Alex P. 👹

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

So, like…the government is obviously seeing this data too. And they’re STILL letting RFK take this stance on vaccines.

And state leaders aren’t really doing shit either.

Which can only mean…it’s on purpose, right?

I mean this chart is a pretty glaring dataset. What else could it be?

Watched a video of Iraqi Shi'a MPs chanting Death To America and Death To Israel during a plenary session on the emergency security situation in the region and frankly I'm still impressed by just how little public buy-in the US actually has for the regional order it has painstakingly crafted.

ok but if you are 30 or 40 years old and hate queer people this much i think you should go in a hole in the ground instead of being allowed to abuse your children

I think the most frustrating thing about *gestures generally at all the fascism* is the Very Serious People who insist that we cannot, in fact, do better than this and mock those of us who think there's no such thing as a disposable human life.

the $400 billion figure is the amount that China theoretically agreed to in 2021 over a 25 year period. the amount *actually* spent so far is something like $3 billion, we think, or roughly a third of the direct cost of the Iran war to the U.S. so far.

god give me the confidence of Hudson Institute guys arguing that Tehran is the first domino against Beijing

This guy is the smartest employee at FDD and yet he's basically a walking lobotomy victim.

If Obama were prosecuting this war against Iran, Democrats and the media would be cheering and half the right would be denouncing it. That’s the problem: in America today, everything gets filtered through partisan tribalism.

I think if Obama were prosecuting this war against Iran his approvals would be at 5%

Thinking about that Iranian diaspora lady who blocked me for arguing that no, Iranians in Iran would not in fact welcome this.

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(🎥 Vahid Online)

an ad's an ad, but this is a beautiful ad

I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times

top-down 2d view of some space ships fighting, with bubble shields and cool streaky missiles and a colorful space background and lots of tiny fiddly telemetry on the screen

not popular *yet* — there's still time, tho

Starsector 😎

my god... they're going after spongebob

It's crazy to have deep respect for the guy who is using the product you built to help fascists surveil the world, but go off

Scenes that will never leave my memory for as long as I live.

i think it's almost always correct to vote D

but i think the more this kind of "it's your moral obligation to vote D!!" discourse takes hold, the more the party's internal calculus is just "chase the support of parasites and idiots, and fuck anyone with a conscience, what choice do they have?"

israel piloting two consecutive idiot presidents like master blaster is how you get weird old timey kinds of antisemitism coming back up. the French kinds.

So… I've been writing for about 18 years on the idea that if you somehow manage to make meaningfully conscious machine minds & then you treat them as tools, then you're enslaving those minds, and that's pretty messed up. And this ties into something else I've re-upped recently: LLMs can't say "No."

Yeah... my own take on "can we develop a truly self aware machine?" is "It's unethical to try."

[introducing myself to the neighbors because i'm on the pedo registry] i just want my homeland back :(

if the robot *is* conscious, then its users and its owners are abusing it,

and also the whole conversation takes on the tone of Columbus touting the many excellent attributes of the Taino people as he fantasizes how much money he'll make selling them into slavery

is it almost always reasonable to vote for some random "D" on the ballot? yeah, sure, fine.

it feels profoundly weird to me to be harping on about the "duties of citizenship" to someone who barely gets to enjoy that fucking citizenship in the first place, though. it feels a bit abusive.

1) the american Dems are one of the best major political parties in the world on LGBTQ issues, specifically trans
2) the american Dems are cowards, they are oppressors, they are the dutiful servants of racial capitalism & the heterosexual regime

these are not mutually exclusive statements, either—

can you name the parties of the politicians who turn a blind eye to v-coding, which is literally the institutionalized mass rape of trans women