trey, a brooding omnipotence in the sky

Without that whole symbiotic infrastructure, there would be no grift to grift

I really don't think so! This country has always had insane gutter bigots, but 30 years ago there was no broader ecosystem eager to give them money/exposure/clout. Like Libs of Tiktok or [pick a grifter] act as spotters for Fox/etc, and those relationships and that whole model is an ownership call

I don't think we're about to see some massive volkish cultural turn from these media consolidations, but we've also spent the last decade with immigration and the existence of trans ppl being the center of political discourse, and that *is* largely down to media

I'm just not sure how you're actually separating the two? I agree that they're still at core 'losing the culture war,' but our political system is so comically sclerotic that's not a huge hindrance in practice, and the 25yo republicans who grew up stewing in this shit are now all just open nazis

and you can say that without being "oh people are just brainwashed." simply setting the discourse agenda and what topics people should be focusing on is *enormously* powerful! This was obvious to people on the left 50 years ago, quite puzzling that it is even a question!

legit think there needs to be a conversation about how many people on the left appear to Smart Guy'd themselves into thinking that consistent large-scale propaganda doesn't work or isn't effective, because uh... it does and it is

this is a *bonkers* take to me. Both Trump's rise and also like literally every idea in his head are down to Fox, he is profoundly a creature *of* Fox News. Millions of people watch it daily, and like 40% of the population say it's their primary new source! Like what are we doing here lol

it's so funny to me all these people in the year two thousand and twenty six are like "... now I'm NOT worried every channel being a right-wing slop factory will turn people right-wing" dawg look around, what do you think has happened, who do you think is the president right now

- wholefoods, for $18 bottles of kombucha
- the january 6 white citizens' mart
- walmart

look at my alternatives dog
- breaux mart, not on the apps, typically is out of like... bread and milk but has 12 kinds of bloody mary mix, aisles organized according to forbidden eldritch knowledge
- aldi, which im pretty sure just sells shit fell off a truck

winn dixie shut down, how am I expected to live

(and apologies if none of this is relevant to you, just stuff I've been thinking a lot about recently haha)

and I'd guess odds are the person you're reaching out to probably really appreciates it (they just also need to work on their shit lol)

Which is all just to say, yes def tell people "yo this feels really one-sided", but also imo you should NOT worry about that being annoying- like expecting reciprocity is *entirely* reasonable

The socialization around stoic independence and never being a burden is strong, men outsource the effort/vulnerability of reaching out to wives/gfs, and that was made even worse by everybody spending years in the COVID mines (not to mention anxiety, depression, etc).

Dunno about your specific situation but as somebody who is absolutely terrible about proactively reaching out, and has thought a lot about that recently- some people are just careless, but I think straight men in particular can *really* struggle with reaching out.

made the mistake of turning on the SOTU for a couple mins and my big takeaways are 1) I overestimated the degree to which describing people as "waxy ghouls" is always hyperbole and 2) it is shocking and should be an absolute scandal that half of that chamber is not completely empty

as an old millennial... I see nothing wrong lol

I see no picinic baskets and I must scream booboo

I am simply saying that a literal remote *island* (one with atronomical building costs, a declining population, and tons of exogenous vacation/tourist spending, just to start) seems to me a dubious choice to refer to, if you want to extrapolate trends or mechanisms you can apply elsewhere

Curious to read this but gotta say right off the bat can think of a... couple? reasons right off the dome why literal *Hawaii* might not be the most prototypical housing market example hahaha

is it just me or did "RIP to [person]" used to be sort of cavalier and mostly used ironically? It seems like in the last few years I've been seeing it used earnestly a lot more often and it throws me a little every time

that fuckin ruled, this is now a figure skating account

legend
bsky.app/profile/tole...

can you describe a figure skater as a gunslinger

Technologies are always a reflection of the values and priorities of the societies that create them, and LLMs are an almost hermetic encapsulation of the worldview of a society that values precisely nothing except profit accumulation

Imo the thing about LLMs that a lot of people are missing is that the goal isn't, like, *better* medical diagnoses. The goal is generating plausible *seeming* output whose underlying mechanisms are so obfuscated, and at such a volume, that regulatory & liability constraints on profits are impossible

It's incredibly funny that there's a bunch of people on here absolutely *obsessed* with the pernicious influence of the DSA Int Committee shadowy cabal lol

New text of the NOPD Policy Manual: In the event a detained individual is discovered to be subject to a Facially Sufficient detainer, officers should treat the incident as a signal 17F – fugitive attachment and take appropriate steps to transfer the custody of that individual to the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office. If the individual is refused by OPSO, a supervisor shall contact command desk for further instructions. (Transferring Custody of an NOPD Prisoner to an Outside Agency is governed by Chapter 71.1 Prisoner Transportation and Guarding.)

When NOPD discovers that a person has an immigration detainer, that person will now be taken to jail for ICE pickup. The new policy went into effect yesterday.

A stunning betrayal, after the administration swatted down our pleas for transparency and community input.

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​A screenshot of a post from the account Acyn featuring a video of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). The text of the post quotes AOC speaking about the humanitarian crisis in Cuba, drawing parallels to Gaza. ​She describes a "new era of depravity" where innocent civilians are starved or deprived because their political regimes are found "objectionable." She emphasizes the need to defend human rights, mentioning the risk of hospitals running out of fuel and children being put in harm's way. The video thumbnail shows AOC walking through a hallway while being interviewed by a reporter holding a microphone. ​Would you like me to help you draft more QRTs based on these specific images or provide a deeper summary of the AOC video?

The United States is purposefully blockading Cuba from accessing fuel that powers everything from grocery stores to hospitals. People will die. Children will die. What's being done to the people of Cuba is monstrous.

The people in power were ok with it in Gaza and now they're doing it to Cuba.