A great explainer for a general audience and young people!

This plus the Folding Ideas video really seems to suggest that the cracks are widening to an irreparable degree over at Ye Olde Beast Labs

Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net My family has two EVs and two solar arrays, so powering our cars costs nothing. I want the entire country to feel like we do about gas prices. [name redacted] We rent. Must be nice to travel for free, we have to work daily to be able to afford the cost of transportation. This post comes across as really tone deaf.

This is amazing—it's going in my personal hall of fame.

Ah I see the Times has fired up the ol' conservative commentator is sorry generator again.

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

Never let the people forget that the Hollowing Out and Theft of every system that matters is because of Republicans. They can never wash the blood off their hands. Generations have to remember that MAGA are mass murders and insatiable thieves.

‘Is it life? We can’t tell’: Nasa’s Curiosity rover finds organic molecules on Mars Scientists think they are looking at chemical building blocks of life preserved for 3.5bn years

NOT NOW, LIFE ON MARS!

"Erm, she didn't have to change anything about her platform to get Liz Cheney and a bunch of Bush-era Republicans on board!"

So close to understanding why the left wasn't super duper thrilled about what she ran on. So close.

Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

Crawling out of your static filled tv on my hands and knees with wet stringy hair to ask if you’re mad at me

so normal so chill everything is fine everything is cool

I talked to a group of university students today about journalism, mentioning that I thought worker- / writer-owned publications were dope.
They hadn’t heard about them!
I gave shoutouts to:
@defector.com
@flaminghydra.com
@weareravenous.com
@coyotemedia.org
Who else should I tell them to look up?

Fund Education Not War and Deportation MAY DAY

you know you gotta get in formation/

okay nothing funnier than the USCCB, who suck so so SO bad, saying with their full chest "JD you ignorant slut." mwah. what a world. what a timeline.

He’s only 20? Jesus. Shame on everyone who’s put him on the air.

Felt the exact same way watching him. He came across as sad and scared and small. Which is bizarre because I know his streamer persona is gigachad Andrew Tate misogyny, but it's clear this kid is extremely sheltered by that sphere.

I'd never seen footage of Clavicular before the infamous interview clip but I was struck by what a void of charisma the guy is. I don't think any number of aesthetic interventions could help him ever escape being personally repellent.

She reportedly parted ways with Bezos with a jaw-dropping $38.3 billion in Amazon stock. Their divorce settlement included a 4 % stake in the online retail giant or 19.7 million shares. Under the agreement, Bezos kept 75% of the couple's Amazon stock, along with voting control of her shares. Jan 11, 2023

MacKenzie Scott has given away over $19 billion in the last 5 years and experts say she's 'changed entire fie... MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations as 2024 comes to a close.

MacKenzie Scott, worth $41.1 billion, is on a philanthropic tear and has donated an estimated 46% of her net worth.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started.

Just. Tax. Them.

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prohibition but for sports gambling, now

you’re only allowed to do it if you go to a dingy bar and place your bet with a guy named vito four fingers who makes it extremely clear that if you welch on him you’re going to join him in the four fingers club

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

I love not using AI. I love looking at art made by human beings, sculpting kaleidoscopic mushrooms out of clay, learning a new skill from a real person, playing with cats, spotting bats silhouetted in a crepuscular sky. Not using AI is very fun.

love to be alive at a time when simple statements of fact are also poetry

"You've been charged with being cool as shit. How do you plead?"
"Guilty, your honor."
"Bailiff, give this man a Baja Blast and drop him off at the nearest arcade with a cup full of whatever coins we in Ireland put in arcade games."