JD Pirtle

“Yes I would like to blithely dismiss an emerging literature with a few broad-brush statements that reflect no engagement with it and no footnotes whatsoever is that cool“

uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%) Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose U.S. adult citizens 39 Party ID Democrats 14 Independents 35 Republicans 68

Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE.

Literally, "abolishing."

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I guess I'm a lil freak but going down a rabbit hole following cited works from paper to paper to gather information is *thrilling* to me.

I feel like this is already every Hegseth presser.

WINNING

Crashing in the same car Kate Wagner opens a new series on fascist aesthetics

TODAY: we welcome our NEWEST HYDRA @mcmansionhell.bsky.social with a look at fascist aesthetics. “Fascists rarely make art. Instead, the fascist aesthete’s job is to appropriate existing art for the purpose of aestheticizing a political goal.” flaminghydra.com/r/161364b8?m...

This.

"Defund the humanities to ensure that no one learns my brilliant insights are not novel" seems to be a working theory explaining a lot of techbro animus.

Teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork % of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who say they do all or most of their schoolwork with the help of AI chatbots U.S. teens — 10 Household income <$30,000 — 20 $30K–$74,999 — 15 $75,000+ — 7 Note: Those who did not answer or gave other responses are not shown. Source: Survey conducted Sept. 25–Oct. 9, 2025. “How Teens Use and View AI” PEW RESEARCH CENTER

According to PEW, teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork. I read a comment on another platform that said this is amazing news because we are "finally going to close the achievement gap." That is not how I would interpret this data.

i don’t want to click a link and i don’t want to subscribe to anything what i want is to fight god under the blood moon

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

I have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents

The US has no industrial capacity to produce the munitions needed to fight a large scale conflict in Iran. If this spirals into a protracted conflict, the US will not be able to sustain a bombing campaign. It must put troops on the ground. They have no plan for this.

I wrote about how the AI bros insisted Trump would be better than Biden... and now he's "altering" the deal.

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

you know, this is why you should not elect people who have never once learned anything about anything

They’re about to send a bunch of poor kids who joined the military hoping to avoid student loans to massacre people, all for the profits of a war machine that then gets turned on everyone involved domestically should they dare ask for a quality life or freedom.

This is capitalism.

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if he is the leader of the democratic party I am at the wrong party

Because we put... incels in charge of the Pentagon???

The notion you can change the world by buying one product over another is the biggest scam of late stage capitalism. It locks the comfortable bourgeois class into believing donations, consumerism & a few clicks on an app does the same work of civil disobedience, strikes, and protest.

“.. The attack came despite U.S. intelligence assessments that Iran’s forces were unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the U.S. mainland within the next decade.”

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At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Seems to be the pattern…

(A democrat upon hearing the current Republican bombed people the Middle East) time to Google a picture of a democrat president that also bombed the Middle East and talk about how much I miss them being president

This aged well. Note the author.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Hegseth just shot down a DHS drone with a laser because he thought it belonged to a Mexican cartel, but let’s let him preside over a radical shift to unrestrained AI on our most advanced weapons systems. What could go wrong?