We are the designated sacrifice. Our role in white supremacy is to be the target when they need to release their worst tendencies but still feel good about themselves. Whatever they do doesn't count when it's done to us. You can't make them feel bad about it.

At this point, if you're a politician, just submit everything up front. Give us your texts, your email, your ig DMs, your browser history, your AI chat logs and your tax returns. Just get all that shit out the way. And if you know you have secret children, just stay home bro. Save us some trouble.

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I figured out what my retirement hobby is gonna be. In about 20 years, I'm gonna start a quaint YouTube channel where I teach people how to build websites "by hand" like Bob Ross.

Putting a large facility in a small town used to mean jobs for locals and revenue flowing into the economy. Now it's literally the opposite. Businesses come to your area, hire nobody, pollute the environment, and also make you pay for their expenses with your tax dollars. Wild.

There is no magic. It's just us and what we decide to do together.

They literally stole as much copyrighted material as they could get their hands on to make these things. Whatever you worry they might be doing? They're definitely doing it. The only real questions are these. Will they get caught? And if they do, will there be any consequences?

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Even though I've made this joke myself I actually really hate the "all developers have to be engineering managers now with agents" No, they all need to be tech leads, not ems. Unless you're having to deal with the agents' interpersonal issues and the PM distracting them and getting them promoted and

This makes sense

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green is ready to sign the most groundbreaking campaign finance bill in the country. Hawaii is putting an end to Citizens United within the state! Details: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/hawaii-jus...

Vintage. From a bygone era.

That part

It's a euphemism for "this is close enough to what the professionals do. It'll probably be fine to take it to the pro league." It's like if you win every streetball tournament in your neighborhood and you start thinking what Lebron does can't be that special. bsky.app/profile/sam-...

Just passed a bunch of guys in fire department t-shirts that said "Let no man's ghost come back to say his training let him down" and does that go harder than any t-shirt you've ever seen or what

It's so disheartening to watch this play out. "The end result is that organizations are actually leaking private data through vibe-coding applications" www.wired.com/story/thousa...

Recently I feel I've seen a strong sentiment that Republicans are on the back foot. Trump is unpopular and some people are withdrawing their overt support. But make no mistake, this fight is still ongoing. Their goal is to seize power in perpetuity.

Palestine is the moral issue of our time, as was apartheid in the 1970s and 80s. your stance and your silence define you.

sometimes i see a crypto hacker where i'm like "you know what they kinda earned that one"

The trailer for Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is out:

I'll say it again, this is the express purpose of disinformation. Of course they want you to believe the disinfo but at its core it's about making you think it's impossible to discern truth, that you can't believe anything you read.

There still is absolutely no plan for how to finance & operate our universities without foreign students or restored federal funding, & the public still has zero awareness of the magnitude of this existential crisis, because our leaders have been totally absent from the public stage.

The SPLC has been one of the few orgs actually documenting this shit and trying to tell everybody. Since way before Trump. Telling y'all what white people do. Providing the data. But people rarely took any action. Don't act like you trying to save them just so you can not listen some more.

Yikes. "The company... has amassed 'one of the largest mental health data banks in the world,' containing 140 million message exchanges. The end goal: training a soon-to-be-released AI therapy companion bot, according to reports the company released to investors." www.proofnews.org/womans-talks...

The things that people like this never consider when actively trying to have us all surveilled is that the problem they hope will be solved by giving up our rights will not actually be solved. They will give away our freedoms and people will still die in car crashes in droves. Great job.

"Interest payments on the U.S. national debt are set to surpass $1 trillion in 2026, some $88 billion a month—equal to spending on defense and education combined." fortune.com/2026/04/23/n...

Welp!

This is a reminder that you can still ask real people for advice and recommendations. You don't have to ask the robot for everything. In fact there are some things you definitely should not be asking the robot about.

Okay but who IS talking about the racial superiority subtext? Cause that seems kind of important. We like to ignore that part when it actually explains all the rest of it.

"The gun had been purchased by Reynolds, but was given to the Kollmans in exchange for a PS5." America.

I was trying to be nice. I think I need more practice.

This is a good thread. I used to tell people that we need more nuance in these discussions. But honestly I don't ever expect that to happen. It's not that people don't understand nuance. It's that they don't wanna be responsible for figuring it out.

Damn. They even ran Rob off the internet. The nicest and most uncontroversial person you can imagine. Literally all he does is read comic books and explain them to people. But he followed the wrong person on twitter and now we get the "taking a break" video. Makes me sad. youtu.be/xJcxuqCxfqw?...

I'm trying to find where i predicted that they would eventually surface ads in ai chatbots. Anyway that's still gonna happen, but it turns out they're starting with shopping. www.modernretail.co/technology/s...

Carrying my Birth Certificate with me at all times now. It didn’t have to be this way.

I'm finding a new therapist, and I just got off an intake call. I don't know if it's a millennial or gen z thing. I know professional norms are gonna shift with generations. But please don't tell me you think I'm gonna "crush it" at therapy. I know what you meant. But still.

They didn't let him stay. There was a heated political battle, and he won with the help of Satya Nadella from Microsoft. Microsoft had invested a shit ton in OpenAI and they bet big on Altman. So they had to back him. The opposition was ousted.

This is an easy one. The answer is no. Sam Altman cannot be trusted. He does not control our future though. We are giving it to him. That's a different thing. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I single-handedly run all the same technology that Bluesky, the ~40 person, $136M company does. My @blackskyweb.xyz team does full-stack content-moderation, ships products core to our mission + partners with orgs so we can be a long-term sustainable business If you rely on us pls pay a subscription

Whew. This point cannot be overstated. We have a society that was made susceptible to giving away their agency to AI. Because all of the human institutions that we are supposed to be able to trust have failed us repeatedly. At least the robot doesn't treat you like you're stupid.

All right, live whatevering of Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case. Arguing for the bad guys is US Solitictor General John (voice is an immutable characteristic so let's show some respect) Sauer. For the plaintiffs it's ACLU legal director Cecillia Wang.

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White people fantasies are wild.

Oh shit.

Imagine you bought a new TV and paid $600. Then, you find out a week later that your friend in Hartford paid $300 for the same model. You'd feel like you got scammed. Now imagine you were only allowed to buy from the $600 store, just because of where you lived.

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid

Okay. Nobody asked for this. But Let me just say that the writing for Magneto in Marvel comics over the years is some of the most fascinating explorations of white people's psyche that we are able to directly observe.

Nice.