Vibecession Forever

All 13% are on Bluesky:

Gee. (Source: @devex.com)

it's just a glaring piece of evidence that for leftists, their politics is a giant gaping ego wound that they need assuaged, they're doing it out of a desperate desire to be a Good Person and maybe The Goodest Person. it *infuriates* them to not have their valor respected, which is why I won't do it

I will never understand the psychological profile of leftists who demand that liberals, who they will never support, acknowledge that leftists are honorable. "You have to admit anarchists do important work in their communities!" no, i don't! you won't acknowledge anything liberalism does!

So fucking sick of these guys.

This is some evil shit. He's brainwashed himself.

Yep. You can’t do it by yelling at people. You do it by voting, again and again, for the Democrats. Sorry!

“I have decided I am never going to fix my clinical depression; it pays me too well to sell it to an audience.”

The fact that Western publics are unreasonably mad at objective trade-offs and tolerable living standards (and have to make up new words to describe a nebulous “crisis”) is bad because it generates real crises (avoiding trade-offs causes debt crises, grievance politics cause democratic crises).

I screamed about this in the months leading up to Nov 2024 and everyone (people who were Biden/Harris supporters) looked at me like I was crazy. Our betrayal of Ukraine (and the West generally) was predictable. I'll never stop being mad about this.

BlueSky doesn’t default to algorithmic discovery, so the usual bogeymen don’t apply. Yet this app is just as fucked up as all the other ones.

We are fully post-truth. I disagree with Will a lot, but his refusal to go along to get along is his most admirable quality.

I cannot think of a more disgusting and disqualifying thing to say. Betraying literally millions of people around the world. Go. Fuck. Yourself.

Tell this to the people saying it’s fine to abuse AI because it’s not conscious.

There is another Texas out there. The question is whether or not it’s big enough

FUCK YOU

This is so awful.

Illegal and impeachable, respectively.

We're now just straight up repeating discourses on this app.

Like lots of people were yelling about economic slack in 2010 or so, while the zeitgeist moved to deficit reduction.

"10 years ago no one I knew had two jobs" in a vibecession thread 10 years ago I remember people saying that 10 years ago no one they knew had two jobs we've been in a rhetorical recession since the Great Recession. everyone is just saying the exact same things

Fascism. Pure and simple.

I know we're all gonna laugh at this, but no joke, this has been my fear at every job I've ever had: Publicly reveal I was deeply unqualified and then instantly be mocked and then fired. Imposter syndrome is real, in some cases!

actually, not even half! her first day on the job was monday so she lasted…less than 5 full days a scaramucci is 11 days

Musk may suck but that doesn't mean that Tesla and SpaceX which are worth like $3T combined can't do an impressive marketing stunt

This story is so, so, so enraging.

It came from funding ideological fellow travelers like Trump, who've used Putin's playbook not to help Russia, but to enrich and empower themselves. This just happens to also massively benefit Putin by undermining any attempt to imply the America's democracy is any better than Russia.

Since 2016, he's gotten a weakened NATO, weakened U.S. resolve for defending Ukraine, and rationalization - even from many in the west - of his whataboutisms in defense of his own autocracy. That is all by design, but it didn't come about from the IRA or any Wagnerian bot farms.

I am extremely not someone who believes anyone who disagrees with me is a shill or intelligence operative. I don't believe that is how Russian influence in 2016 metastasized in our politics. Putin's propaganda works not by making people love him, but by making people unable to discern truth.

It's also the first bullet in Putin's principal playbook for establishing and maintaining his autocracy. I'm sure that's a coincidence!

They've been landing rockets for literally a decade. Why *wouldn't* they be able to put the same basic tech/calculations into a car for a one-time stunt slop-fest? Why would anyone care?

and if you post a chart showing the supposed thing happening is statistically zero, you are in fact a bloodless quant who should be beaten to death with hammers Nothing matters anymore. Let the lunatics run the asylum. Who cares

This is exactly it. It is broadly applicable to our entire politics, not just Elon's dumb car.

if you say "he's a nazi piece of shit and his car is hollow", and it turns out that the second part of the statement is a lie, it makes people more inclined to think the first part of the statement is a lie too

It is now broadly accepted among so many people - frankly, so many of YOU - that the way to prove any claim is to get a critical mass of social media likes and shares behind it. If you try to insist that false things not be treated as true, you’ll change little, but you’ll ruin your reputation.

I’ve honestly been wondering where Sky went and this explains it perfectly. If you care about data, if you care about policy - if you care about *reality* - it’s hard to even express how depressing it is to see everyone mutually agree that facts simply don’t matter anymore.

The screenshot above is from The Kickflip video when it's jumping over a few Tesla cars, not the Ramp one. Still looks solid bottom, but different than the one in the ramp video