Anyone who says “be normal” betrays that they have an implicit value system of who is considered normal and who is not, and when you have that, you will always value some people and traits over another. They will always replicate hierarchies of power in the long run.

The occasional fascist is simply the price we must pay to ensure the clean operation of our fascism-enabling machine.

the people who said "the bombing would stop if Gaza released the hostages" are very quiet lately

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is it better for countries to invest in boring things like transport and energy infrastructure or should they invest all their money in useless chatbots that talk in reddit-voice on the vague and completely unsubstantiated hope that they'll be able to do something profitable one day

But I thought woke was dead? Did you revive woke? Did woke awaken?

Israel killed at least 104 people in Gaza, including 46 children, in overnight strikes on the Palestinian territory. The attacks came after Israel claimed its soldiers came under attack by Hamas militants, though the group denied responsibility.

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

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[ person is not white ] CLEARLY THEIR SUPERFICIAL DEMOGRAPHICS DROVE THEM TO MADNESS AND MURDER [ person is white ] He was just a pwoor widdle gwuy, who knows why he did this, sympathy for the troubled widdle bwoy

You have more sympathy for a literal murderer than for an entire group of oppressed people who you thought you could smear with the same murder

"I was made aware of how my behaviour affects others" and "I had to think about other people I don't understand" aren't threats to your safety, they're threats to your ego. It's not "woke lefties" who need to toughen the fuck up for the sake of humanity. It never was.

i hate the game politicians play where they back israel 100% until it starts killing too many people too fast, then they start calling for peace until the killing slows to levels acceptable for them. they're not opposing genocide, they're negotiating how quickly it should proceed

Right wing: ICE raids, concentration camps, mass shootings, martial law, rampant racism, violent misogyny, warmongering, cultural imperialism, literal Nazi shit. Left wing: Sometimes rude and pretentious on social media. Liberals: "The left needs to calm down if they want to win people over."

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The army marines etc are full of people that have repeatedly lost wars against people with significantly worse access to weapons and technology, trying to use tech they don’t use on a regular basis. They are not some kind of unstoppable force they want you to think they are.

The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.

Brace yourselves, fellow trans people, you're about to see a lot of posts about the humble, saintly, benevolent compassion of a man who called our existence an "ugly ideology" and our medical care "grave violations of human dignity."

you cannot rebuild american society with this supreme court. you cannot rebuild american society while billionaires pour money into politics. you cannot rebuild by meeting segregationists half way.

i have learned that way too many americans see the concept of 'freedom' simply as the potential to be rich and privileged, even if they aren't, & not things like freedom from dying from a preventable illness if you're poor, or being imprisoned for minor crimes, or persecuted by the police, etc

burning down forests so that we can be wrong most of the time www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

BREAKING: Israeli settlers have carried out a ‘lynching’ of the co-Director of Oscar winning documentary No Other Land. Hamdan Billal has injuries in his head and stomach and is reportedly bleeding.

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

Fuck Karla Sofia Gascon for her racism & lack of accountability. But it’s telling how Emilia Pérez’s racism and transphobia didn’t tank its Oscar chances—just one trans woman being shitty did. Because that justifies their trans misogyny, and now they’ll use it to never nominate a trans woman again.

In a shocking development, a Nazi has performed the Nazi salute.

if you care about other people or have any sort of moral or ethical lines which you refuse to cross, eventually you get fired or froze out or just stop getting promoted, & that's why everyone at the top is an evil brainless sack of shite

great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.

Part of why Netflix seemingly can't produce anything good or memorable is that "showing people exactly what they want" sucks the life out of artistic creation. No one has their life changed by a movie created in a lab to appeal to their exact marketable demographic.

How it started: How it’s going:

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the baseline is people who believe in equality. there's a huge diverse range of opinions about what that looks like or how we get there. but if you don't believe in that first of all, no, fuck off, you're wrong, get out of the bubble plz

Frankly, i think it's quite bad for multiple reasons. Tech firms buy up renewable energy, or contract with coal to keep plants running. -> continued energy demand growth leads to more fossil players in the system. -> tech giants absolve themselves of guilt with PPAs/hourly matching of REs

israel is the most immoral and evil country in the modern world

Only humans would do quirky things like a general strike or strangle the bloated god king in his pod

Periodic reminder: a lot of what makes AI "work" is exploited people doing the tasks, just hidden behind fancy websites. It's good that a normie outlet like 60 Minutes is reporting on this.

game dev pro tip: if you're struggling with motivation, try setting realistic goals like "today i will open the project folder" or maybe even "today i will look at one (1) line of code"