They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Claiming you or your choices or your media preferences or whatever are "apolitical" is actually a declaration of your politics. And a very loud one. JICYDK.

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

i just want to hang out on the internet and talk about my hyperfixations but nooooooooooo powerful people decided being evil was the best way they could spend their time

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I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

State of Florida's new mandate for public college Intro Sociology curriculum: "The following should not be included in any course content... "Discussions arguing a causal association between institutional sexism and unequal outcomes between men and women" Indoctrination, not education nor science

Sex pest solidarity.

I'd prefer it not have taken decades but personally I like blows being struck against elite impunity and would like that for us in the US very much

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

“I’m depicting men’s domination of women. But get this—it’s sexy.” My god. I’m aghast. You’re such a provocateur. No one has ever seen anything like this before.

“What if we simply ignored both the racism and the violence against women” is a very popular approach to a lot of things, and I think one has to wonder both why that appeals so strongly and also, once that desire is fulfilled, what’s left.

Their "more efficient" process than having writers write: • AI identifies possible stories • Reporters do further reporting and produce notes • Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks" • Another person fact-checks/edits • Reporter reviews

Sorry sorry sorry, I forgot that men have no decision making power over their own behavior and that rape is a naturally occurring phenomenon with no beneficiaries and no agents, like the weather.

Something that was done *to* him, you say? Not something *he* did?

“He got Me Tooed” “He got Epsteined” amazing that people have re-invented the police passive for rapists.

I know there are more insidious uses of AI, but one of the most depressing to me is when it pops up in local TV ads. These things are supposed to be folk art; put your uncle in a bad wig like god intended.

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

If the government can take away your voting rights for a felony conviction, and they also decide what constitutes a felony, and they also decide who’s charged with the felony, and they also decide who’s prosecuted for the felony, you don’t have a right to vote.

Wait wait the rapist president who was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein, creeped on underage models for years, talked about how hot his own teenage daughter looked, the guy who lies like that's his 1st language, AND keeps saying everybody should stop talking about Epstein IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES!?

c o w a r d s . DECADES of supposedly pre-gaming what's happening right now, but it was never real. I'd call it cosplay, if that weren't so insulting to actual cosplayers; actual cosplayers don't claim to REALLY be Sailor Moon.

No, Chuck, you’re making them the fifth highest paid military in the world. You ain’t reforming shit.

It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.

Cop Cities are everywhere, from Georgia to Israel

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Oh, damn.

gonna start assuming the people who write op-eds about the "absurdity" of masking don't wash their hands after using the bathroom

this normalization of getting sick because people are so desperate to see your mouth and nose is absurd and i am tired of weirdo reporters doing this like -- do you hear yourselves??? "Someone had the audacity to wear a seatbelt while I was present in the car" that's what you sound like

lmao alt reading of this is "Can you BELIEVE people are wearing scientifically proven means to protect themselves from a potential debilitating disease?"

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

Most cartoonists aren't Rembrandt, but they become the voices of generations bc they are able to pinpoint, with painful accuracy, something no one else had the words to say. That's where the quality of their art comes from. A great artist is a great observer. The skillset is secondary.

The quality of art is not the quality of the art; if it were, art would begin and end w/photorealism. The quality of art is in the quality of the artist's observations. Some of the greatest novels have workmanlike prose; they are carried by jaw-dropping truths about human life. Or take cartooning--

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris in the Epstein Files. I guess it's pretty serious.

it goes without saying that authoritarianism loooves a world without journalism: fewer records, fewer questions, less pushback

today’s mass media layoffs really go beyond “industry news.” we’re watching the removal of the people who explain what’s actually happening to us, beyond canned press releases and official narratives, at a time when we need that the most. healthy democracies need journalism!!

pizzagate and qanon were not onto something, they were orchestrated by pedophiles to make accusing people of pedophilia make you look insane so that they could continue doing pedophile shit. fucking christ

don't mean to blow anyone's mind with this shocking insight but the direct line between epstein, 4chan, gamergate, tech bro fascists etc is misogyny. prolific rapists, guys who believe women have inferior intelligence, and guys who hate women for rejecting them all have something big in common!

When you look at the Wikipedia of an old white guy whose books you read in college there is an unfortunately high probability it will look like this

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

I interviewed 300 high achievers about their morning routine, and you will never believe, they all have inherited family wealth.

For all the discussion of doxxing federal agents, there’s essentially no discussion of how those agents are taking steps that attach severe punitive measures that stretch across wide swaths of the federal bureaucracy against people acting lawfully.

That last part is it. They can’t imagine the abstract, let alone humanity in the abstract. The humanity of people they don’t know personally or can’t see literally in front of them. And that’s fucked up, to put it simply.

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

This is incredible

As someone whose job depends on the ability to predict what people will want to read 18 months from now, I'm amazed there is a whole class of op-ed writers who have built long and lucrative careers off of being late to the party