oh no... my wife is retweeting explicit calls for the genocide of Palestinians while also trying to sell our Artisanal Israeli™️ Olive Oil... I'd better release 2 mealy mouthed statements supporting my SS-Cheering bandmate after 3 decades of silence! My name is Johnny Greenwood and I am Very Smart.
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
it is crazy to me. yes, you sometimes have to do "unpaid nursing care" for your family. that is part of being a human being. what are we talking about here
are there other protected characteristics that come with guidelines that so conspicuously foreground (1) what rights you do not have and (2) the rights of persons who categorically disagree with your identity? jw
hot take that i’m sure nobody shares with me on this website: Marx’s proletarians and bourgeoisie are relationships, not people, and these categories don’t necessarily need humans to exist
if you ever see a "quality of life" metric that doesn't make sense to you, it helps to remember that the average american wants to live in a suburb drive an suv and eat at chipotle
It’s funny that Microsoft cares so much about agentic coding because if everything they belive about it is true that’s generally not good for Windows as an operating system because Windows only survivess because of tons of tiny monopolies that are a pain in the ass to find alternatives for.
the male reading thing is way simpler than most people make it. men typically don't like reading books about women whereas the opposite isn't true because women typically see men as subjects and men typically see women as objects
What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services.
Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
Everytime I mention that BlueSky is just not good for non-US global news and discussion, I get piled on.
BlueSky is great for many, many reasons, but the rest of the world is still very much on Twitter / X.
What is happening in India is *massive*.
It is wild the degree to which being on Bluesky (as opposed to Twitter, which feels like walking into the clamour of an Indian railway station) feels like hitting mute on India right now, with the whole nation at a turning point.
Imagine if I, as a politician, made a statement on 9/11 in which 70% of my statement was describing how American hegemony and the suffering in the middle east was the important takeaway from that event.
That's what Mamdani did in his statement recognizing October 7th.