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The Tune has Changed, but the Waltz Continues
Why do we pretend that nothing about America has changed?
open.substack.com
On the recent tariff walk-back, or why everyone is missing the forest for the trees on Canada-U.S. relations
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i love how the system of authoritarian control also produces images that fabricate a reality where opposition is occurring. i love how this is a novel problem that we didn’t have less than a year ago but it is now at the center of every major online platform controlled by right wing billionaires.
December 29, 2025 at 6:11 AM
i love how the system of authoritarian control also produces images that fabricate a reality where opposition is occurring. i love how this is a novel problem that we didn’t have less than a year ago but it is now at the center of every major online platform controlled by right wing billionaires.
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If you’re on bluesky, you know the deep lore about Thiel, Yarvin, the Nazi teenager group chats, that sort of thing.
But Vance came across as basically reasonable to normies in the VP debate.
But Vance came across as basically reasonable to normies in the VP debate.
December 29, 2025 at 5:33 AM
If you’re on bluesky, you know the deep lore about Thiel, Yarvin, the Nazi teenager group chats, that sort of thing.
But Vance came across as basically reasonable to normies in the VP debate.
But Vance came across as basically reasonable to normies in the VP debate.
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Holy shit they fucking immediately ran into the wallet inspector. Twice!!!
December 28, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Holy shit they fucking immediately ran into the wallet inspector. Twice!!!
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It’s funny to say this about cars, a product that has gotten noticeably more reliable and better in my life time and which China is quickly innovating on.
The profit motive is at the heart of every single stupid, unnecessary change to the things you use. Capitalists can't increase their profits by making something that works well and keeping it the same, so they endlessly "innovate" to Make The Line Go Up
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
December 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
It’s funny to say this about cars, a product that has gotten noticeably more reliable and better in my life time and which China is quickly innovating on.
You are on some pretty deep levels of neo-nazi propaganda to be calling other people ‘fascist’
December 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
You are on some pretty deep levels of neo-nazi propaganda to be calling other people ‘fascist’
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anti politics is usually just a byword for reactionary. people who celebrate some "end of ideology" in MENA celebrate the destruction of Gaza, south Lebanon, southwest Syria, much of Sudan
December 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
anti politics is usually just a byword for reactionary. people who celebrate some "end of ideology" in MENA celebrate the destruction of Gaza, south Lebanon, southwest Syria, much of Sudan
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This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
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Mutual aid thing great example of the stancil discourse cycle:
-he takes strong position on complex issue with grey areas
-a few nuanced critiques are made
-drowned out by hundreds of insane people arguing with imaginary version of him
-shifts to different argument between him and inane people
-he takes strong position on complex issue with grey areas
-a few nuanced critiques are made
-drowned out by hundreds of insane people arguing with imaginary version of him
-shifts to different argument between him and inane people
December 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Mutual aid thing great example of the stancil discourse cycle:
-he takes strong position on complex issue with grey areas
-a few nuanced critiques are made
-drowned out by hundreds of insane people arguing with imaginary version of him
-shifts to different argument between him and inane people
-he takes strong position on complex issue with grey areas
-a few nuanced critiques are made
-drowned out by hundreds of insane people arguing with imaginary version of him
-shifts to different argument between him and inane people
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Huge news from Blakeney Point...
December 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Huge news from Blakeney Point...
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Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.
Sears had more than 3,400 stores in 2005 -- then it was purchased by a hedge fund magnate.
Why Sears’s Last Great Hope Was a Promise That Never Materialized
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.
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I don’t know when or how I’m going to see Avatar 3, but I know that by the start of the third act, I’ll be cheering for the Na’vi to commit unlimited genocide on the SKKKy “People”
December 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I don’t know when or how I’m going to see Avatar 3, but I know that by the start of the third act, I’ll be cheering for the Na’vi to commit unlimited genocide on the SKKKy “People”
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I think part of it is that it’s difficult and/or boring to talk about good spatial filmmaking, even though people really seem to like good spatial filmmaking (see also: John Wick)
Avatar’s cultural relevance discourse is an expression of slop anxiety, the worry that most people don’t actually want something interesting like you do, and you know what? It’s fine if they don’t. Cool stuff still gets made and you get to enjoy it.
December 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I think part of it is that it’s difficult and/or boring to talk about good spatial filmmaking, even though people really seem to like good spatial filmmaking (see also: John Wick)
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You can buy a home nicer than anyone in the history of the human race lived in until at least 1997 for like five dollars in Mississippi and yet for some reason these guys don’t seem eager to move there.
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
You can buy a home nicer than anyone in the history of the human race lived in until at least 1997 for like five dollars in Mississippi and yet for some reason these guys don’t seem eager to move there.
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Battlefield 6
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Battlefield 6
Charity has always generally been considered a respectable activity though?
December 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Charity has always generally been considered a respectable activity though?
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This would be an incredible comedy premise though. A friend group realizes that one of them has been using the others for market research for a decade and they were all carefully selected/guided to be representative norms.
Imagining how tedious someone would be who meticulously grooms their friends to be a representative sample
December 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This would be an incredible comedy premise though. A friend group realizes that one of them has been using the others for market research for a decade and they were all carefully selected/guided to be representative norms.
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"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”
Previously, I posted that Na-ion batteries were likely to reach Li-ion battery energy density faster due to the prior advances and experience from Lithium work. Well, that’s appears to be the case. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.uh.edu/news-events/...
Breakthrough New Material Brings Affordable, Sustainable Future Within Grasp
Researchers have developed a new material for sodium-ion batteries, sodium vanadium phosphate, that delivers higher voltage and greater energy capacity than previous sodium-based materials. This break...
www.uh.edu
December 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”
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we’ve been over this
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
we’ve been over this
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
I don’t know if it’s a good strategy yet, but I’m somewhat more favourably inclined towards the concept than lighting piles of money on fire on ads and doorknocking.
Turning campaigns into mutual aid hubs isn’t good for campaigns or mutual aid! Your campaign manager should be entirely too busy to schlep around 5600 tampons!
December 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I don’t know if it’s a good strategy yet, but I’m somewhat more favourably inclined towards the concept than lighting piles of money on fire on ads and doorknocking.
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yeah I think this is something people mostly don't get: ships + cannon were *unbelievably* powerful. like, the classic outside context problem for most places but even in the context of European land warfare ships were incredibly strong. (Games very rarely represent this well, curiously)
The comparative firepower of a few ships of the line appearing off your main port was almost inconceivable.
Four 72s would have had the same rough number of guns of each side at Waterloo but three times the weight of metal. They were a siege train that could sail off at will.
Four 72s would have had the same rough number of guns of each side at Waterloo but three times the weight of metal. They were a siege train that could sail off at will.
December 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
yeah I think this is something people mostly don't get: ships + cannon were *unbelievably* powerful. like, the classic outside context problem for most places but even in the context of European land warfare ships were incredibly strong. (Games very rarely represent this well, curiously)
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The chief innovation of European colonialism was being ship bastards instead of horse bastards.
December 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The chief innovation of European colonialism was being ship bastards instead of horse bastards.
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thanks to AI you can now become the malignant illusion spinning demiurge whom Descartes had to axiomatically banish in order to make Rationality possible
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
thanks to AI you can now become the malignant illusion spinning demiurge whom Descartes had to axiomatically banish in order to make Rationality possible
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I know Bluesky loves to celebrate this stuff, but uh, you guys aren’t going to love the stuff that’s replacing the churches.
The U.S. is undergoing its fastest religious shift in modern history, marked by a rapid increase in the religiously unaffiliated and numerous church closures nationwide.
The great unchurching of America
A seismic shift in religion is upon U.S.
www.axios.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I know Bluesky loves to celebrate this stuff, but uh, you guys aren’t going to love the stuff that’s replacing the churches.