I shall not Discourse. Discourse is the mind-killer. Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the Discourse. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the Discourse has gone there will
"...dogshit?"
Ah yes, watching the followers defensively gather about their Dear Great Leader. The merest hint of dissent is capital treason and simply *must* be exterminated, lest it spread.
The United States spent literally half a century stamping out totalitarianism, but some want to go back.
Bob the Angry Flower’s sci-fi sendup. To this day there are only so many Proper Nouns I can read in a sci-fi novel before my brain starts saying “oh, right. Space. We’re in it.”
The far right is international and they all organize together and raise money for each other. I'd argue it's critical to pay attention to elections in other countries.
Sometimes I get something that looks like this on YouTube and wonder if it's a tool to filter out people who are trying to poison the dataset by clicking random lines.
Many Americans reacting to this with "I hope this doesn't happen to us in November" and like, no you dumb fucks he's saying this shit because he wants to give YOUR GOVERNMENT cover to interfere further.
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem
A friend once observed that the latter-day Highlander material seems to be the product of executives confusing an immortal franchise with a franchise about immortals.
I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this
🧵 Okay, as a trans Jew, I'm a member of two tiny minorities with a history of concentrating ourselves disproportionately in cities.
I can't help but notice that the real or imagined risk of Dems alienating these two groups gets talked about very differently.
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We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.
Starting to get some jitters about midterms; I think a lot will be read out of results, but what it really boils down to is a contest between Everyone Hates This Shit vs Billionaires Want Fascism.
too many people think code is a binary and it either works or it doesn't, when really it's a spectrum from "does it blow up (almost) every time" to "this will never have an issue"
code that looks like it works can only *mostly* work, and that's often the worst code of all
this is a post about AI
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There’s a thread going around that I’m not gonna link or name anyone involved in, because I think they all mean well, but, uhh… “it’s wrong that society tells men as a group that they’re gross and unattractive because sometimes trans men catch strays” does not in fact feel particularly supportive.