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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - Blaise Pascal

Antihumanists inviting us to verify our humanity is like a trap out of Looney Tunes.

WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥

“Whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever that nonexistence is violated?” - Omar El Akkad

With the algorithm having shaped our collective habits of reading, it’s sad to see writing treated merely as a means of production, a task to be automated for the sake of “having written.”

Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.

A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary:

www.404media.co/archivists-r...

Wałęsa condemns Trump treatment of Zelensky, likening it to communist interrogation

Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques

If you haven’t yet, it’s time to ditch the Post. Unforgivable.

There was never a “deal.”

Where’s the tipping point before we begin consolidating our causes? Seems like the same muddle w/ progressives in finding alliances over a common enemy.

The “first principles” mindset of these small-minded techbros is embarrassing & needlessly reckless.

Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights. Amid this mass erasure...

Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump

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Graphic featuring the cover of BLADE BY BLADE by Danusha Laméris, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from “They Say the Hearts Wants” that reads: So here’s a list, mine: tall grasses, blowing in the wind, / swirled glass cups, peacock blue, bought in Lebanon. / Fog off the California cliffs, dark boulders on the shore.

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Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries DNC employees and think tank workers have compiled a document about the Neoreactionary threat to democracy

I was recently leaked a document that was written by and for think tank and DNC affiliated policy wonks and circulated in private chats. It describes in unsparing terms the threat Curtis Yarvin, Neoreactionary tech founders, and Elon Musk pose to democracy.

shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic...

me waiting for friends to get here

“where software and hardware are the dominant metaphors for society” is a great summation for the sheer naïveté, to put it mildly, of these techno libertarians.

What Musk's war on federal workers owes to Gamergate, the long-ago troll tantrum Culture war for the stupid era kicked off with video gamers mad at ladies who have sex

Loving the posts and likes on this article!

I think people would get even more out of reading it.

This is no basic explainer on Gamergate. I go deep into the psychology, tactics, and limits of troll tantrums as fascist movements.

www.salon.com/2025/02/24/w...

Real techies don’t worry about forced eugenics. I learned this from a real techie in the cafeteria of a software company. The project team is having lunch and discussing how long it would take to wipe out a disease inherited recessively on the X chromosome. First come calculations of inheritance probabilities. Given a population of a given size, one of the engineers arrives at a wipe-out date. Immediately another suggests that the date could be moved forward by various manipulations of the inheritance patterns. For example, he says, there could be an education campaign. The six team members then fall over one another with further suggestions. They start with rewards to discourage carriers from breeding. Immediately they move to fines for those who reproduce the disease. Then they go for what they call “more effective” measures: Jail for breeding. Induced abortion. Forced sterilization.

Now they’re hot. The calculations are flying. Years and years fall from the final doom-date of the disease. Finally, they get to the ultimate solution. “It’s straightforward,” someone says. “Just kill every carrier.” Everyone responds to this last suggestion with great enthusiasm. One generation and—bang—the disease is gone. Quietly, I say, “You know, that’s what the Nazis did.” They all look at me in disgust. It’s the look boys give a girl who has interrupted a burping contest. One says, “This is something my wife would say. When he says “wife,” there is no love, warmth, or goodness in it. In this engineer’s mouth, “wife” means wet diapers and dirty dishes. It means someone angry with you for losing track of time and missing dinner. Someone sentimental. In his mind (for the moment), “wife” signifies all programming-party-pooping, illogical things in the universe. Still, I persist. “It started as just an idea for the Nazis, too, you know.” The engineer makes a reply that sounds like a retch. “This is how I know you’re not a real techie,” he says.

the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

@schiff.senate.gov We already know, Senator. Enough with these empty words.

Having grown up in HB (& as a fellow UCLA grad), I’m grateful for your stand.

I grew up in HB, sheltered from but piqued by rumors of its white supremacist underground. It’s all out in the open now.