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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk is excellent. Best thing I've read on the topic. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

There is an organization with a ~$100million/year budget that travels the country spreading the extreme ideologies of the three billionaire families that fund it, and much of that work involves publicly shaming college students for their beliefs. Hopefully that sounds problematic to you too.

staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

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Thinking a lot about living in the age of now. The complete tyranny of now. There are no facts that matter (past), what is being said right now is the only truth. There is no such thing as hypocrisy or shame because it requires acknowledgement of the past, but there is only NOW.

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

Remember when Arizona made a “papers please” law saying they could pull over anyone and ask for proof of citizenship and we liberals said we would no longer go there and that was a crazy racist state? Yeah that seems quaint now…

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

“This return rarely arrives as a cataclysmic rupture. More often, it seeps in gradually: budget reallocations funnel billions toward militarized policing while schools & public health are starved. Language shifts, with democratic dissent recast as domestic extremism.” Sound familiar?

As I turn half a century old, I'm v happy to share a new touchdesigner tutorial. Recreating one of my old works Webcam Piano. Motion detection with frame differencing, MIDI, POPs, Python, GLSL and more. Also shout out to David Rokeby!👋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHf...

Hey #datavis #infoviz #data #ml folks - sharing a wip preview of something I’ve been hacking on, a spatial visualization of stories in film and tv. development.explore.ozu.ai It’s "for my day job", but I'm posting here as a preview to get some feedback, so any thoughts welcome!

Oh wow - did the most beloved Mac-centered live visual tool just make its price $99 *and* add a new Metal-native render engine? Yes, it did. This has implications for Vidvox's (cross-platform) open source tools, too. cdm.link/2024/09/vdmx6/

stop thinking about *your* use cases for technology start thinking about what are the use cases *for venture capitalists* we don't matter to them they are not making technology *for us* they are making it *for them*

We studied how Elon Musk shifts Grok’s politics to mirror his own. Sometimes it works, like when Grok changed overnight from saying disinformation was the worst threat to humanity to claiming it was birth rate decline instead. Other times, Grok is harder to influence: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

Excited to show work alongside my partner and collaborator, @aphid.org at SPAM. Abram is showing their work numb.station (a multi-channel sound piece) and I’m showing You are not a Monster, a lyric game dedicated to caregivers. Both of these installations are special and we put a lot of ♥️ in them!

I really hope we’re not dropping the "content" from "content creator". It’s a valuable label. Content is a very specific type of culture, one formatted according to the algorithms that determine its success.

an actual gift of the internet age is how relatively easy it has become for non-wealthy people to maintain memory systems. both personal ones (photos, backups, searchable mail) and collective ones (wikis, archives, fan communities) the glee with which that is being destroyed right now floors me

Last week someone made this point, a lot of money people (including tech) made a very clear, very calculated decision that authoritarianism, even a corrupt kleptocracy, was better for them financially than risking Dems doing a wealth tax/tax fairness etc. It was an eyes-wide-open choice.

News Flash: Fed rate cut won’t 1. Reduce tariffs 2. Pay for your health care 3. Pay your student debt 4. Protect your vote 5. Get you a job .

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications Whole Earth Catalog was an American counterculture magazine & product catalog by Stewart Brand published between 1968 and 1972. Its focus was on self-sufficiency, ecology, alternative education, “DIY” wholeearth.info

American GESTAPO, protests against MAGA takeover nationwide August 16. Fight the takeover, www.mobilize.us/fightthetrum...

I only did pizza for nine years, but after that (relatively) short time I got so used to the feel of dough that I could judge temperatures within two degrees by hand, nail weights without a scale, and get a full pie from phone to oven in twenty seconds. All labor is skilled labor.

Bought a 5 pack!

hey everyone - need a favour: can you spare a couple of mins to report this on bandcamp? they’re selling AI slop music and using digital blackface - in this instance, pretending to be a “forgotten” 90s Detroit techno producer - to get attention tobiasrecordseuskirchen.bandcamp.com/album/return...

Trump supporter and private security executive Erik Prince plans to keep his forces in Haiti for 10 years under an arrangement that will eventually give his firm a role in the country's tax-collection system, Reuters reports.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

“We don’t even have the infrastructure for resistance. A systemic alternative, and organization to represent it and a public sphere to express it.” Hito Steyerl speaking to or situations and the need/opportunity to build. Suggests we might need to try everything and find which succeed.

That this isn’t an instant career ender is an indication of what a precarious situation the country is in

The billionaire CEO of the third richest company on the planet gives the President an actual block of gold so his company is exempted from US Government tariffs. And the whole thing is broadcast live on TV. Anyone who can't see what is happening to this country is unsalvageable at this point.

It seems laughable now to remember we cheered on companies for being right or left in their messaging. It is clearer than ever that they are all craven to profit and will never care about suffering. This is why it is so insane they are allowed to put money into politics.

If I was in NYC I’d sign up for this in a heartbeat. www.eventbrite.com/e/motion-con...

Who gets hurt most on healthcare by GOP bill? Farmers and ranchers.

One of the most fucked up stacks of information Ive encountered. The YouTube algorithm just suggested it… Kinda want to know more about the Mormon Transhumanist Association but also NOPE.

I think the next generation of world's best edtech tool or the best AI tutor won't come from those who have been trained in and from prestigious universities and companies Because they haven't experienced failing and falling through the cracks in the system

Talking about impeachment. Over the firing of the BLS chief statistician.