Anna

Decided to keep a thread here of excellent media and discussions of the deliberate weaponization of hyperreality deployed in a project to shift culture in order to reshape the world into a form desired by those who made up Epstein’s circle of “intellectuals” and those who have taken up their mantle

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Emoluments Clause is in the Constitution too and it turns out "being in the constitution" doesn't really count for much if you control the courts. A lesson, perhaps! bsky.app/profile/cjth...

The attacks on Ilhan Omar are part of the federal government's ongoing effort to make equal membership in society depend on race, ancestry, and Trump’s singular will ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

the other thing is that conservatives resolutely do not see the purpose of education as providing social mobility but as reifying and deepening existing inequalities of status. they are as hostile to low income students getting admission to elite institutions as they are black ones.

Dante’s support conversations are amazing #FireEmblemFortunesWeave

How it feels waking up today.

Fire Emblem: Eight Houses

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

Another guy who wants nothing to do with his wife or his kid but thinks it's a sign of civilisational collapse if any woman decides that they'd rather not get married—to men who consider them to be as replaceable as light bulbs.

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

A hallmark of democratic backsliding is government leaders stealing from taxpayers and using public funds to try to get themselves electoral advantages. Backsliding countries keep the form of elections, but corrupt leaders render them no longer free and fair by putting a state thumb on the scale.

there's something so deranged about the idea that a "high trust" society is one that can decide to arbitrarily exclude you on the basis of identity

i just think these people are profoundly evil

They don’t let the husband’s of the trad wives speak

another film history meme made by me

Strong "I don't need the money, but I do prefer the money to integrity" vibes.

I can see guys like this psyched that they can use ChatGPT to finally build their political “theory of everything” that models vibe shifts using opinion polls, relative chart positions of different musical genres, and virality of video essays angry about female protagonists in action movies

Yep. It’s also a sign of how outdated they are. You don’t need a euphemism for white when there are actual white nationalists openly advocating for white supremacy running almost every domain of public life. It just sounds antiquated and weak.

Believing that other people are real is antifascist praxis.

note that the 1Password team member in OP is explicitly claiming that there are a bunch of stealth sympathizers on the 1Password team

I do not like that they put every crank trend in the newspaper. Please stop reporting on peasant superstitions

The End of History Rules Everything Around Me

If giving a mentee more protections, resources & supports upsets the "mentor-mentee relationship" that means the relationship was predatory.

could, perhaps, their lack of union be a contributing factor to why you’re using burger flippers as synecdoche for low status jobs

It's being treated as a policy victory that we have less of the world's smart young people coming to learn from us, participate in our society and economy. This is just so depressing to me, it feels like a complete victory for know-nothing ignorant bigotry over enlightened sensibilities.