The 80's were 20 years ago. Just like the 2000's were also 20 years ago. I don't see why this is so hard to understand.

"last person to talk to him" theory of policy development is looking like an absolute lock

Q: Just days ago you referred to Trump as a 'despot.' Will you retract? MAMDANI: We're both very clear on our positions & what I really appreciate about the president is our meeting focused not on places of disagreement but shared purpose we have TRUMP: I've been called much worse than a despot

also trump is always deferential to celebrities and mamdani is a celebrity bsky.app/profile/atru...

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org

This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

"American girls have to sell sex to the nominee for attorney general of the United States to get braces" sounds like Soviet propaganda

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

This builds on @mtsw.bsky.social ‘s theory the real reason managers and corporates hate work from home is it exposes who can read and who can write, and hint hint, a lot of America’s higher up can barely do either

God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'

Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Tax Space Caligula into oblivion.

Just an absolute banger of an animal family

Change in Headline

Gates' subtle anti-renewables messaging, possibly related to his investments in small modular nuclear reactors, was well known, but this is next level: financially supporting a guy whose core business it is to argue for less climate action.

Trump: "For generations Miami has been a haven for those fleeing communist tyranny in South Africa. I mean, if you take a look at what's going on in parts of South Africa. Look at South Africa, what's going on. Look at South America, what's going on. You know, we have a G20 meeting in South Africa."

‘Remigratie’ staat in de meest extreme vorm voor gedwongen deportaties en is in het gunstigste geval een keihard signaal naar geboren Nederlanders dat ze hier niet horen. Een fatsoenlijke politieke partij heeft niks te zoeken bij dit witgewassen nazisme van Joost Eerdmans en Annabel Nanninga.

Jettens strategie was meedrijven, of doen alsof, daarover volgt nog uitsluitsel

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

To be clear: I'm not exaggerating when I say Gates was VERY SPECIFICALLY against the thing he's now claiming to be the result of "innovation" We'd be on that ultra-shit trajectory, if Gates had been king of the world. www.theregister.com/2015/06/26/g...

Just two decades ago, China had little capacity to manufacture cars — and owning one was considered a novelty. Today, China produces and exports more cars than any other country in the world. Meanwhile we in Europe still pretend we can somehow stop EVs from taking off by holding on to old tech.

Die domme kroeg-grap, spontaan of ingecalculeerd om twijfelende stemmers te bedienen die bang zijn dat D66 ‘woke’ zou zijn, is natuurlijk niet het fundamentele probleem van de partij. Dat is hun ‘If you can’t beat them, join them a little’ campagne, vol subtiele rechtsige geurspoortjes. [draad]

NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months. That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What it'd cost for Europe to be self-sufficient in solar panels: +~20% to the cost of panels if produced from Chinese cells; +50% for European cells, +75% for European ingots and wafers. BUT even the last option is just +15-20% to the cost of utility-scale & +5% for residential.

Geen kapsalon meer voor jou, redneck.

Between this and people saying they had never seen a Totenkopf I'm becoming increasingly convinced Americans do not actually register things they see when they see them, like at all. Like they see motion and shapes but do not process at all what they're seeing as a contextual point, like a dog.

I find much of the world to be insulting these days. It's normalized how degrading everything has become. It's why they think they can get away with this kinda stuff. The really bad part of that they aren't wrong and they keep getting away with all of it.

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

one unexpected aspect of this: i feel good about that. im glad this shit is unacceptable to me. im glad shame and social behavior and adherence to rules were drilled into me. i feel bad for those coming up in this wilderness. i hope for my kids' sakes that there's a pathway out to something better

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

Report from @TGehrke_and @jankaoertel calling for the EU to use the anti coercion instrument against China over rare earths Points to chokepoints Europe could use: -older DUV machines -airplane components -high precision bearings -powdered superalloys

Obama: Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive Trump: American farming is dead and Argentina is alive

Ze stelt dat ze met de afgekeurde plannen van de orde juist 'opkomt voor die rechtsstaat'.

‘Ook hebben meerdere spelers van Spakenburg gehoord hoe een steward zei dat hij "geen Marokkanen zou beschermen."’

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

When people talk about AGI taking all the jobs, I think of dark factories and automated ports, labyrinthine distribution centers filled with tiny robots zooming around. An economy no longer built for humans.

Deze grafiek zie ik ook graag wat vaker gedeeld worden, want dit is natuurlijk ook dieptriest

20 billion dollar US Treasury + Fed bailout for Argentina's Javier Milei. Cui Bono? "Funds at investment firms including BlackRock, Fidelity and Pimco are heavily invested in Argentina, as are investors such as Stanley Druckenmiller and Robert Citrone, both of whom worked with Mr. Bessent."

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill. Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

In May, Marco Rubio’s State Department was railing against Europe as “a hotbed of digital censorship” on.ft.com/43jTw5o

no training budget available

Meanwhile, antisemitic chant at a far-right anti-immigration protest today in Amsterdam: “Hey Franz Timmermans, you dirty filthy cancer Jew, just go and die” (not getting into semantics of translating kkr, which I’m tempted to more loosely translate as “f*cking” in this context but that’s just me)

I hate how accurate this is

A quiet bombshell in Europe’s tech world The Dutch government seems to have effectively frozen operations of Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker, citing national security, according to corporate filing today - via @zichenwanghere

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