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Good on him. That said, we also need to break the monopoly of Apple and Google so that authoritarian governments can't censor any app they want with two phone calls.

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One time as an undergrad I took a global sports and politics summer course during the World Cup and really the only thing our professor wanted us to come away with was the understanding that FIFA is evil

A quick follow-up to my last piece — if I'm saying that messages have to be clear enough that they can talk about you without you, what about the well-known refrain from disability activists, "nothing about us without us"? I didn't want to give that short shrift: www.anildash.com/2025/12/08/w...

Why is a billion dollars being spent to entertain a man who does not even understand what is going on from one day to the next? Just buy some gold spray paint and a random trinket from Goodwill every day and tell him he's won a new prize.

"Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars, LOTR, or Marvel."

I think an important thing to understand about brofluencer ideology is that they do not just deny that being toxic and shitty makes you a less appealing partner, they insist that women are only genuinely attracted to toxic and shitty men and being kind will instead make women lose respect for you.

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Seriously I think this is the sell. When we say “this is how it’s done” it sounds prescriptive, people hate that. “You will like how it feels” is the winning message

Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that

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I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison

In 1958 Bill Buckley was desperate to find more subscribers for his fledgling “conservative” magazine. And so he reached out to the White Citizens Councils (which had formed to oppose Brown v Board) to get their mailing list. Hunting where the anti-14th Amendment ducks were.

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

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ME: if pee comes out of a penis then a butt should be called a poonis DR: okay fine stop sticking things up your poonis

I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home

Imagine making it this far in media, being this mediocre of a writer and utterly devoid of professional or personal ethics. The idea that elite media institutions are in any way a meritocracy is laughable.

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Oh shit they finally came up with a socially beneficial use case

You know, one of the good things about the Trump administration is it really illustrates how much racism is a death cult.

No one ruthless enough to parlay 3am-college-paper-on-speed writing into national gigs & affairs with powerful men is this unprepared for a fairly soft interview. This is a shitty performance by someone trying to save her book's narrative - 'Young Woman Swept Up in the Current.'

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The ethics are bad, but the writing is worse!

Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.

ALTMAN: And so you can use Sora to generate interesting videos of you and your friends, all with AI. FALLON: (giggling) So, heh, so that's a video of me in space, wow! ALTMAN: Exactly. FALLON: Could you generate a video of me where I'm not just a useful clown for fascism? Where my work has meaning?

One of the reasons I think it’s also essential to not call the boat strikes “war crimes” but “crimes against humanity,” is that it emphasizes that Trump and Hegseth are acting extra-constitutionally and are not entitled to any shield from the courts. This systematic murder of civilians is illegal.

I looked at the first few pages of the pdf, got to a random aside about jon-benet ramsay (‘it was the first time I realized they killed pretty people’) and deleted it.

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

We're doing pogroms in America now

Again, this is the cognitive test that Donald Trump thinks was very hard.

it’s kind of insane it came out that the president might be one of the most notable pedophiles in modern history and he’s just still the president

Holy shit, I’m rewatching, and just caught this. Can’t believe they missed it

this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...

LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD: It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS. I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x

I hate to hand it to RFK, I really do, but "Thank you, and best of luck to you. I'm sorry if you're having a bad time" has got to go down as one of the most eviscerating owns of our entire era

Reminder that "firing on the shipwrecked" is literally THE example used in the DoD War Manual of "a clearly illegal order"

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

a real tell in all of this is that the trans instructor wasn't alone in trashing this essay! a whole other person also said they agreed completely that it sucked. but as far as i can tell only the trans person is getting punished. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...

if what I did was a "war crime" then how come I'm not in trouble

The guy who took out full page ads in the New York Times calling for the death of six innocent Black dudes says “I wouldn’t have ordered those strikes“ OK

2028: "Strong rope, no floor"

“That sounds illegal”

Oppression is when I don't follow the assignment & couldn't cite a single source for a hateful view in my paper so I fail at the post secondary level of education.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

The response to demands for police accountability being the construction of training facilities and shooting ranges across the country definitely set the stage for this moment as well.

I haven't seen much talk about The Washington Post breaking perhaps the most important and damaging story of Trump's second term. (Yes, The Intercept had it first.) I keep telling you that Bezos has restricted his damage to the opinion section. wapo.st/4olRXM5