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@earballs.bsky.social
I am consuming social media as we speak.
I am being enriched this very second.
I am being enriched this very second.
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Gen AI is a tool of late stage capitalism, the goal of which is to cognitively disable everyone not in the elite class. To Sam Altman and co, the likes of you and me are NPCs, our role is to consume and spend so they can accumulate wealth and power. But it will only work if we allow it to.
December 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Gen AI is a tool of late stage capitalism, the goal of which is to cognitively disable everyone not in the elite class. To Sam Altman and co, the likes of you and me are NPCs, our role is to consume and spend so they can accumulate wealth and power. But it will only work if we allow it to.
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Well, if it’s 31 December, it’s... yes, of course: 172nd anniversary of the dinner Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, creator of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, gave for 21 leading academics and other VIPs inside the Iguanodon
December 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Well, if it’s 31 December, it’s... yes, of course: 172nd anniversary of the dinner Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, creator of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, gave for 21 leading academics and other VIPs inside the Iguanodon
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When the New Atheists went full misogynist and Islamophobic, the sins of Western conservatism as a whole were laid at their feet while I saw leftists adopt positions about religion like "ah, but the noble third world savages are religious too! will you, a white person, tell them religion is bad?"
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 AM
When the New Atheists went full misogynist and Islamophobic, the sins of Western conservatism as a whole were laid at their feet while I saw leftists adopt positions about religion like "ah, but the noble third world savages are religious too! will you, a white person, tell them religion is bad?"
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henceforth referring to Trump 2.0 judges as Biden Legacy judges as the reason they exist is Biden's disastrous choice to run for reelection / not drop until July 2024
December 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
henceforth referring to Trump 2.0 judges as Biden Legacy judges as the reason they exist is Biden's disastrous choice to run for reelection / not drop until July 2024
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December 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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The seeds for this were planted in the 1990s, you guys. The right began investing in partisan media and a network of partisan nonprofits to fund and train ideological attack dogs 30+ years ago. It’s paying off for them now. What have liberals and progressives done? Get-out-the-vote ads on MTV?
December 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The seeds for this were planted in the 1990s, you guys. The right began investing in partisan media and a network of partisan nonprofits to fund and train ideological attack dogs 30+ years ago. It’s paying off for them now. What have liberals and progressives done? Get-out-the-vote ads on MTV?
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In your eyes
December 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
In your eyes
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Artists are finally showing up on this miserable death match of a website
December 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Artists are finally showing up on this miserable death match of a website
The MEASLES MINGLER
NEW: Health officials in Contra Costa County have confirmed a measles infection in a person who was mingling in public places for about a week. nbcbay.com/fXfQoHg
December 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The MEASLES MINGLER
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Propaganda is a tool, and we can use it to tell the truth just as much as our opponents use it to tell lies.
December 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Propaganda is a tool, and we can use it to tell the truth just as much as our opponents use it to tell lies.
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Another win for political theorists!
December 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Another win for political theorists!
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Shoveling donor money into media institutions increasingly dominated by the right hardly solves the dilemma. 0:30 spots provide glimmers of clarity — but the funds that purchase those ads pay for hours of programming that overwhelm Dems’ measly clarifications.
We saw in the 24 presidential race and a few races since that large money advantages can’t clinch it. Traditional digital fundraising channels are swamped by spam. Mass media either no longer exists or is run by Nazis. Most platforms now owned by right-wing oligarchs. Etc. etc.
December 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Shoveling donor money into media institutions increasingly dominated by the right hardly solves the dilemma. 0:30 spots provide glimmers of clarity — but the funds that purchase those ads pay for hours of programming that overwhelm Dems’ measly clarifications.
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the thing to know about the ruination of new college is that adrianne black, trans daughter of white supremacist don black who founded the neonazi website stormfront, went to new college, made liberal friends and was deradicalized by them
degrading it into a conservative finishing school is revenge
degrading it into a conservative finishing school is revenge
The article accepts the idea that New College was a liberal enclave, and what is happening now is a rebalancing. I think this view is fundamentally wrong, embracing the assumptions of those who see their job as to save campuses from liberalism by any means necessary.
December 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
the thing to know about the ruination of new college is that adrianne black, trans daughter of white supremacist don black who founded the neonazi website stormfront, went to new college, made liberal friends and was deradicalized by them
degrading it into a conservative finishing school is revenge
degrading it into a conservative finishing school is revenge
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I sent this video to my friend and she got mad at me
December 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I sent this video to my friend and she got mad at me
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The first thing ICE did when it was created was raiding meat processing plants in the Midwest and south to help quell labor disputes over safety violations and keep those who weren't detained from getting legal protections as many had kids who grew up locally and were citizens with political power.
December 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The first thing ICE did when it was created was raiding meat processing plants in the Midwest and south to help quell labor disputes over safety violations and keep those who weren't detained from getting legal protections as many had kids who grew up locally and were citizens with political power.
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People keep mistaking genuine horror for politicking.
The people who supported the DOJ under Biden/Trump condone child rape. They defended officials who protected child rapists.
Other people saw this as a clear moral horror and condemned the DOJ. That's the actual divide. It's not between parties.
The people who supported the DOJ under Biden/Trump condone child rape. They defended officials who protected child rapists.
Other people saw this as a clear moral horror and condemned the DOJ. That's the actual divide. It's not between parties.
December 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
People keep mistaking genuine horror for politicking.
The people who supported the DOJ under Biden/Trump condone child rape. They defended officials who protected child rapists.
Other people saw this as a clear moral horror and condemned the DOJ. That's the actual divide. It's not between parties.
The people who supported the DOJ under Biden/Trump condone child rape. They defended officials who protected child rapists.
Other people saw this as a clear moral horror and condemned the DOJ. That's the actual divide. It's not between parties.
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‘That’s sénior crabs to you my boy.’
December 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
‘That’s sénior crabs to you my boy.’
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How have I never heard of architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser?
December 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
How have I never heard of architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser?
Wellness Grinch coded
December 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Wellness Grinch coded
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Something interesting I've learned reading a lot about political machines in turn of the century America was how pervasive it was to give free meals to voters, to say nothing of employment. Now to see if they were politically successful
December 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Something interesting I've learned reading a lot about political machines in turn of the century America was how pervasive it was to give free meals to voters, to say nothing of employment. Now to see if they were politically successful
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NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students.
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
How a Free Speech Group Helped Right-Wing Dark Money Undermine Protections for Trans and Nonbinary Students
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression weighed in on a case brought by Parents Defending Education in Ohio.
www.importantcontext.news
December 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students.
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
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Bergell serpentine on an aluminum base, c.1964 by Max Bill & Bruno Giacometti
December 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Bergell serpentine on an aluminum base, c.1964 by Max Bill & Bruno Giacometti
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One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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![HARPERS WEEKLY.
JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION
Vor. VII.-No. 314.]
NEW
YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY
1863.
GELCOM
SANTA CLAUS
SANTA CLAUS IN CAMP.-[SEE PAGE 6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qiknc4t5rq7yngvz7g4aezq7/bafkreiez4d5lsrpbn3mrwkwrnbrhb3ra7dmvagbxjaz7hg5be7njnsbary@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Peter Elson
December 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Peter Elson