David/Kung Fu

Tesla shareholders approving a $1 trillion payout for Elon Musk is the the most blatant and the most literal example of the sunk costs fallacy to date

James Watson in his own words “Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…

"wait how bad was he?" behold, receipts:

I’ve found this app to be very helpful!

Dear UK Left Wingers, also take note

I am so upset.

Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

When the 'something' is cancer, I'd focus on the 'may happen' bit, and then imagine the conversation with the adult you didn't vaccinate.

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

POSTER: In my post I invented the Don’t Misunderstand the Torment Nexus Metaphor as a cautionary tale

CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor

Just had to check to see if Paul is a bot and he is the CTO of Bluesky

paul, this is a tweet about silicon valley failing to recognize scifi as being social critique and assuming they were prescriptions for what future society should look like rather than amplifications of social issues present at time of writing.

hope this helps!

If any kids go "6-7!" to you, respond with "That's Numberwang!"

Debunking bullshit takes an order of magnitude more work that creating it.

While all experts who looked closer at the "synthetic origin" bruhaha immediately realised how scientifically unsound it was, it just takes so much work for so little reward to refute it.

Zach did anyway, and oh boy.. ⬇️

So sad to see this go, it was my favourite of my science news shows

“Twat cannon” would be a good band name

This all day!

Here is a link to what I posted yesterday with written information about how people who are working are on SNAP because they aren't paid enough.

bsky.app/profile/mfbr...

They aren't paid enough!

“Your party has made people feel genuinely unsafe to walk the streets because of the colour of their skin, and you expect equal outrage over paint on metal shutters?”

Spot on.

Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon. The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire...

I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality.

www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...

We've had enough of numerous channels and wider media, pussy footing around and giving oxygen to this vile stuff and thereby further legitimising the bile.

At last from Matt, an excellent piece, calling it out and deftly exposing the deceits that we've been fed.

CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

fixed that for you

AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds : Rise and grind, robot overlords demand

This article discusses the study and takes you to it.

www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/a...

I'm a bit 😐 on people going "this is why Labour, the Lib Dems and Greens need to team up!" coz...those parties are nowhere near each other politically. You think Labour and the Lib Dems will give up their pro-austerity policy? That Labour will reverse its anti-trans legislation?

Rest In Power the Bothans who died getting this photo

That's why I have "there's too many black people in adverts" as one of the most hands-down racist klaxons there is, short of violence or Nazi iconography. There's no pretence of a policy issue there, no tapdance of "legitimate concerns". It's just pathetic melanin whinging.

It’s true. It could be argued this isn’t news in the same way “When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.”, I still think it’s in the public interest to report.

Anyway, I’ve joined the Greens. I like what @boldpolitics.bsky.social is doing!

This is Jon Lovett making fun of people who think a guy with a Nazi tattoo should not be a Democratic nominee for a US senate seat.

This clown is going this far to defend a guy with a FUCKING NAZI TATTOO.

Jon Lovett is not a serious person and was not made for 2025.

My late mum got me into Star Trek having been a fan since it first aired (we even rented the animated series on VHS possibly even before ST:TNG aired in the UK), and when I first met my now wife, we bonded over DS9 quotes. Wonder why there aren’t many female trekkies in this man’s life?

Me too, though at least I’m in the UK and could get the skin graft for the burn from the NHS

A picture of physicist Brian Cox against a starry backdrop, speaking into a microphone, his right hand raised with thumb and forefinger together as he emphasised a point. In a white, bold, Helvetica font is written “Every carbon atom in every liver, fava bean and nice chianti on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.”

A picture of He-Man

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day: