cool essay (i see that it's a substack; sorry)

i once read "the rights you think criminals should have are the rights you think everyone should have because the state can criminalize anyone" and it changed how i think about everything

need more cosmopolitan chauvinism imo. to be able to go to a world city and do this without crossing a border is something you should be proud of, it means you're a great country. To want to tear it down means you are inbred provincial hog with no greater drives than envy and fear.

Ditto those quoting her child’s grandfather saying that her son, who was being raised by two women, “has no one.”

Jimmy Carter watched over 480 movies in the White House movie theater during his presidency, a lot of them all time bangers
(List here gizmodo.com/every-single...)

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

Okay, I'm going to say it now but I've been thinking it since before news about her started breaking. I think there's a chance (not great but there) Trump pardons Ghislaine Maxwell in an attempt to untaint his own name by pretending her charges were spurious.

i think it’s not talked about enough that so many christian rightwingers support israel because they want to trigger the end times rapture and they believe supporting israel will ensure this

It would be nice to see mainstream media acknowledge that every alarmist in their ranks about Trump and his henchmen has been correct, and every single "Let's all calm down" guy--a posture of blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media--has called it wrong from day one.

Whatever happened to Anonymous? It seems like we could cut through lot of the bullshit right now if somebody just happened to get their hands on the chat where Musk was inevitably laughing up his planned Nazi salute troll with a bunch of edgelord mouthbreathers.

The whole point of the Nazi Salute was to do it and then bask in the denial that that's what it was. It's the same dog whistling bullshit these Nazi fucks have been doing for years, just on a bigger stage. laughing at the people they upset while they deny they did what they did IS the Point.

Ozempic discourse is happening again and I am once again reminded how many ostensible leftists do not understand the body as a site for oppression or how our views of body size and "health" and healthism are socially constructed. Wish they could just shut up about shit they don't understand.

For those going home to visit family this weekend:

• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.