It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

The AI bubble is like the dotcom bubble: It’s not that the Internet was some useless passing fad; it’s that a lot of money got poured into absolute horseshit before people started figuring out where the actual value was.

When I was 12 or so, I was needlessly antagonising one of my friends while we played basketball in gym class. I ignored multiple reasonable requests to chill, then he finally popped me in the face.

I learned a lifelong lesson about respecting requests to stop doing something.

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation banks millions in public funding. Where does all the money go? Exclusive: Former candidates accuse party of enriching itself at their expense, while insiders lift veil on chaos in Brisbane HQ – and staffers’ contempt for rank-and-file members

Fraud is certainly not unique to far-right parties, but far-right parties do seem to be uniquely fraudulent.

Great @australia.theguardian.com investigation of One Nation and Pauline Hanson, who has been around for decades.

existential dread = the vibecession, but seriously, that's about where I'm at

I think the major difference between when Google Glasses were laughed/shamed off the market and now is that tech companies have stopped pretending to care what people think about their products - with enough pressure, they can achieve some level of saturation, and everyone else can just deal with it

I do think that we discount the "lots of people have noticed how many crypto and NFT and Metaverse shills effortlessly transitioned into becoming AI hype beasts within a matter of weeks" effect

without lionizing Leo XIV too much, i think people are brought up short by encountering someone in a position of authority who seems to have commitments to stable concepts of right and wrong that supersede class loyalty to other powerful people (which is largely the same as what Dan is saying)

DOJ Rapid Response • O @DOJRR47 X.com Yesterday the Department of Justice filed a motion to vacate the convictions of several Americans who had received clemency from President Trump. This ends these years-long, Biden-era weaponized prosecutions. President Trump demanded we stop the two-tiered injustice—and we are delivering. No more rigged system. 1:32 PM • 4/15/26 • 6.7K Views

The individuals referenced here are adjudicated terrorists.

They were found guilty of conspiring to use force against their own government to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

A conservative, Trump-appointed judge applied terrorism enhancements to their sentences.

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either:

a. Incompetent
b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't
c. a & b

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

Koalition berät Reformen: Regierung prüft drastische Einschnitte bei Lohnfortzahlung Die Regierung prüft offenbar einschneidende Maßnahmen zur Reduzierung des hohen Krankenstands. Das betrifft auch die Lohnfortzahlung im Krankheitsfall.

1. Die Aussage, dass Deutschland den historisch höchsten Krankenstand hat, ist verzerrt aufgrund elektronischer Krankmeldung und jetzt erst vollständiger Statistik.

2. Die Leute werden nicht gesünder, wenn man ihnen die Lohnfortzahlung im Krankheitsfall kürzt.

Post from Dale Partridge claiming nobody wants to live in diverse neighborhoods

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries.

Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

Astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch in their orange astronaut suits as they sit inside the side of a helicopter after it has landed

LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me

"LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts ....

This one is worth it.

First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important.

#ArtemisII

Energiepreise steigen Ursache ist unsere Abhängigkeit von fossilen Energien. Mehr Gas ist ein teurer Kurzschluss. Die Lösung: Erneuerbare ausbauen, Strom günstiger machen, Klimageld gezielt auszahlen. Freiheitsenergien schaffen Sicherheit, senken Kosten machen unabhängig.
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How Ben Sasse Is Living Now That He Is Dying The former senator wants to heal the America he’s leaving behind.

Sasse's signature legislation was the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act," a nonsense bill designed to gratify a conservative conspiracy theory. He wasted his whole life on culture war lying.

None of these would be valid. No amount of exaggeration about the pardon power can overcome the express mandate to the President in Art II, Sec 3: "He shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." He can't pardon people for breaking the law on his behalf. Contrary arguments are invalid.

Seems like a pretty powerful card to me?

He's spiraling and knows he is losing. So he is doing what he always does: smashing the racism button as hard as he can, with the most lurid shiny ball available. As each heroin hit has less impact, the dose has to increase. So now...snuff videos.

It cannot be overstated how disastrous Trump’s second election was to America and the world

ICE loves hurting and killing women.

Why I went to Moscow

1/ This Yanis Varoufakis screed made me so angry the only way I can salvage my day is to go through it line by line as catharsis.

You are welcome to come on the journey toward my aneurism with me.

An angry h/t to @sianushka.bsky.social for bringing this into my life.

unherd.com/2026/04/why-...

Burn everything down.

Fixed it.

Nobody assumes the CEO of Toyota must be some sort of brilliant engineer, but we have for some reason developed this collective notion that being a successful tech CEO must make you a tech genius.

couldn't even manage 24 hours

The Next Democratic Candidate for President Should Run as a China Hawk Let’s flip the race to the bottom and reconstruct this country.

good essay from @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com that i think gets at what i mean when i say that the competition with china is a) real and b) not a military competition, not fundamentally

it is a competition of systems, as during cold war 1

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-next-dem...