Perhaps the biggest point of interest convergence between AI and fascism is the way they exhaust people's capacity to belief in the very concept of knowable truth www.rand.org/pubs/perspec...
term that an oomfie coined that i think should be popularized "ablative flunkies"
A good glozno would be some special DOJ task force dedicated to uncovering the graft and corruption of all these people
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...
Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*
For 2024, the *household* income quintiles were
Top: 175k+
2nd: 105-175k
3rd: 65k-105k
4th: 34.5k-65k
Lowest: 0-34.5k
Obviously somewhat subjective to living area, but most upper-income folks have very little sense of where they sit.
Jonathan Frakes generally avoids fandom drama, but he felt the need to speak up about the vitriol following Star Trek now. He isn’t using this language but he’s describing a similar path video games went down during GamerGate, and Star Wars a few years after. Incelization is bad for fandoms.
this is not articulated enough but the chiefest reason why we absolutely must admit Ukraine to the EU has nothing to do with solidarity and everything to do with what they can contribute /to us/: mainly, a spine
OPM has proposed a new RIF rule that changes the priority of performance versus tenure. The problem being OPM has also proposed rules that change the way in which performance is evaluated.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
So the capuchin monks of Austria have a magazine and all I can say is that the cover is a real vibe. 70s hitchhikers? alt-folk darlings? baader-meinhof splinter group? Carthusian Swingers? Who can say what the vibe is, but it is one.
you ever think how this is all because america elected a centre-left black president once, and the right never forgave the left for it
That was my New Years Resolution
OBJECTIVE: SURVIVE
I think a lot of us millennials & older really take it for granted that we were the last of only a couple generations where there was an all-encompassing campaign to encourage literacy. Everyone used to agree upon it. There were commercials with your favorite celebrities just being like, "READ!"
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
US officials learning their partner has different war aims than they do
The irony here is that Trump's best path forward is for the Iranian regime to survive intact, if we see actual state deconsolidation or civil war this goes on for months, at the very least.
Drop something yellow!
It’s profoundly weird to have “The Troops” be this ephemeral, elusive concept that demands deference in all seasons no matter what.
It feels Prussian.
You have to love that Tolkien couldn’t stop writing about the little world he made. He had maps, he had functional languages, he had little recipes for his little hungry hobbits, and 90% of this stuff wasn’t ever meant to be published, he just loved his creation and enjoyed visiting and taking notes
Halfbody painting of a bronze dragonborn lady in a beautiful dress looking very unamused
Fullbody painting of a brooding red dragonborn lady against night sky
Halfbody painting of a muscular black dragonborn lady with a big sword
Happy women's day! 🐲
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
Wonderful style, hope you have a great day!
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
