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Jesus Christ. JESUS Christ. Jesus CHRIST. Yes, this person is correct, remigration is a white supremacy term for ethnic cleansing, basically. And the Department of Homeland Security, WHICH SHOULDN'T EVEN EXIST, just used the term. An official government account. That is...that is beyond fucked.
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Jesus Christ. JESUS Christ. Jesus CHRIST. Yes, this person is correct, remigration is a white supremacy term for ethnic cleansing, basically. And the Department of Homeland Security, WHICH SHOULDN'T EVEN EXIST, just used the term. An official government account. That is...that is beyond fucked.
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Because I like to experience every emotion at once, it also makes me absolutely furious no congressional Dems have the aura, charisma, authenticity or basic fortitude to ever come remotely close to a tiny percentage of what we watched today
I am not forgetting about the Epstein files. I am not forgetting about the threats of executions, or about DHS/ICE/CBP, nor the corruption. But it’s certainly good to watch and laugh about how thoroughly Mamdani commanded the White House today, without once cowering from Trump or a press question.
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Because I like to experience every emotion at once, it also makes me absolutely furious no congressional Dems have the aura, charisma, authenticity or basic fortitude to ever come remotely close to a tiny percentage of what we watched today
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I'm hearing full-grown adults who spent ten (10) calendar years saying "Nice" every time a basketball score or someone in passing says 69 think The Kids Today joking about 67 is dumb and annoying.
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I'm hearing full-grown adults who spent ten (10) calendar years saying "Nice" every time a basketball score or someone in passing says 69 think The Kids Today joking about 67 is dumb and annoying.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
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We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?
October 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?
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Even if you fully denounce and apologize for your white supremacist past, that doesn't mean you should be handed access to the levers of power. Your decision-making abilities are suspect, sorry! That's ok! Lots of people shouldn't be in office. You can find another way to contribute, like podcasting
October 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Even if you fully denounce and apologize for your white supremacist past, that doesn't mean you should be handed access to the levers of power. Your decision-making abilities are suspect, sorry! That's ok! Lots of people shouldn't be in office. You can find another way to contribute, like podcasting
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this feels completely banal? yes, a big tent political party is going to include voters who have bigoted views. i don’t think anyone has argued otherwise? the actual question at hand is “to what extent should a political party ostensibly committed to equality appeal to popular prejudices?”
Bigots in the tent
What did you think winning meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.
www.theargumentmag.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
this feels completely banal? yes, a big tent political party is going to include voters who have bigoted views. i don’t think anyone has argued otherwise? the actual question at hand is “to what extent should a political party ostensibly committed to equality appeal to popular prejudices?”
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in some ways, the greatest challenge for Democratic base voters is to get their elected officials more afraid of their base than of the Beltway culture
October 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
in some ways, the greatest challenge for Democratic base voters is to get their elected officials more afraid of their base than of the Beltway culture
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There are only two types of products and services now: outright scam and pseudo scam (where you're like ehh technically I got something in exchange for my money but cmon)
October 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
There are only two types of products and services now: outright scam and pseudo scam (where you're like ehh technically I got something in exchange for my money but cmon)
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Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.
Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."
September 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.
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Exactly, perhaps useful bsky.app/profile/oliv...
6. the extremely unhinged series of claims that without training them on how to be users of such systems that we somehow fail as teachers — truly ludicrous, utterly bizarre, and in fact directly contradicts other industry selling points.
(Section 3.6 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
8/n
(Section 3.6 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
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September 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Exactly, perhaps useful bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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My biggest criticism of parks and rec is that it actually didn’t go far enough in showing how unhinged the average public commenter can be
Cornhole concerns at the zoning committee: "The cornhole game leads to a continuous thunking noise as the beanbag hits the target. When one goes in the hole there's a loud cry of success."
September 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
My biggest criticism of parks and rec is that it actually didn’t go far enough in showing how unhinged the average public commenter can be
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On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
August 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
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Newsom is proof that if Trump was more clean cut and well spoken liberals wouldn’t have a problem with Trump
August 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Newsom is proof that if Trump was more clean cut and well spoken liberals wouldn’t have a problem with Trump
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There’s no word games that will stop a bigot from being a bigot. No, they aren’t a bigot because somebody said “deadname” or “intersectionality.” As a matter of fact, those terms came to describe decades of oppression and mistreatment.
August 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
There’s no word games that will stop a bigot from being a bigot. No, they aren’t a bigot because somebody said “deadname” or “intersectionality.” As a matter of fact, those terms came to describe decades of oppression and mistreatment.
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A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes
April 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
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I only did pizza for nine years, but after that (relatively) short time I got so used to the feel of dough that I could judge temperatures within two degrees by hand, nail weights without a scale, and get a full pie from phone to oven in twenty seconds.
All labor is skilled labor.
All labor is skilled labor.
This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen
August 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I only did pizza for nine years, but after that (relatively) short time I got so used to the feel of dough that I could judge temperatures within two degrees by hand, nail weights without a scale, and get a full pie from phone to oven in twenty seconds.
All labor is skilled labor.
All labor is skilled labor.
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I keep thinking about Trump is clearly trying to replicate the new cities in petrostates, like Dubai and Riyadh. He is in love with the visible and garish opulence, built on the backs of actual modern slaves. He wants a whole country of these Potemkin villages, made by fraud, oppression and fealty.
such a maddening world we live in. protesting gets your head cracked and/or prosecuted while open fraudsters get pardoned. immigration sweeps and mass deportations but US citizenship is on sale retail for $5M a pop. things apparently do not collapse under the weight of their own contradictions
June 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I keep thinking about Trump is clearly trying to replicate the new cities in petrostates, like Dubai and Riyadh. He is in love with the visible and garish opulence, built on the backs of actual modern slaves. He wants a whole country of these Potemkin villages, made by fraud, oppression and fealty.
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person sees the world as a hierarchy, with superiors and inferiors ➡️ concludes problems are under individual (superior or inferior) control, not systemic ➡️ they're susceptible to scams that sell them the "means" to this control ➡️ getting scammed makes them angry, scared, and vulnerable to new scams
Pluralistic: Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes (22 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
July 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
person sees the world as a hierarchy, with superiors and inferiors ➡️ concludes problems are under individual (superior or inferior) control, not systemic ➡️ they're susceptible to scams that sell them the "means" to this control ➡️ getting scammed makes them angry, scared, and vulnerable to new scams
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Lawsuits from men against the doctors who provide abortions to their partners illustrate that men understand abortion bans as legal codifications of their private right to dominate and control women.
ughghghghg
that's all the commentary I have for now
that's all the commentary I have for now
Texas man sues California doctor over medication abortion
The wrongful death suit invokes a long-dormant federal law alongside state law.
www.courthousenews.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Lawsuits from men against the doctors who provide abortions to their partners illustrate that men understand abortion bans as legal codifications of their private right to dominate and control women.
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it's sooooo hard reading this not to compare everything sumner says and does to how our politicians respond to crises today
June 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
it's sooooo hard reading this not to compare everything sumner says and does to how our politicians respond to crises today
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They're literally doing the meme
June 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
They're literally doing the meme