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A longer gap and also much less likely you’ll find *any* woman who will do that because we’ve been spending decades reinventing what being a woman means and men have not done the same work to free themselves of the patriarchy.
They have work to do.
They have work to do.
December 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A longer gap and also much less likely you’ll find *any* woman who will do that because we’ve been spending decades reinventing what being a woman means and men have not done the same work to free themselves of the patriarchy.
They have work to do.
They have work to do.
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Once you see it it becomes impossible not to notice the media consent-manufacutring machine that responds to literally every social crisis with the diagnosis that "women too free."
My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
December 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Once you see it it becomes impossible not to notice the media consent-manufacutring machine that responds to literally every social crisis with the diagnosis that "women too free."
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We really need to talk more about how in tech, they constantly bring unfinished products to market telling everyone it will get better. I think this is one of the biggest overlooked aspects of current tech industry
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
We really need to talk more about how in tech, they constantly bring unfinished products to market telling everyone it will get better. I think this is one of the biggest overlooked aspects of current tech industry
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One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.
December 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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Monday at work I had this great insight: the reason that publics are so opposed to AI is mostly because they are opposed to unregulated and arrogant financial capitalism. It's about the power relationships, and the imposition of that rubric and that arrogance into every part of our lives.
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Monday at work I had this great insight: the reason that publics are so opposed to AI is mostly because they are opposed to unregulated and arrogant financial capitalism. It's about the power relationships, and the imposition of that rubric and that arrogance into every part of our lives.
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I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
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Maybe that's always been the truth and I should have paid more attention in Anarchism Class, but I don't know.
I feel like I vaguely remember a time where there was at least SOME expectation of moral leadership from public leadership.
I feel like I vaguely remember a time where there was at least SOME expectation of moral leadership from public leadership.
December 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Maybe that's always been the truth and I should have paid more attention in Anarchism Class, but I don't know.
I feel like I vaguely remember a time where there was at least SOME expectation of moral leadership from public leadership.
I feel like I vaguely remember a time where there was at least SOME expectation of moral leadership from public leadership.
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And I will say as someone who once did aspire to a public leadership role, it is really gross to have to realize that these roles almost uniformly require acquiescence to the worst policies and people on earth.
There's no formal moral leadership because our formal leadership precludes morality.
There's no formal moral leadership because our formal leadership precludes morality.
December 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
And I will say as someone who once did aspire to a public leadership role, it is really gross to have to realize that these roles almost uniformly require acquiescence to the worst policies and people on earth.
There's no formal moral leadership because our formal leadership precludes morality.
There's no formal moral leadership because our formal leadership precludes morality.
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not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
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It's the same problem as "childcare is insanely expensive and childcare providers are woefully underpaid" and the solutions on both counts are systemic not individual
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It's the same problem as "childcare is insanely expensive and childcare providers are woefully underpaid" and the solutions on both counts are systemic not individual
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The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
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I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly
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If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.
www.thenation.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
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These guys never bother to ask why women don't want Trumpers. They just assume it's virtue signaling. The MAGA movement worships a rapist and has destroyed abortion rights, with their sights set on the rights to BC, divorce and voting next. Trumpers are not safe for us to be with.
December 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
These guys never bother to ask why women don't want Trumpers. They just assume it's virtue signaling. The MAGA movement worships a rapist and has destroyed abortion rights, with their sights set on the rights to BC, divorce and voting next. Trumpers are not safe for us to be with.
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Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
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At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
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Some of you want life to go back to how it was in 2016. That's your version of The Good Time (tm), because it was before ICE raids, and DOGE, and before science funding cuts.
But that's not what I want.
I want to go forward to The Good Times(tm), where Black folk don't get treated like this either
But that's not what I want.
I want to go forward to The Good Times(tm), where Black folk don't get treated like this either
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Some of you want life to go back to how it was in 2016. That's your version of The Good Time (tm), because it was before ICE raids, and DOGE, and before science funding cuts.
But that's not what I want.
I want to go forward to The Good Times(tm), where Black folk don't get treated like this either
But that's not what I want.
I want to go forward to The Good Times(tm), where Black folk don't get treated like this either
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Have we reached the "bots don't kill people. prompts do" stage of dystopia yet?
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Have we reached the "bots don't kill people. prompts do" stage of dystopia yet?
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I've always agreed with the bumper sticker that said, "I will agree that a corporation was a person as soon as Texas executes one."
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I've always agreed with the bumper sticker that said, "I will agree that a corporation was a person as soon as Texas executes one."
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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It's cool if your main reason for being on this platform is to aggressively expose yourself to ideas you disagree with and engage with those who hold them so that, in this fierce crucible of debate, we refine base opinion into the pure brilliance of truth, however...
November 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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If you're big mad someone blocked you on a website, that is very much a you problem, and it brings me back to point 1: how are you going to handle someone disagreeing with you if you can't handle someone just choosing to stop listening to you?
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If you're big mad someone blocked you on a website, that is very much a you problem, and it brings me back to point 1: how are you going to handle someone disagreeing with you if you can't handle someone just choosing to stop listening to you?
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absolutely furious about Teen Vogue
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
absolutely furious about Teen Vogue
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you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.