Like... guys, your polling question literally has the word "bemoaned" in it.

They're saying it's the most unbiased poll question ever. echeloninsights.com/insights/apr...

chat is it good when companies are claiming ownership of people's likenesses and identities abstracted from their selves

AI as a Fascist Artifact (This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. I added some shots of the slides I used as a structure for the text which […]

In which I argue that "AI" as we understand it today is a structurally fascist artifact.

https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

Isn't a "Christian Economy" one where the oldest son inherited and the rest got shipped off to a monastery

When the first women graduated, I asked a crusty ol' (complimentary) tabbed-out First Sergeant what he thought. He reminded me that the class had suffered a lightning strike that took dozens of people out, and said, "Well, God took his best shot and missed, so they must have passed."

Critics of new bill say Ohio women would be banned from sports bras, bikinis in public 'The peak of fear mongering.'

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.

HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

This is makes me happy

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Millennials are ruining the cocaine industry

I guess there is a cultural mismatch because the "Socratic Method" implies that neither party has the answer, which is why both parties keep asking questions, and aporia is an absolutely fine state to find yourself in rather then a "trap"

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Amazon doing a good ole price fixing conspiracy, apparently www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I don't know what my cuisine is. Broadly tri-state area? New York City? Upper West Side? Mongrel euro French/Italian?

Pedocon theory remains undefeated

If he meant any of this he'd just retire from commentary because that's the only rational response to getting it this wrong, but instead he's just gonna endorse Vance next year because of under-the-hood articles about how he opposed the war

biking will radicalize you if you just go let it

Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.

Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.

And then there's this...

Believers

I waffle on there being like three reallybweird things that happened that people know happened that we have no explanation for that freaked them all out or some sort of Burn Notice thing got out of hand

There is a UFO Cult in the Pentagon

The first LSD trips in the US took place on Fort Bragg as part of a mind control program. That's not even a conspiracy theory.

Exclusive: ICE Glasses Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence on Americans

Here's what a senior homeland official told me about their development of ICE smart glasses: "It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens...but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protesters."
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

But I will admit I miss when the whole city would bang pots and pans and cheer out their windows at the same time because I am a sucker for solidarity

I lived around the corner from a hospital and our block was on an ambulance route and it was horrifying

Not that IQ measures anything other than your ability to take an IQ test, but since everything with these guys is projection, I have to assume they find that test really hard.

this is one of the most offensive things I've seen in years

I think our current politics are as they are because the exercise of power and money-as-power has become completely separated from any consequences or levers of control, this is the case for people who are not particularly infantile as much as it is for people who obviously are

I can hear it so clearly in the Bane voice "Time is not *my* adversary, Batman"