It’s the same reason why Wrigley Field looks like Nashville and sucks. Their owner sucks and is trying to terraform that part of Chicago into MAGA Wakanda.

it feels increasingly surreal to read AI consciousness debates in an environment where most of US politics, society, and economy aggressively emphasize turning your brain off

I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

I agree with Nevin’s sentiment. And this is a consequence of when writers and reporters explicitly make *themselves* the story. For instance, I shouldn’t need to know what an Olivia Nuzzi or Ryan Lizza is. A lot of failed theater kids missed their higher calling as actors.

just basking in the glory of being a floof

it's going to get worse from here. especially after users found his kik profile. very few adults on the app aren't groomers or pedophiles. www.bbc.com/news/uk-4556...

I think this is one of the best critiques that I've encountered of so-called Woke MAGA and the IDW in general: www.skeptic.com/article/anti...

This is a decent summary of what Woke was (professional spaces with elite capture are another matter) and I don’t expect whatever Woke 2.0 is to be much different.

Man, euphoria’s fandom is dumber than a sack of rocks and has the media literacy of the median voter.

ok, the third season of euphoria wasn’t nearly as bad as everyone made it out to be

One of the reasons why I can't stand the "uwu, they're just smolbean voters" narratives.

Platner's biggest red flag was Katz. And it's kind of a miracle that Madani has fared well in spite of the latter's influence.

This is an AI Gawker article

It is once again very remarkable that the bsky QT consensus is look how a vuln D talks, shame on the COWARDLY LOSERS that are normal D electeds when IA-Gov is literally running a “not red or blue but good & true” campaign that specifically turns to the camera & says ”here‘s how IA GOP is corrupt”

I’m going to be honest with you guys, the criteria presented for whether or not Conservatives and Reactionaries can produce art is mid-wit at best.

I can’t tell if it’s graham planter or Jon favreau getting corncobbed by the wsj story

the Pod Save America dipshits are behind a lot of this. Platner's campaign is a product of how incestuous and unhealthy the Democratic elite world is, not a reaction against it!

Have to be honest, celebrating the 250th birthday of the US is hard to fathom under the current Epstein Administration.

Something that some readers may have forgotten is that The Peripheral and Agency are both set in the same universe, in which Hillary won. Those who’ve only seen The Peripheral series will have no idea of this at all.

It’s pretty clear that others in Trump’s orbit aren’t going to get away with his behavior. The politicians who thought so grossly misread the situation.

This is true and much of this has to do with even self-id’d Marxists and Communists not knowing what term even means without consulting Wikipedia

Fact: a coffee shop definitively slaps when it has Nujabes on its playlist.

roe vs. wade being repealed didn't really lead to the seismic shift in women's voting patterns that was predicted www.americancommunities.org/anatomy-of-t...

This is ultimately why I’m concerned about the undecided voters in Los Angeles’s mayoral race. Thankfully, the few people in my orbit who support Pratt can’t even vote in Los Angeles.

Interesting. Cc: @nicklalone.com @tedunderwood.com

The “social media” platforms we demonize today are actually multiple suspects. danah boyd (@zephoria.bsky.social) and Ben Werdmuller (@werd.io) have unpacked the term in ways that could have major benefits for both the child safety debate, and the case for democratic representation online. 1/6

I’m actually a little bit surprised that more of my feed isn’t melting down over Talarico’s position on immigration & border patrol.

the Crystals bit appeals to a certain genre of person in Los Angeles and California who isn’t necessarily MAGA or Republican.

I love parents yellow lab. But it’s absolutely impossible to stay with them without having all my clothes covered in blonde dog fur.

Glenn Greenwald literally ranked the first Trump term as the top presidency of the 21st century on his “”””debate”””” show in case you’re wondering how things are going in contrarian anti-Dem land

my hot take on gooning discourse is that nobody who posts frequently on bluesky can criticize anybody for spending hours a day masturbating.

It’s a coin flip over whether or not Katie Miller’s kids will turn out like her or her husband. And there are going to be four of them and she’s legally trapped with of them. That’s a special kind of hell.

They made her a cake at work lmao

Makes me feel like this data point verifies my view that Vibes come from the Media. Or Media “Architecture.”

Might give this a go. Was intreresting to learn that the creator was influenced by the likes of Shuji Terayama.

How did @aelkus.bsky.social frame it? That’s because like its audience, the Y.A. Industry is neither young nor adult.

A quick Google search revealed that J.B. Shurk writes for Real Clear Defense and The Federalist. And that’s all that I need to know.

Florida was the model for this, as my recent @fpajrnl.bsky.social article discusses academic.oup.com/fpa/article/... Educational links is NOT just soft power and it CAN be weaponized!

how it feels to just mute someone trying to start shit

I don’t often say this unironically, but Saito-san is based.

there are severe right-on-right crimes going on in the comments of the katie miller post over how hot this guy's fiancee is. like it's making nazis scream at each other

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

I’m afraid we’ve passed the point where even nuking it from orbit would be enough to be sure.

I will say that this interview answers my question about why Brian Schatz is following Hanania and Razib Khan to my satisfaction, and I wasn’t sure there was an answer I was going to like

As terrible as discourse on this site can be, I do appreciate its ability to reduce right-wingers who do try to show up and troll to sad mirror-universe Ed Balls posting

"Trump is who they want to be—saying and doing what he wants, making deals, getting rich. But Ken Paxton is all that most of them are: A bad lawyer looking to get ahead, background music in someone else’s story."

I do not want to know what goes on in this user’s group chats