This actually explains everything about everything and I am at peace

House Republicans roll out landmark data privacy push The proposals would preempt dozens of state data laws and set a federal standard for how tech and finance companies handle their customers’ data.

This bill is dangerous.

It does not protect privacy. It lets Big Tech and Telecom do anything they want with your data.

And it blows up all state and many federal privacy laws that we already have.

Most dangerously, it may nuke all state civil rights laws.

Here are some examples:

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This kind of antifeminism is a socialism of fools, wherein working class resentment at exploitative elites is diverted into anger at feminized phantasms, like “HR.”

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/

I fucking hate that security theater bullshit. I hope people stop going to that store and their revenue craters.

Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"

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I mean, what happened here is not that the party that traditionally brings cookies to a gun fight started bringing guns to a gun fight, it's that THE VOTERS did. The people flexed their power in response to the blatant abuse of power by the Republicans.

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

I mean folks are setting warehouses on fire and throwing molotovs at Sam Altman's house and these CEO assholes still have the nerve to act surprised when each act happens...

As a former white nationalist and Stormfront moderator who used to butt heads with the SPLC... this is just the Justice Department being white nationalist.

And I thought the time I found a way to discuss pegging in an academic paper was an accomplishment.

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

TFW you start to see the training data (slack logs from incident response chats) in the outputs.

Some days I'm "people, not platforms," and some days I'm "potatoes, not people"

She is awful and should be fired but man that is three women out of the Cabinet and not a single guy

70 powerful Bay Area men were accused of sexual misconduct. What happened next? Since 2010, scores of prominent local men have faced allegations ranging from sexual harassment to rape. Most have returned to the highest echelons of public life.

Also: "We did not include allegations against local clergy, because there are too many."
sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

We've been waiting for this project for over a year.

All merch is on The Onion Store: store.theonion.com?srsltid=AfmB...

Story: www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/m...

She puts Dillinger to shame

For all the claims these tech bros make that they're thinking about big ideas and transformative visions of the future, their actions show a myopic focus on the next quarter/year and little beyond that.

Absolutely this. People be people in virtually every organization and subculture, there are just different norms and standards for what's acceptable.

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

FUCK. YES.

It’s incredibly frustrating to me that in 2026 people are still holding to the idea that:

1) feeling emotion is antithetical to being able to reason

2) not showing emotion is the same as not being affected by emotion

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

A political culture with no tension between “do not comply in advance” and “why didn’t they send the guard to Shreveport?” or “we focused too much on diversity” as shared beliefs is incoherent.

FLUFFYYYYYY

I'll add people who are found not competent to face charges and need various types of treatment and services

My friend's dad had something similar and his doctors were amazed he made 11 months.

I finally read this and if I was still in my 20s I would be this asshole while aspiring to this level of prose.