A few weeks ago, I saw a group of people in a Facebook comments section trying to figure out if a picture of Ilhan Omar was real. (It was not.) I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I wrote about what I'm calling "strategic memes against public participation." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm 55, and I didn't really understand until the past decade that our entire support structure of checks-and-balances was held up by the honor system.
FYI the quoted poster is a US Navy veteran.
A SKELTAN KIND OF GOING NUT'S BECUASE THEY COULD SWEAR THAT A PONEY WAS JUST A BABY HORSE BUT TURNS OUT ITS A WHOLE NOTHER ANIMAL AND THERE WORLD VIEW IS FALLING APART, AND THERE SAYING "JUST FOUND OUT A PONEY ISNT A BABY HORSE, ITS A WHOLE NOTHER ANIMAL, DID THEY CHANGE THIS WAS I ALWAYS WRONG WHAT OTHER ASSUMPTIONS HAVE I MADE HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW' IS KNOWLEDGE FINITE OR DOES THE CONCEPT REPRESENT A CLOUD OF POSSIBILITYS? IS IT POSSIBLE TO KNOW EVERY THING OR IS A KNOWLEDGE SIMPLY DA COLLAPSE OF DA WAVE FORM OF CERTAINTY AROUND A WORLD MORE COMPLEX AND BEAUTIFUL THAN OUR SHIT MINDS CAN COMPREHEND ??? IS IT POSSIBLE TO FREE ALL NON VIOLENT PRISONERS AND REPLACE THEM WITH PEOPLE WHO USE LEAF BLOWERS? I DONT KNOW DA ANSWER SO IM GOING TO GO WITH "ASKING DA QUESTION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANSWERING IT" I MEAN DA SKELTEN IN THE GRAPHIC IS SAYING THAT . YOU KNOW - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
WHAT DA FUCK - dashare.zone ADMIN
If beef prices are too high have you considered switching to eating bag of organs? Consider the benefits:
*Free, left in garbage bag under overpass
*Juicy and bloody
*All shapes, round ones and squiggly
*Chewable
*Pair of nike sneakers in there also, not too scuffed up
“I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing,” said Toad.
Friend: how’s the new neighbourhood?
Me: good but there aren’t as many other younger people
Friend: dude, you’re 50
Me:
personally, I’m quite delighted with the pincer movement animal cognition research and LLMs are currently performing on humanity’s somatically narcissistic tendency to overindex linguistic facility as a proxy for intelligence 😌
Mikaela Shiffrin talks about start of a mentality shift in Olympic athletes, finding happiness existing in life outside of sport before their medals
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
Guys being Dudes
Americans running around with bushels of bananas like East Germans in 1989.
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao
The Death Star board room scene is low key the funniest scene in cinematic history. It’s a work meeting with an evil samurai wizard everyone else finds mildly annoying and when his manager tells him to stop killing a coworker with his magicka, he has to listen.
photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.
what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇
From @bau.bsky.social on the other site:
"I'm sad all the time and I don't know why" isn't a polling category and also doesn't sound serious, but "the economy is bad" does.
the two types of vehicle are cars and trucks, with every vehicle being a subclass of one of those two. a jeep is a truck. a motorcycle is obviously a car. a boat is a truck. an airplane is a car and a helicopter is a truck. trucks are cars, interestingly enough, and cars are a specific type of chair
I didn't want to thread this, but it should be read.
This is a good comp, and one I've also been circling.
My personal issue: I specifically chose my life of independent analytics to AVOID being forced into management and abstracted away from the work.
It's like a Graeber bullshit job fever dream—everyone is managing and no one is working.
eboshi is a banging example of a very underrated character archetype: person who is caring and brave and right about everything (ie correctly interprets everything they can see), but whose desire to overcome all limitations combined with their affinity for violence leads them to take wrong actions
I think theres a number of products where we've basically achieved perfection (oreos, coke) and now the state should just manufacture them in quantity
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
Somewhere along the line **someone** has to do the uncomfortable work of understanding what the hell is going on with the code and project (and keeping that understanding current in the face of ongoing changes to the project)
Vibe coding is trading that understanding for short-term gains
