I genuinely think if Hillary Clinton gave him a box of werther’s originals and a kiss on the cheek he’d think they were best friends for that particular meeting. He’s like a dog, he just knows that whatever is on his side of the fence must be fine and whatever isn’t is evil.

Disabled people tried to warn you.

We said that the rising eugenicist sentiment that accelerated during the “back to normal” phase of Covid would eventually hurt everyone

The new healthcare plan for America appears to be:

Don’t get sick

If you do get sick, it’s your fault

If you can’t pay, die

I hope we Americans can let go of our desire to be the individual Chosen One who leads the rebellion and punches every Nazi. Organizing is hard, it takes experience and resources and time. Stop fantasizing about being a superhero. Start joining existing groups and be part of collective action.

Why are all of my work rectangles also my fuck around rectangles. These should be different rectangles.

some frankly amazing AI slop that someone decided to try and post on the r/dataisbeautiful subreddit

basically if you do not have an extremely resilient sense of self/theory of mind and a strong willingness to repeatedly impose behavioral rules on the agent, extended interaction with the free tier of chatgpt is designed to make you psychotic. its psycho-affectively akin to licking a car battery

it is beyond time to see your own complicity in the present moment: when you only mask at protests & never even consider doing so in the grocery store, pharmacy, on public transit, you contribute to a social climate able to criminalize protective tools. CHOOSE SOLIDARITY, prevent infection, mask up.

RFK Jr. espouses a particularly modern but recognizable form of eugenics, the idea that we can "improve" the human race by culling undesirables from the gene pool. My latest draws on @juliametraux.bsky.social , @swordsjew.bsky.social , and my deep unfortunate knowledge of 20th century science:

A couple weeks ago, I wrote that the MAHA movement does not want to eliminate chronic illness- it wants to eliminate the chronically ill. Since then, RFK Jr’s actions and statements have only reinforced my belief that his HHS will target disabled and sick ppl.

www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.