Real hot take is that the nuclear family is unquestionably bad for everyone but Americans will never give it up because a lot of parents love the power it gives them over their children (not to mention the built in us v them element)

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Laypeople use “square” and “cube” like they’re interchangeable Cubes are not squares! They are hexagons No I will not elaborate

Ladies and gentlemen… the eschaton

Reconstruction 2: No Fucking Around This Time

Private equity was the unaligned artificial intelligence all along

"You don't belong in polite society. You're killers for hire. You don't defend the highest ideals and people of our country - you kill who we tell you to. No one will want to look you in the eye." Great pitch! How did the generals like it? Did they love it?

If you think "cats don't love you but dogs do" it's probably because you expect love to come with obedience

We've invented Hell And all it took was capitalism, massive inequality, and social media platforms!

Man, I probably couldn't summon a demon even if I wanted to

Is it okay to have distrust for people who demonstrate an appetite for violence and cruelty

Been wondering this myself. How do we route around this scenario?

Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.

Is it more the Earth or the Moon at fault for them orbiting each other?

Jen and Siobhan and their 3 awesome kids are some of the kindest, best people ever, and they're moving out of the US as the country gets more and more unsafe for trans people. If you have the means to support their move and help give them a safe landing pad, please do

Asked whether the world is fair or unfair Kids unsure “Maybe the world isn’t fair, but wants to be, and needs help sometimes?”

Are the people who alerted them early about the reputational risk of assisting genocide get bonuses? Oh they all got fired?

“[T]he true Tools for Thought we still wish existed will never come from Apple, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, or any other large player in the software or hardware space. They can’t.” systemstack.dev/2025/09/huma...

Help I’m a middle aged man getting into synthesizers Gonna hit the Cringularity

I know I've said this before, but: music

Panopticordion Is that anything

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

Democracy Dies in Darkness - The Washington Post Guarantee™

I wonder what % of sentient life would agree to a “play stupid/evil games, win stupid/evil prizes” rule

The Queer Games Bundle is running on Itch for another 1 day and 11 hours. It's got the recent buzzy indie games "Blobun" and "Time Bandit" and… about 300 more games and ebooks, and at least one printable sticker pack? Buying this supports a large number of people

Transphobia is a unique sort of bigotry that just absolutely cooks the online brain. Holding it nearly always results in an inability to ever admit you’re wrong about anything and exponentially increases the likelihood of believing in a cascade of ever dumber conspiracies and fascist ideology

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

Literally the second meme I've made in my life.

We need communism

Mamdani: We know that oligarchy has an impact right here in New York City. When Trump ushered through his so called 'Big Beautiful Bill,' he ushered through the greatest wealth transfer in American politics. That is the fight that unites us across this country in this moment

Tapping the sign

In a society, survival is collectivized There’s no society without that

anything worth doing is worth doing without nazis

Selectively revoking constitutional rights for vulnerable minority groups is a GIGANTIC red flag. The reddest possible flag.

Disarming a specific minority that you've been vigorously persecuting and fearmongering about? Probably nothing

I am so sick and tired of living a world where politicians and other public figures can tell bald-faced lies and not even face a raised eyebrow from the press, yet any kind of normal communication online has to be armoured against disingenuous, bad faith attacks and deliberate misinterpretation.

Queer the coordinate system

“Is your word good when it doesn’t suit you?” is such a fundamental moral question and the problem is, while it’s crucially important that this be a required moral currency, we all desperately need to be forgiven The test of what we ought to feel owed might be: how do we extend this grace to others?

We have to establish a different kind of internet distribution infrastructure, because they kinda own all the web part. Make a patchier, weirder, more bazaar-like internet that moves less data. Build on top of torrent or something else distributed... like a city at sea made of boats lashed together.

It’s just matrix multiplication

Today's discourse on "LLMs can't be doing anything, they're just matrix multiplies" could benefit from a read of "More is Different" www.tkm.kit.edu/downloads/TK...

Ok fine, obviously the term “AI” has now won. We are stuck with it But from now on we all know it’s Animated Information. Large volumes of data, given life by the mechanics of mathematics Will it, can it, ever be a “real boy”? I think we’ve been wondering that longer than computers, and yes. Credo

awkwardly watching Terminator in 2054 with my robot in-laws like "it was a different time"

I wonder if people who think food delivery is a luxury view programs like "meals on wheels" (directed at seniors living independently) in the same way?

Republicans in 2015: The President is using FEMA to build secret camps to disappear undesirables! (derogatory) Republicans in 2025: The President is using FEMA to build secret camps to disappear undesirables! (complimentary)

*long slow exhale* We're gonna need a bigger Hague

I haven't seen this aspect noted, but it's top of mind: every totalitarian regime finds ways to justify extrajudicial detention of nonconforming citizens, often under the guise of mental defect or socially disreputable behavior there's a vast literature on this... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Pivot to video was such a curse. Now everything’s like obviously you’d rather watch a 40 minute video than read a sentence.

To repurpose a famous Marx quote: people make their own gender, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.