Micah

Two contestants names Randle and Lamb

Whoa Black Betty

we live in the world where Jeffrey Epstein is Forest Gump, history revolving around one man.

Man on a local news street interview: The earth is a resort for like 500 rich people and the rest of us are just the staff.

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

That which is for me through the medium of money - that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) - that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my - the possessor's - properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness - its deterrent power - is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet. Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: is. - Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?

As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

should you be gayer? absolutely
should you be more trans? urgently
should you be a prouder, gentler, truer version of yourself? always
should you increase your hrt? id check in with your local doctor/witches' coven since effects may vary.

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images.

This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

I feel like since billionaires are usually surrounded by uninspired sycophantic yes-men; the feeling of chatting to a LLM is probably an improvement on their experience.

Angela Davis

Happy Birthday, Angela Davis!

I'm dumb, but prison for the organizers of ice and illegal wars seems like an easy way to disempower dangerous people who were enacting fascism (i don't support jailing supporters) and would try to do it again if left unchecked.
I'm interested in alternatives and will check your helpful links.
thx

Damn, even Sesame Street is scoring off me

the us and western europe nuking each other to oblivion would be a hell of a way to end centuries of colonialism and empire.

the spell is massive amounts of speculative financial capital.
same for crypto, nft, metaverse...

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States….
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My painting NORTHERN SUMMER SKY

Ben Kingsley has been appointed as Arab envoy for the peace plan

Thank you for making me and my partner laugh.

I was confused by this slander against my favorite ocean. i shouldn't open bsky until i've finished my coffee

Shout out to this guy's brother who did the hard work of radicalizing his normie sibling

Trump is actually a pawn in the Hapsburgs 5d chess to give republicanism a bad name.

Algospeak Will Be the Unaliving of Me Maybe we want to bare our teeth.

ICYMI, @sesmith.lol wrote about how algospeak is aiding our inability to name all the horrors that are currently taking place in our dystopian world! Read now: www.theflytrapmedia.com/algospeak-wi...

Un personaje de un meme midwit no puede parecerte hot.

El meme midwit:

Made the mistake of trying to find a chart about inflation by searching for inflation on here and got a reminder that while most people think Bluesky is a place for politics, it's actually a place for furries to jack off

The frightening realization that a lot of people believe that AI is intelligent because they don't really understand things either. They just sort of repeat what other people say, and the more often it is said, the more true it must be.

Hence, the computer is thinking just like humans do.

Shamanism can be defined as the practice of low risk behaviors in order to (hopefully) affect areas of our lives where we have little control.

Drawing of a blue squid playing a yellow trumpet. Although cartoonishly stylized, both squid and trumpet are anatomically accurate. The squid is blowing into the mouthpiece with its siphon, and operating the valves with three arms wrapped around the trumpet. The other five arms are being used as legs for the squid to stand on.

Doodled at the request of a musician/scientist friend

What a world huh Lemon it’s still struggling to be born

It is badass when Bloch, adding to this, says that the hope he has in mind is not naive optimism but a desire for an improved future informed by detailed analysis of the balance of forces in the present and “warmed” by “love for the victims, and hatred of exploiters.”

(Principle of Hope I, 272)

Malm and Mangione | Amna A. Akbar You can almost hear the chattering class’s chattering teeth as they balance the need to generate clicks with their sanctimonious shock at the public’s hatred for Brian Thompson, the company he ran, an...

"The commodification of what should be social goods is insured by prisons and police."

re-uppping my @nplusonemag.com subscription because I just discovered an Amna Akbar piece I missed in new-parent haze.

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...