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My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

even abstracted into hypothetical maths this doesn't make any sense. picking the lesser evil still makes things more evil, just by a lesser amount

"I was pulled left by Contrapoints, and now I'm waiting for her to join me"

Good example of bullshit in the technical sense of a disregard of truth. This is based on a misunderstanding of statistical sampling, but that doesn't matter. Polling, to them, is not a measure of reality. It is part of the narrative. If it tells a story they don't like, it must be attacked.

I am getting into game dev, and some would say this is the worst time to do that. My theory is that these people put very little effort into it. It is not hard to stand out above 70% of it. This was already true with asset swaps, and is more so now.

I'd ask what the hell they think "Islamo-communism" is, but I don't think my brain could survive that much stupidity at once.

Protect girls sports: At least one trans kid per team or automatic disqualification. Let's move that overton window baby.

we should all be pissed off at this btw. if not because sex work is legitimate work and should be treated with respect, then because you should be concerned at attempts to gentrify online spaces as pretext to court investors and force out minorities so those spaces can become part of a portfolio.

This might be one of the few times I'm OK with describing it as "slams". Ramaswamy deserves it, and in the strongest possible language.

That is quite clearly true. You see it every time you develop a new skill. So if you invest all your energy in organising and electioneering within the existing system - you'll become really good... at using that system and only that system. It will become your main tool.

Artists don't need to be miserable, depressed people to be great. That is a toxic myth. But art does need to be miserable and painful and scary at points to be good. There's no shortcut.

There's this thing I've noticed from people who have manipulative personality types. They say a whole bunch of bullshit where you can't get a word in, and then end it off with a question that nobody could disagree with. You're forced to say "yes" as if you agreed with every part. This right here:

Mrs. Collins, you failed an open book test that was only one question long.

The systems of domination we have been living under (i.e. capitalism, statism, white supremacy, cis-hetero-patriarchy, etc.) are *not* worth saving, for they deliver us to fascism each and every time. Hierarchy is *irredeemable*. But you know what *is* worth saving? Humanity.

it's almost as if just letting monopolies dominate the landscape in a country too corrupt to enforce antitrust law or have functional regulators is hugely detrimental, and the solution is a lot more community-owned and operated local infrastructure

Aaron Swartz was something of the last of the spirit of the 90s Internet inside the larger tech space. The people who believed the Internet could be a force for democratizing information and power. Despite it all, I still believe it can be if we make better choices.

this week's post is about voting and how it relates to building power and demanding reforms margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/voting-beg...

I never got this persistent need for "patriots" to trash on Canada. It's not the sort of argument that normally comes from a place of strength.

Fuck Blue No Matter Who

They put it on the airport where all the politicians come and go? Maybe we should just let them have this one.

In general, people have really bad knowledge of how cults work. It's a problem that goes beyond Trump and MAGA. Everyone will, at some point, hit life circumstances where they would be potentially susceptible to cult control. Everyone.

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

Can Republicans at least make their lies less obvious?

But he made a few low effort shit posts against Trump. We must flock to vote for the bar laying on the floor.

If Elon ever does get his new house on Mars, he will 100% setup indentured servitude for it. I feel like there are too many people out there who will end up being surprised by this.

"Just come here the legal way" was always light years easier said than done; now they aren't even in the same galaxy.

Flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz. Now that I'm an adult, I'm more afraid of all the shit that happened behind the scenes in that movie. It might as well be the textbook example of why Hollywood needs unions.

It's surreal running into this while also reading about people saying "Dems want to give mothers the right to terminate their baby up to 2 weeks after birth".

We're not suffering a breakdown of the social fabric because we've lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements with each other; we've lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements because some people are trying to deliberately rend the social fabric.