If anything, it leans into the tropes. The letter basically opens with "if you are reading this, I am dead"

I mean, this is following up on the emails from the pedophile billionaire who was trying to help develop doomsday AI with titles like "RE:RE: billionaire pedophilia conspiracy" "RE: RE: RE: AI apocalypse pending"

feeling frustrated? does the future seem daunting, like your abilities are insufficient to realize your dreams? there’s a solution for that! find a trans person, tell your local newspaper about how they made you feel bad, ruin their life, and enjoy a life of luxury on the conservative media circuit

One of modern society’s greatest sins is that we have given stupid students and parents so much power and incentive to grift like this, and yet we don’t allow professors or teachers to say “shut the fuck up” anymore.

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

Isn't this posadism?

Look at its portfolio. Comic book villain ass company

Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud

this is such scammy bullshit we need to crack down on supplements hard

all im saying is no one's *tried* it yet

tbf, "fuck it lets go ask the aliens" makes conceptual sense to me if i imagine a scenario where there's something above humans yk

It was never about saving money it was fueled weird conspiracies about the Cathedral, slush funds paying people to be woke and Elon lashing out because he is upset he couldn't control his daughter while doing enough ketamine for a large animal practice.

"if all else fails, go bother one of the local apex predators and maybe they’ll fix the problem for no reason"

I love that analogy of humans being fae. Not understandable by animals, and a potential danger, but also a potential source of help

"I think of Ovid’s Pygmalion: Here was a fool who sculpted a woman because he hated actual women. Bronze Age Pervert, the enemy of actual men, likewise prefers a statue." www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...

if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now

It is the ultimate edgelord move as a way to whine about society. Signed a former teenage edgelord that used to do that

Yeah, "Raytheon sponsoring a Pride event" doesn't mean Raytheon is automatically Good but it means that the major institutions and money (who also make the big guns) *currently perceive civil rights as the horse to back in the 'equality versus stupid evil' battle* and that's an important signal!

It says to other entities *and politicians specifically* that the money believes civil rights is going to be the winning side, so there is naked self-interest in hewing closer to that lest you end up getting caught on the wrong side of the long arc of the universe and losing your shirt

i like being alive and allowed to participate in society, whining about sincerity is kinda on a different tier of the hierarchy of needs here

I’m starting to see rainbow capitalism as something that should be celebrated. Yeah it’s likely stories like Target and Walmart’s C suite are at best apathetic and at worst homophobic. But the fact they have to pretend to love LGBT is the ultimate power move. THEY HAVE to pretend for a month

That’s been the calculus for a lot of Black people for decades. I don’t have to personally like you or believe you believe in the shit you’re advocating. Results are what matters and I’ll call you out if I’m not getting them.

My super hot take is we should probably care a little less about if pols have genuine feelings about this stuff that aligns if they are doing when we want

WHAT

Coffeezilla has them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7i9...

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

I think the answer is that they've confused rejection of social norms with intelligence, and also that they're *strikingly* unoriginal people who copy each other when brigading designated targets for abuse like Will Stancil.

'why is the very online left weirdly obsessed with piss' is a question worthy of Freud

“He raped me.” “Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” “She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.” Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

the end result of Trump 2 is going to be the complete collapse of the institutional right into an incoherent soup of billionaires and grifters all busy stabbing each other in the back they spent decades constructing this infrastructure and it’s all coming tumbling down

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions

WOKE 2 SUMMONING CIRCLE

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

so thank you, Bari, for streisanding this so hard that a bunch of terminally online 38 year olds who haven’t watched cable television since saturday morning cartoons are glued to fucking 60 minutes you monumentally incompetent goon

Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant “we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough

no, this has been happening on a large scale internationally since the 90's. there's no experiment, but there is a fanatic quasi-chomskean cult of bad early childhood educators. those of us working in secondary education get to deal with the chronic illiteracy.

im torn between "nah its fine, this is boomerposting about rock and roll corrupting the youth" and the fact i can't disagree this specific subgenre in particular is lacking in self-awareness in a way that, like, halsey singing about being a nightmare or whatever the fuck isn't

“I am insensitive … Sometimes I drink too much, sometimes I test your trust” these are not good tnings bro! Heal thyself!! youtu.be/WtFwuPnzidE?...

I listen to country music from time to time, and I gotta tell you, man, this shit is depressing. Man being like “i suck shit, I’m actually a pretty bad person, but you know, I’m just a guy! That’s just how it is. I like beer too” like come the fuck on

Just an observation that culture treats listening to rap as a bad influence on young black men, but does not afford nearly the same disdain for country music on young white men. I WONDER WHY THAT IS (I don’t actually wonder)

Some do and some don’t. The reason ed largely moved away from it is the top-down push for whole language instruction that grew in the 90s and exploded in the early 2000s when it was paired with dollars and policy preferences as a part of NCLB. Tip: many teachers have little control over curriculum

but phonics is "old" and as an education PhD I am bored by it, so I want something new and exciting!

I got special supports because I have a learning disability so I wonder if that's how I actually know how to read because I went to public elementary school in the 90s and we never got any of this "just guess what makes sense there" shit bsky.app/profile/mike...

Just apropos of several things going on on this site, I don’t want to be see mean or judgy (this isn’t a value judgement, to be clear), but I really feel like a lot of people are functionally illiterate. This goes beyond reading comprehension issues.

"the purpose is not to learn words"

As I get older I find myself getting more temperamentally conservative, even as my left-liberal politics stay the same. The “debate” over phonics is one example of why.