings.

The people wondering "how could anyone who isn't a professional escape after a high profile daylight assassination" are forgetting two things: 1. Cops are bad at their jobs 2. The FBI used to be somewhat better at their jobs and were recently gutted by political layoffs

Just gonna put this right here, for everyone to marvel.

This the guy y'all were propping up, talking about how he was the only one bringing the appropriate energy back on T & the GOP?

There have been two successful assassinations of sitting presidents. Both were on the left and actively involved in civil rights work. You don't even need to be into detailed history to see the flaw in the argument.

Remember: The horrors persist, but so do the Cute Li'l Guys.

Cosigned. I posited ages ago that the only thing LLMs are good at is sounding highly confident about a topic without actually understanding anything about it, and this naturally made it a killer app for CEOs and venture capitalists, for whom that is the primary qualification.

the tech priests largely seem to have decided to just keep demanding that peasants willingly offer themselves up to be ground into fertilizer for the Great Singularity Machine for extremely weird nerd reasons that no one who doesn't do designer nootropics all the time actually buys