Alban

A headline to sum up our times:

true to the extent that you can also upload illegal content

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

me: peers at phone through squinted eyes...seems safe to get up? rando: is that a definition of privilege? living where it's safe to get up?

cc @thelouvreof.bsky.social

Maduro had lost the aloha spirit

TOS enterprise bridge is pictured with 4 crewfolks, including Spock, Uhura, a redshirt, and Kevin the guy who sang annoyingly over the PA system that one time. Kevin and Spock are talking, and Kevin looks like that thing when a 5 year old is mad and drooping their arms all sulky like. Closed caption reads, "UNIVERSAL SUFFERING."

uh holy SHIT?

MMORPG players in Westworld: people torture the NPCs because they're not real and nothing matters Real MMORPG players in real games: for a while there was a rock with textures that didn't load in correctly so people made a pilgrimage to Smooth Rock

That's just memoryslop. You only recalled that because you ate a cookie.

David Lynch: "Okay, let's try that again, but this time good."

2026

One of the best to ever do it

If you own a computer it should be illegal for a company to not let you easily install your own software. This includes crap like tvs and refrigerators. Let me put Debian on my dishwasher.

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

three wise men... don't see much of that nowadays

[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

MAGA guy solemnly modifying his well-worn K*LL YOUR LOCAL PEDOPHILE shirt to say VOTE FOR YOUR LOCAL PEDOPHILE

86% of these tracks will receive the same payment from Anna’s Archive as from Spotify

CBS News/Free Press program "Has feminism failed women" brought to you by bank of america and hosted by Liz Plank and Allie Beth Stuckey

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

The other crypto-fascism: how “Futurism” and the tech-right are making inroads into Latin America Roughly 80 years ago, a similar “disruption and innovation” movement by the same name brought about the birth of fascism in Italy. The parallels are striking

The founder of the Futurist movement was also co-author of the Fascist Manifesto.

Modern day fascists are trying something similar with crypto, A.I. and space flight, but it's more of a grift than an attempt at creating a coherent ideology plus aesthetic.
www.piratewireservices.com/p/the-other-...

Well, this is an utter disaster for science.

This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*

ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin

DETECTIVE:

ME: are you getting apricot notes

2 of spades with a grim reaper and text: the risk of a young infant developing bronchitis or pneumonia in the first year of life is doubled if parents smoke

Joker Card maybe. Text: Both active and passive smoking cause cancer death cigarette playing cards smoking destroys lives

Ace of diamonds. Image: absolutely baller skeleton smoking several cigarettes at once wearing a crown and knee high boots Text: tobacco is the only legal product that when used as directed, kills My own thoughts: smoking 10 cigarettes at a time is not using as directed

Dave found this pack of anti smoking playing cards from his youth that I'm now obsessed with

Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organizations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.