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I think the fact that Marissa Mayer would voluntarily disclose this to a reporter is a pretty good demonstration of how deeply the culture of Silicon Valley has diverged from the rest of humanity

And election results will still be 51-49

Because no matter your race, religion, gender, language or culture, it is ALWAYS a class issue. If we ever collectively learn that we will be much better off.

WWE is prioritizing massive profit margins and contractual obligations to Saudi Arabia over the safety of all their wrestlers, production crew, and staff, who are being pressured to travel into a region currently subject to explicit US State Department warnings telling people to get the fuck out.

Arrest Elon Musk and break up everything he owns

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

Republicans are openly cheating across the country in this election cycle because they believe if they win, they won't face any consequences for the cheating and also know from experience that if they lose they also won't face any consequences for the cheating.

The only excuse for this sort of brazen cravenness is that the men/companies who are so averse to paying taxes are without a doubt the most dependent on federal money. The true welfare queens destroying our society...

the Saudi government now enjoys a 15.1% equity stake in the new, bigger Paramount Warner Brothers

I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Safe to assume some combination of women and minorities were in line for tenure...?

automakers are some of the worst on privacy and security of any industry in America, which makes their push to ban Chinese EVs "for privacy and security" extra fucking annoying

Absolute genius

I'm sure it would be different if he was some obscure twitch streamer

"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

That's exactly what it is. It's doing what it is programmed and prompted to do. But we have to consider quarterly returns for investors before, you know, just stopping which nobody else would care about.

this is, so we're clear, the kind of stuff unrealistic AI doomsday scenarios are intended to overshadow in the press half-cooked automation layered onto already very broken systems in a country too corrupt to have working regulators

Does the NYPD know that the guy giving the speech actually has warrants out on him?

THIS 👇 HERE.......

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

Excellent article which raises the infuriating question of why corporate media remains obsessed with a Twitch streamer when this exists in plain sight...

Yeah but didn't Hunter Biden have a laptop or something...?

Months after citing the phrase "Become Ungovernable" as evidence of a vast conspiracy by 15 anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis, the GOP hosted the Trump pardoned head of Silk Road, a darknet marketplace famous for drug trafficking + murder for hire plots, who spoke in front of the same slogan.

Good on these guys but this feels very dystopian

Good intro thread for the "AI guys said AI's gonna kill everyone!" crowd 👇

Drop some WEAPONS

“I’m not just a client of Hair Club for Men. I also raped children on Epstein‘s Island.

What’s funny about his new hair color is that he’s in the Epstein files more than anyone else

The origination of the term "Redneck" before it was co-opted by dumb crackers nationwide

Money's running out. Let them burn it.

...and the empty seats pics account. Fantastic follows during college football season.

This image just reminded me that the Sad Fans account is one of the very few things I miss from Twitter

There it is: Trump is *literally* pushing “Unhumans,” a book that encourages right-wing readers to view liberals and Democrats as “unhuman.” I raised the alarm on this extremely dangerous strategy in 2024 (and again last month): www.thenerdreich.com/why-trump-ke...

Free newsletter: We have entered an era of technological hypernormalization, where the tech industry does everything it can to twist our sense of reality to make us ignore the very simple economic problems they're unable to solve. www.wheresyoured.at/hyperscale-n...

wrote about Tim Cook

Outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook is not interesting or innovative and has shown zero backbone in the face of fascism, but that's why he was SECRETLY SO AWESOME

Why do these idiots always conflate anti-capitalism with pro-poverty? Being anti-capitalist doesn't mean everybody should be poor. It means that NOBODY should be poor.

We are a global laughingstock but boy we sure owned some libs didn't we

Cannot recommend this enough. After you read it you will want to buy more copies for your friends/family.

Absolutely loved this show as a kid. Even got Sniglets books for Christmas.

CEO said a thing!

I'm not surprised. Personally I find this subject difficult to broach with people without feeling like they think I'm wearing a tinfoil hat. But this book is so cogent, researched, and cited that its message is impossible to deny. These people have told us what they want to do and they're doing it.

What a horrible week

As an anti-consumerist who already lives somewhere you can't throw a rock without hitting a Wawa, Sheetz, or 7-Eleven all I can say is...[shrug] okay.