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They're not journalists. We need to start pushing back on that shit. Call these people PR professionals. They hate that. Trust me. Nothing cuts a "reporter" deeper than calling them Public Relations because they have such disdain for the people who work in that industry.

When you see the media spin this war, bear in mind that every single propaganda tactic has just been tested in spinning biden's genocide of Gaza.

The exact same playbook, the exact same kinds of lies, the same inevitable violence against protesters: we literally *just* went through this.

The only acceptable dem platform is "we will do what we failed to do in both Reconstruction and Denazification, brutally punishing everyone responsible and draining the billionaires into destitution to fund the 50 year program of fixing what they destroyed", and dem leadership is incapable of this.

tony! 😭 get some rest!! 💜

Hubris. What we see from the light cast into the shadows can’t be unseen. I don’t know if it will ultimately change the social order, but you can feel the shift in the winds. As we clutch the death windows in our sweaty hands.

The irony of profit-mad corporations using slave labor to mine the earth for minerals that allow them to create and sell and reap profits from the devices that have given us all a window back into the violence of the mines where the children die.

I don’t know. Just some thoughts arising from witnessing the worst things our species is capable of nonstop for years and years and years.

The nuclear bomb is the clearest symbol of this. In the human pursuit for dominance, we created a weapon so terrible that we can’t control its fallout. It opened a psychic wound so deep, one has to wonder if it wasn’t always already there.

Violence degrades meaning. Even when committed for a “reason,” what the perpetrator fails to see is that violence has its own momentum. For the recipient, the meaning has no weight. The only weight is the act itself. It leaves in its wake a vacuum that pulls everyone nearby limb from limb.

Is it possible we’re all trapped on the wheel of death and rebirth until none of us are?

i don't really think it's good for the human psyche to stare at gore all day, but there's another equally negative assumption where people assume explosions are somehow sterile, surgical, instant and merciful death. They are not for most. They are concussive dismemberments. They leave casualties

Well, it was either world war three or letting black people have jobs, so I see why people just went with the world war

This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

Last night I watched Akira and this morning I woke to the news of war.

There must be a future we can choose for ourselves.

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

I’m 62 years old, I live in Tampa, I eat corn and beef everyday, I always have a titleist hat on, and Iran is the biggest threat to my freedom

The rehabilitation of Max Landis is great news for all of us in the Bright fan community who never stopped believing in the limitless potential of the Bright universe

lmfao he’s gotta be losing it since the mouse entered public domain

xAI data center gets air permit to run 15 turbines, but imaging shows 24 on site County health department accused of turning a “blind eye” to xAI’s alleged pollution.

Memphis is being poisoned to power Grok regurgitating text statistically similar to the nazi propaganda it was trained on.

Btw: he only applied for a permit for 15 gas turbines, and then put at least 24 on site.

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“see muted replies” is always a real “dead dove do not eat” situation for me

does anyone work in an industry that isn’t forcing them to use AI? i understand it’s been ass-jammed into everything to some degree, but as a writer/editor/video producer, it’s at least one meaty bullet in every job posting.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

going on kalshi to bet on how long it will take me to get food poisoned due to government negligence but i’m interrupted mid-click by the pentagon’s AI model accidentally setting off all the nukes

Bear in mind, this guarantee of sledgehammering food safety is coming at the exact same time they have already shot food safety in the face via DOGE cuts and such.

Like, last *April* they killed tracing salmonella levels in poultry. Last *August* the CDC stopped tracking 6 foodbourne pathogens.

Alt text: a graph showing a massive spike in anti-trans articles per 30 days.

The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade

The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.

If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

The thing about Bill Gates confessing, publicly, to pedophilia is that if a *normal* person did that, they'd experience immediate consequences. They'd be arrested immediately for doing so.

It reminds me of how in the US self-defense is an affirmative defense: it is saying "I did it, but ___"