In an antitrust context there is a clear template for a challenge that fits the current merger guidelines and won four years ago: the Simon & Schuster/Penguin Random House challenge, which said that consolidation would affect author advances. Here it's producer fees. Other angles, but this just won.

Five alarm fire. The entire cable news ecosystem and the largest online outlets will all be center-right to full-on Nazi: 100% mobster/oligarch propaganda, lies, and censorship, and nothing else.

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

why does Jeremy Corbyn, a man who clearly does not enjoy leading political parties, keep running political parties

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

I don't have a new angle on every cop union issuing its own version of Nick Swardson I Was Murdered Dot JPG after two cops got hit with snowballs while wandering NPC-style through a snowball fight. I guess I'm most curious about who called the cops to say "they're throwing snowballs in the park."

Of course it's the SBA. Last time a DSA member was mayor, these clowns rioted

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

xbox was good while it lasted, but it’s time to let it go

ever since Mayor Mamdani implemented Sharia socialism in New York, schoolchildren are bopping our precious NYPD troops on the noggin with giant inflatable hammers. @mayor.nyc.gov must denounce these heinous atrocities

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders. I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

This was written by some kid from Brown who's a Random House PR assistant. She was in high school in 2020. I think we need to just stop pretending the Free Press matters

They call us pirates, but the future will call us archivists

Tommy Lasorda, especially if it's a plush Phanatic.

We all know Michael B Jordan will be in this

Cash out begins

Hey, Democrats, go ahead and attend the State of the Union, but only if you react in real time with this silhouette as your spirit guide.

any democratic politician saying other democrats are talking about “pronouns” too much is laundering republican bigotry and lying to you to try and appear more moderate than democrats at large

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever. One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

The more media mergers we see, the more copyright is doing the opposite of its intended purpose: instead of encouraging creativity, it’s discouraging it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Democrats should get on the same page as progressives about billionaires, and what to do about the billionaire class, even if they don’t agree about every piece of rhetoric or every idea to constrain their influence over politics. www.offmessage.net/p/the-case-f...

What this technology is going to do is not end higher education, but it is going to undo so much of the baseline work on accessibility by pushing overworked professors to take things back to offline modalities, in person timed exams, keeping tech out of the classroom, etc.

alright well we can rule out the gold medal olympic hockey locker room in the nancy guthrie search

If you wanted an R gov in California you'd: -establish a top-2 primary -have 2 prominent Rs & 9 Ds enter -have the Ds in 5th-9th place claim "the race is wide open" & it'd be "undemocratic" to get out -have party leaders (Pelosi) say an R gov "is not going to happen" without doing anything about it

It's so cool that the fbi is basically the make a wish foundation for one podcaster

stop calling rfk jr a never-nude. he might feel the need to prove he isn’t

I saw Gilroy speak at the 92nd Street Y during this junket and he clearly and visibly. had to stop himself from saying "fascism" and genocide" multiple times.

I get the feeling that MS is gonna reorganize the gaming division and the results will not be good. I would not be surprised if ES6 never gets released.

Someone a decade+ younger than I asked me if I saw the Matrix in theaters and how cool that must have been

Just a tribute to dear old father

Literally sitting in the Microcenter parking lot right now, feeling depressed and despondent - because I, too, love the computer. But idiots make my hobby expensive, and increasingly exclude enthusiasm from the business.

As an aside: the most influential Dem consultants all believe the best electoral strategy is to adopt a hostile posture towards the Dem base in the hopes that might convince this person to vote for Dems. They get really mad if you say that won't do anything except depress lean-Dem turnout.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky has pulled her Donna Miller endorsement in 2nd Congressional District over AIPAC support. Schakowsky on Thursday told the Sun-Times she “cannot support any candidate running for Congress who is funded by these outside interests.” chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

X is absolutely cooking the brains of the entire political class that remains on there. The ones who think they're immune are probably the most affected.

ask anyone on the left about high-speed trains

Doug Wilson and his abusive cult in Moscow, Idaho are a clear and present danger and for once I’d like to see pundits taking these Christian supremacists at their word and writing about their current influence. They have been saying repeal 19A for YEARS.

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Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

This is the real scary thing about the hardware shortages. We are literally letting Tech Companies and ISPs take control all the processing power and storage. If you thought a Photoshop Subscription was bad, wait until you have to pay to make computer work gooder. FML, it's all so dumb.

dems' fundamental inability to recognize that public opinion is something you actively have to influence rather than capitulate to is one of the most fucking frustrating things to deal with.

there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"

Wow: Amnesty International official says they were sharing info with the Biden-Harris admin as soon as October 2023 that there wasn't even a "semblance" of Israel following international law. They kept trying again and again — soon declaring Israel was committing genocide. Admin kept ignoring them.