Here's the fun part, it's not gambling!
A) Federal crop insurance covers "Awww, prices were really low. Here's some $ to make it up to you."
B) The taxpayers pay for most of that insurance, not farmers.
C) The White House likes to give extra bailouts on top of the subsidized insurance.
Give Lina Khan a Gundam
05.03.2026 03:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Matt Stoller connects the war to the Epstein class
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
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04.03.2026 05:53 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
If you haven't been aware, Physics Girl (Dianna Cowern), @thephysicsgirl.bsky.social here on BlueSky, has been sick with long COVID, and specifically COVID-induced ME/CFS, since 2022.
Here is her first science video in 3+ years.
Here's how solar neutrinos work!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3...
New Physics Girl Video! Let's GOOOO!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3...
Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"
03.03.2026 19:53 — 👍 1420 🔁 245 💬 61 📌 12
There are legit use cases for LLMs, but only when augmenting human abilities
hrdag.org/tech-notes/l...
SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.
This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.
Sense and Sensibility too. Man's got range.
02.03.2026 05:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0World’s Biggest TB Hater! Nerdfighter weaponizing his special interest!
02.03.2026 01:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Even Norway has officially addressed enshittification
m.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
Same with everything. Uber is an unregulated taxi service, Airbnb is an unregulated hotel chain, crypto is an unregulated currency, etc
01.03.2026 06:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Even Norway officially recognizes enshittification
vimeo.com/1168468796?f...
Conspiracy theories are rooted in actual conspiracies
pluralistic.net/2023/05/03/p...
Conspiracy theories are rooted in actual conspiracies
pluralistic.net/2023/05/03/p...
“I’m not a member of any organized political party…I’m a Democrat.”
Will Rogers, 1929
“I suppose we could put health warnings on the weapons, ‘This gun can seriously endanger your health’”
-Yes, Minister
There's been a revival of anti-monopoly enforcement the last few years, and it's amazing
pluralistic.net/2025/04/10/s...
It starts at the local level!
ilsr.org/article/inde...
someone should really bang 'er
27.02.2026 05:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There is something non-US countries can do about US Big Tech…
pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/b...
It’s time states start issuing Blue Bonds to pay for everything themselves:
pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/f...
it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays
25.02.2026 19:36 — 👍 22454 🔁 8125 💬 102 📌 68
I’ll share this banger
25.02.2026 07:40 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0You’re welcome! It’s a good tool for exploring the small/indie web
25.02.2026 12:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In case you’re wondering this thread has been active for an entire fucking month because these Nazis are all rapists and pedophiles and etc
25.02.2026 07:18 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
PLAYBOY: Do you think that homosexuality is becoming more prevalent as traditional male-female roles continue to blur? MARVIN: I certainly see it very heavily on the stage and in films. In fact, I deal in it most heavily. But it's so well disguised that only the ultimate of dissectors would know what I was doing. Let me put it this way: You get up daily and you go to work and do whatever your job is, right? But what does the actor do? He goes into his dressing room and he disrobes and he puts on make-up. Then he puts on a costume and goes out into an area that has a curtain. What normal man would do that?
PLAYBOY: Could you ever impersonate a homosexual on screen? MARVIN: It would be easy for me to play a homosexual. Now that I know where I stand, I can indulge myself in such things without any fear. Every kid doubts his masculinity at one time or another; I got over those fears when I was younger. But a lot of people don't, and it's a real tragedy. You can take pride in fucking a broad, but there's no pride for homosexuals. No way. And the way the law treats them is really sick. If I were a homosexual and I saw a cop, I'd shudder. The motivation that makes a man get into the vice squad has got to be one of devious intent. He becomes more of a cunt than a female could ever be. His line is: "Look at that perverted son of a bitch!" After acquiring firsthand evidence, which he gets in a men's room, he then arrests the homosexual. He's sicker than the guy he arrested. There's no chance for a happy homosexual— presumably, there are such individuals who's just pursuing his own individual sexual outlet, 'cause here comes the fuzz. You know they're really going to get him. It makes me feel that I better behave myself, because, who knows, someday I might be in that situation. PLAYBOY: You're kidding.
MARVIN: Not at all. We're all on the periphery of homosexual relationships, whether it's shooting the bull with the guys or whatever. If two guys are working on an idea, that could be deemed a homosexual relationship. They're both having a common thought. Who knows where the sexual twist starts and where it ends? My God, a guy might get a kick out of watching another guy open a can of beer. Are they going to lock him up for that? Theoretically, I could become a target in one of those male-male games that go on in a bar or wherever. A vice cop might zero in on me and my retaliation might be one of going out of control.
thinking about lee marvin’s 1969 playboy interview in which he talks about how he’s played gay in ways only a person with seasoned knowledge of homosexuality could comprehend, his sympathy for the gay rights movement, and says— in theory— he could’ve been arrested for cruising
18.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
It’s Lee Marvin’s birthday.
Here’s Jane Fonda on working with Marvin on Cat Ballou & getting schooled on workers’ rights by him.
What a guy.
www.vulture.com/2023/05/90-m...
