I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's no amount of capability that justifies being an awful human. The bar for being a decent human is already pretty low. If you can't clear that, I don't care how capable you are. I can certainly find someone *nearly* as capable who isn't a shitbag.

The press treating JD Vance like he’s a whiz kid negotiator is insane. He’s the most unqualified VP in modern American history. Him negotiating with Iran at all is a complete joke. He’s basically a podcaster who got to play pretend as an astroturfed senator for 2 years, a job he barely showed up to.

If everytime I sat down with someone to discuss terms they bombed my house and killed my relatives, I'd be mistrustful, as well...

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Every explanation of why young people are unhappy that doesn't talk about stuff like this is either wrong or pushing an agenda.

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Damn I love some good news

A new study shows that Black women outpace every other group of women in workforce participation. Yet they are still paid less & retire in poverty at twice the rate of white women. This is a system. It is long past time this country started carrying them the way they have carried us.

Dude thinks watching "dozens" of movies from a 20 year span of cinema qualifies him to declare that BIRTH OF A NATION changed cinema and we should give it a mulligran.

My new hobby is watching what people pay for food or gas in films shot in the past. Just watched someone buy a big lunch for him and his friend with a $10 bill and he got several singles in change and I want to burn the entire world down.

the fuck is the literal Secretary of State and supposed national security advisor doing at a moment like this

I think what's easy to lose sight of is that Artemis II was a test mission with the goal of figuring out how to permanently set up a station on the Moon. We're not even discussing if that's a MORAL idea.

And yet we're destroying the earth. We're killing this planet while billionaire hucksters try to sell us on "multi planetary living" If we cannot fucking take care of this planet what makes us thinks we can sustainable transform another.

3rd cat in a box

Fuck this guy. And fuck you if you still support him.

PLATNER IS LITERALLY STILL OPENLY USING THE "R" WORD IN CASUAL CONVERSATION. TODAY.

Bezos has been to space too though. I don't think "seeing earth from space" is the unifying ideal that we all think it is.

It's not punishment to say that someone with power who has abused that power doesn't get to get more power. That's a consequence. Some of you are truly ridiculous.

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

Hey so, I just spent the whole day with California Democratic Party volunteers and can confidently say: Swalwell is fucking cooked

the extent to which so many men are sex pests is just baffling and depressing you can just Not Do That there is shit that's hard for me! remembering to take in the trash cans is hard! checking the calendar is hard! starting a design doc is hard! not being a sex pest: not that hard

Jaysus. The tiniest pushback sets some people off.

people "have money", in that they have income. but the number of people seriously burdened by their rent is the highest it's ever been. the cost of living is so much worse than it was a decade or two ago. I know multiple people making the most money they've ever made who are barely hanging on.

No. YouTube’s entire claims system is centered on punishing YouTube’s creators. You can fraudulently claim as much as you want and you won’t ever be stopped from perpetually doing it.

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There's plenty of secondhand air purifiers out there, but it's more fun to 3D print one. aftermath.site/3d-printing-ai...

We preserve broadcast content from 9 Georgia tv stations & 2 local radio stations. Yet when trying to find an item from Savannah's newspaper in the 1960s, I learned their morgue had been warehoused during the move to digital, and the photo editor didn't have access to it. Yikes.

I think liberal reformism has paved the way for technofascism

I think people would like it if someone could present a positive future for work because I don’t think everyone becomes a nurse or a cop is really going to work out.

Oh... Oh no!

This is bizarrely probably true, although I don’t know why I’m surprised - everything Trump tried to do fails disastrously.

No the guy who burned down the massive paper warehouse because they weren't paying a livable wage shouldn't have filmed himself doing it if he wanted to avoid getting caught. But since I'm not him, and there's no way he didn't know the risk, I'm glad he did it, so the message was 100% crystal clear

Trump and his administration do not care about women’s lives. Posting a video of a woman being graphically murdered is yet another form of objectification and dehumanization. The purpose of it was to shock and offend, in order to encourage racism against immigrant men. It is a form of terror.

Quite the week for the president of the United States on Truth Social. Sunday: "Praise be to Allah!" Tuesday: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." Thursday: [video of a woman being murdered]

They put a warning label on rap albums.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

I have adopted and now highly recommend Tiny Lamp Time, it has truly become the highlight of my day

This death camp never closed down despite a concerted effort by many forces to convince you it did.

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

they are freaking out about losing the kids. this is why lately on every major news platform you cannot escape hearing about how a fucking twitch streamer is the devil. carpet bombing the airwaves

Had me dying. Clip via @alexgoldennba.bsky.social

You should turn off message content in your notification settings. No real point in using an end to end encrypted app if people can just read the push notification.

Every credulous buffoon in Tech Journalism:

the world was a better place back when these apolitical dipshits just kinda sat politics out instead of in 2024 when they all voted for Trump entirely based on vibes and then googled what tariffs are the day after the election

It's been nearly five hours since the president of the United States posted a graphic snuff video of a man beating a woman to death with a hammer and there's no mention of it on the New York Times, Washington Post or CNN websites.

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product