I didn't have TikTok on my phone when it was Chinese spyware, I'm not going to have it on my phone when it is US spyware

i'm baffled by all the people in the replies to posts about the spy doorbells asking for alternatives. like... the alternative is a regualr fucking doorbell with no camera in it. or a door knocker. get you a weird gargoyle guy! you dont need a camera!

One day when I really want to burn it all down, I might write about the affect of this certain type of intellectual who engages with AI/LLMs/whatever like this. I’ve seen it up close and in person. They all have a empty eyed, hyper focused gaze — so far up their own asses they could shit a cough.

every single "principled libertarian" put on the red hat in 2016 and i don't think we should let them take it off and pretend like they're real intellectuals again now that he's unpopular

No Kings includes Draft Kings

This rings so true to me. A lot of the folks I've met who are most excited about AI tell me about using AI to do things computers can already do better in other ways. Like they'll just use it to search for a file or bring up a wikipedia article.

one clear sign that MAGA is losing juice: the number of hinge profiles that make clear they not only do not want anyone who voted for trump but also do not want anyone who self-identifies as a "moderate." id bet good $ that is a result of a lot of trump-voting men rebranding as "moderate" since '24

Russia’s full-scale invasion began 4 years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the 5th. And, for civilians, the worst. Russia launches missiles and drones at energy infrastructure to force Ukrainians to endure the freezing cold. Here's how you can help snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-u...

(Woody Allen eating a Da Bomb wing on Hot Ones) WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere. SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?

This is one of the things that annoying leftists are going to correctly predict over and over again: Law enforcement has enduring solidarity with each other and against all other human beings on this earth.

The thing about pedestrian safety post 2020 is that its one of the few areas that's massively worse than the norms that existed pre-covid, its bourne out clearly in the numbers, and the only way to solve it is traffic enforcement, sorry

And then…

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

The problem with centrists are their never ending purity tests and circular firing squads.

"Twitter is cooking their brains" theory looking pretty strong

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If you saw a basketball team throw games this blatantly, you would call for them to lose their charter to the league.

>North Korea having troops on the ground >>American tech companies shirking sanctions left and right >>>China providing a bunch of money to kill Ukrainians “But have you considered escalation?”

It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.

college application help is my go-to example for how American guanxi works - in its most powerful form, it can't be a simple market transaction, but still grows out of business and power relationships

The conservative meme about the "liberal media" is absolutely provably false, like most of their ideology. Our entire media ecosystem is dominated by hard right to centre right narratives with anything left of that relegated to niche/indie outlets.

i would be overjoyed if the U.S. had a president as ethical and even-tempered as Chancellor Gowron

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I got in SO MUCH trouble for this hugely viral tweet back in 2018 (from MAGA types mostly) but I stand by it (and in fact at the time the Auschwitz Museum defended me when people yelled at me that Auschwitz was a “death camp” not a concentration camp). My DENTIST congratulated me for this one

This is why my eyes roll out of my head any time the white knights for the rich and powerful point to their charity. They ONLY do the absolutely minimum charity needed for PR, and always with strings attached or part of an agenda. You can't rely on them, you need to tax them out of existence.

The narrative that the ruling class "went insane" during COVID was apparently not totally accurate. In actuality, they all believed that the Me Too movement killed their beloved pedophile fixer and lockdown just delayed them eventually punishing us all for it.

Imagine how bad you have to be for the French to investigate you as a sex pervert.

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It's absolutely insane how seemingly every single shitty person in the world is connected with Epstein in some way. Even JK's suddenly obsession with trans people lines up with her becoming friends with him and visiting.

Pretty much all the big AI companies have deep ties with Trump and his agenda. Don't use it.

My hottest take is the reason why Clinton Wing Dems don't retire and choose to die in office is because they know the new crop of Ds are gonna come for them for insider trading and taking payola (or worse re Epstein Files stuff). Why else would Nancy whip votes from her hospital bed to stop AOC

People used to roll their eyes and tell you to stop blaming Russia for everything when you expressed concern for them seemingly funding and supporting nearly every alt-right movement in the entire world. But it seems weekly that some far-right politician or agitator is caught with Russian links.

not the first or last to say it, but we watched some 4,000 people arrested, many brutalized, on college campuses throughout 2024 as part of an anti-war movement primarily calling for their schools and government to recognize the humanity of Palestinians, seemingly now memoryholed

think of all the college students who were disciplined or expelled for protesting genocide

Best lazy sunday with good friends and our favourite dog. Newt really enjoyed The Terminator and would angrily bark along with the other dogs at Arnold.

Each time I point out that the Republican platform is simple (they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it), a few people think I'm exaggerating, and usually some small number of people think I'm being sardonic or something. I mean it quite literally.

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

I hate that this is all just easy to piece together from this guy's poorly-spelled emails

Again Will is a left wing civil rights lawyer whose worst sin is stubbornness and whose greatest virtue is also stubbornness. That he has been transformed into a demon in the minds of losers is evidence of how pathetically inadequate their vision of actual wickedness is.