kevin

yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have

more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases

This gives away the whole game, as people have been warning for years and years. This is identity erasure of a whole class. the precedents for having documents revoked by group…are not good.

If I’d have known quitting the military was difficult, I’d never have suggested it. Silly me. I only said it because I thought when you quit they’d hand you one million dollars and let you choose which wars you want to end. I didn’t realise people leaving the military would face any repercussions

Oh I didn’t realise it was hard. Never mind. Carry on loading the orphan crushing machine, I guess

ugh there's this guy on our news network who won't stop lying. i dunno, he just showed up when we started giving him checks every other week. no, don't go out there and contradict him, this is the news, do you wanna just hide or something?

my NYT opinion piece on why the state of Israel should be abolished and all of its leaders should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity will be published ANY DAY NOW, since it's an opinion and the NYT is about publishing all opinions

The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu on 21 November 2024 and it has made no difference to how Netanyahu is covered in the press. We’re all supposed to pretend not to know that he is accused of deliberately starving civilians.

I’m a Bills fan and love Allen to bits but 1) I absolutely hated the pick at the time and 2) I’m not convinced Allen makes the jump he did in a normal NFL season in front of fans. Think that second part is often overlooked tbh

people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"

Like: part of being functionally illiterate is *not being able to perceive that things may be biased*. Not understanding that someone might be lying, or wrong.

Half the US stock market is now tied to LLM's, which only appear impressive if you are functionally illiterate.

People tend to think of functional illiteracy as just being unable to read words aloud or such.

What it *really* means is such as not being able to perceive subtext, context, understand who the audience of something may be, etc.

Media illiteracy is fundamentally part of functional illiteracy.

Darragh O’Brien drafts in state agencies to find solutions to traffic congestion in the capital Transport Minister ‘not writing anything off’ in bid to ease problem in urban areas

Has he considered not shelving rail projects? Not cutting funding for expansion of public transport could be worth looking at too.

Weird how he apparently didn’t know about the evictions but definitely knows it’s misinformation to say he had any effect on them happening

Tim Stillman said on the latest Arsecast that she’s under contract til the end of next season btw

The bad thing about replacing all your socks and underwear en masse is that a few years down the line, they will all start to break apart and get holes in them at the same time so you will then have to replace them all at once again

Mr Trump, I know how to get you a Medal of Honour. We just need to fake an injury in the line of duty. Don’t worry. I’ll make it look VERY realistic

The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

Oh would you look at that, turns out you can say no to the US using you as a platform from which to launch their insane wars

As someone currently working on this for our women’s team, I’m looking forward to this one more than usual!

all-timer sports graphic dropped

The NYT style guide

You don’t have to just uncritically print whatever someone says when they are very obviously lying

I really, really, really, really hope that the “no stupid rules of engagement” line get played in evidence for some convictions at The Hague

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

It’s been so long since I saw Bowling for Columbine but I don’t remember the thing I took away from the film being that the shooters were neonazis. I feel like the focus was on proving what it was not about and the actual cause got lost

Please fuck off

Just a few weeks ago, all these European powers spoke of the threat that the US now presents to Europe. They talked about the possibility of Trump attacking Greenland, like it was an imminent and existential danger. Now Trump unilaterally bombs Iran and they all fall in lockstep

The US killing one and hundred fifty school children in a single attack on Iran has apparently been universally decided to be a non story by the Western press. Not front page news, not in the highlights, instantly memory holed. Profession and institutions worse than worthless.

You have these rules we're all supposed to follow, but some special countries (white ones) don't have to follow those rules, and nobody can say out loud why those countries are exempt (racism) and what the loopholes are based on (skin colour)