still reeling at the knowledge that the UK doesn't have a constitution

James Brown probably wrote "I Feel Good" after taking a nap

[to the tune of "Mr. Sandman"] Hammurabi 🎶Write me a law🎶 Make it like nothing that I've seen before🎵 🎵Throw me in the river if I am accused Then if I sink it is my house I'll lose🎶

still reeling at the knowledge that the UK doesn't have a constitution

dudes rock

thread on generative AI

the luddite movement from the 1800s is a pretty good comparison to the backlash against genAI now, but the comparison makes the anti-AI people look bad. the luddites physically destroyed the machines and still failed; anti-AI people basically just shame people for using the tech.

it's fine that people are mad about the existence of billionaires, but if you're looking for a maximum "ethical" amount of money, it's probably in the 4 or 5 digit range. average annual pay is about $12 000 globally; that would be a decent starting point.

Iran is decolonizing the Middle East.

Back in the USSR: a Subterranean Homesick Alien Mystery

thinking about the time I wrote "socratic oath" instead of "hippocratic oath" and the idea of hospitals just being places where people go to argue

damn, anarchism is really just words all the way down, isn't it?

is Elmer Fudd a chaser????

I think all art is political in some way, and I find a bit of fantasy in this discourse asserting a dearth in conservative art because, in my opinion, most art (esp. commercial art) is conservative, or, at least, politically centrist, as it upholds and serves the status quo instead of challenging it

Boots Riley could have made "One Battle After Another" but Paul Thomas Anderson couldn't have made "I Love Boosters"

it's awfully convenient that the musical performer with the stage name "Madonna" had a hit song called "Like a Virgin"

people talk about billionaires as though they, and no one with less than a billion dollars, are personally responsible for the entirety of the system; as though there's a qualitative shift between 999 999 999 and 1 000 000 000.

just saw a very brave man wearing a shirt that said "I 💜 goth thots" (I use the purple heart because he is braver than the troops and because all the text on the shirt was purple in accordance with goth thot 💜er law)

the "there's a hole in the bucket" song is actually a pretty good example of a socratic dialogue

where does "jokes can have a point of view that merits serious engagement" fit

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Uncertainty as a worldview serves those who benefit from things staying as they are.

[to the tune of La Bamba] C-C-C-C-C-Cloaca

libs love to say shit like "Fidel Castro executed journalists!" and when pressed on the issue they send you a link to the wikipedia page of a member of the CIA who attempted to assassinate Fidel Castro and also wrote one article for the New York Times

yes, and you call this a "grilled cheese sandwich" despite the fact that it is obviously fried

this video is gonna make me throw up

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

I don't remember who posted it, but it was: two interesting facts about me: 1. my penis is shorter than a footlong from subway 2. I'm banned from subway

died of big natural causes

this is a very strong argument for china's Great Firewall

me on last day of winter: I did it! I've conquered nature! I am better than animals! me on first day of spring: why. am i. so horny. all the time

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

new project: articulate the sacred and the profane in a single breakfast

I want to say Measure for Measure or Othello. but in my heart I know it's Midsummer Night's Dream

no, this time the lie was "this attempt at regime change inside the country was totally not done by Mossad/the CIA"

Iran is decolonizing the Middle East.

why would the battery makers make the juice inside so delicious if we weren't meant to drink it?

so this happened under Carter. the policy was probably planned under Ford. interesting that Ford rarely gets talked about and Carter pretty much exclusively gets talked about positively, yet something they did lead to this. probably nothing worth interrogating though, hahaha

text-to-speech versions of languages becoming their own specific simplified dialect because of duolingo

fascism is essentially what liberalism is called when it stops pretending to be nice. so too with twitter and bluesky. your perception of how different they are is directly proportional to how much you buy in to this facade

cowardly, lazy nonsense. if "the citizens seeking to overthrow" Iran are successful, it will become another US/Israeli puppet state. it has been the single most important regional ally for Palestine. have you given any thought about what would happen to Palestine if its biggest regional ally falls?

How China is reporting on the Epstein Files.

POV: you are Proudhon

there is still a middle class in america, and it is still the wealthiest class of people in human history

every once in a while I become aware of some kpop drama that's exceptional both in how inane it is and how extremely racist it is

while it is a problem that billionaires exist in the first place, the larger problem is that the state is subservient to them, and is therefore incapable of taxing them out of existence

these mass protests throughout the US will be funneled back into support for the Democrats, who will then do nothing that the protestors want them to do. they will also burn out the people who actually want things to change; reducing their capacity for their actual goals

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights