The people of Iran aren’t free. Iran can now charge tolls. The nuclear material sits EXACTLY where it did, in the same amount, since June. The regime is still in place with a younger ayatollah. Iran still was launching missiles, now with more money to rebuild.
Period
kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck
AI going to radically increase the worth of “old movies” as the craft dies over the next decade.
He was pardoned for serious crimes - facilitating the financing of terrorists and sex predators.
Because he agreed to put millions into Trump’s pocket.
Naked corruption. Out in the open for all to see.
George W Bush and Ellen DeGeneres sitting together and laughing in box seats at a NFL game.
This photo made me understand class in America in a way that I was unable to process before seeing it. The rich enjoy class solidarity on a level that is unimaginable to most people.
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
“It’s becoming ever more clear that intimacy is not only romantic; it is civic. It’s the willingness to be implicated in another person’s safety and dignity. It’s the communication, silent or screaming, that your life touches my life & my life touches yours.”
estherperel.substack.com/p/intimacy-i...
Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
Post from Pete Buttigieg that reads: If there was ever a moment for libertarians and conservatives to step up and join the rest of us, we’re in it. Americans have to unite and stop this descent from a freedom-loving nation into the kind of place where masked, militarized government agents are sent to politically noncompliant areas to roam the streets, terrorize civilians, and deploy violence with impunity.
If want you want is artificially amped viral algo views than by all means enjoy those apps.
Apple, Google, Samsung, and the rest need to get off their asses and release phones that actualy support this immediately. AI video is getting to good too fast for human nervous systems to keep up
contentauthenticity.org
Wtf
There are a lot of men that have felt disempowered in the last years. Give them a big ass signing bonus, shit training, a gun & don’t teach them any capacity to self regulate and yesterday’s tragedy happens and it’ll happen again.
ICE has got to go.
If she was a domestic terrorist, then so am I.
If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
People are more drawn to arrogant leaders in an uncertain world. They mistake swagger for strength & skill.
Narcissists are unfit to lead. They see power as an opportunity to seize, not a responsibility to serve.
Great leaders blend confidence with humility and put their missions above their egos.
Really great stuff @adamgrant.bsky.social
Never again should we say you shouldn’t drink and drive. That should be left to the decision of the driver and their medical professionals.
Yet another example of what happens if we allow LLMs to become a form of epistemic grounding for society.
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
If Paramount decrees were still intact far less likely we’d have this massive mega mergers of studios and tech companies.
Maybe time for fresh decrees.
Trickle down economics was never really a thing. But trickle down culture really matters.
Keep posting. It’s worth it. Ignore the haters. Stop pumping the xhole
It will never cease to amaze me that so many tech bros read Lord of the Rings, decided the hobbits were the bad guys and Sauron and his forces were the good guys, and have built their entire personalities around being corporate ring wraiths.
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
We’re about to experience heretofore unimaginable levels of “I haven’t read the story.”
Think our culture is about to learn a big lesson about shadow and projection.
