Ben Zero
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Stitches get stitches, proud boys get po’ boys?
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Fascism is a long US tradition that we are morally enjoined to end.
November 15, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Fascism is a long US tradition that we are morally enjoined to end.
When you’re too busy starting your flight school to finish the story.
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
When you’re too busy starting your flight school to finish the story.
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This is JUST like how the media covers police shootings.
“Man struck by bullet during police stop.”
“Teen girl upends politician’s career by having sex.”
Same refusal to clearly call out the powerful when they do something wrong.
Someone posted this as satire, but it’s basically this headline.
“Man struck by bullet during police stop.”
“Teen girl upends politician’s career by having sex.”
Same refusal to clearly call out the powerful when they do something wrong.
Someone posted this as satire, but it’s basically this headline.
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
This is JUST like how the media covers police shootings.
“Man struck by bullet during police stop.”
“Teen girl upends politician’s career by having sex.”
Same refusal to clearly call out the powerful when they do something wrong.
Someone posted this as satire, but it’s basically this headline.
“Man struck by bullet during police stop.”
“Teen girl upends politician’s career by having sex.”
Same refusal to clearly call out the powerful when they do something wrong.
Someone posted this as satire, but it’s basically this headline.
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Yes, your honor, we received and sold stolen goods, but if there was no market for such we wouldn't have done so. Our customers are to blame.
We live in a golden age of shamelessness and grift.
We live in a golden age of shamelessness and grift.
"Sure, our plagiarism machine ingests enormous amounts of copyrighted material without anyone's permission, but it's the users of the machine who are the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 criminals, your honor." 🙄🙄
Just unbelievable levels of chutzpah.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Just unbelievable levels of chutzpah.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Yes, your honor, we received and sold stolen goods, but if there was no market for such we wouldn't have done so. Our customers are to blame.
We live in a golden age of shamelessness and grift.
We live in a golden age of shamelessness and grift.
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NYT journalists: how dare you accuse me of belonging to an organization that systematically demeans women and victims of sexual trafficking
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
NYT journalists: how dare you accuse me of belonging to an organization that systematically demeans women and victims of sexual trafficking
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
Flat circle
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Flat circle
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when your example of 'barely legal' is just literally illegal
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
when your example of 'barely legal' is just literally illegal
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Ok but it is very funny to run your "leftist moralism run amok" take the same week we learn the sitting Republican president's dead pedophile friend was planning to blackmail him
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Ok but it is very funny to run your "leftist moralism run amok" take the same week we learn the sitting Republican president's dead pedophile friend was planning to blackmail him
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i think a lot about the theory that i heard on twitter that ADHD diagnoses began to spike right around the time that mild stimulants like cigarettes and OTC speed became illegal or socially unacceptable
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
i think a lot about the theory that i heard on twitter that ADHD diagnoses began to spike right around the time that mild stimulants like cigarettes and OTC speed became illegal or socially unacceptable
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You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters
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The grotesque corruption of NYT is a major part of this story, I think.
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The grotesque corruption of NYT is a major part of this story, I think.
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This specifically is a huge pet peeve of mine, of the "everyone is stupid except me" variety.
Agile is over 20 years old. Some companies are in double-digit years of their Agile transformation. If it were as simple as "read the manifesto and then Do That" someone would've already made it work.
Agile is over 20 years old. Some companies are in double-digit years of their Agile transformation. If it were as simple as "read the manifesto and then Do That" someone would've already made it work.
Can confirm. Was at a company that hired McKinsey to help us "do agile better". We paid a million dollars for a 101 level powerpoint presentation from a guy that had clearly never done real work before.
This, by the way, is how management consulting works. The top insight from McKinsey types in Forbes thinkpieces is "spend a few hours googling the problem space" - and this allows them to present themselves as experts in front of execs who haven't even bothered to do that much.
April 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This specifically is a huge pet peeve of mine, of the "everyone is stupid except me" variety.
Agile is over 20 years old. Some companies are in double-digit years of their Agile transformation. If it were as simple as "read the manifesto and then Do That" someone would've already made it work.
Agile is over 20 years old. Some companies are in double-digit years of their Agile transformation. If it were as simple as "read the manifesto and then Do That" someone would've already made it work.
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I think the main difference here is that, say, Alexander Graham Bell was a rationalist who sought to explain spiritualist phenomena, while OpenAI and the like engage with and sponsor this process of mystification as part of their whole myth making around AGI for profit
it's no coincidence that marginalized people are drawn into movements like this; the 19th century spiritualists were conspicuously female. mystification is a process of obtaining agency, and that complicates any simple dismissal of AI spiritualism as ignorance
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I think the main difference here is that, say, Alexander Graham Bell was a rationalist who sought to explain spiritualist phenomena, while OpenAI and the like engage with and sponsor this process of mystification as part of their whole myth making around AGI for profit
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Donate to people who don't fuck you over, not to the DSCC.
I'm going to actively say at this point that I don't think people should donate to any Dem-run PACs. What guarantee do we have that they won't give the money to cowards to stave off primary challengers?
I mean, it rather feels like the reverse will happen.
I mean, it rather feels like the reverse will happen.
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Donate to people who don't fuck you over, not to the DSCC.
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Sheldon remind me when did Chuck Schumer fight united with the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Sheldon remind me when did Chuck Schumer fight united with the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
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They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
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"Soylent Green is billionaires!"
- the reboot of Soylent Green that I just came up with
- the reboot of Soylent Green that I just came up with
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
"Soylent Green is billionaires!"
- the reboot of Soylent Green that I just came up with
- the reboot of Soylent Green that I just came up with
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1) If it ends in the streets, the authoritarians will win. And you know who will lose? The most vulnerable people in our society. Not the sloganeers who thought the street drama was the endgame.
2) What just happened in Portland is pretty fucking affirming of the better strategy.
2) What just happened in Portland is pretty fucking affirming of the better strategy.
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
1) If it ends in the streets, the authoritarians will win. And you know who will lose? The most vulnerable people in our society. Not the sloganeers who thought the street drama was the endgame.
2) What just happened in Portland is pretty fucking affirming of the better strategy.
2) What just happened in Portland is pretty fucking affirming of the better strategy.
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Someday maybe the press will note the difference between "taking" questions and "answering" them.
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Someday maybe the press will note the difference between "taking" questions and "answering" them.
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this is the advice you receive when caring for a parent with alzheimer’s
“A Nigerian official was told by a U.S. counterpart that, with Thanksgiving coming up, Nigeria should go quiet and wait for the president’s attention to shift, a Nigerian official said.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, the commander in chief of the U.S. military.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the commander in chief of the U.S. military.
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
this is the advice you receive when caring for a parent with alzheimer’s
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Bahahahahaha The New York Times just printed an opinion piece declaring "AI is intelligent, so long as we redefine what intelligence means to include it. And soon AI will be conscious, because we'll just redefine consciousness too!"
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | A.I. Is on Its Way to Something Even More Remarkable Than Intelligence
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Bahahahahaha The New York Times just printed an opinion piece declaring "AI is intelligent, so long as we redefine what intelligence means to include it. And soon AI will be conscious, because we'll just redefine consciousness too!"
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...