I guess maybe the sensibility will be liberal copaganda in the vein of The Wire, but I think (hope) we're past that as a culture

I'm not in Minneapolis and don't pretend to know the whole story here, but misplaced and paranoid "security culture" is a real problem in moments of upsurge, I see it cropping up locally again, after I encountered it during the George Floyd rebellion as well

May this be the first and mildest of many humiliations for all of these fascist ghouls

[ERIC ADAMS VOICE]: Minneapolis is the Gwangju of America

Glad to see this, signed by my dad along with many of his colleagues who I grew up around

OK, but maybe journalists could reconsider the norm of "uncritically repeat government claims, then fact check them later", when faced with a government whose first move in every situation is an immediate barrage of preposterous lies?

Oh you spoke with the white house? I'm sure that was fun for you, you twerp, you worthless piece of shit. Just resign and go away, if this is all you can do as the death squads roam the streets of the state you claim to govern.

Today allowed Minnesotans to do two of the things we do best: coming together in solidarity and smugly acting like it's no big deal to go out in extreme cold

Our most recent shot at prying open policing's cabinet of monstrosities was 2020, and liberal politicians responded by wrapping the whole thing tightly in "training" and consent decrees, and festooning it with body cameras. Time to take another run at it.

The @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com knew about this in advance, but chose not to report it in order to ensure the death of large numbers of Venezuelan people

This is our new baseline for how little Zohran is capable of smiling in a photo

"adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models", now that's the kind of cyberpunk dystopia I'm talking about

So, postliberal in just the same way Boris Yeltsin was postcommunist

Lots of good stuff here, but a key bit, missing from a lot of critiques, is that it attempts to wrestle with what the viable alternative is, given that you need to keep the cops from going into all-out revolt from day 1. I don't know if this is it specifically, but it's at least a concept of a plan.

I first encountered George Packer back when he was letting Paul Berman shit directly into his brain and then vomiting out liberal odes to George W. Bush and the war on terror. He's wack, and he's always *been* wack, is what I'm saying

Say the line, Slavoj

One of the coolest things about #TeslaTakedown is that it's not just about "sending a message." It's about attaching a stigma to driving a certain make of car, which is the one source of profit for a financial bubble that props up the most powerful racist alive. It's protest as direct action.

I was 17 when I reached a high enough level of math to hear my professor (a Republican btw) answer an eager grad student asking how he knew he had proved something by saying, "it's a proof if I believe it"

They're all lies, especially the truths

If I had a nickel for every time my TV asked me to confirm I was still watching during the world series, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but

My read on Kristol is that he's as much of a bloodthirsty imperialist as ever, but on some level he recognizes that one lesson of historical fascism is that, when you fully turn the tools of empire and colonialism inward, it pretty quickly leads to the collapse of the whole project

Post-bubble, this stuff is going to look like 2021-era crypto hype (it's the same terrible journalists doing it in many cases.) Ascribing "memory," or "planning," or "values" to an LLM is like talking about the rich emotional inner life of your toaster.

I'm watching the World Series and so getting rare exposure to TV ads, and they're really spamming the AI bullshit. Feels like that Super Bowl with all the crypto ads, good thing that turned out well for everyone involved.

This seems unquestionably true to me, although it's not that new. The last few years of LLM nonsense for sure intensified it, but the peak of the Internet as an information gathering tool was probably 15+ years ago.

Look, I'll try to put this in terms the dorks on here can understand: you can be a Yoda Democrat or a Karis Nemik socialist, up to you

"All films about crime are about capitalism. Because capitalism is about crime...at least that's what I used to think. Now I'm convinced." - Abraham Polonsky, blacklisted Hollywood director

This is hilarious on its own, but if you listen to the recording you can hear in an un-transcribed aside that the interviewer is confused about both what DSA is and what American political parties are, which sets up his next, even more ignorant and bungled question.

If there's one thing Democrats stand for, it's that you should be able to get a good look at your local ICE stormtroopers before they shove you in an SUV and disappear you

Ok dude but have you told the state police under your command about this?

JB Pritzker continues to posture as the defender of rights against Trumpist authoritarianism, while sending his state police to beat the shit out of protestors on behalf of ICE, I don't see how this remains a tenable combination for very long

Right wing politics is organized around political flopping, more and more people are saying it

In light of the nickname of the 19 year old Elon flunkie who is seemingly to blame for causing millions of deaths and also leaking everyone's social security number, I'm surprised I haven't seen more references to this classic youtu.be/4WwJ6OVSwkM

The most shocking and disturbing thing I learned in this article is that Theo Von is 45 years old. He's two months older than me! How is that fucking possible?!

This is one of the most prominent billionaire funders of Democrats, if you ever wonder why so many of them are Like That

Because of the structure of their respective voter and donor coalitions, Republicans need to blame social problems on powerless scapegoats (migrants, trans people), while mainstream Democrats can't blame anyone and instead need to insist that working people and billionaires have common interests.

I'm at the rise of fascism. I'm at the dismantling and looting of the USSR. I'm at the combination rise of fascism and dismantling and looting the USSR

I stole the term from EP Thompson, who was talking about nuclear war. I swiped it to refer to something more like the Dead Kennedys line: "Efficiency and progress is ours once more/Now that we have the neutron bomb". A mythical bomb that was said to kill people while leaving property intact.

Lately when I watch star trek TNG, I'll get annoyed by characters acting ChatGPT-brained. Barclay can't sleep and is like "computer, play something soothing." Oh, you don't have taste or know yourself? You asked the chatbot to tell you what you think is soothing?

My fantastic four

Good things happening back in my homeland

All these people are ass and should be primaried, but it's significant that the three from New York are scared enough of what Zohran represents that they felt compelled to act out of character like this

I stumbled into watching the 2025 Robert De Niro Netflix series "Zero Day." It's extremely incoherent and stupid, but also maybe a good window into the mental prison that, say, the editors of the New York Times have locked themselves into

I thought my Pixel's battery was starting to go, but I did this and it really seemed to help eev.ee/blog/2025/07...

Very normal things happening over at the New York Times

The US and Israel were very successful at preventing accurate data collection, and discrediting the sources that did exist. So even pro-Palestine forces fell back on lowball numbers that were easier to defend. But I think we all know that the true scale of the horror is something much worse.

Who is Andrew Cuomo in this metaphor

This is, by miles, the most effective and compelling I've ever seen Kathy Hochul come across in any context. She's an evil but also extremely incompetent politician, and it's remarkable that the Trump regime has managed to make her look this good.

An instance where it would be the most reassuring to discover that the article was generated entirely by an LLM with no human supervision

Saw my first anti-Zohran ad because I put on the NBA finals and the first hit is that he's going to "move the homeless into the subways"?? After that it's just some warmed over "defund the police" scaremongering from 2020.