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Octopus hauling ass on the sea floor: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Romania_mi...

You can drive out moral perfectionism with a pitchfork - but it will always return. Which is why we liberals need a vision of the good life, and not just to do better than breaking even. www.noemamag.com/the-return-o...

Much as I love my employer, a flagship state institution and one of the best universities in the world, they lack the lean nimbleness to implement programs like this.

Goodnight. Argentina, Valdes Peninsula Elliott Erwitt, 2001

Pieter Bruegel - The Blind Leading the Blind 1568 (Capodimonte Museum)

It's a sort of distended or prolapsed form of dada, which wanted to get you out of your rational mind, whereas the slop fountain wants to destroy your rational mind

If the US now wants European help in the Middle East it could have shown "minimal respect" by "consulting [us] in advance, not when problems arise", says a senior aide to President Nawrocki, who is a Trump ally. In the same interview, he also accused Israel of violating international law in Gaza.

Remember to be wary, as today is the only day of the year that incorrect or misleading information is posted on the internet.

Perhaps Ben Gvir can now take the next logical step and make this the new Israeli flag

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The effects of a prolonged state of "war" on both the US and Israel are causing them to trend away from democracy towards neoroyalist/neopatrimonialist regime structures. The reason it doesn't count as a conspiracy is that it's right out there in the open: old men jockeying for short term advantage.

The Middle East has not, in fact, been in an constant state of war for thousands of years

“We contract out our rapes” doesn’t seem like a winning argument

Members of the Israeli Air Force were caught betting on Polymarket about their upcoming operations. One of them immediately rolled on his colleagues, creating a serious security concerns in a military entirely dependent on its Air Force. t.me/newssil/196908

i love reading crypto reporting

People scoff at that but I think it's easy to forget how overall atomized US civil society is....this is actually one of the rare chances for issue groups to activate people.

This is a very important phenomenon that’s happening across organizing spaces. People haven’t stopped political work, mass demonstrations have become a less central tactic.Given that we know diversity of tactics&building parallel institutions is what makes movements powerful, this is a good thing.

It’s iris time here #Roses #flower #FlowerReport #bloomsky #bloomscrolling #nature #naturephotography #photography 📷🌱🌴🪴sky

Thanks to Jim Francis Vintage French postcard

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this is a huge deal and a sign of the changing legal tides for big tech. the plaintiffs attorneys here were early adopters of a novel legal strategy that uses product liability law to sidestep tech companies' go-to defense (section 230) and hold them accountable for defective or negligent design

Another Very Special Relationship www.ft.com/content/1e41...

Almost too on the nose that political scientist come far right firebrand Matt Goodwin used genAI to hallucinate the following quote: “’The most dangerous experiments’ warned the economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek, ‘are those conducted on entire societies.’”

Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.

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If you're a tech worker who's interested in reading Marx's Capital with other tech workers, there's a free online course that's starting later this month cftw.ohrg.org

Is it good news when the grocery store starts stocking these new items?

Yes, wonderful handy piece. You don't need AI to supplant the crappy search that google now provides; for now you just have to know how to use google properly. (And thanks to Laura for "-ai")

What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.

We're witnessing in real time a demonstration of how terror bombing forces dissident elements to cleave to elites they despise in the interest of self preservation.

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini (Jean de Bosschère, "Weird Islands" 1921)

One wishes this kind of shit was particular to Trump, but alas.

#OtD 21 Mar 1973 the Mental Patients Union was formed in London. They argued that like workers joining unions, mental health patients needed to organise as well, putting forward a list of 24 demands to improve their conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9410...

ALSO, instead of consulting Adrian Vermeule and Montesquieu to understand the right way to think about a constitutional membership rule in a republic formed on the ashes of slavery, we should consult Frederick Douglass, who fought for that rule. FFS. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

This might be the oil shock where the world learns that you can have Nixon style queues at gas stations without price controls. Blaming shortages on price controls in a massive supply shock is like blaming the rain on the umbrella. I still recommend using an umbrella.

I had that dream again

Ever fretted about not having a handy place to keep all your leeches? Well, here it is ~ handsome 1860s earthenware jar designed for apothecaries to store their medicinal leeches, with perforated lid so the little fellows can breathe collection.maas.museum/object/182254

Fuck this joke of a country and its 'justice' system. Why would anyone, even if guilty, need to spend 19 years in prison for a $550 robbery? In a civilized country they wouldn't. In a *marginally* civilized country they wouldn't. Fuck this shit so much

wrote about an 80s safety video tape directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Andrea Martin as a self-destructive adult child woman 1900hotdog.com/2026/03/lear...

I wonder what the world's most moral army is up to lately?

Just a reminder that the architects of the digital age were largely absolute losers who lucked into historic fortunes and undeserved power and are now forcing us into a future they are incapable and unworthy of creating.