Townsend S. Wright

The fact that so many billionaire Californians are each dedicating tens of millions of dollars to fighting a proposed wealth tax — rather than using those funds to pay the tax — demonstrates just how much play money they have and evidences the extent of their delusional entitlement

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

I'm always saying this

My dudes. My billionaire pals. The wealth tax is for YOUR well-being, not ours.

Did he get in a cold plunge in jeans??

They both move like they’re recovering from strokes.

Geb and Nex going hot is my guess for Impossible Magic, actually, since it deals explicitly with the Impossible Lands

I’m with you on a dungeon/Darklands themed book for these guys—Daredevil being based on Prince of Persia and Slayer’s monster Hunter/Witcher/Belmont vibe combined reads very dungeon

Rain was so heavy it woke me up a few minutes ago. Like I felt the need to check my door and window for flooding, bad.

I learned about this recently and it’s possibly my new favorite anti capitalist argument. “Capitalism was invented by the VOC so they could more effectively exterminate island populations over Christmas spices”.

Yeah, this was my day back when I had noon-to-8 shifts.

Fair warning, if you start eating dinner at nine, once you go back you start feeling hungry when you go to bed.

Billionaires are money hoarders. No one can spend $1 billion, let alone $100bn, on things they & their families need, or even really want. If they gave away 99% of their loot, this lot would still be absurdly, obscenely rich. Their wealth is socially useless, kept out of circulation for status alone

AI guys insisting on the inevitability of the tech are so irritating. every comparison they make is to something whose utility was immediately apparent. "it does things faster and we can fix its mistakes later and that'll be the job now" does not compare to "metronome that doesn't need winding"

So-called "prison abolitionists" when the titan Atlas is no longer forced to hold the Earth in place:
"AHHHH! AHHH, FUCK! AHHHHHHHHHH! WE'RE FALLING, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-"

Well now I MUST know what their genre composition is and who brought what! I imagine there’s some actual medical science books in the mix, maybe some Michael Chrichton medical dramas, but who’s bringing the sci-fi and what was essential to them?

Having begun my re-binge with the clock ticking and I will admit…

The theme song is annoying, I will be skipping wherever possible.

Historically my forever-single Valentines tradition would be to go see a movie, but there’s not really anything out right now that interests me.

no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.

Hopecore

Happy Colonizer Neck Stabbing Day.

Also, the love holiday or something is today.

It's not the cell phones. It's the evil industries that billionaires have pushed onto them. Ban all that shit; destroy the online prediction market and gambling industries.

Also pass UBI and universal health care to thwart this desperate jackpot-to-survive impulse.

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

What a wildly specific pull, I like your taste.

There’s a He-Man movie coming out THIS YEAR!

Why in gods name is She-Ra leaving Netflix? It’s their show! I get that I can’t stream Columbo anywhere because nobody thinks it’s worth it to pay for the rights to Columbo, but Netflix made this show!

You also definitely wouldn’t be able to see her elbow THROUGH her torso as depicted, it would be a static image. If you can do that, then you’ve invented an invisibility cloak and just decided to be cheeky with it.

Cheap version would probably be some kind of lenticular—like a card that flips between two images depending on the angle you look at it. You might get some glitchy depth depending on complexity, but the perspective would only shift along one axis and the fabric would have a hard ribbed texture.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Bible salesman, actually, hence why his conversation before she attacks him is so dramatic and sinister sounding.

Tweet from J Michael Straczynski: Looks like Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube.

🚨Incredibly important information!

What could Aranessa's secret be? A child? A Betrayal? A mistake? An inner nature?
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