Pure Land Luddite

becoming a sovereign citizen type except instead of their beliefs I simply think the Macbeth principal should be applied to the US Constitution; that is to say, the framers when they said "natural born citizen" were actually saying "not delivered by c-section"

Me Too did not go far enough.

But that’s not at all inconsistent with anything I’m saying. The claim isn’t “listen to radio, go Nazi.” It’s that new forms of media change the dynamics of politics, which can make outcomes that were previously unlikely - like the rise of various extremisms - more plausible or even probable.

currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals

today in things i say that apparently will generate vitriolic hate trains against me: "oligarchical consolidation of media is bad but also there are limits to what can be done given the nation's size and its deeply-rooted tradition of a free press."

funny to think about a far future where anthropic is a large, mature, boring public company and its founders' belief in the imminent machine god is a bit of funny trivia like wk kellogg believing bran stopped masturbation

When Park Chung Hee realized he'd lose the next election, he told his prime minister that he was considering something 'special'. A year later, he abolished democratic elections and crowned himself as leader-for-life. Yesterday, Trump said that there shouldn't even be a midterm election.

I choose to believe that one day Billy Bob Thornton and Luke Wilson will come to actual blows as their weird AT&T-Verizon ad feud spirals out of control.

the world lost an entire generation of gay men and other HIV+ people all because of this piece of shit in the photo below. and that student debt you can never seem to pay off? also the fault of said piece of shit below.

Almost every problem we are dealing with right now can be traced directly back to this fucker right here. People want to talk about the confederates were never appropriately punished for the Civil War but bc this man was likable, America has never really even acknowledged the harm he caused.

You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned. archive.ph/Tmthz

Shocking twist, there is actually some debate about whether the testosterone dose was too high. Overall the kid seems to be doing better with it than without it. There is literally no story here other than "Father Objects To Son's Happiness." www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

For the first time since the outset of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, a Christmas tree has been lit in Bethlehem, the Palestinian village where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born. www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts...

Every so often the admins of any site get pulled into ongoing site conflicts and end up radicalizing themselves against their own users. Jack Dorsey's true innovation was going off to a yoga retreat to do peyote about it for two weeks

well you see, in "he said, she said" journalism, it's important to bury the truth halfway down the page in a quote by an activist or academic (if you mention it at all) as easily-dismissible opinion, otherwise Republicans will get mad and insist you aren't being fair and balanced

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

The answer is ads. It’s always been ads. Commercials are what pay for media because consumers won’t do it willingly, and we’ve had a nearly two decades long experiment with streaming services to prove it You know what all the streaming services are doing now? Putting in ads.

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally. And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.

No translation but TLDR Germans are…gathering in parks to eat pudding with a fork? Pudding mit gabel. Nobody can explain how or why it started but it’s become a whole thing somehow.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the gov of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken"

“Ask for what actually fixes the problem — and then go out there and fight for it.” On Monday, @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social came to NYC to talk about universal childcare, and why we shouldn’t listen to billionaires who say making life affordable for working families isn't possible.

Bari Weiss's website assigned a reporter to read every single Zohran Mamdani tweet over the last 18 years and came up with shockingly little dirt. www.thefp.com/p/capitalism...

This "golly, let's not let politics get in the way of friendship" pap that we hear from a lot of Trumpistas is basically a kind of gaslighting, as though burning down the constitutional order & kidnapping people to ship to gulags were just another ordinary policy disagreement.

you do not hate these fuckers enough

New Yorkers: good luck today and remember not to vote for or even slate anyone who is a known sex pest

This is the true final destination of a public and media that is completely and utterly incapable of knowing much less understanding things about the way the world works. It’s basically kabuki theatre as government. People say things and posture for the camera and it’s “governance”.

it's state propaganda now

I find “people don’t actually know how things work” has a lot of explanatory power. I don’t mean this in a holier-than-thou way. I’m only vaguely aware of how my microwave or the car radio work. A lot of modern life is assuming the functioning of complex tech and models.

Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation. It’s an essential step in the process.