People really don’t take seriously enough the sociopathy of basic corporate functionaries. Your middle managers, your internal consultants, your strivers looking to squeeze juice out of the company’s social benefits and paper over it with bullshit made-up quality metrics that bend towards profits.

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

The fascist right will *literally kill people* over the idea of voluntarily using more thoughtful and inclusive language, and yet folks on the left are constantly tripping over themselves to adopt the latest garbage terms coined by the worst rape apologists in the world, I will never understand it

It is essential to remember that the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights does not “give” anyone rights. It does not create rights. These are rights that every person has, by their very nature as a person. The Bill of Rights is just a list of rights that no government of a free people may violate.

Look, now that we're trying for real consequences for the Epstein files, maybe we should also take another look at the Panama Papers

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Anthropic also manipulates customers with varying model efficacy and rate limits that are beyond unsustainable. In January, a researcher found that Anthropic allows users to burn $8 to $13.50 in tokens for every dollar of their monthly subscription. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...

I kind of hate to say it, but I think the Will Stancil saga has become important to pay attention to in that it illustrates something that's gone very wrong with the behavior of purported adults using social media

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve? If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days? If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built? It's a tax. That's all it is.

Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada reflects on Israel’s plan, announced yesterday at the Board of Peace, to turn Gaza into an IDF-controlled “cashless society,” where digital wallets could be suspended at will, cutting off access to food & goods. He warns it would enable blackmail & collective...

Or at best indifferent to their survival, because in this case the main goal is to funnel tax dollars to these companies.

the article is about the extremely frequent intermingling of sex and business amount gay guys in tech, it's what the entire article is about!

BREAKING: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted of insurrection for declaring martial law in December 2024, and has been sentenced to life in prison.

“Illiberal governments tend to live or die by their ability to sustain corruption. They rely for support on a network of oligarchs, who in turn are tied to the administration’s success. It happened in Hungary, Turkey, Russia and increasingly, it is happening here.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Amazing that he’s negative even with reform voters.

I had two powerful realizations at a young age that completely shaped my life: 1) Dating a truly beautiful, smart woman long-term and verifying that she genuinely loved me more the worse of a person I was 2) Experiencing the fierce close-mindedness of Nobel laureates up close.

The WSJ reporter is right given his profession/institutional position and you guys are all insane.

Obvious to anyone on X, or who has ever listened to the radio and then talked to their HVAC guy. Rightwing media works by being ubiquitous, easy to follow, and offering a million perspectives and personalities for people to grasp onto. This just clearly shows that hook/pipeline.

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Re suicide bombing: Nader voters in 2000 voted for him in part because they agreed w/him there was too much corporate $$ influencing elections. He renegs on promise not to campaign in Florida, GWB wins & puts Roberts & Alito on SC, whose Citizens United decision hugely supercharges dark money flood.

If you're wondering how CBS News under Bari Weiss is covering Stephen Colbert's stunning revelation that the network blocked his interview with a Texas Democrat... It isn't. Silence both on the air and online.

This is a nice move in an interview www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

Wow.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Not a single strategic goal has been met. Russia's losing a Vietnam's worth of soldiers every few months. The economy is sprinting toward stagnation, while Moscow is turning more and more every month into a Chinese vassal—all while the Kremlin's allies topple elsewhere. Staggering historic failure.

Call it performative if it helps you sleep better, but you all seem to be pissed when elected officials don't do the performative things you claim you want. Biden paused the sales, Trump resumed the sales. And you say they are the same.

Reading the Epstein files, like, I'm sorry to say but you do have to hand it to the guy. He really had the number on this fucked up social circle. To their credit, some people saw straight through it—Melinda Gates and Tina Brown most clearly—but Epstein had his marks dead to rights.

My timeline is half leftists complaining about Gavin Newsom and half liberals complaining about Graham Platner and I'd like to propose that we launch both of them into the sun together.

"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement

(put another way, weird to say, as Rubio does, that Europe produced “the genius…of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones,” who were self-consciously playing music rooted in the traditions of the African diaspora.)

Also, my survey where we asked 1,000 players what game they played the most. Not what they liked best. Literally: "What game on this platform do you have the most minutes in?" Of the thousand players asked, exactly ZERO got the answer right. Zero. Not a single one. That should tell you something.

Our editor Nathan Robinson had a delightful conversation about politics and history with Jamelle Bouie here at Baldwin & Co Books in New Orleans! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUnA...

Un-fucking-real that we live in a society where many, many people in power openly support this idea. And you really saw it start with Bad Blood—a lot of VCs thought Holmes got railroaded.

anyway i basically tried to explain the russian revolution, soviet economic history, and the various political and economic crises of the soviet 1980s in 10 minutes and then said, “kid you could devote your whole life to studying this if you wanted to”

it's not really possible anymore to "get out democracy back" or whatever, absent painful and foundational reforms. we can't govern a nation or participate in the world when every 4 years every institution and every practice can be completely upended. swinging crazily from pole to pole is not viable

Quite simply I want to vote for someone who gets spiritual nourishment from being hated by billionaire sociopaths instead of yearning for their approval

Lots to say about this interview (from Doomscroll with Josh Citarella, which you should follow), but for BlueSky I’ll highlight two things: 1. Whatever your peeve with Graeber or Chomsky, recognize that the recent social media move against them is an op. And 2…

I think Farm to Taber has analyzed this, and her argument is that the large farms feel like they can swap in prison labor and H2A. The video is very, very depressing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdWr...

To have that level of immiseration be greeted, as has often been the case, with people treating this like a bunch of tech bros finally got their comeuppance, is disgusting. And infuriating. Hating the 5 predator billionaires who run these companies does not justify dehumanizing these workers.

Here's how you use a committee hearing.

I hate to say it but AI code reviews make it a lot easier to understand big PRs. Pros and cons to that, obviously, as you still shouldn't write them, but if you have to deal with them it's nice to have the bot do basic review.

i'm morbidly curious to see what happens if the SAVE Act passes and then millions of Americans naively try to order a passport the week before elections only to find out it can take over a month even during normal circumstances

Starbucks has scrapped a $250,000 limit on its CEO's use of the company jet for personal travel. CEO Brian Niccol uses the jet to commute from his house California to corporate HQ in Seattle. The company is lifting the cap while refusing thousands of baristas a union contract.

Signal boost the hell out of this—her analysis of how IRL farming and ranching really intersect with left/right politics on issues like "right to repair" or "antimonopoly" is spot on and highlights a real risk/vulnerability to a naive version of that politics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm82...

Remember when "America has many groups of people in it and that's good and makes us strong" was an uncontroversial - even cliched - viewpoint that was universally endorsed across the political spectrum? We can go back! We just have to get rid of the tiny handful of bitter, angry men in the way.

“Not all people are equally susceptible…” The reason WHY WE HAVE VACCINES is to protect the vulnerable!! These asshats wouldn’t survive the slightest pushback. The fourth estates has failed us miserably.

Oh no is the K-Hive swarming BlueSky

I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead

It is also very telling that throughout the episode, the feelings/consequences they are trying to understand belong almost exclusively to the pedophiles, not to the victims. In fact, the word 'victim' only shows up in the transcript TWICE.