AB in PA

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

Try shopping random vintage items online — okay it only helped for like 20 mins and you have to pre-identify some niche item like “Princess House Martini Pitcher” and then challenge yourself to find it within 30 miles on FB Marketplace, but hey 20 minutes is 20 minutes.

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

Wow

They carried her limp body through the street by the arms and legs because ICE had blocked off the street and they couldn't even get an abulance through with a stretcher.

Gender issues explain every single aspect of what is happening. 💯

Jan. 6, 2021:

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time.

It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

Republicans don’t view any action at all as good or bad. There is only “who is doing it?”

If it’s Trump it is good even if they hated it yesterday. And if it’s a Democrat it’s bad even if they loved it yesterday.

Um, my guess is Tressie is a LOT nicer to the serving staff.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

I am in this boat to an extent (no toxic meds yet but trying to avoid getting there) and trying to give up the alcohol. But man is it tough.

That’s because America has embraced the pilgrim aesthetic and indeed equates tastes with morals. 🤣 and all that exceptionalism stuff too is tied to any choices.

Hozier. This is why we love Hozier. And Florence & the Machine.

Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.

That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

One of the best people on earth.

“What have I done!” 🤡

I want to think this is a statement of the right kind, but sadly I just don’t know.

Posts where author clearly displays he does NOT support feminism, ie is a misogynist.

Ah, you were spot on, only took one good scroll to confirm.

YES

No paywall

THIS

Opinion | The Epstein Saga Awakens a Familiar Feminist Rage

Excellent piece pulling a lot together.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

Give up and drive to different Starbucks. This is the story of America.

Thought I found an independent coffee shop. Drove there. It’s part of Whole Foods (Amazon). Now angry. Don’t want Dunkin or Tim Hortons.

Traveling and have a cold. Just need serious coffee. Tried to go get coffee at Starbucks. Strikers picketing. Daughter of a union president. Felt bad.

Sea Point falls silent as women withdraw their labour — and consent — from a failing state | Daily Maverick

On the eve of the G20 Summit, South African women staged a nationwide shutdown, demanding that gender-based violence be treated with the urgency of a national disaster.

Everything is so much stupider than I want it to be. It’s a bummer.

Are Nutty Buddy bars for lunch through High School (alternating with Entenmann's powder donuts).