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Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1 But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

i'm sorry that i don't know the original source but i've always really loved this one

C Deez Nuts!!!!

@tef.bsky.social lol @ "teoff"

before the panthers came i had arbitrarily picked the jets as my team, so it was a pretty seamless transition for me.

it's important to remember the people doing this aren't "just following orders," they signed up to do this, they're excited to do it, it's what they want to be doing, and each one of them is personally culpable for the entirety of ICE's conduct

scooping up field mice and bopping them on the head >>>>>

i'm hearing it in scatman john "i'm the scat man" voice

nazi tattoo discourse making me feel insane, might have to do the unthinkable and log off

waking up and groggily trying to piece together what people could possibly mean by “trump diarrhea video” i hate this world

we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

tweetbot had timed mutes and i mourn it daily. not sure why it’s not a first-party feature anywhere. tweetbot guys were supposed to make a bluesky version this summer but it’s delayed 😞

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"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

AMERICA: "green tech"? Lol yeah right. Sounds fake and probably gay

CHINA: okay we'll do it then

NYT: What Is To Be Done About The Perfidious Chinese

i should give you his number, he’s been shoehorning MICHAEL into a truly surprising number of conversations for decades

my dad loves this movie. there is a scene where michael eats a bunch of cereal and he thinks it’s so funny. and he sings a song about pie, which he also thinks is hilarious. i can scarcely think of a movie he’s had a stronger reaction to, and no one has ever heard of it. rightly.

They're calling it "the wrongest post of all time"

karl marx lab leak

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

The hubris to call your podcast "pod save America" when you're just a bunch of pathetic The West Wing cosplayers who cleaned up dog slobber for Obama while he was creating problems for you to podcast about

there's this interesting reoccurring theme in history where it sucks to be ruled by sub-gutter freaks with dead dog brains

ohhhhhh all the dem politicians are my personal friends and i will defend them online for free because instead of an ethical politics i only understand celebrity worship and being a little worm for authority!! stop being mean to my friends!!

in the US, your doctor has to ask your insurance if its ok for your kids to get medicine. and if they dont use the exact right phrasing, you dont get any.

this is one reason we have to get all the people who work at health insurance companies into one place so we can "figure something out"