"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."
Just saying it right out loud now.
newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
"I won't fall for the old pointy hat trick. Okay, maybe once."
It has appeared clear from the moment it happened, but it's good to see some evidence getting out. Hopefully there'll be a proper process on this before everyone involved has died peacefully of old age.
I was hoping to see Full Throttle on that list; Ripburger was such a great villain and he was masterfully voiced.
I would like to submit a nomination for Foil Arms and Hog
apparently when I said I wanted to see Les Misérables someday, I should have clarified that I did not mean "unfolding on the streets around me in real time"
That's a pretty sweet find!
James Fenimore?
Ah yes. Clearly, those were programmed by the people who were laid off when Microprose went belly up. Because why write a whole new set of strategic protocols for this new AI when the ones you wrote for Gandhi when you were making Civ back in '91 are perfectly serviceable?
It's the Gandhi bug all over again
Absolutely not.
@jesseduquette.bsky.social
This is an outstanding resource and very clear rundown on a) why Substack is bad because people apparently still need to be spoonfed in 2026 and b) the MYRIAD options to use instead
Aldersverifisering? Jeg betalte for ting med tiøring da jeg var tiåring.
"Reports indicate massive numbers of underage Discord users and also a sharp rise in test scores across the school systems of several countries"
I think the word "exceedingly" is doing far more work in that sentence than you intend it to. You are currently doing an uncanny impersonation of Neville Chamberlain doing exactly what people remember him for.
1 - guy looking at ball that says 'life sucks' 2 - guy covers up ball with box 3 - closes the box and writes 'jokes' on the side of it and smiles mybodyistryingtokillme.com
Faen da.
Extra tired today of ChatGPT writers who think 'soon readers won't care that we use AI to write tons of books'.
I promise you, they'll always care you thought so little of their time & money, & the social & environmental costs, that you couldn't be bothered to NOT steal & vomit out derivative crap.
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Their argument is: rich white people are allowed to do whatever they want, and that includes pedo islands or rounding up the rest in camps.
There is no contradiction, no hypocrisy, no argument that will sway them. The ideology is: power is moral
I would absolutely love to see Crusader Kings 3 multiplayer on CtS. store.steampowered.com/app/1158310/...
Keep your friends close, and keep your enemy’s toaster.
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
one of the reasons everybody hates late arrivals from the right or even the center is they're all weepy little idiots who want to be coddled and forgiven and make it everybody else's problem. shut up, figure out how to help fix what you broke, and stop writing thinkpieces
The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence.
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
White text on black background that reads "People don't get just how big Greenland is. It's so big, it covers up 99% of the Epstein Files."
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
