I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

lol

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Has Tim Cook posted his review of MELANIA on Letterboxd yet

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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?

@ jews in the chat w/ me

This is why calling them weird creeps was so effective, not just to damage the leadership psychologically, but to make it extremely socially embarrassing to be a known supporter of them in the general public. The point is to make society at large view them as they are, not the force they wish to be.

uh....

BREAKING: Dem voters seen walking and chewing gum at the same time.

“Star boom could falter without more Bowser Spaces, Mario Party bad guy Bowser warns”

if you try to focus on Trump’s authoritarianism, Schumer will deflect and say people want us to focus on affordability. but when Zohran Mamdani made affordability the heart of his campaign Schumer refused to endorse him because they disagree about Israel. it’s all mealy mouthed bullshit.

There is precedent for this; Swedish and Norwegian naval ships have QR codes so that when they return to port they can scan da navy in.

people being insanely strange in this thread lol

It's rare for a company to sign a contract with the US military AND get caught generating CSAM in the same two-week period. Grok is just built different

MTG "broke" with maga for the same reason a bank robber leaves the bank.

seeing people post the stephen miller tweet about dean martin and frank sinatra and THE POINT of his post is to get you to say “but actually they were the kids of italian immigrants! owned!” HE KNOWS. the point is to get you to engage.

i’m not wishing anything on anyone, i’m just describing the future

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

Personally, I think one of the enduring qualities of great art is that it resonates in different ways across time, geography, etc. For example—a lot of my favorite 19th century novels (James Wharton etc) wrestle with ideas that are applicable to the questions of today’s social media age.

Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.

But if we say, "You know you can't trust big tech. Maybe you should use AI that isn't so bad for the planet, or your job, and doesn't tell kids to kill themselves, and isn't owned by the worst people in the world. And it's coming soon." *They will listen.* The proof? You're here. On an alternative.

the human desire for pals is so intense we literally turned another animal into existing to be our buds

it's so funny to watch the far right White House press pool try to bait Trump to say something nasty about Mamdani and every time he's just like "nah this guy rocks"

"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years

bluesky has the juice

big question of the night: why didnt NYC like the billionaire backed groper who killed their grandparents

i haven't seen a capital one commercial in a while. maybe they could sneak one in between pitches here

Feel like, as a society, we might consider moving Halloween to the last Friday in October (observed.) Vibes truly immaculate tonight.

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10. This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

are the school kids in oshu still watching?

their ducks: not even in a row. in disarray. shambles our ducks: slowly arranging themselves into uncountable phalanxes

Bari Weiss going from firebrand individual contributor to directly-accountable manager of a huge bureaucratic organization facing secular decline… gosh has anyone ever seen this movie before

the person who published this is about to run CBS

The broadcasters here will do what the social platforms never had the courage to do - loudly state that they can make whatever programming decisions they want and the gov should stay out of it. This is because they are not also defense contractors :(

Just a tiny leap from “broadcasters have to use their spectrum in Trump’s interests” to “AT&T and Verizon have to manage content on their wireless networks in Trump’s interests because they operate on public spectrum”

it ought to be interesting to see how everything shakes out

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people

a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

fucking hell

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

All shootings are bad. All of them.

@jonbois.bsky.social i just left the screening in ny and had a question. do playoff games, like pete carroll games, possess a weirdness that begets a disproportionate amount of scorigami’s?

sorry if this is a tough pill but a society that allows a massive media corporation to shove microphones and cameras in the face of a traumatized ten year old correlates neatly with a society that allows scores of children to be shot at at school

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good