Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

we’re not doing this under Woke 2 sorry not sorry

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it. What? x.com/sethharpesq/...

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

Sometimes I see these "get into farming and be trad" posts and think of this post:

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

my dad's libertarian friend gave me $175 in crypto for my college graduation and was like "don't pull it out, it's gonna go up." i left the flash drive in a box and forgot about it, i checked it the other day and its worth $26 now lmfao

This is Iraq War style propaganda: They make the face of a well-researched, (near) academic consensus, that isn't egregiously controversial among experts on the subject... and make the face of it a famous but uncredentialed young woman so they can pretend it's vacuous and naive.

Nothing is said in the telegram about the seven and the six.

there is a kind of person that would dunk on this, but this sort of reflection over a seemingly tiny thing is exactly the sort of civic virtue that we need to be encouraging more of

Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Got a fucked up dick implant. Says his shit is all jacked up. Doctor says treatment is simple. At least you didn’t pay hundreds of thousands for it. At least you aren’t Elon Musk. Man bursts into tears. Says doctor, I can’t even fuck kids with this anymore.

oh that’s why she lost

I genuinely take back all the times when I have said everyday Americans lack the gumption to take a moral stand because Minnesota has proven that dead wrong

there have been many, many more egregious and awful bans on this website but this is perhaps the stupidest just from like, a business perspective

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

We have a 2-month-old infant (too young to be vaccinated) being held in a prison where there is a measles outbreak. God forgive us.

What about after that Tim

I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.

Why do pedophiles rule the world? Not just elite impunity. It's impunity for rape. It's our whole culture enabling it at every level. It wasn't about the most beautiful women in the world abused by Weinstein, it's not just the rich as prolific abusers. It's an indictment of the whole social order.

in the nato alphabet her name is charli xray charlie xray

Who could have guessed that working for Donald Trump was a bad financial decision

the confirmation of contemporary transphobia as a political movement has been the brainchild of a boys club made up of some of the most disgusting monsters in recent memory to explicitly keep trans women disenfranchised so as to subjugate and exploit us for their own sexual gain is like a lot, dawg

there were multiple different countdown clocks until the Olsen twins turned 18 reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011 all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful

I remember a few years ago when she very briefly attempted to rebrand as a "dirtbag leftist" type. I don't think she realized that you need to be a leftist to do that

"I feel like someone's gotta say something" you should not have followed this feeling

When someone without opsec argues against opsec, they're not necessarily doing it in bad faith. Their lives and livelihoods are completely different than these nurses and teachers who don't do what's right for the attention but rather at great risk to their financial stability.

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oh my god they really are brandoning

I feel vindicated because I've been saying this shit

He's the Syndrome of pedophilia

Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.

I do think fascism is a suicide mission. No openly fascist regime has been happy or healthy or sustainable. Not interested in gauging where we land among history's worst fascists, but I do think we must understand what it means for us all that ours has the most globally destructive power in history

This entire thread is like lifting up a log to find thousands of centipedes that have been there the whole time, but socially

we saw BLM protesters in Utah threatened with life sentences for rinsing out paint cans. we are seeing pro-palestinian protesters kidnapped and threatened with deportation. alex pretti was likely murdered as revenge for kicking an ICE vehicle. opsec exists for a reason.

I don't know if it's that complicated. One of the undercurrents of the second Trump term is there increasingly aren't separate, differentiated, or specialized federal law enforcement agencies. Everything is sucked into the amorphous blob of the Trump's national police, to do as he wants with it

Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon. A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website: www.georgiafort.com/support

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the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

most "embarrassed republican" answer possible

I know people are understandably scared, but are we going to keep doing this every five months? This is not a broad coalition. This is four groups who never gave up and a bunch of small groups. This isn't new or interesting, and it actually says more that no actually powerful groups are involved.

Hello Donald this is your political strategist speaking. I am advising you today to please keep saying this stuff

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Liberal white men love this because they get to be misogynistic while pretending they're being anti-racist

the Democrats should announce that they will not renew any contracts with XAI, Palantir, Tesla, or SpaceX and bankrupt the fucking tech right. announce that you have the votes to ban crypto too.