This type of confusion is the source of a great many social media arguments on the left.

Again it is something that people in previous eras have commented on but I still find it just astonishing to witness in my own: fascism is somehow the natural ideology of loser men, just all of our most pathetic and contemptible instincts rendered into a worldview.

People really reacting to this without all the details. I am sure there are good and legitimate reasons why President Trump is taking the oil revenue ransom he extorted from Venezuela and is putting into a Middle Eastern bank account that Congress cannot control.

I wrote an article for @theconversation.com on how philosophy can help us understand the deep harms of AI-generated sexual images, e.g by Grok on X, as well as other digital misogyny like assault in virtual reality. #philsky #philtech theconversation.com/how-ai-gener...

What an utterly evil bunch of fucks.

Certain loopholes come to mind, but this is probably just a 'what is the minimum we can do to look like we're trying?'

I mean, it is important to remain optimistic, while also recognizing that not everyone got through it. (And, in my personal opinion, the universal 'we' can get through things better better without being such absolute imbecils about it.)

Exponential curves are fun.

My favorite online metronome has monetized and while I understand that one cannot expect useful resources to be free, $3 a week seems insane. And the new free 'default' setting is different to the default of the previous free version I've been using so I can't even use the free default anymore.

That said, there is a valid point in that it is probably better to give a vision of what you want your world to look like, than a vision of what you don't want your world to look like. No harm in saying 'yes' if asked about abolishing ice, though.

"Absolute immunity in the conduct of your duties." -Miller

Vehicle chop shop next to the car dealership.

The right have agency. The left and especially center remember it when we discuss rape culture but when fascism in politics 'the left brought it on themselves'.

NEW YORK (AP) — Scott Adams, the 'Dilbert' cartoonist who ridiculed office life and was later dropped for racist remarks, dies at 68.

Seems to me people who want awful things are quite unlikely to inconvenience themselves quite so much.

Trade them for Epstein documents?

Harper's Letter folks are being kind of shy lately about free speech issues. Maybe they are writing an extra long letter this time.

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

One thing fascism has going for it is that it is too dumb to survive.

I really hate how the same things that are weaponized against the average joe are weaponised in favor of the wealthy. The sexuality of anyone who isn't completely heteronormative corrupts our children. Unlike an $8 CSAM generator.

They. Have. To. Pay. The. Bribe.

That Trump is even in power suggests America's problems run a lot deeper than one despot.

Trolling but with annexation. I don't remember this covered in history.

Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images. n.pr/49BPyI1

This shit is wilder than South Africa under Zuma by orders of magnitude.

Yep, nobody wants to be without a chair when the music stops; but they don't want to miss out on all the slimey opportunities while the music plays

Someone forgot to pay the bribe. smdh

Freedom of speech vs information warfare. I'm with the UK, Aus and Canada on this. Tough decision but right decision.

Sometimes the reasoning is that a bigot will feel more aggrieved at being accused of being what they hate, then accused of hating what they hate.

The predators win...what?

I also previously thought amoral but rational capitalists used rubes by cynically deploying vicious / silly right wing ideologies. But I now think I underestimated how many true believers there are, some of the previously rational got internet brain poison, and there's been change in who's in power.

So Elon is monetizing the CSAM? 😏

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

Two hours with Trump produced a 1 minute read.

Amazing how two (groups of) people can look at the same evidence and draw completely opposing opinions.

'freedom of speech' meets information warfare.

He's right. The antichrist's gotta come from somewhere.

Good luck over there.

With Plato in the Republic I think they're wrong about this; they're simply incorrect about their own self-interest. I didn't understand this until I saw in real life the exact kinda guys he was arguing with, and it's just utterly obvious from the outside that theirs is a pathetic and degraded life.

This is basically the view of the world that Plato sets out to refute in the Republic. One of the core questions asked therein is: why do powerful people think the mere fact of them exercising dominion makes it good for them to do so? Sure, you *can* get away with stuff if you're powerful - so what?

Has Bari released that 60m piece that she wanted to polish up?

I sort of disagree. It's time to stop framing every political campaign as a negative. I DO think the next president should address the current administration decisively (rather than ruthlessly), BUT I don't think it should be the central pillar of the campaign. Run on what you LOVE, not HATE.

Never mind the words or anything: Just imagine he's explaining how to build a cupboard.

There is a certain type of writing that I find completely unintelligible even on multiple passes, and I am never sure whether it is because I am simply not smart enough to understand the words or because the person is deliberately constructing a word salad.

says the ft!

Given the high profile failures of the administration's other grudge prosecutions, how funny would this be? I mean, depressing and funny.

Maduro is gonna walk lol

There is a curse. They say: May you live in interesting times. Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)

I want a refund for my std 5 history exam.