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We will win.

It's the "Go to horny jail" where one dog is hitting the other with a bat that says bonk, except the caption has been changed to "Go to means testing jail."

Don't get too excited. The compromise is coming.

look, i'm nobody's boss but i strongly recommend you don't give out anything that could be used to steal your identity unless you absolutely have to

vanishingly few of them can be trusted with your data, and virtually none are worth the risk

The image is the robot from Chrono Trigger saying "Machines can never produce true art because they can never be horny the first step in making any piece of art"

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

I find concern trolls to be toxic.

This has to be the MOST cynical attempt to pretend individuals hold equal responsibility for climate change as corporations I've ever seen. I mean, who can say who's worse: tech billionaires draining earth's water and electricity for AI data centers or selfish people trying to breathe?

Right, fuckin' news to me somehow!

wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this

Awful, take a lap.

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Again pls stop saying this, there are people being held there right now

On one hand, that means she genuinely supports mass deporting every immigrant in the country, because she’s didn’t get her rise through think tanks who understand capital needs migrants. On the other hand, she can have a genuine reaction to the prospect of millions of people losing healthcare

MTG is awful in more ways than I can count, but she does happen to be a normal person as compared to all the lawyer-pipeline Ivy grads in Congress. She’s a bigoted crank, but like the kind your aunt is friends with on Facebook.

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Everything is just so stupid right now.

YouTube video by WCCO - CBS Minnesota How Cambodian Minnesotans built one of North America's largest Buddhist temples

"Cambodian refugees came to Minnesota in the early 1980s. Today, the town of Hampton, about 35 miles southeast of Minneapolis, is home to Watt Munisotaram — one of the largest Buddhist temples in North America."

Discord users suffer the first high-profile age-verification hack – and it's unlikely to be the last Critics of age verification laws warned this was inevitable

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor.

Who could have predicted?

Oh, right.

Like straight up if you measure policy satisfaction with 1-exchange surveys—without dialogue (it's too expensive and difficult to quantify)—society will necessarily look incoherent, fickle, and nihilistic in what people experience and believe. How many generations before this epistemology wrecks us?

it's so much easier to make products for a hostile userbase when you're only in it for the money, is the thing. And it's so much easier to attact an audience when all you have to do is shut up and let that money attract it for you

when I was defending itch I heard from a lot of - frankly to my shock - other queers who were like "it's a platform, platforms are the enemy" and until we're able to distinguish _as users_ the ways in which worker owned services aren't your enemy and deserve grace, we won't be seeing very many

and if bsky itself isn't enough proof I'd say the way everyone treated itch compared to steam like a month ago should be plenty

this is not an "i told you so" - it is a statement of facts that occurred

and it turns out - bsky is self-evident proof of this - that most people would rather just use the site run by venture capital, no matter how much anyone says "venture capital is gonna turn it to shit eventually"

the thing about asking for a worker owned anything on the web is that the pitch has to account for the fact that the website is going to - innately - be slower to add features, slower to respond to issues, have financial struggles, etc

We will win.

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

NEW! from @nicolefroio.bsky.social: The reason governments, universities, and other public institutions across the world want to quash pro-Palestine speech—including art and music—is because they understand the danger it poses to life as we know it. Which is all the more reason to say it louder.

I've been trying to put my finger on why ICE/DHS lies feel so much more outrageous than normal cop lies, and I think it's because they don't lie like cops, they lie like aggressively stupid criminals

Look, independent of everything else about her, I think it's very striking that people still talk about Greta Thunberg, who is now old enough to drink in the US and has been for a year, like she's a precocious ten-year old.

Dan Przygoda @dprzygoda Award-winning journalist. Formerly with @January6thCmte. I also direct #synthwave music videos, commercials & Films. Opinions my own. ZB4Y.com Joined March 2009

Oh, I don't think you get it, Ruby.

You're not dealing with the AVERAGE mediocre stenographer.