"Because capital is oriented toward producing abstract value rather than meeting material needs, there is no point of abundance at which this process stops."

Wasn't sure whether the timing allowed for this to be intentional or not, but I thought the following quote from @alybatt.bsky.social's "Free Gifts" was a good takedown.

Natural beauty or artificial ugliness? I sure know what I prefer.

In what I can only describe as the most-on-the-nose thing I've encountered in my career, nameless, faceless AI-slop enablers want to build a 1,200 MW data center that will, according to a Yale biologist, "nuke" the habitat of a tiny beautiful fish found only in Jefferson County, Alabama.

Easy way to find out/be found out for backdating, etc.

Not naming names, but even a former Trump SCOTUS shortlister used an Alito dissent as an example of motivated reasoning in a class they taught!

Always feel weird saying any high-falutin', well-credentialed person doesn't seem too smart. After all, we all have our blind spots, but uh...this interview seems to confirm a lot of things I thought about Sunstein's blind spots.

I once had a purely symbolic bill nuked from orbit by a powerful dark money consultancy. Told everyone I worked with "at least the time they spent on us was a week they weren't tying damsels in distress to train tracks."

#justice4linz (Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation was one of the cornerstones of my favorite undergrad class)

Many people know people who have been victims of gun violence, or have been victims themselves and probably don't want to see that kind of image while trying to keep up with the news.

The point of the text in the image is valid, the hypocrisy is fine to point out, but the image of someone basically at the moment of their death is completely gratuitous and adds nothing to the argument except shock value.

I'm not offended, dude, I just think it's highly inconsiderate to indiscriminately expose people to real-life gore without their permission.

Man, maybe don't randomly post gore in the replies.