In my view it bifurcates the production & certification/verification processes, and we're so used to having those integrated in human intelligence we're not super-prepared to think about how to do one and not the other.
I also refuse to let reality dampen my untameable optimism
When it finally gets loads the good bits and the good bits aren't good
It's very interesting what media will present as fact in headlines and decks and such, as opposed to using "critics say" and other opinion wrappers.
You cannot get away from editorial voice; everything you report is embedded in your bias, whatever that might be. Pretending otherwise is apologetics.
Most of the pundit cottage industry is based around obfuscating a very simple truth out of psychological self-protection, that one of America’s two major parties came to be the Demented Psycho Evil-Ass Rape Party from affirmative choices their voters made of their own free will because they liked it
too real, stop it
I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"
It was, it turns out, a mistake to make the toilets enjoy being flushed—once they learn to do it to themselves they simply can't stop
slop
everyone's always like "I have a vision" and it could be something cool like "saint barnabas of eritrea told me to sell my possessions and found an orphanage" but instead it's always "we should have another widget on this dashboard"
I have an idea... maybe they could vote in an NDP govt every 70 years and then blame them for everything that sucks?
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Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
Naming my security company after the giant evil eye that, crucially, was too distracted to see the actual threat sneaking in
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
Whoever designed the Cities Skylines production graphs, you have done a very bad thing
I could, of course, be very wrong here, and this is just a product of my waning interest in a lot of contemporary music and my lack of time to just sit and read lyrics all the live long day.
This is of course especially noticeable in Christian music where there's worship music and not much else, but the same thing seems to be happening across genres.
This was the case even in Christian rock of that era! (Though of course to a lesser degree, there was always the faith & family-friendly blocks there.)
It seems as we've gotten further into this century we've decided to boil down songwriting in the mainstream to just a handful of topic.s
There's something about pretty mainstream rock in the late 90s, early 00s, where there was a lot more lyrical variety than I see now, like every middling rockstar wannabe was trying to at least be a shitty poet.
It’s not just the headline. That third paragraph is gross.
NYT saw an opportunity to put down Mamdani and minimize sexual assault in one fell swoop and they took it.
Trash author, trash newspaper.
emergency medicine next?
In order to be effectively extracted from, you must first and foremost be *producing*, and guess what, advocating for stuff ain't contributing to GDP. It's really all about who the cronies are.
This is, by the way, what connects liberals like Carney/Starmer/Albanese to authoritarians like Orban and explains why they are so very interested in limiting civil rights, speech, protest, etc.
Oligopolic crony capitalism is still just extractive capitalism, and every extractive capitalistic operation requires an orderly population to extract from, and guess what, folks who deviate from received forms are inherently disorderly (from capital's perspective).
We're not doing anyone favours by assuming they don't actually believe what they say they believe, or that this is just some "red meat" for their base.
I *do not* like narratives that position 2SLGBTIA+ hatred (plus all the other brainworms that ship with that) as "smokescreens" for unjust enrichment by demagogues.
They can do both! In fact I'd argue the same defect is driving both the greed & the hatred. These are *people* with genuine beliefs.
Hell yeah, just saw them in concert the other day too
If we are to remain in this fantasy (and we shouldn't! it's bad!) we need an equally expensive and expansive charging infrastructure and probably some technological evolution in charging speed to boot.
It's not lost on me that this entire notion of freedom is predicated on a massive and very expensive infrastructural and distributive effort that remains most invisible.
