Thinking about AI today after seeing some news about how using them reduces your brain and willpower. In combination with the sycophancy, it makes me think about questions from @shannonvallor.bsky.social “Technology and the Virtues” - who do we become through the use of our technologies?

A serious and thoughtful critique from a scholar I admire of a scholar I admire. Well worth your time to read!

Started Judith Butler’s “Whose Afraid of Gender?” and she made this point about the anti-gender coalition. Not only hasn’t done the reading, thinks doing the reading is a sign of weakness, or worse, consorting with the devil. Or put another way: just the dumbest motherfuckers, man.

Orion and solar eclipse: new, fascinating image posted on NASA Johnson's flickr account, captured by a GoPro camera mounted on one of the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Venus can be spotted on the left, and Saturn on the right of the Moon. flic.kr/p/2s7wkRo #Artemis 🧪🔭

people will never feel like the economy is good when they can see complete ruin as a realistic possibility in their immediate future, even from a fairly secure present.

imagine if you hit powerball. imagine if you find out youre the secret heir to genovia and youre really anne hathaway. imagine dragons

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

This is a good joke and also true. I think it was Montaigne that said the value of philosophy is that it prepares you to die well.

As always, Dr. Roberts has an incisive thread on the epistemological struggles of our time.

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

Man do I miss the mix CDs from my youth romances. Shout out to Claire for introducing me to Manu Chao and The Faint.

This poster goes hard.

Add this page to your bookmarks. A wonderful primer on how to update your Google Skills. As the basic search gets worse and worse, we will need to get better to find what we want. This helps!

Re: vibecession one factor for me is feeling cheated paying federal taxes. I'm paying a higher rate than every billionaire to fund a gov't that does far less good, and far more harm, than it used to—while running a bigger deficit. I'll pay for USAID, make the billionaires pay for their fascist shit.

The thing where voters don't believe republican policies could be as evil as they are apparently extends to the republicans actually in charge of the government just mindlessly implementing them

"Cool" = cool "Neat" = pretty cool! "Dang/dang dude" = hell yeah "Hell yeah" = hell yeah!!! "Oh hell yeah!" = we ride for Valhalla

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

"How can we get rid of you?" The immense significance of the defeat of Orbán's illiberal political machine and methodology By me at the Empty City substack emptycity.substack.com/p/how-can-we...

An Expedited Strategy Briefing on Mythos, Glasswing, and building a security program for what comes next, by 250 CISOs, and the wider community. It is still a draft, with some design incomplete, but we felt it was imperative to release. Link: labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/mythos-ciso/

I genuinely believe that people don't appreciate just how much of all the bad vibes right now are still largely a COVID hangover. It was a profoundly traumatizing event for American society, on the order of the civil war or the great depression and we've largely decided to just pretend

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Pretty telling what politicians get to define their beliefs themselves irregardless of their actions, like Vance, and what politicians get their beliefs defined by their opponents, irregardless of their actions and statements, like Zohran.

In the Catholic Church, the faithful are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, who investigate crime, and The Devil of Hell's Kitchen, who beats up the offenders. These are their stories.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

“The Pope is weak on crime” is one of the funniest sentences I have ever heard. It will spring to my mind unbidden, for years to come. Also, I don’t believe in any of this stuff but if you did, it would seem to be an inescapable conclusion that Donald Trump is the literal, actual Antichrist.

I want to be in a crowd chanting “TO PRISON!!” about the various ghouls and goblins who have stolen our country and our future.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

the Democrat who wins will be the one vibrating with desire to drive the MAGAs before them into the snow and cold, unheeding of their piggy little squeals for mercy

This is the combat sports circle of life.

There has to be some kind of punishment for these fucking liars who lied their way into power and then did the exact opposite of what they sold. I propose [redacted]. We need to put the fear of God into the liars who want to come next.

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

“‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Cried the TikTok Man.”

People who spent the past decade complaining about an imaginary "war on Christmas" reminding the cardinals they might use the US military to defeat the pope in battle

this is not just the trump pitch. hierarchy is the republicans pitch! and if you think about the structure of the hierarchy at all, its not a coincidence that white men are the most ardent GOP voters and black women the most ardent Dem voters!

It is very funny for the purported Christians running our government to say, “WE HAVE THE MILITARY MIGHT TO OPPOSE GOD HIMSELF.” Like it’s literally “RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods” but without any sense of irony

days like today i get incandescent with rage all over again that he wasn't in cuffs and an orange jumpsuit and perp walked on jan 21st, 2021

Conservatism isn’t really any more complicated than this and we really shouldn’t pretend that there is.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win. This is the excellence that diversity enables.

we did it gang

Everything is gender politics, example 1000.

it also has this one

Gotta make these for real

I just think that until you can prove your god is real, your god needs to stay the fuck out of politics. “The bible says women shouldn’t vote” - the bible says bats are unclean birds, gtfoh.

This is such a good explanation of how our drained pool politics ass country works.

👇🎯 We totally skipped the discussion about affordability, cost, fairness, moral hazard, & all the other things this time. So we should simply not do those things ever again, the next time Democrats propose spending money on actual serious policy ideas & public services.

This really is an encapsulation of what being an American is: experiencing something needlessly cruel and profoundly stupid while propaganda you can’t turn off blares about how free and lucky you are