alex

trash > slop every single time

we have to think so much less about finding the right candidates and so much more about building political power that makes individual candidates simple stewards of the will of the bases they are accountable to

Honestly a pretty good bit for Bill Gates of all people to be out here talking about the new world order. Maybe he just wants conspiracy chatter to drown out the well documented Epstein connections of him and other Microsoft execs.

On Saturday, former resident of federally subsidized artist housing Larry David published a satirical essay in the venture-backed elite leisure zine Air Mail.

Struggling to engage with the concept of “father and son Republican operatives Timmy and Tommy Teepell.” Come on man can even one thing be like 5% less stupid

Chuck Schumer's statement on the executive order claiming to rename lake Ontario vs Chuck Schumer's statement on feds raiding the home of a sitting congresswoman while explicitly threatening to strip her of citizenship and deport her for criticizing the president

The Mississippi AG says police are justified for killing a baby because someone thought his mother shoplifted diapers that she paid for. The police have refused to release body cam footage. Fuck everything about this story.

Just got all my boys together to take on the wandering ronin who came to town. There’s like 15 of us and only one of him so pretty much the only thing that would give me any pause is if he was master of the devastating and lightning-fast iaidō style. But that’s not likely. Coward hasn’t even drawn h

They should absolutely have a version of this show but it's all rubes who got rich of Internet shit and call it Mark Tank

rare non-shitpost from your pal ceej: if you self-host plex you’re gonna wanna update asap. crypto miner malware started hitting installs yesterday, it got me and I’m usually pretty up on this stuff

This week a white nationalist tried to assassinate a member of Congress and you probably didn’t even hear about it—and a reminder that being an elementary school student in the US is more deadly than being an ICE officer: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/three-shoo...

BREAKING: The total cost of defending and resolving lawsuits naming former CPD Detective Reynaldo Guevara now stands at $472.8 million, according to a @wttw.bsky.social analysis. Another 25 lawsuits remain pending in federal court.

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

STOP FUCKING POSTING PEOPLES DOGSHIT TWEETS ON HERE WE ALL KNOW WHERE TO FIND THEM JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

The city of Portland does everything it can to stop people from driving except fund transit and the people of Portland do everything they can not to drive except take transit.

Someone needs to remind these decrepit fucks what happens to collaborators

Yeah, that's the same reason I started smoking (being stupid)

i do not meaningfully care about this argument but my stance remains: i refuse to generate unpaid content for elon musk the child pornographer, and to model the behavior that lets elon's algorithm show me the optimal unpaid content he wants me to see. it's interesting that you want to do that though

Hey I'm not the only one who thinks skydance sounds like the name of a Korean MMORPG developer

Anyway here’s their endorsement of Sam Adams, where they cover him preying on his 17 year old intern and abusing female staff in passing and then quickly pivot to an essay of his accomplishments

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Every time I go home the decay becomes harder to ignore, but I can sit out in my parents’ gazebo in the summertime and hear the laughter of the Somali kids playing in the cul-de-sac that I used to play in and I can see a future there. I hope they get to see that future despite and to spite Tom Emmer

Put it on the Starbucks cup

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

I…got nothing. Feeling just wave after wave of absolute revulsion and white hot rage at the violence that poisons every centimeter of this cursed country

yes a key difference between the maga cult and the centrist cult is that the maga cult alternate reality exists in order to let them do heinous things and the centrist cult exists in order to let them not do anything bsky.app/profile/offt...

So many tech execs are either solipsistic tweakers or skinsuit guys, it was almost nice hearing such a genuine, old-fashioned dirtbag work his craft. He is so gifted at cynical virtuelessness it could be art if he wasn't so openly contemptuous of that too.

This is a good person, totally decent. Just also totally unaware that their media diet (and thus their brain) has been completely cooked to where they're amplifying media by fucking Nazis and passing it along as if that's normal. Sometimes I despair about how we return from this.

If this is you, how? I cannot go 6 hours without Getting Info About AI.

remarkable thing to admit

VOTE NO on Pro 75 (the 'TAX DRACULA' bill.) If we try to tax Dracula, he will simply move away to Texas.

This must go so hard if you stopped learning about the world in 1993

if democrats retake congress they must restart the investigation into where mommy goes when i can't see her

when i was a freshman in college one of the frats tried to sell me on their frat by saying that they were the only non-rapist frat. which, good for them i suppose if true, but i had only heard of their frat before because they were on the news for killing a guy

This clip from Katie Nolan on @pablo.show captures the vibe perfectly. It's been decades of stories where the villains and bad faith are obvious, but no one ever faces consequences.

I dunno, if you meet someone who calls himself an Archduke I think you're pretty much always morally right to shoot that guy.

NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...

this is a zen koan

A sentence like this appears in every one of these articles: "Sure I object to everything Trump has ever done, but on the other hand I also disagree with some things about Democrats I made up."

"Two of the committee’s current members — Lily Ho and Trevor Chandler — work for Flock.... Neither Ho nor Chandler offered to abstain from voting on Wednesday." You read that right. No better than the US Supreme Court in terms of members casting votes despite blatant conflicts of interest.