Sooo cuuutte!!
@polymath42
Curious about everything, often to my own detriment. Mechanical engineer by trade and training, mostly in heavy duty truck drivetrain and suspension. Intermittent community volunteer, coming off 6 years on a non-profit board.
Sooo cuuutte!!
it is 2002 and im being told im unserious for saying the invasion of iraq is a bad idea
it is 2017 and im being told im unserious for saying donald trump is a fascist
it is 2020 and im being told im unserious for saying donald trump is a racist fascist
Sad how this even more relevant than when it was released
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Very interesting thoughts on the drivers of the Long Boom and the Long Decline. pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/b...
Well, this is some hopeful news substack.com/@deanblundel...
New headphones. Appreciating the new aural detail
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aql...
Very good dissection of how we ended up with a group of leaders ready to tear it all down and restablish feudalism / authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...
"One of those questions came from a young man who said (...) "So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
"Life as a prisoner of the neoliberal mind palace must suck: it's a world where every person who suffers under predatory business practices is a "consumer" who has "revealed a preference" for being screwed:" pluralistic.net/2025/10/07/t...
I saw my wife and friends in that video. I was on the west lawn. Crowds make me tense, but even an introvert can come out to protest.
Interesting lens to look at what our media preferences are, and what behaviors they are driving
Let's be clear what this image represents.
Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.
THAT is the reference here.
"I think that ideologically, conservatism contains elements that groom its followers to get rooked by scammers" - interesting pondering on how conservative movements marry so well with people who are easy marks pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/a...
While I may be ugly crying over the budget bill that is stomping on so many already downtrodden, this song helps me hope for a better day to come open.spotify.com/track/0RoA7O...
Article that should have been attached. newrepublic.com/article/1961...
Really appreciate Abigail Disneyβs continuing efforts to call out the harms of oligarchs, especially from the perspective of someone who is inside the privileged bubble and aware of what it does to a person
The Rich Should Be Paying Moreβand Yes, That Means Me | The New Republic
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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C.S. Lewis talks about the difficulty of preventing the memory of a deceased person turning into a caricature. A Grief Observed, around page 9. This is that warning write horribly large. www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/PDF...
Really resonates with the reasons I left my rural background www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvL_...
In the face of disinformation, defenders of democracy are often drawn into endless battles against falsehoods. This is precisely the trap laid by anti-democratic movements.
But we donβt have to play along.
Read our our latest statement π
www.disinfo.eu/we-fight-dis...
Reminder that a good protest song persists open.spotify.com/track/3rAkWY...
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The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.
βAs long as the stasi can get you across the border before you can wrangle a lawyer youβre fuckedβ is a hell of an argument