NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
The push from writing to video is literally a Facebook invention.
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…
“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
And the story is "We cannot really measure goodness, but we CAN measure dollars, and good things have come out of dollars, so then the only way to TRULY pursue goodness is to pursue wealth. And because this is good, any attempt to constrain growth of wealth would be evil!"
This, sadly, worked.
Imaging a human saying to you, "i will only ever tell you what i think you want to hear, based on what i know about ppl like you, how you start our conversation, & what you say during it. Sometimes that will sound like truth, sometimes like errors or lies. Now: Let's talk about your medical history"
I honestly hope none of those influencers whose jobs is posting about their supposedly idyllic lives in Dubai get hurt, but, by Golly, JG Ballard couldn’t have constructed a more satisfying comeuppance for a dystopia sold as a Utopia.
Maersk says it is suspending all vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz amid escalating regional tensions. -Bloomberg
Events like Gen Con owe their community an explanation of how they intend to ensure the safety of convention-goers who may be targeted due to national origin, racial profiling, or “gender policing” in a state like Indianapolis, while justifying their continued presence in such an unwelcoming state.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
We hate kids. Like SO MUCH. We vote for the guns. We vote for the bombs. We protect the rapists. We have LEOs physically restraining parents from trying to save their children in Uvalde. We just blew up a school in Iran. We love Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. They run the country.
A government that deliberately abandons the rule of law is not morally entitled to its protections.
Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
Once again.
No one can predict anything right now
The comic strip satirically explores themes of division within the LGBTQ+ community. It features two main characters: one wearing a shirt that says "LGB WITHOUT THE T" and holding a sign "GAYS AGAINST DRAG QUEENS" in rainbow colors, and the other in casual clothes with a red cap. In the first panel, the character in the red cap thanks the gay traitor for helping to outlaw trans people and drag queens, to which the character with the sign responds positively. As the panels progress, the question "So, who are we going after next?" is posed twice, followed by a pause. The gay transphobia traitor, then ends with saying “who..” and the comic ends with the guy in the red cap just looking at the gay traitor…
Don't play the role Trump wants you to play.
Why is this even remotely controversial?
Invalidating ID cards based on gender is literally a key plot point in The Handmaid’s Tale. This is horrifying.
Feel like I'm going crazy. Holocaust survivors spent decades telling everyone, "The fascists will come back. When they do, first you will see this, then they will do that, then this will happen," and so forth. And it's all proceeding exactly as foretold.
After they died, everyone just . . . forgot.
Reminds me of my favorite/least-favorite joke.
What's the easiest way to find a typo in your book?
Wait until it's published, and open the book to a random page.
This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.
If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.
Understood instantly what it meant.
A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.
To be clear, in this metaphor the Republicans are the Nazis.
Here's how I read that Greenland thing:
Greenland: Oh, hey! We had to rescue an American from that submarine you've got lurking 7 nautical miles offshore, who faced an urgent medical crisis.
Trump, caught patrolling an ally: EMergency! I'll send a sick boat that's in the sick bay.
"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money."
— Anat Shenker-Osorio
*How about if I invest 3 million in a standard covert cyberwar- sabotage campaign, I do 30 billion in property damage in just one operation, and I short the stock just before I shatter that Glass Palace
*Look at the track record here, how many similar efforts
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this i think is key for how we approach protests. you may get arrested. the government will make up anything it wants. and then you will go to court and win because these chuds are morons.
THEY ONLY WIN WHEN WE ARE TOO SCARED TO EVEN FIGHT
Thank you!!!! This just causes new problems... especially in the customer expectation management zone. People think "oh tariffs are gone everything snaps back to pre-2025 process" and that's SO not what's happening.
Fun fact. The tariffs have changed twice since this was posted.
Worst of the worst? No, this retired UK citizen who was in the US as a tourist had committed no crime, had no criminal record, not even a parking ticket. ICE and Trump are just our of control.
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