This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

In case you were starting to feel normal and comfortable with all the AI bullshit being thrust upon us: These evil tech bros do not care who they harm and using AI even for silly or otherwise benign reasons helps train these things and prop up their existence.

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

Never underestimate the stupidity of egomaniacal, narcissistic individuals who think their wealth is based on smarts and industry and not luck, privilege, and governmental assistance.

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Gavin Newsom is a genuinely bad person and any admiration you have for him needs to be directed toward actually good people like JB Pritzker or Andy Beshear.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Genuinely, how is it possible for people to be *this* out of touch?