Enshittification Wriggles On: Mee-lon the Mo-ron in recent weeks has changed Sh*tter to 1) incentivize summarizing news stories without linking to them and 2) suppress posts with news source pix and links, making his Hellsite even more worthless. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...
How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider
We don’t know the minute when X started throttling links to news,...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Enshittification Wriggles On: Mee-lon the Mo-ron in recent weeks has changed Sh*tter to 1) incentivize summarizing news stories without linking to them and 2) suppress posts with news source pix and links, making his Hellsite even more worthless. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...
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An important partisan point -- lots of our sh*tt**st public figures used to be Democrats, but became Racist Rethugs when the Dem voters weren't sh*tty enough for them (Dem voters, NOT Dem leaders, who were and are remarkably sh*tty). So, yeah we live in a democracy. With party competition. Sort of.
![John Fugelsang -
4 ex-Dem grifters
who all came to realize
the Dems weren't gullible enough.
[Frank Conniff -
The Four Horse's Asses of the Apocalypse.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mtdmoa2yj3lgfwu2yuyx5a2g/bafkreiedpjxtgxgouk4ry2w3nz3gacacl77afrx5i22ga4lx3t7pdll5z4@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
An important partisan point -- lots of our sh*tt**st public figures used to be Democrats, but became Racist Rethugs when the Dem voters weren't sh*tty enough for them (Dem voters, NOT Dem leaders, who were and are remarkably sh*tty). So, yeah we live in a democracy. With party competition. Sort of.
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Your dad's cousin is your aunt. I am from a family of plain boring white people and my kids call my wife's cousins who live around here and they see all the time "aunt/uncle." This is not even some "see, in other cultures," thing this is just a total normal thing they are presenting as scandalous
October 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Your dad's cousin is your aunt. I am from a family of plain boring white people and my kids call my wife's cousins who live around here and they see all the time "aunt/uncle." This is not even some "see, in other cultures," thing this is just a total normal thing they are presenting as scandalous
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
Everyone should see Jamelle Bouie's spiked posts on the Nazi-sourced NYTimes nothingburger story aimed at smearing Mamdani, and then raise hell about the Gray Lady's evil social media policies.
July 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Everyone should see Jamelle Bouie's spiked posts on the Nazi-sourced NYTimes nothingburger story aimed at smearing Mamdani, and then raise hell about the Gray Lady's evil social media policies.
Yup. "AI exists for one reason and one reason only–to throw you out of a job" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/ai-n...
AI: Not a Requirement to Live - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The AI stories are coming fast and furious now. Will AI change how we read? Will historians embrace AI and what does that mean? I don’t know, but I do know this much–the use of technology is a choice....
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Yup. "AI exists for one reason and one reason only–to throw you out of a job" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/ai-n...
Gathering of the Juggalos in Sad Decline
June 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Gathering of the Juggalos in Sad Decline
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More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.
June 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.
Krugman understands Stinky's LA actions correctly:
'The militarized response ... is all about rejecting the idea that Americans have a right to oppose Trump policies.'
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
'The militarized response ... is all about rejecting the idea that Americans have a right to oppose Trump policies.'
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
This Is Not a Drill
American democracy is on the line right now
open.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Krugman understands Stinky's LA actions correctly:
'The militarized response ... is all about rejecting the idea that Americans have a right to oppose Trump policies.'
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
'The militarized response ... is all about rejecting the idea that Americans have a right to oppose Trump policies.'
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
amen to this sentiment on (part of!) the role of US higher education -- I would add, at all levels, not jus R1s.
I'm sure I'll take shit for saying this, but this passage from Glenn Loury's Chronicle interview perfectly captures for me the civilizational necessity of a relatively autonomous academic sphere. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
May 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
amen to this sentiment on (part of!) the role of US higher education -- I would add, at all levels, not jus R1s.
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Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man starring Tobey Maguire is older than ICE.
Old person here to say that ICE did not exist before 2003
We opened this door after 9/11 and can close it again
We opened this door after 9/11 and can close it again
May 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man starring Tobey Maguire is older than ICE.
Hey Curtis -- ever hear of an 'Executive Officer" of a US Naval vessel? And, um, what exactly is his job?
Always funny to me that Yarvin is held up as the great intellect of the New Right and then when he argues for stuff it's this - here's some etymology for a synonym of a word you're using, so we gotta have a tyrant -- checkmate libs. Behold the philosopher.
May 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Hey Curtis -- ever hear of an 'Executive Officer" of a US Naval vessel? And, um, what exactly is his job?
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My personal "5 years since the start of Covid" moment is remembering that in 2020, the US discovered it had allowed almost all its mask and PPE manufacturing to transfer to China for cost savings.
In 2025, PPE is still almost all made offshore, and we just encouraged China to end shipments to us.
In 2025, PPE is still almost all made offshore, and we just encouraged China to end shipments to us.
April 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
My personal "5 years since the start of Covid" moment is remembering that in 2020, the US discovered it had allowed almost all its mask and PPE manufacturing to transfer to China for cost savings.
In 2025, PPE is still almost all made offshore, and we just encouraged China to end shipments to us.
In 2025, PPE is still almost all made offshore, and we just encouraged China to end shipments to us.
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If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.
April 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.
Whiskey Pete: "Hey, wha's my petard do--"
BOOM !!!
BOOM !!!
Reup: Self-Reportation: Pete Hegseth's Witch Hunt Ensnared Himself
www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/21/s...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/21/s...
Self-Reportation: Pete Hegseth's Witch Hunt Ensnared Himself - emptywheel
By launching an witch hunt searching for leakers and firing three top aides last week, Pete Hegseth gave at least two witnesses to him sharing National Defense Information with his wife incentive to v...
www.emptywheel.net
April 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Whiskey Pete: "Hey, wha's my petard do--"
BOOM !!!
BOOM !!!
Poor Stinky-BooBoo didn't read the job description carefully before he applied. Sad!
"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.
April 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Poor Stinky-BooBoo didn't read the job description carefully before he applied. Sad!
Stephen Miller is out in front and widening the gap in the WorstPersonWorkingForStinky-BooBoo race
They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.
April 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Stephen Miller is out in front and widening the gap in the WorstPersonWorkingForStinky-BooBoo race
Yves Smith, truly an expert here, and Richard Murphy: how Stinky-BooBoo's antics are wrecking global finance, a wreck that eventually will wreck Main Street too, and possibly my, your, and most everyone's household finances, as it did after 1929 and 2008: www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/long...
Longer-Dated Treasuries Sell Off Sharply, Increasing Interest Rates: The Exact Opposite of What Trump Says He Wants | naked capitalism
Mr. Market, in the form of longer-dated Treasury yields, is not on board with the Trump tariff scheme.
www.nakedcapitalism.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Yves Smith, truly an expert here, and Richard Murphy: how Stinky-BooBoo's antics are wrecking global finance, a wreck that eventually will wreck Main Street too, and possibly my, your, and most everyone's household finances, as it did after 1929 and 2008: www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/long...
Remember how during Stinky-BooBoo's first term the pandemic released an unexpected hell of "supply chain disruption?" Get ready for a repeat.
It should be noted that markets have underreacted to the tariffs. A 30–50% sales tax (aka tariffs),
will wipe out entire industries.
The -7% drop this week doesn’t reflect the full damage. It’s an optimistic move assuming the tariffs won’t stick. The impact, if enforced, would be far more severe.
will wipe out entire industries.
The -7% drop this week doesn’t reflect the full damage. It’s an optimistic move assuming the tariffs won’t stick. The impact, if enforced, would be far more severe.
April 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Remember how during Stinky-BooBoo's first term the pandemic released an unexpected hell of "supply chain disruption?" Get ready for a repeat.
FT: Stinky-BooBoo plays approximately 0.01-dimensional chess in setting tariffs
www.ft.com/content/bbaa...
www.ft.com/content/bbaa...
Why does Trump’s tariff explainer reference a paper it doesn't cite?
And cite a different paper it doesn't reference?
www.ft.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
FT: Stinky-BooBoo plays approximately 0.01-dimensional chess in setting tariffs
www.ft.com/content/bbaa...
www.ft.com/content/bbaa...
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Chicago is the greatest city in the world
March 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Chicago is the greatest city in the world