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René Martin

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He/him writer/game dev. culture/political posting, politics are in all aspects of life, including creative pursuits. #NAFO appreciator #BLM Writing sporadically @ https://talkandplay.substack.com

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Well, yeah but that’s not really what AI are trained on? So this would be AI trained on masters vs people who actually care about art and meaning, otherwise we’re essentially discussing if a robo-dog could beat up an infant

11.08.2025 23:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

dawg they got dudes in pink polos throwing sandwiches on them and these are the *good* times for the admin

11.08.2025 23:08 — 👍 109    🔁 28    💬 8    📌 1

The majority of voters believe we're suffering a historically massive wave of violent crime because they've fried their brains on decades of True Crime content and no one wants to talk about this because it means admitting the majority of voters are morons disconnected from material reality.

11.08.2025 18:09 — 👍 79    🔁 29    💬 10    📌 1

That’s essentially what I said, isn’t it?

11.08.2025 23:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bad info environment + credulous dipshit voters makes for a bad time trying to get clear takeaways

11.08.2025 23:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wouldn’t that be as much a function of us being able to read meaning into meaningless words as anything else? Robot puts out words following known poetic structure, human reads words and creates poetic meaning from them?

11.08.2025 23:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nah, take 97% of his money and net worth and assets, then use that to help those who need it most.

10.08.2025 23:44 — 👍 464    🔁 50    💬 12    📌 0

This is not how corporations respond to an ineffective protest. This is how they respond to a protest that they would like to have go away.

So don't let it go away. Keep it going.

In fact, Streissand Effect this shit. Call attention to how much they want this to go away.

08.08.2025 20:35 — 👍 6586    🔁 4744    💬 12    📌 11

Today's the last day I'm gonna be sharing this

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10.08.2025 21:03 — 👍 25    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0

terf ideology is a cancerous rot in our society pass it on

10.08.2025 20:14 — 👍 58    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 12

Terf ideology is cruelty masquerading as compassion; it's a cancerous rot in our society. Pass it on.

10.08.2025 20:31 — 👍 25    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 2

George, the Chief of Staff, was Groberg’s brigade commander his first Afg tour.

The Vice Chief, Gen. Mingus, was his brigade commander on the next one—Groberg *literally saved his life* by tackling that suicide bomber.

That neither of them will stand up for him on the record is…disappointing.

10.08.2025 16:05 — 👍 640    🔁 164    💬 20    📌 10

Something mechanical would be the smart move, given how many time stuff like transporter locks fail in those situations

09.08.2025 22:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Breaching charges really should be standard issue for exploration teams at this point, redshirts really aren’t supposed to be *that* disposable in-universe

09.08.2025 21:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah, those guys would absolutely hunt The Most Dangerous Game if they thought they could get away with it. Probably a few more disappearances per capita wherever they go tbh

09.08.2025 21:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s not even trophy hunting at that point, there’s not enough left to preserve! God, people like that suck.

09.08.2025 21:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fuck, I cannot begin to imagine that stench

09.08.2025 21:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i think one of the worst times i ever felt when i was on food stamps wasn't the dehumanizing process of having to try to convince a person at an office that i deserved to eat, it was when i found out i couldn't buy some oranges because they weren't in the system

09.08.2025 06:09 — 👍 185    🔁 31    💬 4    📌 1
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Redistricting won't just redraw lines. It could disrupt lifelines | Opinion Thousands of Texans turn to their members of Congress for help with veterans' benefits, Social Security checks and other apolitical issues. Reshuffling districts could create confusion and delays.

Read the full story in the Statesman: www.statesman.com/story/opinio...

09.08.2025 21:04 — 👍 51    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 1

Nah, you were dead on

08.08.2025 21:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I legit think the moral damage Trump winning twice did to society by normalizing misogyny will take generations to repair.

07.08.2025 21:52 — 👍 911    🔁 193    💬 47    📌 7

Art

07.08.2025 20:21 — 👍 132    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 0

whichever Democratic politician you’re currently describing as a vile bigot would not have done anything like this

07.08.2025 20:16 — 👍 1558    🔁 310    💬 63    📌 20
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The Liberal Currents Canon, or Some Good Books From time to time we get asked for recommended reading. The topics vary, but given the nature of Liberal Currents there are certainly recurring themes. By the same token, there are a few books that a ...

From time to time we get asked for recommended reading. Rather than coming up with a Complete Liberal Currents Canon, we thought it might be more fun to create a list via the method of a draft, as a bonus for our patrons. Here's the result: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-liberal-...

07.08.2025 03:02 — 👍 47    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 1

I think a key thing to understand several strains of Very Online Left is the belief there are a set of words that would allow you to win any seat in any environment if you were just brave enough to say them

06.08.2025 23:53 — 👍 478    🔁 62    💬 36    📌 9

Being honest I had never read the book, never a big tragedy guy. Makes sense the title had a double meaning though!

07.08.2025 02:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Heads up for YouTube folks;

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06.08.2025 12:14 — 👍 2975    🔁 2304    💬 29    📌 24

I think mine was not realizing yeller in Old Yeller meant yellow and not just that the dog barked a lot. There was an at least 18 year gap between the two.

07.08.2025 01:59 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Man, you are attacking a guy on team anti-trump. We can in fact have lives outside of the endless horror vortex we currently have to grapple with. It’s actually a good thing to step back and do something you enjoy so you don’t burn yourself out.

07.08.2025 01:54 — 👍 26    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No, seriously,

07.08.2025 01:27 — 👍 149    🔁 46    💬 6    📌 0

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