Curb Your Malthusiasm

Bampy (gray and white british shorthair) sniffing some purple flowers on a table while a Home Sweet Home scented Yankee Candle burns next to her

sweetest of all possible babies

The first season of Past Lives is winding down and the second starts next week! This one is all about Bodily Experiences - people from the past we know through their physical remains, like skeletons. We're going to meet Mesolithic shamans, Scythian princesses, and soldiers dropped in mass graves.

i love following up. i love checking in. circling back. any word. would love a status update. lmk. i do not have an anxiety disorder fyi

one day…

Marxism is the science of the laws governing the development of nature and society, the science of the revolution of the oppressed and exploited masses, the science of the victory of socialism in all countries, the science of building communist society. As a science, Marxism cannot stand still, it develops and is perfected. In its development, Marxism cannot but be enriched by new experience, new knowledge -- consequently some of its formulas and conclusions cannot but change in the course of time, cannot but be replaced by new formulas and conclusions, corresponding to the new historical tusks. Marxism does not recognize invariable conclusions and formulas, obligatory for all epochs and periods. Marxism is the enemy of all dogmatism.

The best single-paragraph explanation of Marxism I've ever read. And this is from a response to a question about linguistics lol

www.marxists.org/reference/ar...

Also, it should go without saying that the sports bans aren't really about sports. They're about getting "transgender girls are male" written into the text of a law so that the next time someone sues over bathroom access, or passport accuracy, or employment discrimination, there's a statute ...

Why does “Israel gets shelled” have to be limited to a baseball headline

An outdoor photo of a park fence with an old wooden fence which has a crooked sign hanging from it that reads NO GOLF. Foreground is a rainy field of soggy green grass, and a couple newly planted saplings.

Bingo!

If you're a John Brown account and you're not banned within 12 hours of account creation then you don't have what it takes

Like this is true across all social media sites and everyone who thinks they’re the first one to do a John Brown Stan Account.

Every JB Cosplay account is the most milquetoast centrist to have ever lived, it’s really remarkable

also let’s not forget they call it the Supreme Leader in all this media so it sounds scary, never mind that our “democratically elected President” is a child rapist war criminal with his own private Gestapo

Headline: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of slain ayatollah, named Iran’s supreme leader

I don’t even know why I apply for jobs when they always go to people with famous dads

nothing gets better while the democratic party remains intact.

the nominal head of the democratic party is one of the most racist, blood thirsty monsters in the entire country, and we all pretend like that isn’t the case

all my female soviet relatives and friends who grew up in east Germany mourn the rights, freedom and appreciation they lost once the soviet government fell.
they had communal kitchens, childcare, real support. capitalism gave them nothing but more unpaid labor

People thought I was being unfair when I went after people for a weak line on Maduro but I cannot stress enough how important is to hold an ideological line and not concede any bourgeois framing, no matter what.

Far worse with Iran**

They did this with Cuba and Venezuela too!! Tho admittedly it’s far worse than Iran, mixed up with all sorts of orientalism and Islamophobia to boot

i admit i am extremely alarmed at how xenophobic a lot of US based leftists are. the way you people talk about iran is BONE CHILLING. youve always been like this but even in your tepid anti war statements youve been quick to add that you do believe iran is ontologically evil.

Schumer wants to tap into oil reserves so that we can keep the war with Iran going with minimal anti-war pressure. The Senate Democrats are with him on this or else they’d be calling for his ouster. This is why the Democratic Party is both vile and not an avenue to a better world.

Younger people in this country are desperate for real public services and the only way to prevent that and still look like a Democrat is to pretend you're doing us a favor by denying us what we really need.

Checking an LLM's work is a systemic, not an individual, problem. Only a culture of design critique can prevent sloppy AI-generated problem definitions.

People tell me that AI code is fine, because you can run automatic tests. But tests can only tell you if code is doing the thing you want it to do.

To know what it SHOULD do, we used to have requirements. But now requirements are themselves vibe-coded slopotypes.

The result: waste and risk.

Attacks leave dead vs killed

Feels like 1930s France

Crate&Barrel’s marketing team really didn’t think this one thru huh

I’m briefly in India. This is a facile observation, but Americans have barely scratched the surface in understanding how the rest of the world is reacting to this war. It’s already an Iraq War-style disaster in the global imagination, underscored by the thuggishness and caprice of the Trump approach

"Turdus Migratorius."
It's a funny name!