I think the "necessity of exposing monstrous views" is a belief somberly held by people who haven't yet realized that fascists should be shot, not embarrassed (they can't be) or "defeated in the market place of ideas" (not a real thing that happens).
if you fuck w the share z0ne
you should read this
and if you don't have the bandwidth to read this
basically know it's currently run by drew toothpaste who chased out the trans person that did most of the work on DSZ.
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Today's newsletter: I believe AI is racing Silicon Valley toward another dot com bust. Generative AI is too unreliable, has no path to profit, uses far too much energy, and cannot fix its core problem - that you just can't trust the things it creates.
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Fuck the NDP and fuck them for backing S-210. They can count on me never voting for them ever again.
I am so sick of exactly this, like seriously. And good luck trying to run a horror RPG with players like these.
I for one wish I could find players who can actually buy into campaigns and play them straight without every fucking game turning into zany wacky monkeycheese hijinks.
The whole lead-in about how she's not like the poor, stupid, lonely people she imagines to be easily scammed had a certain je ne sais quoi that I instantly clocked as the mutterings of an effete, inbred child of rich people - and my ability to clock that sort of thing from the get is one of the few things I like about myself. Her husband works for a non-profit, she's 39, but they live in a $4 million dollar house in Prospect Heights? She's related to the Roosevelts? Ivy league is a given, but she feels the need to highlight it on her personal site? A child named Ripley?This whole thing is just another rearranging deck chairs on the titanic of increasingly hubristic, insulated failsons and faildaughters are discovering the otherwise object permanence level of obvious lessons the rest of us understand. You think Amazon will white glove you over to the CIA in a few minutes? Tell me you don't do your taxes without telling me you don't do your taxes. This person is so uncalibrated in their
this is the best take i’ve seen so far about the personal finance columnist for NY Mag who gave the "CIA" guy $50,000 in a shoebox
Like dude, no one gives a shit, you're not the Weather Underground or the Black Panthers and this isn't COINTELPRO, you're a total nobody. The next Lenin you ain't.
It's really exhausting dealing with too many online leftists who just keep jumping at shadows and raving about CIA/NSA/FBI psyops and "color revolutions" undermining their hopelessly ineffectual excuses for political orgs and parties.
you can make good moral arguments against the existence of billionaires, but to me this story illustrates the most compelling one: it is simply too dangerous for society as a whole for people like this to have the resources to impose their will on everyone else
I've never seen him defend the First Nations, but I have seen him go off about the Quebecois being one of the world's most oppressed minorities.
Probably busy fretting about immigrants coming to Quebec speaking something other than French.
Rayearth is exactly the anime I tried to rewatch a few months ago and ooof that did not hold up at all for me.
Cowboy Bebop is still solid gold though.
A father instructs a child to "get in your giant robot mother." The child gets in the giant robot mother. His father shakes a fist at him from a platform and says "now fight the real enemy!!!" The kid in the giant robot mother fights another giant over a cityscape. The other giant is labelled "your feelings." A person watching this program says "this is the greatest tv show I've ever seen."
this is like that "nature always makes a crab" idea, but with memes
A bearded NFL player shouts something in his coach's ear, the old man listening "patiently".
IT'S CALLED THE BOOTS THEORY OF ECONOMICS AND IT'S BY THIS GUY CALLED SAME VIMES WHO SAYS THE REASON POOR PEOPLE STAY POOR IS THEY HAVE TO SPEND MORE ON SHODDY BOOTS THAT DON'T LAST VERY LONG BECAUSE THEY NEVER HAVE ENOUGH SPARE CASH TO BUY A DECENT PAIR THAT WILL LAST FOR AGES!
The results of my CT scan described my chest as, and I quote, "unremarkable."
rude!
I’ve shared this a few times already but I need everyone to see the nuke that Joyce dropped on him
Girls when they see a device or contraption at the thrift store 👀✨
a picture depicting a creature from a 90s science fiction show for children. the creature is called The Gloose. the text on the picture reads "and introducing The Gloose"
and introducing The Gloose
thank you satoru noda