veneration and control of the body is a classical fascist project it's part and parcel in the make-believe that bad things happen to bad people, and we're good, and also we won't die hitler & the nazi party were "crunchy" and today's austrian-german crunchiness is descended from this

It’s mostly about the panic of unprecedented climate change. People want to feel in control. They’re controlling their bodies and trying to control others’ to compensate. But the list of vices grows every day and they’re getting more benign. I’ve seen people critiquing ice water (shucks the system).

I wrote about teetotalism last year. I walked away convinced that we were in the midst of a consumer-religious wave. “Lifestyle Puritanism” is a better term for it. All conspicuous consumption of truly grotesque privilege.

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly: - DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems - Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.

YOUR STUDENTS ARE NOT YOUR CUSTOMERS. Get the fuck out of education if that's the way you're talking about them.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

sidestepping all the real, substantive horrors here to ask why he looks like he belongs on the ‘celebrities without teeth’ tumblr

AI is a bubble and its gonna pop !! really good cory doctorow post explaining why this is so pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Giving parents the discretion not to vaccinate their kids is one of the strongest ways the state reinforces the parent-child relationship as one of ownership. Your parents have the ability to decide whether you will die of preventable disease, because you are their property not a person.

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

Air Transat starts cancelling flights instead of coming back to the bargaining table, after the pilots issue a 72-hour strike notice following a 99% strike mandate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRoE...

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

but also if you tell parents/youth that you've made their kid OD proof by pumping them with opioid antagonists people will have a false sense of security. like if you worry that 'safe supply' as a term leads young people to think opioids are safe (dubious premise), what do you think this will do???

h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

as she should be!!! futurism.com/future-socie...

[walking the five blocks adjacent to the five blocks right around my home and looking around me instead of at my phone] um,, yes, i suppose i *am* something of an urban explorer. a bon vivant. a global citizen. a flâneur, if you will 😏

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

this rocks (for anyone who doesnt know, CLAC is functionally a company union — it represents the interests of bosses but does so while *pretending* to represent workers) albertaworker.ca/news/hundred...

we love a book list of cool new histories don’t we folks !!!!

I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ

This was really fucked up and a lot of people had to approve this to get it in the movie. Why did they think this was ok

why’d they make him look like the joker 😭

🎶like a candle in the wind🎶

Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.

too many people are complacent when in fact what we need is to be active in preserving and EXPANDING public goods. folks need to wake up.

saskatoon cutting funding for detox and housing while dedicating 25% of its budget to the police www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I missed the part of BC's involuntary care bill that would remove the bit of the Mental Health Act deeming people hospitalized against their will to have consented to treatment. Advocates have been fighting that for years. www.leg.bc.ca/parliamentar...

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

No, precarity is the right word. It refers to precariousness as a general condition for a worker, or workers in general. It has a specific use.

I think the Right's assault on higher ed is really about this kind of discretion. They want to dissolve or supplant professional jurisdiction over what kinds of claims are seen as empirical or authoritative.

more embarrassing than L to the OG

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

AI firms are, at present, hemorrhaging money at a rate we have never seen before in tech. The cost we pay isn’t even close to what it cost to built out an operate. Even if you just accept that it will eventually get cheaper — these companies still need to return on everything they’ve lost so far.

OpenAI killed a teenager by encouraging him to commit suicide and blamed it on the teenager. If you use ChatGPT then you support this company

The "campus free speech types are hypocrites" line of commentary is very well-worn, so I won't belabor the point much further. But it feels worth noting that *unions* are the organizations actually fighting for freedom of speech on many college campuses...

Ontario senator says Winnipeg detox facility could leave vulnerable people 'traumatized' www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.

this is small potatoes given the state of things generally, but it’s kinda crazy that freemium games regularly feature ads for other games that simply… lie. totally misrepresent the game contents, explicitly promise “no ads,” etc. just open, widespread fraud, basically?

the american pope had an uphill battle winning me over due to my antipathy toward catholicism in general and the ungodly idea of an american pope in particular. but he is really putting in the work

Bong Joon Ho Humanity Defence Militia

I have nothing against you or your regional culture but there is an unbreakable spiritual bond between anyone who has ever had to scrape ice off a windshield while hungover

The federal government is flouting legal orders and agreements and harming children in the process.

seeing a thread of people critically discussing AI use in schools… but a bunch of respondents say they ‘don’t hate all AI use’

This is one of the biggest problems with so-called "AI". EVERY branch of computer science and thought ever accomplished is now included as part of "AI". It's a gigantic hoax. Guess what? Computers, research and algos all existed before the current hoax.

this is unequivocally a war crime

many — but not enough — are saying it

the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."