X is a critical component of the regime’s communications and information control system.

Pro-democracy forces should boycott X because it’s not a neutral platform—it’s main purpose is spreading regime propaganda and discrediting pro-democracy actors.

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

"I was very impressed with myself to have the head of Apple calling to 'kiss my ass.' ... That was the beginning of a long and very nice relationship."

This is forever Tim Cook's legacy -- lauded for kissing Trump's ass.

Step 1: Hire cute blond 20yo as a research assistant (RA)
Step 2: Talk about her incessantly so wife gets very mad and asks you 500x to stop and you don't and you start spending more and more time w RA and your wife gets angrier and begs you to stop, asks for marriage counseling
Step 3: Divorce wife

Dave Chappelle Knocks Republican Party for “Weaponized” Transgender Jokes: “That’s Not What I Was Doing” After being called out for transphobic jokes, the superstar comedian told NPR that Lauren Boebert and other Republicans are politicizing his humor.

The anti-woke coalition is breaking up

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

kinda funny how Republican voters are inarguably happier when a Dem is president. they don’t actually want to be in charge of shit, they want to roll coal and whip themselves into a frenzy over wholly imaginary liberal tyranny. now they’ve caught the car and it fuckin sucks

The funny (not actually funny) thing is that had Orban won, you know NYT would have pointed to that and gone, "See? Right-wing populism is as strong as ever! If Democrats want to win, they need to move to the right!"

It's always "heads, I win; tails, you lose" with these clowns.

Los Cazadores / Un Gringo En Globo - Salerno y Gamarra, Sáez y Los Hermanos Ascuez (1928) YouTube video by Jc el Gato

Two Early Peruvian recordings in one easy-to-swallow video - what a deal!

Los Cazadores / Un Gringo En Globo
Salerno y Gamarra, Sáez y Los Hermanos Ascuez
1928

Gramophoney Baloney
KPOO San Francisco 89.5FM
Poor People's Radio Inc.
Mondays 3pm-6pm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZeL...

it'll be back in three days

Getting off US tech: a guide I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

It could be just one if we prioritized public transportation.

“That was way more than 3.4 ounces of liquid.” Cassandra Robles, Unemployed

Passenger Gives Birth Mid-Flight https://theonion.com/passenger-gives-birth-mid-flight/

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.

Headline: The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

Why It Matters: The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

The Big Picture: Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand

1/Daniel Farbman (Boston University), with an absolute, vital critique of my many frustrations with originalism. As a historian, you would think I would rock with originalism, but I have real questions with a theory that eschews constitutional change.

It's like America's parents caught us smoking authoritarian, racist, evil incompetence, and now they're making us smoke the whole pack to teach us a lesson.

Pete Hegseth Replaces Top General With Horse That Drinks Beer

Pete Hegseth Replaces Top General With Horse That Drinks Beer theonion.com/pete-hegseth-replaces-to...

Sigh. Even this snarky "Louis CK never got cancelled" article unwittingly whitewashes his reputation.

CK never "confirmed the allegations were true." He ignored some, misrepresented others. He never came clean. Never admitted the full extent of his misconduct. He threw his accusers under the bus.

Screenshot of a tweet by Christopher Hale quoting a religious message attributed to Pope Leo XIV about rejecting war and condemning violence. The image shows a pope in ceremonial robes reading from a paper at a microphone.

Attn: Pete Hegseth

Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying

Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying theonion.com/rising-conservative-star...

Matt Schlapp is back to doing what he loves: refusing to accept someone’s answer.

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

meme of a guy in the hospital: i lived bitch

the modest little app also called Sora that lets kids check out ebooks from their school library

Epidemiologists Confirm First Airborne Transmission Of Mar-A-Lago Face