But it's like ivy league so it's rich fuck daycare degree

In some senses this is true, but we're not just talking individuals. These are hedge funds and pension managers behaving like gambling addicts and it's giving off the same sense of the market as 2007.

Had markets reacted realistically - that is, watching the still constrained Strait of Hormuz and seeing no new shipments of oil leaving - then the price of oil would be approaching $150 a barrel.

Investors reacting to Trump's blatant lies in opposition to their own self interest is bizarre.

The insane reaction by the markets to everything Trump says has created a situation where oil prices go down, but the supply isn't increasing.

It's divorced from financial first principles. It's Wile E. Coyote running off the cliff and standing in mid-air before looking down.

All those "show us what you looked like ten years ago" or "show your green art/animal art/art of women" memes are being used to train AI

Theil has a degree in humanities iirc

"Remember ... don't say the N-word!" -Team Sega Newsletter (circa 1989)

the greatest "Infowars Parody" was adult swim's TruthPoint, invented by @dril.bsky.social and myself

we've retained the IP, so the onion guys are allowed to help us revive that program. would love to work with them 😉

I remember reading about the local cops where the Gilgo Beach Killer lived/preyed. They had tons of funding, and used it to keep other agencies from getting involved in their work. Meanwhile, the lead that led to solving the case? They had it for years, never investigated.

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Very good: “This confederacy of goons think that their wealth and whiteness and maleness conveys automatic competence, so they never bothered to learn anything about anything, and they fired everyone who knew anything about anything, and dismantled all the programs that helped make anything work ….”

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...

Honestly cannot think of an event comics equivalent to this shameless nonsense, at last the pupil has outdone the master

An article in the Times today by Kathleen Stock in which she claims, incorrectly, that ‘when the gay rights cause first got going, the ideal was toleration’.

To correct the record:
The gay rights movement I was a part of in the 1980s and 90s was not aiming for ‘toleration’.
Mere acceptance was not enough.
How would that help the isolated queer kid?
No. We wanted that child to know they would be loved and celebrated just as they were.

Oh yeah, the Korean prosecution system is absolutely evil, corrupt, and has more power than the president, and people have been working very hard to dismantle it for many years.

So, watching Johnny go up against them is like seeing two city-destroying kaiju in a movie and saying, "Let them fight."

And within hours, as expected, the prosecution has counter-appealed.

Bro took himself from 6 months to "at least a year, maybe 3" because he never once took any of this seriously enough to even be curious how it works.

He also, because he thought he was getting out of Korea, told the guy he borrowed $50,000 in living costs and legal fees from good luck collecting.

Now that guy's suing him, another court case that needs to be resolved before he leaves, with no one to pay for his lawyer.

Whoops!

He's also now basically forcing prosecutors to counter-appeal, which means he could get a few years tacked on to his sentence at the end.

Bro shoulda, like, maybe Googled the Korean court system at any point in his time navigating it.

Oh. My. God.
The idiot did it.

Everyone's been waiting to see if prosecutors appealed Somali's 6 month slap on the wrist.

But before they could, Somali appealed.

The problem? Appeals take up to a year, and he has to stay in jail until it's done. Bro probably doubled his sentence even if he wins.

No earlier era could conceive of dystopian tales as sickening as ours. We exist beyond the light of social satire, past the bizarro worlds of abject parody.

there's always a bigger fish

I truly cannot overstate how proud I am of Ben, not just as my partner but as my friend, as a human. He's the strongest and bravest person I know. Also the best cat dad.

And when one of the world's worst bullies threatened to ruin his life, he kept going. Because it's the right thing to do.

I'm just Tim Onion's girlfriend, but I can't count how many times over the last year and a half that Ben and his team were looking down the barrel of a terror campaign and possible repercussions by the state and just kept going forward.

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.

I think a lot about how illustration rates have been stagnant since basically the form was invented, and the great gatsby was inspired by JC Leyendeckers legendary mansion parties

threads is really bad guys omgggg today their discourse is "now that all the artists get fired from the industry will they lower their rates to work on *my* amazing project for which I can offer nothing but will TOTALY be worth it, btw if you don't I'll pivot to AI so you better 🔫 😊"

It’s worth talking about how the Democratic Party has spawned Current Notable GOP/MAGA/fascists like Donald J. Trump, J.D. Vance, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Elon Musk, and now Alan Dershowitz.

When your tent is spawning your mortal enemies, perhaps it is too big.

Machine learning (the math people now call AI) has been used by scientists for 40 years for cancer detection, protein folding, and genome mapping, using public scientific data.

But generative AI/LLMs wouldn't even exist if these companies were held accountable to the same copyright laws we are!

The reason that 'AI' grifters are constantly fretting about adoption is precisely that nobody has yet found any justification for the initial investment in the technology. Hence the high-pressure marketing campaigns and arbitrary compulsory adoption metrics