The purpose of a system is what it does

The richest man in the world is a racist with the emotional development of a 12 year old, his friend who finances the right believes he’s fighting the Antichrist, and the President is a dimwitted sex criminal who thinks he’s a polymath. Curtailing their influence is literally the government’s job.

The animating purpose of representative democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. The rest is wainscoting.

Please please please let this be bureaucratic ineptitude and not mass murder.

Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.

Proud to announce our unnamed tech partners tracked the cell phone locations of hundreds of thousands of people without their knowledge or consent

BREAKING: The terrorism counts against Luigi Mangione have been dismissed as "legally insufficient" by a New York judge. Mr. Mangione, 27, is still charged with second-degree murder and that case is expected to proceed.

We live in a world that is equal parts Butler, Dick, Ballard, Spinrad and Sterling and our media still thinks we live in an Agatha Christie novel.

Drop something GREEN 💚💚

Charlie Kirk was a man so deeply committed to freedom of speech and enlightened, reasonable debate that you are not allowed to quote anything he said ever again.

I hate to admit it but this is peak joystick design 🍒 #jjba #stardustcrusaders

He has never felt it. Imagine being so defective that you have never felt empathy. And then thinking you have things to say, wisdom to share with people who gather around you, to hear the drivel straight from your eldritch, gum-filled maw.

I'm so tired of my employers making every process just a little more complicated and obfuscated every year with *no* actual benefit to users. #universityofcolorado

Whenever I see comics of Gangle and Zooble trying to fuck I'm just like you poor things.

There's a reasonable case to be made that we have not actually had smart people in charge since the government started undermining the post-WWII (partial) meritocracy in the name of wealth back in the 1970s, and we've most been coasting on decaying systems put into place in the postwar period.

True.

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September:

People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

When 16-year-old Adam Raine wanted to leave his noose visible so someone might stop him, ChatGPT said don't. When Stein-Erik Soelberg thought his mother was poisoning him, ChatGPT agreed. OpenAI calls these tragedies. They're choices. www.readtpa.com/p/chatgpt-wi...

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

Oh, it's simple, the Boomers got their $10k college education and their $60k home then decided to pull up the ladders and rip up the roots of the American dream by putting in charge the worst people they could find, such as Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.

Okay I guess I can see why this new logo is controversial

August 22, 2030: ThirdWay releases its annual list of phrases serious Democrats should avoid using if they want to seek leadership positions in the labor cadres of their internment camps: “typhus” “mass grave” “summary execution” “human rights” “quicklime”

Well, congratulations, but it's still not bringing back the writing I used to get paid to do that companies now giddily outsource to an A.I. that does it half as well. The thrill lasted right up until wealthy people had to worry about whether A.I. might replace *them*.

Capitulation has consequences

there are people who claim that Terry Pratchett would have been a TERF if he was still alive to them I say two things: 1. are you fucking serious 2. go fuck yourselves

Confederacy of Beavises is a fantastic line.

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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Not aging well.

💯.

we can do this

terrific

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Stop. Using. Substack.

I made this in 2021

As a maker of exceptionally sexless art, I just wanna say publicly that any attempt at censorship of the arts is to be resisted. NSFW art is always an easy target, but it’s also always only the first step in a chain, not to mention the artistic value of this stuff in its own right.

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.

China is adding 1 GW of solar a day and we’ve got these fucking muppets trying to reopen coal plants.