Return of the Woke

This is genuinely encouraging.

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews. Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

I do agree that New York City gas stoves are poorly regulated. we need jackbooted EPA troops going door to door ripping those things out by force, and replacing them with induction. (throw in some free pans if you don't have the right ones)

I refuse to have an opinion on "Dem messaging," as always. But it feels like this makes the opposite of the point it's attempting! "Attacking healthcare" is a LOT more unpopular than "fascism". Just, obviously!

This is brilliant marketing, I love it.

bookmark this clip for a year (or less) from now when rural hospitals start shutting down because of the republican budget and metro hospitals can't handle the overflow and rural patients all go to the ER because they don't have medicaid any more or any providers to use it with

September 30th October 1st

so my kid asked me today if fluoride was dangerous while he was brushing his teeth and I was about ten seconds from going DEFCON 5 on his media diet but fortunately he was just reading a childrens toothpaste tube

related, they built the first prototype P-51 Mustang one hundred and two days after the order was signed. this is a country of scientific and engineering excellence and we are not playing to those strengths at the moment

It is illegal under the 1939 Hatch Act for American civil servants to use their offices or government resources for partisan campaigning. Trump yesterday ordered every US agency to do so.

Online Safety Act: A well-intentioned disaster? | Professional Security Magazine https://alecmuffett.com/article/115334 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpns

I hope the US government doesn't shut down soon. all my pirate TV station stuff isn't set up and I'm too ill to set it up. I'd hate to waste a period without the FCC, and not get to broadcast even one laserdisc film or rickroll

Art of the Day - Putting the Trans in Transit 🚃🏳️‍⚧️

the fact that leveraged buyouts exist at all is a truly stunning example of "capitalist market efficiency". no change to the core business nor new means of making revenue, except now it has 20 billion in debt because Reasons. what a system

as part of the hades 2 launch event, supergiant has enlisted chronos to freeze the entire US government. CAN TIME BE STOPPED!?

bizarre framing for 'North Korea could have a future female leader' (it wouldn't even be the first autocracy to go from a male leader to a female leader - by a long shot). But in keeping from the general 'back away from the conversation with the lunatic in the pub' vibes of the Telegraph today

Soy farmers voted their industry away and it’s never coming back. Good thing they sold their livelihood to a party that’s spent a decade or more mocking soy as effeminate!

therighthandofvengeance: via https://queenoliviastredfern.tumblr.com/post/795393198221574144

The Anti-Defamation League? You’re an organization opposed to extremism, especially antisemitism, yes? That’s right. And what info did you take down? A “glossary of extremism” we put together. Why’d you take it down? Some extremists told us we should. We made an antisemite they like sound bad.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Get in there Grab a Bluey shirt while you're at it Engage the cashier in a loud conversation about your sciatica while they walk you through using ApplePay with barely-concealed exasperation The thing no one tells you: destroying the vibe can be fun

Reminder to my fellow fortysomething-year-olds that, if you want to go into a Hot Topic to buy Lackadaisy shirt and support indie animation, you are allowed. No one can stop you

It is egregious, but this is the normal framing for a normal minority party making normal policy demands in a shutdown standoff, which is how Democrats have chosen to present it. The whole ACA focus has made it easier, not harder, to push a "blame Dems for the shutdown" narrative.

A surprising defining text for the modern right is PATTON (1970). Ronald Reagan said it was his favorite movie of all time. In the first act of the movie, Patton turns a defeated army of losers into killing machines by forcing them to tuck in their shirts and show up on time for meals.

Well that’s a CFAA violation if I ever saw one. Let’s be clear, if you share your employee login with a service like this not only could your employer file a criminal complaint against the service, they could fire you and have you prosecuted as well.

i DEEPLY hate the term. it's patronizing, it's a stupid euphemism, it plays into the transphobic notion that cis people are humoring us, it's epistemological oppression to avoid saying the word trans, 90% of the shit cis people do isn't called "gender affirming", etc it's fucking trans healthcare.

Wrote about some failures of major media orgs to meet this moment with a few recent truly head-scratching examples.

the... the US already produces 4000 calories per person per day

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

Apps are spyware, IMO. Should be illegal to require people install malware to access basic services such as laundry machines.

No, I don't want to install an app to use the fucking laundry machines, let me pay with my gods damned credit card.

We need consumer protection laws that prevent this crap.

After a nine-day trial, a federal court ruled that Noem and Rubio misused their power to target international students for their protected political speech. When a government retaliates against individuals based on their words, we must ring the alarm bells loudly.

Worth noting that the American People aren't tolerant of this--Trump's popularity is really bad and is shrinking rapidly. And when it gets into "how could we have" territory, things are liable to turn against Trump rapidly.

…of course when Imgur self-censors itself out of the UK, it takes with it all of the websites that use it as a kind of CDN for OC https://alecmuffett.com/article/115322 #AgeVerification #HabboHotel #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #imgur #surveillance #vpns

there's a lot of competition but i think you can make a valid argument that the TikTok ban is the biggest political unforced error the Dems have made in modern history

I swear, having met some similar people in UK politics pursuing this particular agenda, for some of them it is either their way of undoing childhood trauma or alternately it is directly tied to some form of crusade on behalf of their faith. bsky.app/profile/mmas...

Donald Trump basically announces that he is declaring war on anyone he deems a Democrat... and one of the leading Democratic Senators, @blumenthal.senate.gov thinks now is the best time for a bipartisan censorship bill that will let MAGA define what content is allowed on the internet. WTF?

the only responsible position for Democrats on any bill that gives Trump more power over anything is no this goes double for bills that are abjectly terrible on their own merits, like KOSA

…okay, so I can see Grindr using machine learning for “trust & safety”, but *generative* AI?

As a public speaker, if you look out and see an audience looking like this, you have lost that audience. Hard.

Thanks to fascist voters, pudding-brained non-voters, a broken Congress, and a broken SCOTUS, this rank corruption and authoritarian control of the economy is simply how things work now in the failed state of American. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One nice thing about this framing is that it focuses on how the First Amendment, by its terms, is a limit on the powers of Congress (and implicitly the rest of government)

Resolved: interest rates continue to not be high enough.

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

it's genuinely somewhat absurd that a literal 85 year old Reagan appointee feels more mad about this than Senator Fetterman

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that the Trump administration unconstitutionally targeted noncitizens for deportation over Gaza war protests.