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really helpful essay, even tho i believe in a spectrum of variably shitty skynets we should be concerned about. when an untrustworthy industry is telling you it's destroying the world, don't let yourself become negatively polarized into assuming you're safe.

"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...

I apologize for nothing and only wish I had gone even harder. If someone wants to argue God isn't non-binary, they can tell me (in detail) what they think his penis looks like and how big they think it is.

Turns out there's a limit to what excel will convert into a date

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

the economy is the last common ground between leftists and fascists, and therefore the only issue the media (and, well, people) can talk about without being accused of ideology by increasingly polarized factions. there's nothing the economy could have done to dodge this priority-defining spotlight.

rolling a six sided die and getting mad i didn't roll a three point five

it's good to see a politician stand up for the little guy

take the cis out of christ

bluesky should hire me to implement crossplatform english to english translation

there are many candidates for the epitaph on the end of history's headstone, but right now "we raised our kids to be better people than us; unfortunately, they were" feels pretty apt

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love this thing... playful little editors are the best genre

homo erectus??? i just call it Heated Rivalry

@doggirlinstem.bsky.social 😰

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

innovative new features: - a subscription fee you pay all at once, then never again - it works without internet or AI - it's just a nice toaster, handles bagels good

Movie exec: This isn’t your Grandpa’s Animal Farm. We’re gonna have some fun here to help a new generation learn Orwell’s key message that talking pigs are evil

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

10/10 take. No notes.

from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff

they should let you buy apples at the apple store, like at least if you ask, they can make them $1,000 and what happens id that the guy says 'wait a minute' pops to walmart and puts it in a white box before giving it to you but they should let you do that as a bit

Citadel and storm

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

We've got Gavin Newsom et al. eulogizing a version Charlie Kirk who did not exist, Trump et al. blaming his death on leftist violence that didnt happen, and the entire media apparatus denouncing Dems for dancing on his grave, something no Dems are doing. Has The Discourse ever felt more unmoored?

The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.

very interesting! bologna before 9/11

finally some good news

every news article right now: Donald Trump says the world is flat. But is he right? We talk to a squirrel for its opinion. The squirrel: GIVE ME MY NUTS Well that settles it. Is the world flat? It's inconclusive.

On Google maps, whenever new satellite images replace old ones, the erasure can be seen side by side with the adjacent older photo. I don't know how frequently they update.

Men dominate hollywood scripts. pudding.cool/2017/03/film...

i love you. we win always. let's go win again

hacking together a palette generator that interpolates hue, saturation and lightness