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reading "Bombing to Win" on the subway and shaking my head to show everyone I'm against bombing to win

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

Like I said on LinkedIn, this is a bad product that is bad for people. People should feel bad for buying it, using it, developing it, doing marketing for it, and otherwise contributing to its existence. (This is not about the Kenyan gig workers)

we really need to bring back social shaming

folks theyre saying the pale rider doesnt want us to break the seventh seal, theyre saying no one has the strength to handle it. what do you think folks, what do you think of that pale rider. should we do it?

*crowd going absolutely ape shit*

i dont know, i want to but they say I shouldnt

Nothing says good faith like using the construction “democrat issue”

I think the problem is that the critique expanded beyond “a powerful group taking ownership over and claiming as their own from oppressed group” to basically woke segregation that any cultural sharing or borrowing was evil.

Won't speak for The Left, but my "taking AI seriously" take is that it is misallocated investment, a financial bubble, and a privacy and security nightmare which will only get worse. Seems a bit more serious than "AI will be god soon and all fun and friendship will be replaced with AI tamagotchis"

Imagine thinking Peter Singer is not an unappealing weirdo!

You can't fool me, that's a fuckin Langolier

Damn, maybe you should tell that to marketers and developers who are putting genai features into everything.

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

The woke mob claims another victim

Ok? Yeah? Shitty people exist, not a reason to denigrate and deny contributions made by all groups. Otherwise, this is just wrecker behavior.

Yes, but have you considered that this description could help you denigrate people you find annoying?

the culture war has assigned these scandals to opposing political teams but the epstein files and russiagate are the same story

both highlight the post cold war emergence of a transnational kleptocratic class that links western oligarchs to foreign state interests, whether russian or saudi or israeli or otherwise

this handful of independent journalists (my former colleagues at Motherboard) do more impactful journalism than 75% of the corporate tech press on a fraction of the budget

Thank you for defending the pedophile elite in a rag run by the friends of the pedophile elite created to defend the pedophile elite

Alas, the latter are far too generous.

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Damn, what was the political outcome of the height of that slogan? Both houses of congress and the presidency?

This rhetorical tradition goes back to the founding…

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.

Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

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Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives.

Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

Still baffled that mclaughlin's outrageous conduct is not even A Story. It's been months and months of this shit, how does no one in journalism care

Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives

uploading my lipid panel to the papa johns chatbot