In nine hours the national press corps will raise their glasses to the most racist person in the country and claim it’s a “work dinner” for “source building”

we remain in a very strange era of describing human emotions as their chemical compounds (serotonin, dopamine, cortisol) in a similar way that stories and art have been reduced to corporate buzzwords (content, IP, franchise)

Losing my mind at Obama's chief of staff telling the woman who invented the term "intersectionality" that she doesn't know what intersectionality means

on their fucking minibikes again the neighborhood teens are. call the police i have.

Right-wingers like Ben Shapiro and Rufo turned Crenshaw's scholarship into buzzwords and talking points, but the saliency and content of her work had long been subject to erosion prior to that circus starting up, and we can't exactly ignore why that happened. Look where it got us.

I think the article gets a few things wrong---it says that 'intersectionality' didn't become a hot-button right-wing buzzword, when there's a Vox article on that very topic that was published in May 2019. Overall, though, it highlights this absolute epistemic injustice Crenshaw experienced.

If there is such a thing as a third or fourth wave of feminism, Crenshaw is arguably as foundational a scholar of it as Butler. But the very same impulses that sought to strip the feminism from her scholarship---by no means limited to right-wing politics and propaganda---have brought us here.

*staring into the camera with the light behind my eyes entirely extinguished*

Obama chose this person to run his office

Politicians will leap to defend an ICE agent killing an innocent protester and then clutch their pearls at Americans growing indifference to a healthcare CEO getting shot

dumbasssssses <333

Same thing happened in 2016. We just bake in expectations like "of course the Republican wins the south." The surprise is that he won the supposed firewall states of the midwest. But he still barely won those. His standard voter wasn't from the Michigan working class but from the Texas upper-middle.

If you can't tell a six year old a story about helicopters, nothing's gonna save you

eternally vindicated

"When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark."

There are actual cis men on the board of many women's charities, but weirdly this does not lead to, uhh, "sustained criticism" (quite the euphemism there for "organised campaign of abuse and harassment").

They're spoiled gentry who expect everyone else to do labor for them, can't handle ever being contradicted and can barely comprehend any idea that doesn't come from corporate hacks, *of course* lawmakers love AI. It doesn't take much.

Narrative's going around again that criticism of Mamdani's inaction on trans healthcare is spurred by a single source, but there's been solid reporting on this issue from multiple orgs going back to March, at least. People get to criticize politicians and their decisions. None of them are exempt.

These people deserve no better. But beyond desert, a clean break is a must. Others will disagree, but surely, Magyar will have to find a way working with people left behind at lower levels and in nonpolitical roles. But the break at the top must be complete. Tough ride ahead, but hopeful at last.

What he created was not a mass-membership party but a combination of a professional campaign organization and a genuine movement, built up of thousands of self-organized "islands". This proved remarkably flexible and also allowed him to keep out fraudsters, adventurers and crazies.

one-man act into a durable organization in time for 2026. For almost a year, I could not see it. He did not open up his party, Tisza, for membership, which still has only 17 or so formal members. Instead, he encouraged supporters to start semi-autonomous Tisza circles (islands) and organize locally.

That took him from zero to 30% in less than three months in early 2024, literally single-handedly, going around with a borrowed pickup truck and holding forth from its plateau as his stage through villages and small towns. The biggest question mark for me at the time was whether he can turn the ...

... did not truly believe in the possibility of defeating Orban after the crushing defeat of 2022, and were merely going through the motions. This guy, by contrast, talked and acted like he meant it. And voters noticed, earlier than most seasoned observers, myself included.

probably personally interacting, however briefly, with hundreds of thousands of people over two years. Btw, it was this obsessive energy, the sense that he means freaking business, that drew opposition voters to him, like magnet, from the existing oppo parties that, many voters sensed...

From the get-go, he has shown an almost superhuman, obsessive energy, visiting small towns and villages (altogether more than 700, many of them multiple times) that have never seen a national political figure for decades. After rallies, he stayed for hours, shaking hands, doing selfies...

... but I will be forever grateful to him for the catharsis that I, with most Hungarians, felt last night. What he did belongs in the history books. But how did he do it? There will be a lot written about it, and the factors that made it possible. This thread is only about political mobilization.

I found this really enlightening as to how Magyar was able to unseat Orban

anyways, if you’re trans & online tonight & even kinda think you might want bottom surgery, this is your big flashing neon sign for the evening to just schedule a consult (or two. i did four.). it doesn’t commit you to anything & if you decide “yes!” you’ll be happy you did it sooner than later.

The problem is when they say "Rogan of the Left", they mean someone who also hates trans people & loves palestinian genocide, but tells people to vote democrat about it

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

no one hates traffic law more than right wing law and order freaks

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This car merged in front of me today and I was so excited that I missed my exit

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This is a man who fundamentally did not see women as being people. 'Many girlfriends in Burma' where he was a police officer for the Raj. Accusations of rape in his past. Accusations which were ruinous to bring against a man as a woman at that time let alone a man who became as respected as he did

So yeah okay I've got some time. Most people dismiss Orwell because he was a snitch and a traitor who collaborated with the British government to kill communists and queers. Did you also know he was a rapist? Probably not because it tends to get talked about like this (from The Orwell Society):

The headline should mention the undercover cop was posing as a 15-year-old, no?

Morning Boston! - Sunrise from Bunker Hill!

The claim isn't that social media is dead (yet). It's the assumptions that made it coherent as an object — human production, social circulation, public observability — can no longer be presupposed. We need new concepts and methods capable of studying what comes next.

So "social media" is fragmenting into three post-social formations: (a) Algorithmic broadcasting platforms — few-to-many flows from creators, brands, and bots, delivered as personalized feeds. Broadcasting, but individualized. Endpoint: the fully synthetic feed.

Third: a retreat from public posting. A ~50% drop in posting on Facebook and X between 2020 and 2024 (see my previous thread). Ordinary public participation is hollowing out, while sustained conversation moves to WhatsApp, Discord, Signal, Substack.

Platforms aren't just tolerating this — they're building it in. Meta launched AI Studio and piloted its own AI personas. X put Grok in the interface. If engagement is the metric, it doesn't matter whether a human or a model produced the content. Users have become optional.

We are no longer commenting or even liking. Just watching. Likes, shares, comments — "active" signals — are being displaced by watch time, dwell time, scroll hesitation. Preference is inferred from micro-reactions. The 'prod-user' has become the user-spectator.

Three dynamics are now dissolving it. First: the algorithmic shift. Platforms moved from social graphs to interest-based recommendation. You see what the model predicts will hold your attention, not what your network shared. TikTok set the template; everyone copied it. The social network is dead.

For two decades, "social media" meant a specific setup: users produced content, content circulated through social ties, platforms extracted value from mediating this. Networked publics, digital trace data, platformization — a generation of research rested on that configuration.

pivot to video never ended