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7:414 washingtonpost o ... Elon Musk is set to become the world's first trillionaire 呵 ™ Save I Share

Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah

If the question includes being a Buddhist nun, yes.

If you appreciated Teen Vogue’s incisive and vital reporting on race and culture, thank the Black editors and journalists who did that work. If you read their stories on trans youth and queer liberation and disability, thank the queer and trans and disabled writers who wrote them. It’s simple math!!

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Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.

Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

Jeff Bezos’ wealth grew by $24 billion *yesterday.*

Meanwhile, the VA now is asking for donations so veterans can *eat.*

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I'm not going to amplify the fucking things, but these anti-Mamdani slop ads Cuomo is putting out there use his likeness and put words in his mouth. If it's not actionable, it should be. It's not illegal it seems, but it should be so illegal. It should be *the most* illegal.

These threads bring me such joy. Not just because I get to learn something new (yay!), but as a counter to people who categorize certain kinds of knowledge as more or less valuable. It’s a reminder to really know things and love the knowing.

A cartoon showing a man between a white construction worker and a black man. He points to the black man and says "Careful mate ... that foreigner wants your cookie" The man in the middle has a plate full of cookies; the construction worker has one cookie; the black man has no cookies.

I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.

Also, not even Dem leadership believe in “vote blue no matter who” so why should voters?

How this has always worked:

Boss: you should exclude non white people from your unions

Union: ok. Now can we get better pay and benefits?

Boss: no i’m gonna hire the workers you excluded for have the price while you starve lol

Ableism is one of the bigotries that lie at the core. Not the only one, but too often missed.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

He’s not being funny.

He wants to actually rewrite history

“A revolutionary is primarily concerned with building. Of course that requires the destruction of what already exists, but if anyone is only talking about destroying, they are not revolutionary” - Kwamé Ture

You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.

Yet one more example of an industry impacted by climate change:

England's hottest summer on record produced unusually sweet apples, which bumped up the alcohol content of scrumpy (hard cider). Now, it's classified as “wine”...taxed at a higher rate...and too expensive for producers to sell to pubs.

Invisible People > Imagine Every... & X @invisiblepeople • Follow Utah just approved a 1,300-person "mega camp" for homeless people - seven miles from town, no transportation, locked units, and even forced labor. They call it "work-conditioned housing." We call it what it is: modern-day internment. In this clip, Eric Tars from the National Show more Watch on X They Wài put up more of these 3:00 PM • Oct 26, 2025

So it’s flown under the radar but Utah just went forward with forced labor interment camps for the homeless at the direction of the Trump administration.

We are seeing the construction of the infrastructure for industrialized death and forced enslavement for those seen as a drag on society.

Talking Heads’ David Byrne will create a theatrical ‘dream world’ in Chicago this spring Audiences will be led through the multi-room production by guides named “David” who will wear replicas of Byrne’s childhood wardrobe.

David Byrne to transform Chicago office into theater show

I think about this almost daily.

256GB of internal storage, up from the Leica MII's 64GB. This is in addition to a single SD card slot, so the camera acts as another memory device. The world's first camera that lets users encrypt their metadata and copyright information through the content authenticity initiative. This lets photographers validate the authenticity of their images as well as the origin. More specifically, the copyright info is tamper-proof. Once th image has been captured, any documentation of the edits is recorded. This translates into letting people know that you actually shot the image and that it isn't an AI-based image. It's a feature that's very important to journalists like the NYTimes, BBC, Reuters, and, believe it or not, us. The Phoblographer's reviews have entire sections that show whether or not our images our edited or not. Your digital signature is stamped on the image at creation and then verified through a specific website.

Leica who makes incredibly bougie cameras is talking about an anti-AI verification system as part of their camera framework, pretty cool.

Its so hard to understand the scope and scale of the Federal attack on Chicago, led by ICE and CBP.

I put this map and table together, highlighting the most significant incidents from 9/19-10/25. The area shown is roughly 30 by 35 miles with incidents in all corners.

The reclusive plutocrat who became the biggest political donor of 2024 The largest donor of the 2024 presidential campaign, by far, is Timothy Mellon, the reclusive billionaire and heir to the Mellon banking fortune.

1. Here are some facts about the guy, Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million so Trump could pay the troops during the government shutdown.

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i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

starting to realize how difficult it is to avoid all the nazi discourse
i think it is because of all the nazis

In fairness though, if something *could* involve costumes but doesn’t… I mean, that’s more the hosts’ problem, isn’t i?

I feel like a -1, but used to be told differently.

Punditry as a theater of masculine identification and insecurity has been one of the defining intellectual trends of American life for the past decade.

'AI' data centers are so power-hungry, they're now using old jet engines Data centers that can't be supplied by local energy grids are being augmented with refurbished engines from planes.

Superintelligence will fix this. 🙄

This week felt like someone ran a blacklight over the hotel bedspread of politics and it all came up smeary swastikas