Ben Slusky

I can't even

Thirty years ago I was on a high-volume high-aggro mailing list, and when someone lost it like this the tradition was for someone to take the text of the message, alphabetize it, paste it into a reply, and say “these words didn’t appear to be in any particular order so I alphabetized them for you”

OH SHIT IT'S THE CRYSTALLINE ENTITY RUN FOR YOUR LIFE

These racist, festering lesions don’t get to dictate what it means to be an American.

For fuck’s sake

one useful thing about JD Vance is that he proves there’s no “going back to normal” after Trump. Vance is the future of the GOP and that future is a party that revels in being Truly Fucking Awful. the whole shtick is just being A Really Bad Guy and then going “oh are you triggered by how Bad I am?”

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Reminder - every place that tried permanent DST quit it asap.

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

We are all seeing how just a few months of outsourcing your thinking to AI can wreck your brain. The wealthiest people have outsourced everything to the people around them for YEARS.

We've lived for so long with this mythology that sure, the wealthy can be cruel. But at least the cruelty has a point. Profit! I'd like us to open our hearts to other possibilities. Power doesn't just corrupt! It can also breed truly reality-distorting levels of incompetence.

Really perfect economic combo where interest rates are increasing fast enough that homeowners are facing declining home values *and* homebuyers are facing increasing monthly payments. Just pure pain for everyone involved in buying or selling a home right now.

Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former

lmao awesome

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Two is as many as we can afford, before every beit midrash devolves into an endless stream of "deez nutz" jokes

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Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.

Soooooo there was a big push to get people to sign up as poll workers over the last ~10 days or so and uhhhh We are now at 27,000 new poll workers. 💪💪💪 This is not a joke, that's twenty-seven THOUSAND people.

The idea that making a sitting president answer for criminal charges would distract him from important official duties has never looked more ridiculous.

Here's the signup link! powerthepolls.org/creator-sara... Signing up to become a poll worker is: -A good way to help keep elections running properly! -A good way to stop doomscrolling & DO SOMETHING! -And it's better than free, it's paid work!

A string of absolutely bonkers Truth Social posts from Trump in the span of about 10 minutes

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Gotta go with what worked for Zaphod Beeblebrox. Post your getaway vehicle

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Conspiracism means never having to say you're sorry. It's always somebody else's fault. There are always hidden facts that would exonerate you if the evil-doers weren't hiding them.

I want to like this post at least 12 times

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In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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OMG, I thought I was joking. www.businessinsider.com/trump-magnet...

A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.

Their secure coding practices were not gouda nough

I think the Supreme Court's decision to legalize ubiquitous sports gambling is likely to have negative long-term consequences.

yeah man people online will form mobs to harass each other at the drop of a hat. Hey which side actually integrated that into their sanctioned political activity and promoted some of the ringleaders to government?

"It wasn't the future after all" is the tagline for America and Europe since 2014 or so

I'm not saying the solution is easy, but it's a real problem that we're not able to parse "I want to see hot famous people naked" as a normal and basically good human sentiment

There is a point at which the sheer volume of lying becomes self-reinforcing. Maybe you can get through to people with a fact-check on a couple specific points. If you have to explain that virtually everything they “know” on a topic is a lie, you end up sounding like the crazy one.

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The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.