What’s interesting here is they say “culture” when they mean “people” but they think that this maintains a veneer of deniability about what they’re really saying. In any case it’s true that the “culture” of the tech billionaires is morally and intellectually depraved rot bsky.app/profile/elio...

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

pope tweets good

The plot to enslave America. The plot to enslave humanity. They are announcing it because they think we can no longer stop them

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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Oh man. You’re gonna love the final 2 eps

I hate every single senator who allowed this to happen. Hate, with all the venom of my heart. May they never know peace.

The Boundary Waters is a truly magical place. Twin Metals are such incredible bastards for seeking this. May they live in fear of the consequences of their actions.

Perfect. Risk a environmentally sensitive area for foreign interests, putting 4500 jobs at risk to create 250 jobs that only last 20 years. Absolutely brilliant 👍

Inhabitants of the only known planet with life on it hellbent on destroying it so that 6 people can earn a currency that could lose value at any moment

Spoiler free question: have you yet watched “The Studio”

YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO LET THE FLAG TOUCH THE GROUND!!!

Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

Remind me of this any time I feel bad about not going to an Ivy League school

every time

One of many reasons I switched e-reader platforms

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

Kate McKinnon as Hillary, He Will Kill Us All

And another President refuses to explain to Netanyahu who the superpower is

So like the future is Hobbiton?

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The economy is in shambles, House Republicans have still not agreed to the common-sense DHS deal, and now the President is threatening to "kill a whole civilization" in Iran.

Speaker Johnson, please call the House back into session. The world can not wait till Tuesday!

The best time to impeach Donald Trump was 9 years ago. The second best time is now.

I was on the floor of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange when news broke that the U.S. had killed Saddam Hussein’s two sons.

The outpourings of cheer that ensued were loud, widespread, and deeply unsettling.

All of that said, I do think gathering matters. Protest matters. Being among people who believe as you do and want this to stop matters. The best way to hold onto our humanity is to hold onto each other. So, if you can march or even light a candle in the company of others, I would do so.

Hell yeah, these are both important, let's go.

STATE OF ILLINOIS 91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day April 7, 2000 Mulligan: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?" Speaker Hartke: "Sponsor will yield." Currie: "Reluctantly..." Speaker Hartke: "Reluctantly." Currie: "There have been a lot of questions and very little light has been added to this topic." Speaker Hartke: "Representative Mulligan." Mulligan: "Representative, when did you put this Amendment on, wasn't it April 4th?" Currie: "I think it was two days ago, but every day here seems like a year, so it could have been eons ago."

April 7, 2000: Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie grew weary of debating Cook County real estate assessment legislation.

Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation. [alt text from NASA]

#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍

A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

A crescent Earth seen setting behind a vast lunar landscape of craters.

NASA's first image from the Artemis II close flyby of the moon shows "Earthset," with a crescent Earth seen over the moon's cratered surface.

The fucking whiplash going from Trump's demented genocidal rant to watching the Artemis crew name a Moon crater after the commander's wife. What a world.