Danny Barringer (none/they)

The original Mona Lisa.

A Mona Lisa reproduction (basically a poster).

This idea of craft can be increasingly important as AI replaces much of human labor. As a tailor friend put it: it's the difference between a hand painted Mona Lisa and a computer copy. Even if others can't tell the difference, some people may value the handmade version bc it represents human skill.

I'm so tired of being ashamed, embarrassed, and disappointed. And so very, very angry.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

I'm once more reminded of this timeless quote from Christopher Clark's book on the 1848 Revolutions in Europe

nah think i will continue to do my writing and thinking in-house and not atrophy my brain to send faster emails

This Pride month, don’t forget about the trans and gnc activists who made this happen. People like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, whose leadership at Stonewall has now been stricken from all government websites by a Trump administration that wants us erased from history.

@chanda.bsky.social I see now why you've gone to watch Sinners a double-digit number of times in theaters. Partner and I finally had a night to go see it and HOLY FUCK. Even apart from having *so much* going on, probably the best theater movie I've seen since Fury Road

I don't think they really caught my attention until college but once I learned neutrinos could change flavors and we still don't really know why, I was hooked!

I will never not be fascinated by neutrinos and their weird little particle fuckery.

Elected Democrats seem to be from at least 445 million years ago because there's not a vertebrate to be found among them

A poster with an image of riot police, reading THE POLICE The ones who beat Rodney King, who gunned down Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo and Oscar Grant, who murdered Fred Hampton in his bed. The ones who enforced Apartheid in South Africa and segregation in the United States. The ones who broke Víctor Jara’s hands and Steve Biko’s skull, who disappeared dissidents from Argentina to Zaire, who served Josef Stalin. The ones who interrogated Black Panthers and Catholic Workers, who maintained records on 16 million people in East Germany, who track us through surveillance cameras and phone taps. The ones firing tear gas and rubber bullets whenever a demonstration gets out of hand, who back the bosses in every strike. The ones who stand between every hungry person and the grocery shelves stocked with food, between every homeless person and the buildings standing empty, between every immigrant and her family.

The real problem is that capitalism has created such deep inequalities that it requires ever-escalating brute force to impose them on people.

Until we achieve real social change, we are only going to see more violence. Legitimizing capitalism means justifying murder.

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Can't wait till they figure out how to combine this feature with Grok's Holocaust denial

- Babe, I'd kill like 10 guys for you.

- Would you start showering every day and stop listening to Rogan?

- 20 guys!

"In this photo, the animal is standing up and spreading its arms, showing a body shape similar to Gavin McInnes."

It's good to be pro-alt text for accessibility reasons, obviously. But also, sometimes that shit's just funny

And now I've made myself sad so I'll just pay @miawong.bsky.social a tribute and end with

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed.

These are fundamentally the interests that science serves when done on behalf of nations and it's why government-funded science is even a thing. And that sucks because it could so easily be so much more.

No, competition like I'm talking about only comes in when there is a national need to dominate. American companies need to dominate global markets to maintain the economic hegemony of the global north. The American military needs to dominate through the possession of superior weaponry.

And even then, you're working towards the same goal: expanding human knowledge. At that point it's just a ego thing of who gets the credit, and more than likely, there's still collaboration occurring there.

What is inherently competitive about learning more about the workings universe around us? Okay maybe you have a rival research team at a rival university working on a similar project. That's obviously not what I'm talking about here though.

But I hate seeing people need to try to argue for the validity of that by appealing to American economic and military interests via the intentionally vague notion of "American competitiveness in science."

Now obviously this isn't why many (hopefully most?) of us do or love science. Science is a fundamentally cool as fuck endeavor! We get to learn about our world and the universe around us! That's why (again, hopefully most) people get into science.

It is so god damn frustrating that the only reason anyone *really* gets to do science in the USA is to support the American capitalist, imperialist project.

Hannah Rose Woods @hannahrosewoods Is it possible you misheard Dr Naomi Wolf o @naomirwolf Terrifying. Also confirms/explains the conversation I overheard in a restaurant in Manhattan 2 yrs ago in which an Apple employee was boasting about attending a top secret demo: they had a new tech to deliver vaccines w nanopatticles that let you travel back in time. Not kidding Time Machine Software Time Machine is a backup software application distributed as part of macOS, the desktop operating system developed by Apple. The software is designed to work with external storage devices and most commonly used with external disk drives, It was first introduced in Mac OS X Leopard. Wikipedia Developer: Apple Operating system: macOS 10.5 or newer

As long as we’re talking about Naomi Wolf I want to remind you once again about the time she thought Apple invented vaccines that let you travel backwards in time

This is so fucking exciting! The Rubin Observatory is going to be such a revolutionary tool for understanding our universe.

But also, astronomers, please stop using the second letter of a word in your acronyms and such

me: fuck quillette

Also me: this is delicious

"It forced me to confront ideas about economics, capitalism, and social welfare that I’d always taken for granted. Is corporate greed a force for evil if it leads to innovations that save lives?"

Business schools must be the most braindead enterprises in existence holy fuck

What a weird statement for a supposed anti fascist. But thanks for earning a place on the block list so easily

As if I need to do that while I'm already following Molly here😂

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Now this is the kinda thing I love waking up to