Gamers. It’s time

i posted this to badsite on 2018-07-28: "I've been mulling for the last two years the idea that the GOP's Southern Strategy was like the Bene Gesserit's Kwisatz Haderach breeding program and Trump is Paul Atreides fucking it up for them and they don't know how to put the sandtrout back in the qanat"

spoiler alert: the line was “It’s plurbin’ time”

As people comb the Epstein files for some crime they can get Trump on I’m thinking about how he was found with boxes of stolen top secret files in his possession and somehow that ended up being impossible to prosecute.

Friction is good and one of the most consequential tasks facing the designers and managers of social-technical systems in the 21st century is putting it back in in the right ways and right places.

look at these heroes go:

It is crazy that the president can sue anyone while he is president by the way. There is always incentive to settle if he is office and it always effectively a bribe. Congress needs to eliminate that possibility

Probably not fair to group masturbators to call the Atlantic a circle jerk.

As with most situations the trick is being able to tell the nutjobs with anxiety from the nutjobs with reasonable and accurate anxiety in advance. And the only people who are good at doing that are the nutjobs with reasonable anxieties so it kind of defeats the whole purpose. Humanity is fun.

it's sometimes crazy that we made cops the ones in charge of enforcing the laws. extremely questionable decision.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

legal bait: would it be an impermissible bill of attainder if we made a damnatio memoriae style law that says you cannot name any buildings after Trump specifically?

one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills

LMFAO "If I put in a footnote that I think racial profiling is wrong, will you stop calling them Kavanaugh Stops... pwease." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

release the files files

keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is

a) this is pathetic regime shit from CBS. b) this is genuinely his dream, he would so much rather be a TV host than president.

What if Minority Report but dumber

This is what's known as an "October Surprise," which is when you have career-ending evidence about a presidential candidate, so you secretly take it to the FBI in the hope that the president's own party might order it unsealed 6 years later.

Ah, the Epstein/Nassar letter seems to be a fake. Makes sense.

Dr Rasmussen made an excellent narrative essay of the basic 'primer on vaccination' lecture so many of us have given for years.

Your failures in life are mostly down to insufficient hydration.

I think Trump is clearly outrunning the system's tolerance for authoritarian consolidation but also the system's tolerance for authoritarian consolidation is worryingly high

this is cyberpunk, as experienced by ordinary people in universe

Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down

Even BILL CLINTON is saying he doesn’t care if the full release of the files implicates Bill Clinton. Amazing.

really good information about current surveillance tech one of the striking things is the complete lack of auditing: companies basically get over on local government to sell them (insecure, invasive) trash because each local govt is too small to do its own audit. state or fed legislative issue

Spent 6 months in detention waiting on a decision on his asylum application until he was deported to CECOT The detail that they sent out an asylum seeker who presented himself to immigration correctly also seems new. Again, did we know this? Seems like a weird thing for a terrorist to do

You might question her methods, but credit to Bari Weiss: her leadership has pushed 60 Minutes into new formats and attracted a bunch of new viewership outside the normal broadcast audience.

It’s hard to understand this as anything other then as part of a deliberate and sustained effort to make the United States diplomatically and economically weaker

Boasberg is continually getting control of this case stolen from him by republicans on the appellate courts, but he does not mess around during the brief slices of time between appeals when it's back in his jurisdiction.

debugging systems is a lot easier if you have a theory-of-mind plus panpsychism

They're telling us we should only get one doll this Christmas while Larry is out here buying his kid three to play with.

This is your irregular reminder to put air in your car tires and check your treads (advice not applicable if you currently own zero or fewer car tires)

This has got to be the massive new all time high score on the nepobaby leaderboards for "my parents co-signed for my loan", right?

Live look of all the Harper’s letter signatories:

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Just because everyone assumed this is what Bondi would do with the Epstein files isn’t a reason to not raise holy hell about it.

Is there some general theory of why developed economies can't say no to farmers? Is it just the undeserved sympathy the public grants them?

you start out with a stupid mean weird guy. you let him have some arguments online for a decade or so. then you let him decide what science means for everyone

Screaming, crying, throwing up as I realize that the very youngest person who voted in a Presidential election where Trump wasn't a candidate is now 31 years old.

Lord, I see what you've done for others. It’s real sick shit, frankly. You belong in jail.

Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨