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This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.

As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

Bluesky is not the commons. Twitter is not the commons. You can’t have a privately held commons. That’s not what words mean

current Twitter is like all the worst parts of the Ivy League: important largely because the people who go there insist it's important, experienced by far fewer people than you'd think, and obsessed over by insecure media folks who don't want to hear criticism, and incredibly racist

On Joy and Resistance | dansinker.com

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Relevant to AI writing, Toni Morrison, Octavia E. Butler, and Sonia Sanchez noted that many want to be writers but don’t wanna write.

As Morrison said, “Writing has become almost a celebrity thing in the sense that people don’t want to write; they want to be authors. And that’s quite different.”

The concept here is to get well-heeled travelers to pressure the government to restore secret police funding

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

If you hear people complaining, remind them that Dems offered to split out ICE and CPB and fund everything else, including TSA. Republicans said no.

Shaun King approvingly quoting Tucker Carlson tells you what you need to know about Shaun King.

TN bill would allow death penalty for women who have an abortion SBC President Clint Pressley endorsed the effort saying it would “provide preborn children with equal protection of the laws.”

Sickening.

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Guy from Chicago who hates JD Vance and it's JB Pritzker and pope leo

The logic here only makes sense if you assume AI and human beings are in a competition for resources (which in some meaningful sense might be true), and that the most efficient consumer of resources for performing AI-related functions should be allowed to win (which is pathological).

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

I’m in Minneapolis. Nothing has changed except the paramilitary secret police now have a ton of brand new big vehicles. Totally blacked out windows, no front plate (required in Minnesota) and a weird back plate on all of them.

NEW: Natasha Korecki at NBC reports that in light of the SCOTUS tariff ruling, Gov. Pritzker sent President Donald Trump an invoice of $8.6 billion.

Roberts Court Decoder Ring:

When it comes to corporations or the Epstein Class:
Rule of law for me; rule by law for thee

Stop keeping score by Trump’s W/L, but by the W/L record of those who spent billions to capture the court. You don’t need to be a ConLaw professor; just look out the window.

blogged about it

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Roberts Court giddily willing to repeal the 21st and 20th Centuries but putting a pause at, say, the 18th.

I'm a law guy, not a politics knower, but "Trump illegally taxed/stole $175 billion from Americans" seems like good messaging.

anyway any ostensibly serious pundit who pretends this means anything about judicial independence is lying to you in bad faith and you should discard all of their opinions about everything forever

by all means enjoy Trump’s utter humiliation here, I sure am, but this changes nothing whatsoever about the fact that we must expand this court and break its power if we are to have any hope of rebuilding this country

if anyone is tempted to briefly hand it to John Roberts remember that he is about to finish his life’s work of destroying the Voting Rights Act and save yourself the trouble

I’m off this week so I haven’t read the tariffs decision yet, but I keep trying to tell people John Roberts is like Big Worm in Friday: “Playing with my money is like playing with my emotions.”

MILAN, ITALY - FEBRUARY 19: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was captured using a remote camera positioned above the field of play.) Megan Keller #5 of Team United States scores the game winning goal in overtime against Claire Thompson #42 and Ann-Renee Desbiens #35 of Team Canada to win the gold medal during the Women's Gold Medal match between the United States and Canada on day 13 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena on February 19, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

put it in the Louvre

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

A reminder that reality TV doesn't exist in a vacuum. It lives because the networks want to make money without having to pay union-based rates for the work. The blame belongs to the networks, the same networks the unions strike against. Always follow the money (and the union-busting).

I guess my three main questions for a 2028 Dem presidential candidate would be

-Will you abolish ICE and prosecute everyone involved

-Will you prosecute Musk and the DOGE boys

-Will you expand SCOTUS with the aim of neutralizing all Roberts-era jurisprudence

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg. But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it.

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