If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly. It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

"Those who ban books want to lock away ideas they fear. But in truth, they are trying to steal our freedom." #BannedBooksWeek honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social encourages all of us to stand up for the freedom to read! #CensorshipIsSo1984 youtu.be/qwtzX15AKvQ?...

Slay you queen

It’s a bad look.

👑🎃 Guess who’s back to cause mischief? The Mad King and his Lunatic Court return Oct 7 in #GuildWars2! Get ready for tricks, treats, and plenty of candy-coated chaos. Don’t miss it! 👻

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

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I think this exact thought multiple times a day

Their shock-and-awe strategy is designed to terrify. The harms are real and devastating, yes. But the choking, palpable fear we’re giving into is their biggest weapon—and it’s within our power to disarm. Mocking defiance is their kryptonite. Less fear. More fight.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

I was talking to someone at lunch recently and we touched on the topic of civil war. I said I've seen people cheering for the idea, which I find horrifying. She said something that stuck with me. "We're already at war. It just doesn't look like people expected."

Zelenskyy is all of us listening to Trump speak.

even for an unhinged presidency this week has been pretty fuckin unhinged tbh

I know I keep going on about this but 1) yes 2) it has DEEPLY embarrassed the media people who kept trying to pretend that this regime can be treated as legitimate, and 3) we absolutely cannot let them forget it

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

Thank you, Steven. Yes, we the people grasp that Trump is absolutely “mad.” Trump, and his entire regime are indeed dangerous. We will not stop fighting. We will not be silenced. #EpsteinFiles

Am I the only one who enjoys watching Harrison Butker miss field goals more than I enjoy watching literally any other kicker from any other team at any level make field goals?

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Visible accountability breaks the bond of cognitive authoritarianism which takes away fascist power. Then the ones left lurk looking for the next opportunity. bsky.app/profile/slac...

Should I watch clips of the Charlie Kirk funeral, or wait till Leni Riefenstahl edits it all together?

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

I can’t believe such a wretched, morbidly obese, drug addicted, deviant, illiterate, sexual predator found the secret sauce to turn half our country into absolute lunatics. Turning a blind eye daily to the most rampant corruption in American history as they genuflect before him.

My first time doing a Writers and Illustrators day as an ARA with #scbwi. I don't know how our RA does it. #scbwicencal #cencalscbwi

Dear gestapo trash:

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

A cybertruck for your face

So if anti-fascists are Trump’s political enemies, what does that make Trump?

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

I am once again gently reminding everyone that Ezra Levin and Ezra Klein are different Ezras

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

My family escaped Ukraine from the pogroms and were lucky enough to escape to the US. They took my family in — we had nothing and offered nothing, but a desire to get ahead and be free while being safe. This is a country of immigrants, and we should be honoring that history.

"I don't care that he's dead." "He's not a hero." "He's a scumbag." "He shouldn't be celebrated." No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd. Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

Political violence and threats are not the answer. This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion. We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.

I continue to be amazed at the absolute lack of courage

please Senator Chuck, I swear this is a Kitchen Table Issue… my wife and children are being dragged away from our kitchen table by hooded MAGA agents. tomato prices aren’t great either but OOPS they shot me sorry

Reporter: Do you think it would have been fitting to lower the flags for Melissa Hortman who was killed as well? Trump: Uh, I’m not familiar, who?

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/2 Also (3) We shouldn’t pretend a facile short apology weighs the same as an open call for Nazi liquidation programs.

Perhaps? But: (1) there are some things that require more than a 40-second apology. They require more serious atonement and consequences. (2) We’re not required to accept an apology at face value when circumstances suggest it’s not sincere.

Republicans are trying, in many cases succeeding, in immiserating and killing my constituents. Whether through environmental deprivation, withdrawing the rights of trans people, or disappearing our neighbors off the streets. Half measures and bipartisanship are the maps that led us here.

We actually do need hardcore, knuckle busting partisanship with the stated goal of breaking the political and institutional power of the Republican Party. Raze the party, burn it down, and salt the ashes.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

I just saw a comment that said "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie." THAT ... that's what I've been trying to put into words.