*That was in the pre-Reagan-Thatcher era when "society" existed
*I can remember "society," and I can remember that my attitude toward it was a very strong bohemian urge to drop out of it
No one can become a billionaire without becoming weird & anti-social. We should just accept that & pass policies that prevent anyone from accumulating that much money.
Here’s a counter-manifesto to the Silicon Valley fascist madmen: Palantir must be uprooted completely, with public show trials for domestic treason under quick, harsh military tribunals, then the entirety of their technology, holdings and personal fortunes seized for the common good.
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
It's a shame Clavicular got there first because it would be a great name for a funicular powered by a clavichord
TAPPING THE SIGN ONCE MORE
James Kochalka and Stephen Bissette
James Kochalka, Stephen Bissette, and Tillie Walden
Paparazzi
The Vermont Statehouse floor as seen from the balcony. Plus HUGE chandelier.
A great proud day for the world of comics!
At the Vermont State House today Steve Bissette was named our 6th Cartoonist Laureate. Also recognized were outgoing laureate Tillie Walden who was laureate #5 and myself who was #1. @cartoonstudies.bsky.social @stephenrbissette.bsky.social
this being the thing that crosses the line for many rightwingers is so illustrative of how they don’t really care about anything real that actually matters. their problems are all entirely fictional
Eight time Trump voter here.
I’m appalled by his latest stunt and if he does it again like 13 more times I might actually consider maybe possibly giving the slightest pushback kind of, maybe.
Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...
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Can't pardon from a rope.
Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.
"Where are all the campus protestors?" ask the grinning ghouls who cheered on the brutal suppression of campus protests
Guys if melania were implicated in an international conspiracy of systematic sexual assault and pedophilia ring I’m pretty sure brett ratner would have mentioned it in the documentary
I definitely convinced myself that "there is another" meant Boba Fett from 1981 to May of 1983.
When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge.
I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass.
Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.
BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
genuinely think people outside of America don't realize how big this place is, how militarized and murderous our police are, how little our politicians care, how disconnected and impoverished we have been intentionally made to be, how we still have slavery just with extra steps. we really suck gang
This is awesome, on top of everything else going on today I get to relive the childhood nuclear night terrors and anxiety and nightmares that the adults around me all gave us
If the Iranians really want to fuck with us they should offer to open the straights in return for Trump’s resignation.
The president of the United States is alluding to a massive nuclear strike on a country we’ve attacked without provocation to distract from the fact that he has raped children
"Why don't Americans-" The ruling class of America has intentionally disempowered its citizens spread across 3,000+ miles of land and then funded the police force as an occupying army that happily murders anyone who opposes them and imprisons whoever is left as slave laborers. So phone calls it is
You know how Rome had republican institutions but in times of crisis they'd appoint a dictator with absolute power? What if we did that but we appointed our worst guy in a time of relative peace and prosperity? Now I know what you're thinking: why would we do that? Well it's to mix things up
Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal.
Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big.
And here we are.
yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization
"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.
When I compare Trump to Hitler people tell me I'm exaggerating. I'm not.
same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen