Matt McGowan

That’s awful. I am so very sorry to hear this.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Shouldn't have been confirmed. Should have resigned after the Signal chat leaks. Should have been impeached after murdering helpless fishermen in the Caribbean. Should have been impeached after kidnapping the president of Venezuela...

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

powerful academics getting to retire after being linked to a child sex trafficer is not "accountability" or "facing consequences" or "a reckoning" or "justice" it's just them retiring. These institutions continue to beclown themselves. Divest.

There is no sense in which a chatbot can "help" with your schoolwork by making it easier; if it is easier, it is less useful for actual learning (effortful practice is HOW WE LEARN) and therefore the chatbot has not helped, but has only hindered.

I know! Made me feel simultaneously like a Very Old Person and like a newborn animal not used to moving its body yet. Gross.

Will admit I very much hated mine the first time I got them (several years ago now). Did take my brain some time, but, eventually, my brain (mostly) did adjust. Good luck!

And for the record, every Black person who spent the day yesterday imploring white people to understand that white folks are asking the sort of grace from Black people that is NEVER given to us?

That shit probably shortened our lives. And I mean that literally.

So thanks for that.

Holy shit. Would be more sad if it weren’t so unsettling and infuriating.

The Trump administration is chiefly interested in upholding a white supremacist patriarchal power structure, thus their appeals are to toxic masculinity and what is unfortunately a consistently large base of people who subscribe to it as “natural” and commendable

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

washington post headline saying "the power of AI transfixed wall st and washington. recent research suggests it may be a mirage" as if these idiots just crawled out of a cave

oh word???? no shit????? for real????????

A lot of Republicans who insist that the system is rigged against people like them have a perverse admiration for people in power who take everything they can get. They tell themselves they'd do the same thing if they had the chance.

damn, but that would mean that all the smirking jagoffs who spent the entire election cycle telling us voters wouldn’t care about the administration’s reprehensible support of an obvious genocide were….. wrong??

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

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You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

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I actually do want a data center in my backyard so bad I want to grow numb to the endless drone of a million electronic beehives I want to get testicular cancer from people I’ll never meet generating shrek porn in their basements

Anyone who does not give Greg Pak $1000 could be 'left behind' says Greg Pak.

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-helps-babies-to-sweat-out-toxins/

“Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust.”

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What do you and Trump talk about? The struggle of finding a good makeup artist after alienating the LGBTQ+ community.

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Nicki Minaj https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-nicki-minaj/

Ugh. Gross. And the placement/image seems almost too-on-the-nose-proto-dystopia.

What are these things?