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McGovern: "So I say to my Republican colleagues -- what's wrong with you people? In this bill you provide a $2 billion tax break for gun silencers, but you cut SNAP benefits for vulnerable families. Jesus Christ!"
July 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
McGovern: "So I say to my Republican colleagues -- what's wrong with you people? In this bill you provide a $2 billion tax break for gun silencers, but you cut SNAP benefits for vulnerable families. Jesus Christ!"
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These guys have surely read more sci-fi than me, how did they get the morals exactly backwards?
This is incredibly depressing and also completely unsurprising that Meta has an exploit people's loneliness to increase our engagement strategy.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
May 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
These guys have surely read more sci-fi than me, how did they get the morals exactly backwards?
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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
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April 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
First song on shuffle this morning…
February 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
First song on shuffle this morning…
A vast work of science fiction that stretches almost infinitely into the future, and the abstract, but gets to the core of worldly conflict.
February 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A vast work of science fiction that stretches almost infinitely into the future, and the abstract, but gets to the core of worldly conflict.
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"So why is it that when human beings have built everything, life is suddenly meaningless? ...it seems to me that there is a relationship between the construction of a human society and this sudden feeling that nothing means anything." - Fredric Jameson, "The Years of Theory" (2024)
January 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"So why is it that when human beings have built everything, life is suddenly meaningless? ...it seems to me that there is a relationship between the construction of a human society and this sudden feeling that nothing means anything." - Fredric Jameson, "The Years of Theory" (2024)
Second book I closed the year with, You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue. Always alluring, grim, and gleeful. Uniquely satisfying and sobering historical fiction.
January 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Second book I closed the year with, You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue. Always alluring, grim, and gleeful. Uniquely satisfying and sobering historical fiction.
Finished reading two books to close the year. The first was Aednan by Saskia Vogel. A modern epic whose style reflects how trauma stretches across generations with few words but massive space.
January 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Finished reading two books to close the year. The first was Aednan by Saskia Vogel. A modern epic whose style reflects how trauma stretches across generations with few words but massive space.
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They're not so much bookshelves as graveyards of obsessions past.
December 10, 2024 at 5:13 PM
They're not so much bookshelves as graveyards of obsessions past.
"Radiohead art on a onesie" is my "Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac".
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November 22, 2024 at 3:48 PM
"Radiohead art on a onesie" is my "Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac".
Mental Health by Father John Misty on Apple Music
Song · 2024 · Duration 6:28
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November 22, 2024 at 3:43 PM
An all-time late night show band. Always killed it.
The National perform "Afraid Of Everyone" with Sufjan Stevens on Letterman (2010)
November 21, 2024 at 7:01 PM
An all-time late night show band. Always killed it.
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people who have never experienced open racism — or open bigotry of any sort — do not appreciate the way it can be psychologically destabilizing. and on the main, it actually isn’t healthy to be so resilient and thick-skinned that you don’t react to slurs and dehumanization
November 21, 2024 at 5:17 PM
people who have never experienced open racism — or open bigotry of any sort — do not appreciate the way it can be psychologically destabilizing. and on the main, it actually isn’t healthy to be so resilient and thick-skinned that you don’t react to slurs and dehumanization
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this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...
November 19, 2024 at 2:06 PM
this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...
I switched to decaf when they told me it'd be better for my anxiety. Years later I realized that all of the cream and sugar I was using to make it palatable wasn't helping me and I, rebelliously, tried espresso. I can deal with 20 minutes of my heart racing better than half a day of nausea.
November 18, 2024 at 3:36 PM
I switched to decaf when they told me it'd be better for my anxiety. Years later I realized that all of the cream and sugar I was using to make it palatable wasn't helping me and I, rebelliously, tried espresso. I can deal with 20 minutes of my heart racing better than half a day of nausea.
Just read: The Wood at Midwinter short story by Susanna Clarke. An alternate, supernatural take on “Stopping by Woods…” the reminds you of your personal freedom in the dark.
November 17, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Just read: The Wood at Midwinter short story by Susanna Clarke. An alternate, supernatural take on “Stopping by Woods…” the reminds you of your personal freedom in the dark.
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Chicago style “pizza”
This is true and they tried to warn us. Name another food that literally makes you cry.
November 16, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Chicago style “pizza”
Not just casual readers. It's worth considering how AI's will ingest and train on this content and spit something back out with similar detachment.
This is malpractice, @nytimes.com. A casual reader will come away from this hed/subhed w/zero awareness that these institutions tried to hold *Trump* accountable for documented malfeasance in keeping w/rule-of-law-bound procedures, and won't learn that *this* is why he's targeting them.
I see the New York Times is already cheering on Trump’s attempts to knock down the “stubborn obstacles” put in front of him by the deep state
I’m not even making that up
I’m not even making that up
November 15, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Not just casual readers. It's worth considering how AI's will ingest and train on this content and spit something back out with similar detachment.