I'm so sorry. I can't imagine trying to process something like that.

Force the Oppressor to make a Lose/Lose Choice Social Change Toolkit: Dilemma Actions

Today in social justice toolkit:

A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation.

You've given them only bad options.

I give some examples

& then we talk about how to design them.

This one's pretty important.

Read and share, please?

I'm so very sorry. :(

Folks mentioned in this week's column also include:

Steve Lyons, Sandy Mitchell, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, David Annandale, R. S. Wilt, William Crowe, @denny-flowers.bsky.social @georgemann.bsky.social @annasmithwrites.bsky.social @rocketpatrol.bsky.social

#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary

There was a time when the president inspired pride instead of exhaustion. I miss that more than I can say.

All these right wingers who converted to Catholicism in adulthood were just shopping around for an ideology that justified their pre-existing instincts and prejudices. If you convince them that Catholicism means peace and charity they'll just drop it and keep shopping.

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.

I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

Since World War II, the real power of the US military, across all branches, wasn't its weapons or its "warfighters" - it was logistics. A global, well-oiled machine that could get what was needed, when it was needed, to sustain operations anywhere. Now we can't even keep our Marines fed at sea.

How Silicon Valley Humiliated the Democrats When will they learn? The party remains far too solicitous of an industry that’s rewarded their fealty with four years of Trump and untold damage to democracy.

"Democrats need to break from this path and acknowledge that billionaires—especially those in the increasingly antidemocratic tech sector—are never going to side with them over the GOP." From @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2087...

Oh! Also forgot Rupert Friend, who shows up later. He's amazing.

Damian Lewis is the best part of the show (though Mandy Patinkin comes in a close second). It starts out fairly strong, but goes increasingly off the rails as the seasons go on.

la frens!!!!

Seeking Chinese-fluent lawyer in/near Nassau County, NY

Absolutely stunning (and no doubt windy and cold).

I also think if you’re a CEO presiding over layoffs of a certain size, 10% of those laid off (chosen at random) should get to spin a wheel to see how much of your stock compensation they get to receive. there are two bonus wedges where they get all of your TC

Wow! How gorgeous is this?

I'm so old I watched this episode when it was first aired.

AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.

"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Can’t get here quick enough.

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

I am so sorry. That’s awful.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%

Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

That is how we will pay for it.

She’s precious and perfect and I hope she gets another 22 years.

lol trump needing to backtrack into this ridiculous lie is one of the funniest "he's cooked" moments we've seen, i think

i repeat: "they're so much weaker than they want us to think they are" www.lawdork.com/p/theyre-so-...

I *think* probably the former. At least I hope so.

They don't care what he says so long as he gives them permission to be their worst selves.

Just what I needed today.

I love this!

Tuesday that multiple pastors had told him they would quote the Sermon on the Mount, specifically the part that says to “turn the other cheek,” when preaching. Someone would come up after the service and ask, “Where did you get those liberal talking points?” “What was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, ‘I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ,’ the response would not be, ‘I apologize.’ The response would be, ‘Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak,’” Moore said. “When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.”

A former Southern Baptist leader has written about how congregants of his don’t think Jesus said the Beatitudes, call him “weak” for them when corrected.

They aren’t looking to be shaped by the stories of the Bible. They’re in pure confirmation-bias mode.

YES! It was pure bubblegum, but great for roadtrips.