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The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.

Exactly. There is this insistence by way too many people that young white men are simply not capable of responsibility for their own words and actions, insofar as even daring to treat them as equals and adults is seen in this instance as “punching down”.

It’s helpful to have an actual Labour MP saying right out that it’s not what transgender people do or say that is the problem: it’s their presence that she objects to, their existence. Yes, this is what it always was, and these people just keep winding each other up and up to ever more extreme views

Probably one of the most derangedly racist khivers on here, and that’s a high bar.

Hello Uri this is the pro Israel PR campaign manager speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit

it’s just great marketing

people keep making movies where the premise is "it's kind of like a man but it looks like a monstrous freak but it's nice and sexy and doesn't abuse the woman so it's basically the most romantic thing ever" and men keep not getting it.

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

Yey, we’re doing pineal gland bullshit again!

Wild that he gets this coverage after he packed the Utah Supreme Court in order to try to prevent it from enforcing a referendum-passed gerrymandering ban to steal a congressional seat for the GOP (and disenfranchise his state's largest city)

Quite difficult to obscure just how radicalised and extreme this stuff is, which is awkward because we have been told in no uncertain terms that it's actually *opposing* it that's the violent extremist position. Bit of a pickle, make no mistake.

Regular reminder that self described Nazi Nina Power is still a part of the far-right “Free Speech Union”, after her failed SLAPP suit against one of her critics. The Orwellian named “Free Speech Union” hates freedom of speech, instead they want the far right to have exclusive speech privileges.

So Evan is either lying about what he believes, or he’s evil on a level that I would describe as “shedded their own humanity” levels of demonic.

Having some friends who are immigrants in Germany, this is just a bald-faced lie, both regarding public discourse, and the general sentiment. Regarding the latter, the situation is getting so bad they’re even contemplating emigrating again, even though they’re the “correct” kind of immigrants.

On August 12, 1958, fifty-seven of the world's most influential jazz musicians gathered in Harlem and took what's considered the most iconic photo in jazz history. When 2026 opened, Sonny Rollins was the last living before passing almost 4 months ago. Today would've been his 96th birthday

I feel like the bigger news is that a Democratic Party aligned think tank is urging a shooting war with China but idk, maybe I’m the crazy one.

It has been nice knowing y’all 🫡

Check out my trip to the Dutch Pinball Museum where I discover a new FPS, possibly the first FPS. dutchpinballmuseum.com

This got me blocked by a lib calling Bill Kristol a centrist.

The corporate media hasn’t learned a goddamn thing.

Is that...is that supposed to be an argument against healthcare

Great news: just got off the phone with the Oracle at Delphi, she told us a withering regime will only become more isolated

Has a *single* tech media outlet covered his outrageous echoing of the exact same rhetoric as the Nazis about the same ethnic group that the Nazis targeted? Have we gone that far, that fast, that calls for ethnic cleansing by big names aren't even newsworthy anymore?

here's how Cofnas supporters uphold their own professed principles

It's less "is this a praisable thing," more "what other consequences are available," I think. Vigilante murder is a terrible way to deal with terrible people; but it's always on the table. When terrible people take off all the other options like jail or justice I don't know what they expect.

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/