“Everything is related, but near things are more related than distant things,” I say to howls of rancor and derision

confirming every stereotype about FIFA and the US simultaneously: grifters all the way down

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Energy prices are up and heat waves are coming soon.

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the World Cup catastrophe in the making is a reminder that **Big Airport** is the dominant economic model today: you're trapped in an enclosed marketplace and have to take what the monopolies offer at the price they collectively decide.

price hysteresis is an incredibly powerful drug, I too believe gas is about a dollar a gallon, lunch is maybe $5, a beer is $3, and 7-Eleven should bring Slurpee and hot dog prices back down to what they were in summer 2000 (free for Simpsons trivia knowers)

“oh, you know the ones”

I'm excited to watch matches but I'm ecstatic about the prospect of an abject commercial failure

This is what normalization looks like.

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

it's wild how persistent this debate is when the more interesting question is why severe inflation that was nonetheless in step with most of the rest of the world was a right-wing cause celebre while severe inflation a Republican president decided to do for the bants isn't

Trump staffers furiously crossing Hungary off the list of safe spaces for right-wing criminal failsons to flee to when we bring this all down around them

He's going to run as the anti-war candidate in 2028 and the stupidest people you know are all going to pretend to believe it.

Make ‘em dumb, sell ‘em smarts Sam Altman wants intelligence to be a utility that you pay him for

Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it.

His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.

they don’t even believe that other people are real, let alone human

this is also true of me, where is my $800 billion

this is all you need to know about this president and administration

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference in the U.S. Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted.

To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

“Impoverished” is not the right word exactly. Much of MAGAmerica is already like Orban’s Hungary - by rights a middle income country punctuated by a few oligarchs & a local gentry, propped up by its economic connection with a large wealthy economy

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

Trump’s Pentagon Budget is a human, economic, and environmental disaster The new $1.5 trillion request implies 267 megatons of carbon emissions, and could fund massive social spending instead

Trump's $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget will enable more idiotic wars in the short term & be a social + environmental disaster in the long term. $1.5 trillion for the military industrial complex would make the Pentagon's climate pollution about the same as the entire country of Spain.

and the phone, this man is the softest phone scam target in world history

regardless, in case it wasn’t clear, destroying USAID was evil done for evil reasons

search “USAID best.” but also, it’s not whether USAID was soft power but rather whether US soft power is good - not compared to Trumpian hard power, but in itself. I think we should strive for a world where the abundant material good that USAID did is not tied to advancing US strategic interests.

social license to operate if you prefer then, my point is that denying there were imperial strings attached to USAID in response to right-wing attacks (not accusing you, but this is common) is as naive as arguing that the strings attached invalidated any possible good

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

hilariously, given its role in where we are now, it feels like Reddit is about all that’s left of classical Internet culture, at least among big platforms

USAID was absolutely part of manufacturing consent for US empire. thing is, the critique of consent manufacture is usually because the thing being consented to is bad, not because the benefits conceded to maintain consent are…

in a gold rush, sell shovels; if the miners are all buying shovels from a charlatan already, sell bespoke shovel repair services