Shelly Penton

Elon Musk: *fash bullshit*

Norman Rockwell:

i love how texas started this and was all “neener what you gon do” and a buncha blue states said “lol watch this”

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

Random question that in no way could have been posed in any undergrad intro to philosophy course: What do these people think that their gaining status is *for*?

Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office

The reason I know this is blatant, edging-on-erotic self-sabotage is Vanderbilt.

Habermas did have this to say. And while he rejected Kierkegaard’s fideism, his theory of ‘communicative action’ was strongly Kierkegaard influenced. He’s not quite the philosopher of bloodless technocracy he’s assumed to be.

I would simply read and support an actually liberal publication www.liberalcurrents.com/support-us/

Sam Altman insists OpenAI doesn’t intend to turn ChatGPT into a porn not, they just want to give users “freedom.” Relatedly, the company still does not have a path toward profitability, and the two quickest ways for them to make money are government contracts and sex.

Coming in hot from @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com!

Warner Bros. Discovery Says Its Board Will Review Paramount’s Upgraded Hostile Takeover Offer Warner Bros. Discovery said its board will review Paramount Skydance's latest hostile takeover offer -- which includes some new financial guarantees -- before it officially accepts or rejects the riva...

Larry Ellison and his nepobaby kid are going to just keep harassing Warner Brothers about this until Trump's DOJ boxes out Netflix so they can have their prize

not to be redundant but the goal is to shovel CBS/CNN/HBO and TikTok into the Fox News right wing propaganda state TV alliance

I am generally dismissive of these things but this actually feels scary. This isn't just a scam email, it is an elaborately worked out and callous deception scheme, enabled by AI, and it is hard not to feel targeted.

Be careful out there, authors. Be *very* careful.

FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
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Opinion | We Have to Face What ICE Has Done to Us

"With that in mind, any serious push to account for the actions of this government — to abolish the president’s private army, restructure immigration enforcement and punish anyone responsible for wrongdoing — must include recompense and repair for its victims."

"the tee vee showed my drunk ass a fake businessman with a comb over who lied and said all my basest impulses were correct" does not equate to any sort of concrete understanding of economic reality and "kitchen table issues"

Trying to keep up with the crime aided, abetted, and/or instigated by the Trump administration is like playing pedophile whack-a-mole.

Yes, Trump has turned the United States into a kleptocratic police state. But lib wine moms sound so cringe when they point this out. I have never felt more politically homeless.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Hey friends! There's still time to register for this year's Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference happening this coming weekend - Feb 13-15. It's entirely online this year. (but you do need to register to receive the zoom link) studyofreligion.ucr.edu/holstein-cha...

The people who wrote “we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal” really meant what they said very seriously. They also owned slaves. This contradiction basically drove the next 250 years of American history. Our ideals are good and we should live up to them

Congrats to Ray-Ban for ensuring most articles about creeps filming women without their consent will now be accompanied by a photo of their product and logo.

I think 90% of the problem is that online discourse can be undertaken entirely anonymously.

Unfortunately, if you want most people to calm down and act like adults, you have to be able to hold them accountable to someone/something/a community. You can't do that when anonymity is the default.

Blasting Nuper Rosarum Flores from all the speakers in the house today like we're at the beginning of the Renaissance and not fascist neo-feudalism.

i can't think about this story for more than a few seconds because if i do i get so mad my brain resets and i gotta lie down in a dark room for an hour

The secret police need special privileges that put them above the law because they're the real victims here, says the party of limited government and individual liberties

I’m sure the hungover jury duty event the angry whites put on was also great

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.

The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

The two genders, according to tech bro advertisers:

Men: my intellect is so vast, so unusually large, that I use a robot to think for me instead of wasting my time with trivial matters

Women: my brain is so tiny and fuzzy that I use a robot to think for me and now I don't get headaches anymore!