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RFK talks about autistic and Arabic people the exact same way. He assumes they are not capable of ordinary or extraordinary achievements because of who they are. He considers them sub-human because they are not like him. This makes it plain that his is a white supremacist eugenicist project.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

Trump wanted to create an Orban style autocracy & take away everyone’s liberties. But Orban knew u need to be popular when u put that into effect. But in just 20 months Trump failed so hard he’s more unpopular than any midterm Prez in 80 yrs. Chump just doesn’t have the cards. 🤣

Legitimately a dream to write something that inspires a reader to "go Martin Luther Mode."

This is why you will need national legislation. And more coherent legislation rather than one-time levies. But state efforts are critical because they put the topic into the conversation. And generally 'neener neener' isn't good messaging from the billionaire class.

Whenever possible here on KDO, I link to paywalled articles with gift links. To help in that endeavor, I've built a gift link discovery tool called Prometheus. “An informed public is the foundation of a healthy society..." [kottke.org]

Scoop from @brettlogiurato.bsky.social: CBS has sold its local election night coverage to DraftKings, stirring more controversy inside the David Ellison-owned company. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

big tech needs a choke chain, a muzzle, and the constant bite of the whip before it destroys this country entirely.

OK here's how I'm thinking about this: radically anti-traditional AND anti-chronological 1. Lao Tse, Tao Te Ching 2. Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception 3. Bergson, On Laughter 4. Verela/Thompson/Rosch, The Embodied Mind 5. Heidegger, Being and Time 6. Dennett. Consciousness Explained 7. TK

Freedom of Hate is a BANGER, sad and horrible, but accurate

this describes one of my closest friendships. 20 years of us sending each other the most heinous stuff we can find.

I am not myself Christian, but I see the faith through the eyes of my Godfather, a now-86-year-old gay man who spends three days a week serving unhoused people at the church where I was married, and my father, for whom faith in God meant an obligation to end war and reconcile in peace.

Every damn word of this

yesterday musk said that companies that "overstate claims about their product" will be banned from advertising on X, today he says that his cars are alive

Democrats need to be ready to hold hearings and inquiries into the assault that Musk, Zuckerberg and other tech bros are making against democratic institutions at home and abroad.

If that seems too big a task, remember that Democrats basically did this to the big bankers of the 1920s -- also long seen as masters of their era, invulnerable from oversight. They reduced them to rubble, setting up the New Deal era. Here's advice Biden ignored from me but I hope others heed:

are we sure this guy is prepping for a presidential run in 2028 because

Climate change denial takes many forms. Anger at rising insurance premiums is one of them.

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

I’d really like to hear Hothi’s explanation for this insulting stunt. The way his statement is worded I wasn’t sure if bregman just misrepresented some nice things hothi has said about him in the past. But if he truly endorsed maga bregman? Wtf!

I hate ai but can’t deny that shit like this is amazing www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLSqfLrH/

I love how widely YIMBYism is being adopted by high profile Dems such as Mamdani and Talarico. But I'm sad that these people can't follow up with "And look how well those policies have worked in California." We really need to clean up our own Democratic Party.

Rfk's "wearables" wet dream

Gramps thinks he’s at Scores

Ok how will @gruber.foo use this as a springboard to somehow recommend the new Forgiato Blow album

She done lost her damn mind.

"...the ECMWF ensemble is currently suggesting that water temperatures along essentially the entire California coast will average around 8-10°F above average this winter! These are, again, pretty astonishing numbers, and would blow records from 1982-83, 1997-98, and 2015-16 right out of the water."

I would love, absolutely love, at least one prominent contender for the Dem POTUS nomination in 2028 to start threatening this now. "Trump is right that lying on immigration forms is a serious offense. Here are the people my DOJ will investigate on Day 1: Musk, Melania, etc." Put fear in them NOW.

I'm sure X is remarkably friendly if you aren't the target of racial slurs and harassment campaigns. Anyway, I wonder how many "niggers" I'll have to sift through if I start posting there again?

NBC News: "Hunger grips a rural community hit by Trump’s cuts" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Hey remember when Gruber recommended a Louis CK standup AFTER all the sex pest shit came out? Fun times 🤢🤢🤢

Great job @gruber.foo

You can’t say the newspaper business didn’t try to modernize.

I posted a joke the other day about how my kid wanted a Mickey song that didn't exist, and a bunch of people were like "just AI to make it." I understand needing to please a toddler, but man--that's just not how I want him to think about music at all. It's not a vending machine.

I don’t care about brooks or what cush sinecure he has. He’s wrong. It’s a dumb point. And Collins campaign is literally stocked with Nazis. To any of this gate keeping tut tutting just stfu.

Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop.

my buddy texted me this story with the comment “embarrassing day to be a weezer fan.” i was like “day?!”

lmao the piece literally argues children are the problem for wanting positive relationships with their parents

Funny story, at least to me. I've been writing a history of the North American West from the beginning to the near future. (Coming next year!) I began it in 2020. Since I define the West as "the area between the Mississippi and the Pacific," I came up with what I thought was a great title...

Who Is Behind the AI/Existential Risk Scare? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-i...