At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

I fear media literacy is dead

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once again a young tolkien would've seen exactly one palantir slidedeck then torched their offices

really is like a masterclass in perversion. not just in the surveillance and power but the idea of technological supremacy, solving politics. its all so opposite of everything the man believed in

okay, I'll say it: johns hopkins is too plural of a name, almost obscenely fecund. there should be just one john or just one hopkin.

I didn't expect much from this Austrian high school atlas, but it surprised me. Österreichischer Atlas für höhere Schulen (Kozenn-Atlas), Wien: Hölzel, 1978

You can plate it and serve it you like but it’s impossible to disguise that this is just shit scraped from the toilets of 20th century totalitarians

What’s interesting here is they say “culture” when they mean “people” but they think that this maintains a veneer of deniability about what they’re really saying. In any case it’s true that the “culture” of the tech billionaires is morally and intellectually depraved rot bsky.app/profile/elio...

Echoes of history in the capital. Sirens rang out in the Polish capital to commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.

the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

literally every day my wife or I go outside with our daughter people go out of their way to be friendly, offer aid or a kind word, no matter where we've traveled. it's nice to remember that hostility as default mode of interaction is not destiny, much as it benefits some to pretend it is

[1/8] Catherine Bennett rapporte qu'à #Venise ingénieurs et scientifiques, dont Andrea Rinaldo (Autorité de la lagune) s'activent face à la montée des eaux. Le système #Mose montre ses limites, révélant la nécessité d’anticiper de nvelles solutions. #geography #risk #adaptation #sealevelrise #Venice

Probably one of the most cutest birds I ever saw! 🟢⚪️🔵🟣🔴 The Cuban Tody (Todus multicolor), one of the most colorful birds in the Caribbean, only ten centimeters long with a bright red throat, emerald green and a pinkish belly. Photo by Yadiel Veunes [FB] yadielveunes.com #nature #birds #beauty

Love this! Thank you so much for this piece @austinmccoy.bsky.social! Must read ⬇️🗃️

trans women have a biological advantage at being hot now

Des « Français de papier » qui perdent le droit de vote ainsi que leurs enfants et petits enfants: le fantasme de la droite française mis en œuvre bon par une pétromonarchie. (Aucune) surprise: les femmes sont les premières victimes.

This is precisely why in my classes I insist on the concept of sectarianisation instead of sectarianism. Sectarianisation is a continuous process, and Israel is an example of a sectarianising force - and one of the most violent ones in the world.

a lot of liberals have more anger towards Caitlyn Jenner than JK Rowling or other anti-trans figures and it's for all the worst reasons

Netanyahu is keen to keep Israel in perpetual state of war and emergency. If the war in Iran and Lebanon is indeed ending, the next targets are likely to be Gaza. The failure to reach an agreement on Hamas disarmament would be used as a pretext for Israeli invasion.

The US quietly extended a short-term waiver letting already-shipped Russian oil be sold until May 16. The move reverses earlier signals that the waiver wouldn’t be renewed.

Latest death toll released by the Lebanese ministry of health includes the grim milestone that 100 medics/first responders have now been killed in Lebanon by Israeli attacks since March 2. I wrote about attacks on healthcare a few weeks ago, when it was 42 www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

It's the U.S. communism hysteria, label everything what will improve regular people's life as a communism. It has worked literally generations, it's like rightwing magic trick. Now we wait and see how many fools there is left in Usa, does the trick still has same power.

For completeness Here’s the gift link www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Hahahahahahahaha Oh my! Is this an opening para or is this an opening paragraph? This alone should end any normal human cabinet secretary.

A solid quarter of this site is enthusiastic young Christians who used to post Apostle fanfic on Tumblr and another quarter is atheists who read the Bible carefully to better understand their enemy

I see we’re doing 99% evil is better than evil again

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

you had my curiosity, now you have my attention

A good day to remind people that, around 2000 or so, Edward Said began routinely telling journalists and editors in his interviews that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory was now the longest in modern world history, after having surpassed the Japanese occupation of Korea.

Think about the sheer amount of energy, time, & cash it would take to isolate ONE PERSON from so many just b/c you dont think trans folks should be *SEEN* Now think about whom they could do it to if youre NOT trans Bigotries hail from poisoned minds, people exist, and trans rights ARE human rights

Circling back to this for a moment: T.rex is a standard favorite dinosaur because Osborn's magical naming ritual worked, sealing the beast into the American imaginarium. But the animal itself is *genuinely weird* in a way its pop-culture ubiquity makes kind of hard to see

Build-a-voter is back! @fransham.bsky.social's creation is now updated for 2026 with data from More in Common. www.economist.com/interactive/... My profile is predictably Labour-leaning...

I can no longer use the word gender in any federally funded research. As Butler cogently argues, the goal “is not opposing a specific account of gender, but seeking to eradicate gender as a concept” altogether.

Doom is a form of mum game. Any game in which you clean the level meticulously and thoroughly before moving on and then the next time you return its a mess again is a mum game

Important report by @ttp-updates.bsky.social shows the continued infuriating and unsurprising prevalence of AI nudifiers apps on the app stores. What's it going to take for the companies to take this issue seriously?

Every time I hear Biological Women I just assume they want to install genital and chromosomes inspectors at every toilet. Because that is how weird it sounds to refer to people as biological men or women.

nothing online works for shit anymore. everybody who knows how to work computer is unemployed. we are stuck with these losers shooting up peptides while they vibecode their claude dongle

New Epstein-linked revelations show how neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer aka “Weev” became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging “memetic warfare” against their enemies. By @barrettbrownlol.bsky.social

please, my reginos, they are very sick

trying to post through it rn

A decade ago, I wrote that tech tycoons were on a path towards being considered the new robber barons. Now that 750k tech workers have been laid off, it was inevitable things would get rough. medium.com/humane-tech/... When it hits a million, they’re gonna need Pinkertons whenever they go outside.

There should be something where you get money just for being alive on account of you need it to live

It's worth noting that the reason pro-Israel Democrats keep trying to compare Israel to Ukraine is because they know Israel is unpopular and Ukraine isn't. This comparison is actually very insulting to Ukraine!

heated chivalry

Personally don't recommend these. As the article notes, these properties are typically achieved through PFAS, which can shed carcinogens in your home (which you then inhale) or come out in the wash (polluting waterways for decades). Will try to do a thread on how to treat stains in the wash.