Matthew Brian Cohen

Biden did shit like this all the time, and the same thing happened then: everyone in the media ignored it

(seeing the president wandering around on the roof while the economy adds 3 jobs per month amid weekly pedophilia revelations) time to sign a billion dollar settlement with this man

ICE Raids Broke Los Angeles’ Economy. Shouldn’t ICE Pay for That? The economic impact of the immigration crackdown is quantifiable, and could be written down and sent to Washington as a demand for payment.

The economy in Los Angeles and California is depressed. 3.1% of the state's workforce stayed home in June. ICE raids are the clear culprit; some businesses say it's worse than COVID.
Isn't ICE responsible for that? And shouldn't they pay for the damage? A provocation from me:

To be fair to Cory Booker he was extremely funny in the PBS documentary about Malcolm X when he learned he was friends with the guy that killed Malcolm X

I have no idea what to even say. How do you even satirize this? The world is beyond parody. We are living in a parody of humanity.

The myth around AI and productivity has always been a cover for work intensification and offshoring. "AI" is always just other people.

you got the genocide you wanted, so it’s a small price to pay

Jimmy Fallon hosting a right wing hack is about as surprising as Jimmy Fallon’s liver hosting a half a bottle of gin

It stinks we can’t have nice things anymore, and also very dull, bad things

Marx really wanted to write about the inherent class conflict of 69ing but Engels said no

it’s actually extremely misogynistic to chalk up Kamala’s loss to race and gender. You’ve taken away all of her agency and made her a caricature of her racial identity.

She ran a terrible campaign, and voters did not vote for her because of it. She supported a genocide. That cost her the win.

Ms. Rachel grew up on Mister Rogers. Now she’s carrying on his legacy. The YouTube star wants her audiences — adults and children alike — to see the humanity of all people.

I am grateful to @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social for trusting me with her story at this moment of consequence, as she advocates for the children of Gaza and follows in the footsteps of her own childhood hero, Mister Rogers.

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What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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So far, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty has largely been limited to countries in Africa, South America and Asia that have historically been critical of Israel.

This is an amazing way of writing “most of the world”

You have to pay to create something but not pay to watch it — a very obvious tell that the intended consumer is morons trying to cosplay as a creative person

Here's Adam Schiff standing in support with Netanyahu just last week.

As he collects record millions from AIPAC.

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I wonder if Pete Buttigieg also thought anti gay marriage bigots had a point that gay marriage desecrated straight marriage? Or is he just another “fuck you, got mine” conservative?

A statement posted to social media by Barack Obama calling for an end to the forced starvation of Palestinians and also for Hamas to return the dozen hostages they still have.

Hillary & now Obama condemn mass starvation of Palestinians by Israel.

If opportunistic eels like Clinton/Obama are after nearly 2 yrs, finally saying it out loud the genocide has definitely entered a new phase.

Get ready for lots of toothless statements + performative BS from the “serious” crowd.

Mark Cuban talking about AI is very reminiscent of when Elon Musk started talking about software engineering. It caused a lot of us in the software engineering space to realize he's just very confidently wrong about everything, and this was probably also the case in other industries too.

“He just personally believes in bigot shit, he won’t actually write it in policy if he becomes president” is kind of the same thing people said about Trump

Not even “should know better” but “did know better and cheered the genocide”

What changed in nine months? The urgent need for an alibi.

I just Venmoed a trillion, so it’s actually just 35.7 trillion now

America as a sentence

Josh Shapiro is a little Zionist worm who can be neatly tossed in the People with No Political Future bucket

hopefully they will land on their feet and find work in another room quickly. hate when this happens to my friends but that's this business thanks to the streamers

"Can a man become a woman?" raises a bunch of really interesting philosophical questions like

"How long should Rahm Emanuel spend in prison for helping cover up the murder of Laquan McDonald in order to win reelection?"

It is much easier for a man to become a woman than a Rahm to become president

Well in this country you get deported to an El Salvadorian prison if some smooth brained ICE agent thinks your tattoos look weird. Sorry! Maybe we’ll get around to due process one of these years.