every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

Best reason to go off the record.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

raze the building, salt the earth

Seems also worth noting that this in large part because we've built a society in which the traits that would make one more likely to be a rapist are also the ones most associated with succeeding within it

Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Call me reactionary but I think anyone who’s looking into Hitler’s DNA is either a eugenicist or is actively enabling eugenics in some capacity

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

This was a waste of time and deeply unethical. Hitler's genetics are irrelevant to him being one of history's bastards. Studying his genetics like this implies that genetics are correlated to behavior and it will be used as guilt by association. (IE more eugenics garbage.)

The secret third thing is that weirdos who are obsessed with breeding a master race are frequently also pedophiles.

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

oh god we're probably in a full blown depression

A fun exercise is thinking about how far down the presidential line of succession you'd have to go before you find someone who isn't involved in committing or covering up the most heinous crimes known to man. You have to impeach everyone until you get there

none of these people are as smart as they pretend to be they’re just creepy old men, every last one of them, trying to dress it up with their own prestige

One horrific thing to me is that the president- a man who has gotten away with everything including literal murder up to this point- seems extremely nervous about anything regarding Epstein coming out. Like how bad does it have to be

Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely

Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

high-level drug dealers: "we never mention anything illegal over text. basic details of transit and logistics are discussed only via encrypted comms." child sex traffickers: "lmao the future president hurt himself in my pedophile mansion bc he was too busy oogling naked children"

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

A lot of people are sharing articles about how to stretch your food budget or cook like our grandparents did to survive. Our grandparents lived through the Great Depression. If we’re having to resort to what they did… things are much worse than folks are willing to admit.

The other way AI probably contributes to the hubris is that a lot of the techbros almost worship AI like a god and there’s a classic “we have the mandate of heaven” thing going on (which is probably also fundamentally AI psychosis).

They’re overconfident in how much they think AI has multiplied their force. They think Palantir means they’re fully consolidated already and can get away with anything.

I propose an international law that once you become personally responsible for the murder of 1,000 people, be it via direct violence or policy, you are declared a dragon and adventurers can form parties to quest against you.

I don’t even think it’s controversial to say that Tolkien would fucking hate tech bros.

Turns out poor people spent a lot of money on tea and sugar *because they were poor* and that was their inadequate replacement for unaffordable things like cooking fuel, food with actual nutritional content, and enough calories to slave away over a loom for 12 hours.

Aside from the deliberate refusal to accept a woman wrote a deeply-lasting novel, Syd also shows historical ignorance. The mentions of magnetism in Frankenstein are a product of that era's writing. Magnetism was associated with the bleeding edge of new knowledge back then!

I’m so confused by why this is so hard. No one ever saw every Bond story as in 100% continuity. I don’t believe Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan share the same exact continuity. Especially Craig, who had his own arc. Also since when are we so literal minded? It’s so tech brained, only surface level.

For many rich people COVID was the first time they were given parameters where everyone agreed they could not do X, Y, or Z, which for normal people is everyday life but for them was horrifying. Normally only BEING sick does that to them, never external factors. www.politico.com/states/calif...

I need everyone who uses AI to generate art & text to notice what Vince Gilligan says here. You're surrendering your brain, your creativity, the divine spark within you to a machine. Someday you'll wake up and find you're no longer capable of writing or thinking. And for what?

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

This image really bothers me because it's framed wrong. It's not about information recall it's about not perceiving any information at all. You can't cite what you've neither written nor read.

When I talk about the invention of "AI" as an attempt to manifest the Infinite Money God, this is part of what I'm talking about. Private equity achieved the ability to make money without a good or service—AI is the attempt to make money without even customers or employees.

“I THINK THEY ARE SPINELESS, MEALY MOUTHED, BLOOD SUCKING, TWO FACED BOTTOM FEEDERS.” We asked readers to weigh in on Senate Democrats’ deal—and almost nobody is happy.

we’re about to start seeing a lot of “here’s a cost effective meal your grandparents made during the great depression”

@joycecaroloates.bsky.social ma'am, can I introduce you to "I gotta get the hell out of here" theory? youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

And it's Blinkist, the service that will give you an 8-minute summary of books so you can pretend you read them.

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Primary every single senator

Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.

furries who genuinely act like our community is full of "degenerates" because of the sex jokes and sex positivity have completely forgotten our community was built on kink and celebration of queer sexuality made by queers fuck offfff

The plan is to replace 90% of jobs and then murder those people with robots and prisons, and build an unfightable dictatorship with everyone under 24 hour guard by terminators