Bob Trujillo

It never ceases to amaze me how much fucking stupider our techno-dystopia is than ANY sci-fi movie ever predicted.

I use this line a lot. It is so important people understand that the entire ethos of fascism is to lie.

It is all lies, from top to bottom. They are not proud, strong, intelligent, in control, successful, patriotic... they are none of those things. They are simply liars.

Capitalists Implicitly Expect Us to Save Them From Themselves The unspoken contradiction of optimistic forecasts.

The case against the dystopian scenario of AI-fueled inequality says that the government will step in to prevent the worst economic outcomes. The people making that case are, themselves, working as hard as possible to prevent the government from doing so.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/capitalist...

friend sent this over from the other place and unfortunately I did laugh

The source is lost to time, but this is one of the funniest photos ever taken

Seth Rogen accepting Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for The Studio #ActorAwards

These GOP bubblegum tough guys are really brave when other people's kids die thousand of miles away from them. Meanwhile, they're literally afraid to be in the downtown of any major city after 5PM.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

The right will go to war and fundamentally change the nature of every person's relationship to the state just to hurt 300 people

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States.

In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.

One of the slightly insane things about the official American narratives of history and politics is that "everyone agrees" that segregation was an abomination and the dominant political force in the South for a century, but you're not allowed to suggest that it has any remaining influence today.

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

one of the basic problems of prediction markets that our brilliant economists clearly have not thought through is that the insider trading poisons basically everything in public life. everything is potentially untrustworthy, a set-up. the fix is always in.

Alysa Liu celebrating figure skating gold

ICONIC

I am sorry but this is still the core problem with trying to parse anything he says about tariffs.

Charges against Former Prince Andrew must be dropped if it’s determined that raping teenagers was an official act.

by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett)

Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

Published Jan. 26, 2026 Updated Jan. 29, 2026 Selamawit Mehari, an Eritrean single mother of three, was starting her day when federal agents showed up at her apartment in St. Paul, Minn., on a recent morning. As her 13-year-old son wailed and her older daughter produced paperwork proving her mother was in the United States lawfully, the agents shackled Ms. Mehari and took her away. "They didn't explain anything," recalled her daughter, Yosan, 21, who described the encounter to The New York Times. "We didn't understand. We had done everything right." The next day, chained at the wrists, waist and ankles, Ms. Mehari, 38, was shuffling up the steps of a plane bound for Texas, tears streaming down her face in the frigid wind.

In Minnesota, this policy involved ICE officers arresting refugees who had done EVERYTHING right, then flying them to Texas in chains for interrogation.

Remember, these people had filed every application on time, had done nothing wrong, and were here in the country 100% legally.

I think about this a lot

It holds for all kinds of bigotry, too. Like it’s literally easier to just not be an asshole. Not to say you won’t screw up out of ignorance and marinating in toxic cultural sludge your entire life, but even so

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

the magical thinking of people who think that when the billionaire class replaces the labor force with AI they will suddenly develop empathy and an obligation to help people who they have no need for

A group of black bears foraging around a large pile of apples on the ground beneath a tree.

it’s always disappointing when i think i’ve found a good picture to caption but it doesn’t bear fruit

I’m gonna vote for whoever the Dem presidential nominee is in the general election but it would be cool if whoever it is doesn’t suck.

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

Mother: so you run a school?

Charles Xavier: a school for gifted youngsters, like Timothy

Mother: but it’s a real school right?

Xavier: oh my yes

Mother: so he won’t be trained to kill

Xavier: oh no he certainly will

Mother: but he won’t actually have to do it

Xavier: oh no he certainly will

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

a ricki lake screenshot of a very 90scoded man named mike. the lower third says he “WANTS TO TELL HISVALENTINE CRUSH SHE HAS "BODACIOUS BAZONGAS"

happy valentine’s day