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not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s
January 7, 2026 at 10:43 PM
not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s
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I had an old post on Twitter about this. The US spends about 18% of its GDP on the social safety net and 3.5% on military. Germany spends about 24-25% of its GDP on the social safety net and 2% on the military.
Our military spending is not why they can have nice things or why we don't.
Our military spending is not why they can have nice things or why we don't.
January 6, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I had an old post on Twitter about this. The US spends about 18% of its GDP on the social safety net and 3.5% on military. Germany spends about 24-25% of its GDP on the social safety net and 2% on the military.
Our military spending is not why they can have nice things or why we don't.
Our military spending is not why they can have nice things or why we don't.
So are we mad they aren’t using pretty words and lying to the public enough? Lets use real critiques here
The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.
A Criminal Empire
The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream
www.forever-wars.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:17 AM
So are we mad they aren’t using pretty words and lying to the public enough? Lets use real critiques here
He also tried to do it on the day of the Epstein disclosure (required by law) and was foiled by weather, which then led them to just not release most of the files
The indictment doesn’t mention oil or fentanyl. Just cocaine. (After he just pardoned the president of Honduras)
January 4, 2026 at 4:16 AM
He also tried to do it on the day of the Epstein disclosure (required by law) and was foiled by weather, which then led them to just not release most of the files
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"But Putin is already pretty unconstrained in Ukraine. The people warning that “Zelensky is next” seem unaware that Russia has already tried to kill Zelensky multiple times. The limiting factor has been Russian incompetence, not their regard for laws of war."
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
Venezuela Is a Gift to Putin
and a harbinger of more Russian aggression in Europe
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:53 PM
"But Putin is already pretty unconstrained in Ukraine. The people warning that “Zelensky is next” seem unaware that Russia has already tried to kill Zelensky multiple times. The limiting factor has been Russian incompetence, not their regard for laws of war."
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
sounds like it wasnt really in his DNA at all then
Decades of the white nationalist movement evolving to adapt to current political trends has brought them to this moment.
December 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
sounds like it wasnt really in his DNA at all then
at some point people will realize they like their mind and thoughts to be private
Folding iPhones, home robots, mind-reading tech and EV supercars are all heading your way—along with AI-induced challenges in healthcare and cybersecurity on.wsj.com/44LPe7N
Folding iPhones, mind-reading tech and EV supercars are all heading your way in 2026, write our tech columnists. But it isn’t all rosy: AI is causing problems in fields ranging from cybersecurity to healthcare.
Folding iPhones, home robots, mind-reading tech and EV supercars are all heading your way—along with AI-induced challenges in healthcare and cybersecurity
on.wsj.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
at some point people will realize they like their mind and thoughts to be private
We are clout based mammals since the always age
December 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
We are clout based mammals since the always age
I mean you could see it from space, we just didnt want to
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I mean you could see it from space, we just didnt want to
ISIS is resurgent from the maghreb to syria, exploiting a weak interim govt stretched thin and defunded forces in NE Syria
BREAKING - U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM): Two American soldiers and one American civilian were killed, and three others were wounded, in an ambush carried out by ISIS militants in Syria.
December 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
ISIS is resurgent from the maghreb to syria, exploiting a weak interim govt stretched thin and defunded forces in NE Syria
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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This thread freaked me out in part because I recognized it as a real social phenomenon in my own life. A member of our extended circle is writing a book because ChatGPT told him it was a brilliant and novel idea. Friends, it is neither but he is absolutely convinced and nobody knows what to do.
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
This thread freaked me out in part because I recognized it as a real social phenomenon in my own life. A member of our extended circle is writing a book because ChatGPT told him it was a brilliant and novel idea. Friends, it is neither but he is absolutely convinced and nobody knows what to do.
indentured until we’re in dentures
The US Trump Administration is reportedly working on 15 year car loans.
US President Donald Trump also posted yesterday regarding allowing 50 year mortgages.
US President Donald Trump also posted yesterday regarding allowing 50 year mortgages.
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
indentured until we’re in dentures
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70% of ammunition used by Russia made in N. Korea: Ukraine analysis-KYODO
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Ugh. Yet ANOTHER reason to be "wary of a confusing media landscape."
AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/ai-g...
"These sites appear to be part of a new wave of AI-generated content farms that swoop in to seize dormant domains."
AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/ai-g...
"These sites appear to be part of a new wave of AI-generated content farms that swoop in to seize dormant domains."
AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs
A new generation of content farms are harnessing AI to spin out clickbait — and they’re getting help from Google.
www.niemanlab.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Ugh. Yet ANOTHER reason to be "wary of a confusing media landscape."
AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/ai-g...
"These sites appear to be part of a new wave of AI-generated content farms that swoop in to seize dormant domains."
AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/ai-g...
"These sites appear to be part of a new wave of AI-generated content farms that swoop in to seize dormant domains."
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Many Hollywood studios have faced challenges in their efforts to harness AI to make filmmaking cheaper and easier @sharonwaxman.bsky.social reports. But it would still be hubris to assume that humans have won this round.
AI Is Not Disrupting Hollywood—Yet
The tech is still too nascent to be a savvy investment or an existential threat, at least for now.
bit.ly
October 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Many Hollywood studios have faced challenges in their efforts to harness AI to make filmmaking cheaper and easier @sharonwaxman.bsky.social reports. But it would still be hubris to assume that humans have won this round.
smart
President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...
Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.
www.cnn.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
smart
so they those numbers will be claimed as victory?
In the cities Trump is targeting to “combat crime,” violent crime was down year-over-year by July. www.pbump.net/o/a-quick-re...
October 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
so they those numbers will be claimed as victory?
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Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world
October 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world
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In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally
In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally
Solar and wind power aren’t just keeping up with global electricity demand anymore – they’re pulling ahead. According to a new analysis from energy think tank Ember, solar and wind combined outpaced global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025. That shift led to a drop in both coal and gas generation compared to the same period last year. For the first time ever, renewables generated more power than coal globally.
more…
electrek.co
October 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally
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And the cult of SOF is a real problem given that, if we've seen one thing in Ukraine, it is that in a near-peer conflict, highly-trained, ultra-elite infantry cost a lot to form and field but get shredded by firepower at exactly the same rate, if not faster than, regular infantry.
And this all starts right out of the academies or ROTC, are the top of the class going into arty or armor or logistics, no they’re all going to the 173rd airborne or ranger school, so you can see how the army has become so light infantry/SOF centric
October 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
And the cult of SOF is a real problem given that, if we've seen one thing in Ukraine, it is that in a near-peer conflict, highly-trained, ultra-elite infantry cost a lot to form and field but get shredded by firepower at exactly the same rate, if not faster than, regular infantry.
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American Eagle was dragged into an online outrage cycle after conservative media figures claimed that liberals were offended by the clothing company's ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and a denim-themed pun about her "great jeans."
We checked the data. That wasn't true.
openmeasures.io/american-eag...
We checked the data. That wasn't true.
openmeasures.io/american-eag...
Outrage Over American Eagle’s ‘Great Jeans’ Ad Was a Conservative Media Creation - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.
openmeasures.io
October 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
American Eagle was dragged into an online outrage cycle after conservative media figures claimed that liberals were offended by the clothing company's ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and a denim-themed pun about her "great jeans."
We checked the data. That wasn't true.
openmeasures.io/american-eag...
We checked the data. That wasn't true.
openmeasures.io/american-eag...
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Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
September 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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"Federal Reserve's Collins Says A.I. Will Be Disruptive But Difficult To Predict" 🤖📉
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"Federal Reserve's Collins Says A.I. Will Be Disruptive But Difficult To Predict" 🤖📉
Such strong evidence for not allowing brutal dictators to continue to cause mass displacements globally
One million Syrians have returned to the country since President Bashar al-Assad was ousted, the United Nations’ refugee agency said, with many coming from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.
1 million people have returned to Syria since fall of Assad, U.N. says
Displaced Syrians returning after 13 years of war are hopeful about their country — and wary of looming economic risks and instability.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Such strong evidence for not allowing brutal dictators to continue to cause mass displacements globally