R. Fuckminster Buller

Literally not ONE person stopped to think that maybe the Black man wasn't lying. Good lord. This man was assaulted by this woman and by random passersby who clearly felt good about intervening because they got to yell at a Black man. Not one person seemed to try to resolve this like normal people.

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.

commitments include "walking the dog", "grocery shopping" and "taking a nap"

It goes without saying but this woman needs to be added to the Omnibus Impeachment Act of 2028

wurman's motivations don't really matter, maybe he's a true believer, maybe he's an careerist. either way, he's a fascist collaborator and propagandist. anyone who treats him as anything better than that is themselves worthy of contempt.

Old newspaper cutting: NOISY, HUNGRY FROGS SADDEN FARMER'S LIFE They Scare His Cattle and They Also Eat His Flannel Shirt.

Morning Bluesky.

Chicago’s newest snow plow name ‘Abolish ICE,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson says Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

the confidence of men who have contributed absolutely nothing to society in passing judgment about the intelligence of entire groups of people will never stop amazing me. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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the actual story of what happened at the National Endowment for the Humanities last year is even more infuriating than we thought

This actually is a Rubicon.

Holding an officer of the federal government acting in that capacity in civil contempt for financial penalties has happened, iirc, only twice before this.

Median NYT diner interviewee

the problem is that "well regulated border" is a bullshit right wing idea which relies on the idea that regulating the border means creating harsh conditions for entry and barring people by default. this creates chaos and leads to lots of "illegal" crossings, leading to claims border is chaotic...

I worked in a Democratic presidential administration and, even then, DHS was very often the most problematic, obstinate part of negotiating a civil/human rights provision into executive branch policy.

I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

if these people had to provide three citations each time they referred to the behaviors of the left, journalism would be over. There would be no more journalism

every time some earnest fellow who is fully equipped to know better proclaims "ah, but *tech* will definitely fall to AI" forward them this skeet and also a "FELL FOR IT AGAIN" badge

If I had to bet on the main thing that has radicalized people against "ai," and I am talking about the way that branding is CURRENTLY BEING USED, not whatever specialized ML utility you may have found for it, it would be in apps and tech they already use being made worse and/or inoperable by it

Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it.

The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.

I’ve had a front row seat.

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Two things that are both true:

1.) American conservatism has always been far worse than voters are willing to believe.

2.) The groyperization of the GOP has been a world historical catastrophe which will echo for generations.

[object Object] @zzt@mas.to “can you recommend an alternative?” no. that’s why I’m so fucking angry. we fucked it. we’re no longer capable of making online chat protocols or web browsers or discussion forum software that people actually want to use. it’s all shit. every choice is either proprietary and exploitative or awful open source garbage sucking all the air out of all alternatives and forks, operated by fucking terrible people. we let this happen. you want there to be an alternative so you can skip being angry too. [object Object] @zzt don’t come to this thread to argue. get angry and fucking do something about it. you feel trapped? good. welcome in. it fucking sucks in here.

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laughs in Dead Can Dance/Lisa Gerrard fanboy

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

Age verification?
[emits modem noise]

I think writing off the election-stealing talk as “bedwetting” is unwise. If you were chicken-littling in January 2025 about how bad Trump II would get, you look prescient now. The “military would never obey an obviously unlawful order” people, for instance—pure egg on their faces.

Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"

Post a banger that isn't in English

kind of funny there are prob 1,000 major US musicians and every time conservatives need to put up a music artist to counter a mainstream narrative, they put up kid rock. "ok here's kid rock again" for the next 30 years, an octogenarian man in jean shorts rapping something from the 1990s

Stares in Cocteau Twins fanboy . . .