BLAH

I think he’s just not a very deep thinker.

Yes! All of this applies to AI as well. We delude ourselves in thinking an exceptional ability at one thinking process applies universally. And by deluding ourselves we cede power.

Is this a distraction or a signal to his crazies that he’ll absolve them if they attack his enemies?

He authentically seems to enjoy campaigning, which many politicians (understandably) don’t.

Rizz gotta rizz.

I know Rage Against The Machine is a better band than Funk Vigilante, but honestly all but 2 or 3 of their songs sound pretty much the same to me.

Good god I need an editor. Everything I post has so many typos. Just one facepalm after another.

“and that toadeater became a word for any obsequious underling. By the early 1800s, it had been shortened and altered to toady, our current term for a servile self-seeker. By the mid-1800s, toady was also being used as a verb meaning "to engage in sycophancy."

“The toadeater would eat (or pretend to eat) what were supposed to be poisonous toads. The charlatan in charge would then "save" the toad-afflicted assistant by expelling the poison. It's little wonder that such assistants became symbolic of extreme subservience…”

Merriam Webster’s word origin captures it perfectly:

“We can thank old-time toadeaters for toady. In 17th-century Europe, a toadeater was a showman's assistant whose job was to make the boss look good.”

Just the most insecure overcompensating spoiled suck ups to power that ever existed.

Willing to do anything to gain favor from on high.

Toadies.

3. Which is why I think we need to call them what they actually are, and not what we fear them to be.

Toadies.

2. Yes, they are doing terrible, hurtful things. Sewing fear and panic. But they’re not actually terrifying people. They’re kind of pathetic. And desperate.

Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

1. There are a lot of terms being thrown around to describe the leaders of new right. But most of these terms give them too much power. zeteo.com/p/who-is-ste...

15. Before he was traded.

Back when he was fat.

-end.

14. ...even if there’s no other network you can port your data to yet. 

And if you think you can just go and build your network, all I can say is good luck. I hope it goes better than your Dallas Mavericks sale.

And, yes, I totally fucked Luka Doncic.

13. I thought we felt the same way about Zuck, but whatever. You can skeet where you want to skeet. I told you I was not about exclusivity from the start. Literally I am built for openness and portability, it’s like the reason for my whole existence...

12. It’s there, it’s not just me spending too much time with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @davidsirota.com 
I get it @mcuban.bsky.social. You want more. I can accept it. I never expected to be your everything and I don’t want to limit you.
If you want to spend more time on Threads, fine.

11. Just because a plurality of my new friends have either doxxed or blocked @mattyglesias.bsky.social is no reason to break up. @mattyglesias.bsky.social is not a nice person. At all.

And I’m sorry, but I do think @hcrichardson.bsky.social can be a little imperialist if you read the subtext.

Mark Cuban Makes His Opinion on Bluesky Extremely Clear Mark Cuban is concerned about the future of Bluesky, which he made clear in a series of posts over the weekend. Touted as an alternative for Elon Musk's Twitter/X when it opened registrations in Febru...

10. But then to have him say it was all hollow, that all those users we shared, that they don’t even want me, that I’m just an empty shell. A husk, tried on briefly, and discarded.
I know we’d grown apart, but why say those things so publicly @mcuban.bsky.social ? We built this skeetshack together.

9. The time we spent together, the touch of his keystroke, the way he coaxed my normie-follower flower to bloom, the way I helped him shill for his weird prescription drug company and explore a center-left presidential run. It meant something, it helped us both grow, like millions of followers.

8. And that’s why it hurts so much. When @mcuban.bsky.social says those things. In Bloomberg. And on Morning Joe. And in his feed (is it feed or skeed?). Like I am not even here. Erased. That’s how it feels. Because, I think, it wasn’t just me, it wasn’t just me that benefited from our relationship.

7. It was never my intention to turn the whole place into Jamelle Bouie Social. I didn’t even know @jamellebouie.net was in 2022. Not that I am not proud of what we have become. I am. And our growth. And our international users. We’re huge in Brazil and Japan, and Suriname is trending way up.

Jack Dorsey says Elon Musk was the 'only alternative' for Twitter because it would have 'never survived' as a public company The Twitter cofounder said on Bluesky that Musk hadn't proved to be the "best possible" leader for Twitter, but added that it could've been worse.

6. And most of you know that my last serious relationship was with the guy who sold Twitter to Musk in the first place. Yeah, the guy that said only Mr. Sieg Heil Squared himself could save the place. And his beard was the literal worst. www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-...

5. ...a belief that there was actually a future for crypto even if it seems so rotten now. 

And it sounds naive, but honestly, I never thought I’d end up being 300 character tumblr for Resistance 2.0, nor was it my intention to fill up seven data centers with hashtags for Zionists and TERFs.

4. ...at a really pivotal time. And I fell for it, or him. His chunky slab face. His dyed hair, his dental implants, his scary angry laugh frozen in time by his profile pic. Not my type in any way, objectively, or consciously. 

But we bonded.

Over the war in Ukraine, and

3. and empowering black women, and being a good person. And just so warm, and paternal, in a good way, but sexy too, in that verbal dad bod kind of way, you know?

The Shark Tank guy. Who would have thought. Not that I watched the show, but just not what I expected. But he was there for me

2. Long story short: even the tallest queens can be felled by a short king. 

And my last short king just happened to be @mcuban.bsky.social

I know. I know. 
But like I said, you can’t choose. 
Also, his skeets. Esp. in the beginning. So sweet. And thoughtful. All about affordable health care...

1. You can’t choose who you love. You just can’t.
You think you know what you want but then, boom, you’re three weeks into a Kratom and Buzzballz bender with a gas station attendant from Bend Oregon. Who turned out to be part of that Bundy family that occupied the national park.

Bluesky has feelings, too And it sounds naive saying it out loud, but I honestly, I never thought I’d end up being 300 character tumblr for Resistance 2.0, nor was it my intention to fill up seven data centers with keyword …

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