Shades of Ole Savior, a perennial also ran who generally goes DFL but ran as a republican a couple of times.

Dude he’s obviously referring to creative efforts and not say, washing machines or corn. Every “post scarcity” society I’ve seen depicted is post scarcity in terms of manufacturing and food production, which allows people to spend their time being creative instead of working to survive.

Introvirtuous: I’m here to help but I’d rather not be.

I also have strong opinions about the way the war on drugs and decades of cop show propaganda normalized weakening the 4th Amendment until we have the current situation where following the plain text of the Constitution is considered an absurd burden.

And not even a good one because he apparently has never heard about anything that anyone has ever done or said. I assume he’s living in Plato’s cave with the lights off and the people who create the shadows locked out.

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Whether it’s Biden fumbling a word during an interview or trump evacuating his bowels in the middle of a press conference, both presidents have faced the challenges of aging in office. (But mostly Biden)

Yeah that’s it, it probably popped up in my feed because well… *waves vaguely at everything*

I saw a comment a couple of days ago saying that Noam Chomsky was praising Epstein’s intellect and then you read the emails and it’s all like the last page of “Flowers for Algernon.”

The cover of a children’s book titled “Who wet my pants?” With an illustration of a bear in a scout uniform that has a visible wet spot on the pants where some as yet unidentified person or persons has urinated.

Autobiography incoming.

Technically not because they don’t have to travel to scam people anymore.

Minnesota corrections commissioner disputes ICE arrest numbers NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Paul Schnell, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Corrections, over his agency's dispute of Homeland Security claims around arrest numbers.

Reminder that the MN department of corrections called ICE out on their bullshit concerning their “arrests” of criminals who are also in the country illegally. www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...

Where It Ends Answering the enabler's constant question, and contemplating the depraved depths of the billionaire mindset.

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Tbf you would in fact have to pay them to stand up for what is decent and good. And then they’d immediately fuck it up.

Oh you mean when you deport dangerous criminals who were *checks notes* handed over to you by the prison system after serving their sentence in accordance with our laws?

I was a nerd when it wasn’t cool and even I want to shove him into a locker.

11pm fail to take a property crime report that would have helped the one detective who still gives a shit to do his job.

DAMN

Tempting as it is, I don’t think we need an explanation for behavior beyond just being beholden to the moneyed class in general. “Ya gotta dance with them what brung ya” to quote Molly Ivins. Money gets them elected, it gets lobbyists, it ensures comfy jobs after they leave office, it’s everything

YouTube video by Technology Connections You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

Let's do this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

As someone pointed out, all the emails originate *after* Epstein was known to be well, what he was. So even if you were clueless, a quick google search would show you that you didn’t want to be anywhere near him. Also why comment on it when you could just stfu and NOT earn an internet dogpile?

I believe the argument is that there are so many “illegals” that supply and demand is thrown off, and if all the millions that Biden let flood in are deported then prices will return to normal. All bullshit of course, but still they’re not actually talking about redistribution of property (yet)

Since 2017 I’ve been in the habit of referring to the hardcore trump supporters as “wannabe brownshirts” because they could only aspire to be useful idiots who are exploited to sow chaos and are ultimately discarded when they’ve outlived their usefulness.

And Sbarro is the official restaurant of “I’m in a mall, feel like pizza and have somehow managed to forget the last time I ate Sbarro.”

All he had to do was let the rescuers know that his engineers could drop everything and fabricate anything they needed, just say the word. But that would require actually caring about anything except being the center of attention.

Yeah I was like 2nd grade when I saw pictures of German kids saluting a picture of Hitler in class and decided that there was an uncomfortably small distance between the pledge and that, so I decided on my own that I wasn’t doing it anymore.

I saw someone comment that people like Noam Chomsky said that he was brilliant and then you discover that every email he sent was like the last page of “Flowers for Algernon”

“No no, not those pedophiles, we knew about them and we’re all cool with them being super turbo pedophiles because they’re on our side.” Every conservative ever.

If I was a billionaire I’d have all the books, a house large enough to hold all the books, and my own private internet servers where I would mirror the internet archive and Wikipedia among other stuff. Also I’d pay to have scotus justices [redacted]

Truly an intellect for the ages.