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if you just live your life by taking the opposite stance of conor friedersdorf on nearly every issue you'll do pretty well
December 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
if you just live your life by taking the opposite stance of conor friedersdorf on nearly every issue you'll do pretty well
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Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
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“The old racists just have to die out”
Kids of color BEEN trying to tell you
Kids of color BEEN trying to tell you
From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
December 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“The old racists just have to die out”
Kids of color BEEN trying to tell you
Kids of color BEEN trying to tell you
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There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.
White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.
85% of CEOs are white men.
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
December 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.
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uh
December 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
uh
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I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
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So he said - no, we're not focused on retention. We're not trying to retain staff, we need to escalate churn and we need to eventually decrease the staff, we're lowing the number of permanent workers, we're changing our staffing, we're moving to a fully contracted labor force.
December 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
So he said - no, we're not focused on retention. We're not trying to retain staff, we need to escalate churn and we need to eventually decrease the staff, we're lowing the number of permanent workers, we're changing our staffing, we're moving to a fully contracted labor force.
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They're religious. The BELIEVE. The cut costs. They fire their staff. They don't have employee retention. They use terms like "tribal knowledge" (which is insensitive but that's another thread) while not knowing what it is. They don't believe in documentation.
I mean, they're idiots.
I mean, they're idiots.
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
They're religious. The BELIEVE. The cut costs. They fire their staff. They don't have employee retention. They use terms like "tribal knowledge" (which is insensitive but that's another thread) while not knowing what it is. They don't believe in documentation.
I mean, they're idiots.
I mean, they're idiots.
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This is the mindset of the upper management. They're effectively doing sleight of hand tricks with staffing, they don't believe in retention, they go through all of these management training processes but don't understand their own capitalist doctrine or their own strategies, they're illiterate.
December 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This is the mindset of the upper management. They're effectively doing sleight of hand tricks with staffing, they don't believe in retention, they go through all of these management training processes but don't understand their own capitalist doctrine or their own strategies, they're illiterate.
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Creative solidarity means:
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Creative solidarity means:
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
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I would be fine if nobody ever released a video game or movie again, my backlog is impossibly large, so if you're gonna make slop, I don't have much pressure to buy your slop
December 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I would be fine if nobody ever released a video game or movie again, my backlog is impossibly large, so if you're gonna make slop, I don't have much pressure to buy your slop
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It's not just me. I know of many Black people who land jobs in highly visible or prestigious places and become scapegoats for the resentments of others.
I can tell you some of the most horrible experiences with racism have come downstream from the idea that I beat a out a white person for a job. Even when I in fact did not. The fantasy is enough to translate into physically threatening harrasment
December 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It's not just me. I know of many Black people who land jobs in highly visible or prestigious places and become scapegoats for the resentments of others.
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This man who folks want as PRESIDENT
Idolize a man who said they should send GADDAFI TO SAN FRANCISCO
The city he was MAYOR of
as a homophobic joke
while his Secretary of State wished GADDAFI would get Aids
THIS IS WHO HE HONORS?!
Idolize a man who said they should send GADDAFI TO SAN FRANCISCO
The city he was MAYOR of
as a homophobic joke
while his Secretary of State wished GADDAFI would get Aids
THIS IS WHO HE HONORS?!
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This man who folks want as PRESIDENT
Idolize a man who said they should send GADDAFI TO SAN FRANCISCO
The city he was MAYOR of
as a homophobic joke
while his Secretary of State wished GADDAFI would get Aids
THIS IS WHO HE HONORS?!
Idolize a man who said they should send GADDAFI TO SAN FRANCISCO
The city he was MAYOR of
as a homophobic joke
while his Secretary of State wished GADDAFI would get Aids
THIS IS WHO HE HONORS?!
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the only question a Gaston movie should answer is if anyone fucks like Gaston, anyone sucks like Gaston, plows into you like he's a truck like Gaston
December 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
the only question a Gaston movie should answer is if anyone fucks like Gaston, anyone sucks like Gaston, plows into you like he's a truck like Gaston
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doing video also feels particularly Problematic for those of us with gender dysphoria
many of us were I think drawn to the Internet in the first place because it was a space where we could exist and socialize without being ceaselessly visually perceived (and thus gendered)
many of us were I think drawn to the Internet in the first place because it was a space where we could exist and socialize without being ceaselessly visually perceived (and thus gendered)
I agree that it’s 100% true that the eyeballs are all on short form video - and man, it’s still really depressing how the necessity of Doing Video nowadays seriously disadvantages people who aren’t conventionally attractive (or who just genuinely can’t stand being on camera)
The one thing I keep thinking about is how much direct to camera stuff rewards physical attractiveness. I mean, that's gotta be part of the reason these wellness influencers are successful, right? And you're competing for eyeballs with them.
December 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
doing video also feels particularly Problematic for those of us with gender dysphoria
many of us were I think drawn to the Internet in the first place because it was a space where we could exist and socialize without being ceaselessly visually perceived (and thus gendered)
many of us were I think drawn to the Internet in the first place because it was a space where we could exist and socialize without being ceaselessly visually perceived (and thus gendered)
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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the robot trying to steal my job isn’t even good at it! it consumes like 1000 gallons of water to make a 6 minute podcast that’s aggressively wrong more than half time! i can make a much longer podcast using way less water. i don’t even shower on days that i’m writing.
New: When the Washington Post ran tests on its AI personalized podcasts, the paper found that between 68% and 84% (!!) of the pods had potential issues.
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
December 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
the robot trying to steal my job isn’t even good at it! it consumes like 1000 gallons of water to make a 6 minute podcast that’s aggressively wrong more than half time! i can make a much longer podcast using way less water. i don’t even shower on days that i’m writing.
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the entire debate cis people have about trans people is moronic to start but it’s also a debate most trans people don’t care about, being that if we are viewed as “real women or men” or not. no one gives a fuck. it changes nothing about the reality that transitioning rocks
December 14, 2025 at 7:36 AM
the entire debate cis people have about trans people is moronic to start but it’s also a debate most trans people don’t care about, being that if we are viewed as “real women or men” or not. no one gives a fuck. it changes nothing about the reality that transitioning rocks
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Today I am once again making loads of new Bluesky friends by insisting on one of my most sincerely held beliefs that makes way too many people fucking furious: that teenagers are autonomous beings who are not their parents' property and who possess independent volition and interiority
December 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Today I am once again making loads of new Bluesky friends by insisting on one of my most sincerely held beliefs that makes way too many people fucking furious: that teenagers are autonomous beings who are not their parents' property and who possess independent volition and interiority
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Hanging out with babies rules. This guy is the size of a Build A Bear and he's never even seen anything before. He just got here!
December 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Hanging out with babies rules. This guy is the size of a Build A Bear and he's never even seen anything before. He just got here!
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software: hi, welcome back. we've added ai to ur favorite app now
me: okay what does that do? how does it improve the program? what features are added exactly?
software: it's ai 🙂
me: okay what does that do? how does it improve the program? what features are added exactly?
software: it's ai 🙂
December 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
software: hi, welcome back. we've added ai to ur favorite app now
me: okay what does that do? how does it improve the program? what features are added exactly?
software: it's ai 🙂
me: okay what does that do? how does it improve the program? what features are added exactly?
software: it's ai 🙂
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You can thank Tim Kaine, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Catherine Cortes-Masto, Dick Durbin, John Fetterman, Jacky Rosen and Jeanne Shaheen for your loss of healthcare
Shaheen’s office just told me that nobody is fighting harder for the ACA subsidies than she is
And that the ACA subsidy vote outcome was not predictable
The gaslighting 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
And that the ACA subsidy vote outcome was not predictable
The gaslighting 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
December 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
You can thank Tim Kaine, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Catherine Cortes-Masto, Dick Durbin, John Fetterman, Jacky Rosen and Jeanne Shaheen for your loss of healthcare
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Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
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There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for