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It is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'
my kingdom for anyone on the “dems should take culturally moderate positions” to explain what this actually means in practice? www.thebulwark.com/p/hard-calls...
The Hard Calls Dems Must Make to Regain Power
Democrats want to win over more moderate voters. But are they willing to adopt moderate positions?
www.thebulwark.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'
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the biggest through-line with all of these people is that they are just colossal assholes in every aspect of their lives
deeply unpleasant, weird human beings who genuinely enjoy hurting and inconveniencing everyone around them
deeply unpleasant, weird human beings who genuinely enjoy hurting and inconveniencing everyone around them
Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
JD Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican during trip to Rome
The US vice-president, a self-styled ‘baby Catholic’ who was baptised in 2019, and his family met senior officials from the Catholic Church
www.thetimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
the biggest through-line with all of these people is that they are just colossal assholes in every aspect of their lives
deeply unpleasant, weird human beings who genuinely enjoy hurting and inconveniencing everyone around them
deeply unpleasant, weird human beings who genuinely enjoy hurting and inconveniencing everyone around them
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NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
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It's amazing how much sympathy and empathy people want for "lost", "adrift" boys and men while we're in the midst of acute patriarchal retrenchment, global trans panic, and women being arrested for miscarriages in red states.
LOL was wondering when we’d get a “won’t someone think of the incels” take
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Netflix series 'Adolescence' left me sad and mad as a mother of boys | Opinion
'Adolescence' promotes a political agenda, and the narrative is about toxic masculinity with a 13-year-old child at its center.
www.usatoday.com
March 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It's amazing how much sympathy and empathy people want for "lost", "adrift" boys and men while we're in the midst of acute patriarchal retrenchment, global trans panic, and women being arrested for miscarriages in red states.
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"In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day...Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, at least 36 in a brigade. 1/4
In Gaza, almost every IDF platoon keeps a human shield, a sub-army of Palestinian slaves | Opinion
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www.haaretz.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day...Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, at least 36 in a brigade. 1/4
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such a courageous and serious industry full of courageous and serious people, and not at all a trust fund ivy league circle jerk of invertebrate brunchlords who got their jobs because their daddies go to the same gym
WH Reporters Fire Comedian Over MAGA ‘Insult’ on Beast Pod
Amber Ruffin was removed from the annual dinner next month after a Republican meltdown.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
such a courageous and serious industry full of courageous and serious people, and not at all a trust fund ivy league circle jerk of invertebrate brunchlords who got their jobs because their daddies go to the same gym
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Disney: the company that paid a lot of lip service to diversity but now when they don’t have to do that anymore says “it’s all her fault” when a movie made for little girls gets piled on by sexist assholes
March 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Disney: the company that paid a lot of lip service to diversity but now when they don’t have to do that anymore says “it’s all her fault” when a movie made for little girls gets piled on by sexist assholes
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We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
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the cult of the individual will kill us all
CDC ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging.
“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote
“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote
SCOOP: The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
the cult of the individual will kill us all
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A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.
March 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.
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"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." -Elon Musk
Go fuck yourself, you sanctimonious crying prick
Go fuck yourself, you sanctimonious crying prick
March 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." -Elon Musk
Go fuck yourself, you sanctimonious crying prick
Go fuck yourself, you sanctimonious crying prick
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oh is it bad when you put people out of work for political reasons
Fox News criticizes people celebrating Tesla's stock value decline because "there are 80,000 people employed by Tesla."
March 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
oh is it bad when you put people out of work for political reasons
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If shitty misogynist libertarian engineers think this bot is good at creative writing, I can only assume it churned out a new Boondock Saints
ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’
ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’
As tech firms battle creative industries over copyright, OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he was ‘really struck’ by product’s output
The company behind ChatGPT has revealed it has developed an artificial intelligence model that is “good at creative writing”,…
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
If shitty misogynist libertarian engineers think this bot is good at creative writing, I can only assume it churned out a new Boondock Saints
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ALIEN: These billionaires must have done some incredible things to have amassed that much money
ME: Not really
ALIEN: Surely they cured diseases or invented things to changed your world
ME: Um, one guy made a website so he could stalk potential girlfriends
ALIEN: Listen, we're just gonna go
ME: Not really
ALIEN: Surely they cured diseases or invented things to changed your world
ME: Um, one guy made a website so he could stalk potential girlfriends
ALIEN: Listen, we're just gonna go
February 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
ALIEN: These billionaires must have done some incredible things to have amassed that much money
ME: Not really
ALIEN: Surely they cured diseases or invented things to changed your world
ME: Um, one guy made a website so he could stalk potential girlfriends
ALIEN: Listen, we're just gonna go
ME: Not really
ALIEN: Surely they cured diseases or invented things to changed your world
ME: Um, one guy made a website so he could stalk potential girlfriends
ALIEN: Listen, we're just gonna go
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Whoopsie doopsie
Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them
The individuals, who work in an agency that oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.
www.nbcnews.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Whoopsie doopsie
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This feels like the big one. Curious what precipitated this—some midnight DMing with Insurrection Barbie, someone at the Daily Wire sending him screenshots of a DEI program in Medicare, etc.
Trump has seemed to acknowledge what political risk touching these program holds; Elon doesn't care.
Trump has seemed to acknowledge what political risk touching these program holds; Elon doesn't care.
February 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This feels like the big one. Curious what precipitated this—some midnight DMing with Insurrection Barbie, someone at the Daily Wire sending him screenshots of a DEI program in Medicare, etc.
Trump has seemed to acknowledge what political risk touching these program holds; Elon doesn't care.
Trump has seemed to acknowledge what political risk touching these program holds; Elon doesn't care.
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It’s incredible that we’ve arrived at a place in the U.S. where all the richest man alive does all day is sit on his ass and post on his racist misogynistic microblogging site about how federal workers are “lazy” and “unproductive” while his toddler minions steal our data.
February 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It’s incredible that we’ve arrived at a place in the U.S. where all the richest man alive does all day is sit on his ass and post on his racist misogynistic microblogging site about how federal workers are “lazy” and “unproductive” while his toddler minions steal our data.
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the fundamental issue with these people is that they are legitimately too stupid to function in a society that does not give them untold sums of money
February 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
the fundamental issue with these people is that they are legitimately too stupid to function in a society that does not give them untold sums of money
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every Donald Trump cycle:
TRUMP: i'm gonna kill the easter bunny
FACT-CHECKER: he has not stated how he is going to kill the easter bunny
TRUMP SUPPORTER: i think he means he's going to kill evil bunnies
TRUMP: *beheads the easter bunny*
NYT: trump redefines relationship between bunny and head
TRUMP: i'm gonna kill the easter bunny
FACT-CHECKER: he has not stated how he is going to kill the easter bunny
TRUMP SUPPORTER: i think he means he's going to kill evil bunnies
TRUMP: *beheads the easter bunny*
NYT: trump redefines relationship between bunny and head
February 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
every Donald Trump cycle:
TRUMP: i'm gonna kill the easter bunny
FACT-CHECKER: he has not stated how he is going to kill the easter bunny
TRUMP SUPPORTER: i think he means he's going to kill evil bunnies
TRUMP: *beheads the easter bunny*
NYT: trump redefines relationship between bunny and head
TRUMP: i'm gonna kill the easter bunny
FACT-CHECKER: he has not stated how he is going to kill the easter bunny
TRUMP SUPPORTER: i think he means he's going to kill evil bunnies
TRUMP: *beheads the easter bunny*
NYT: trump redefines relationship between bunny and head
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Funny to see Western AI executives say the hype around DeepSeek is exaggerated when their entire industry is built on exaggeration of the capabilities and possible returns of Western generative AI.
Deepseek’s AI model is ‘the best work’ out of China but the hype is 'exaggerated,' Google Deepmind CEO says
Deepseek's AI model "is probably the best work" out of China, Demis Hassabis said on Sunday, but added it was not a scientific advancement.
www.cnbc.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Funny to see Western AI executives say the hype around DeepSeek is exaggerated when their entire industry is built on exaggeration of the capabilities and possible returns of Western generative AI.
“AI is a cruel technology. It replaces workers, devours millions of gallons of water, vomits CO2 into the atmosphere, propagandises exclusively for the worst ideologies, and fills the world with more ugliness and stupidity.”
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right argues @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk
February 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“AI is a cruel technology. It replaces workers, devours millions of gallons of water, vomits CO2 into the atmosphere, propagandises exclusively for the worst ideologies, and fills the world with more ugliness and stupidity.”