Torches and pitchforks.

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

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I like it.

No lies, and it highlights a serious part of our larger societal problem that we can't fix by ignoring it.

Um, of course it was.

Let's prosecute Musk at the state level for it.

I guess I'm too normie and don't fly often enough to have bougie ideas about missing flights.

I like Thurmond, but I'll take Becerra. He'd be my second choice.
Way the hell better than billionaire hedge fund guy Steyer.

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

Amen.
Amen.
Amen.

The DOJ is now 5 month in breach of releasing the Epstein files.

Holding these criminals accountable should be the Nuremberg of our time.

(nods and stares quietly into the empty spaces around me)

My initial reaction is to dismantle Palantir, sell it for parts, and prosecute Karp for his crimes against Americans' civil rights.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Ditto here in California.

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Oh, I'm sure she has a few more tools and toys than just "time." Your woman seems the type to have done her homework. Have fun!

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I like where this is going.

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Oh. Just let that happen.

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There are worse things, I guess.

Pool Boy - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

It's all starting to make sense now.

youtu.be/gn2933vMylY?...

(reads contentedly)

Song of Myself reads the way our grandmothers used to read the Bible: just open the long poem to any passage, bask in its beauty and insight, and then set it back on the nightstand, better ready to face any given day and enjoy life.

"Long, too long America,
Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,
But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are...."

Cosigned.

"Listen! I will be honest with you,
I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes,
These are the days that must happen to you:
You shall not heap up what is call’d riches,
You shall scatter with lavish hand all that you earn or achieve...."

"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear...
each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong....
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work....
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else...
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs."

"Have you ever loved the body of a woman?
Have you ever loved the body of a man?
Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred...."

"The man’s body is sacred and the woman’s body is sacred,
No matter who it is, it is sacred—....
Is it one of the... immigrants just landed on the wharf?
Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the well-off, just as much as you,
Each has his or her place in the procession."

"The male... too is all qualities, he is action and power,
The flush of the known universe is in him....

The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is utmost become him well....

Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to the test of himself...."

"This is the female form,
A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction....

The female contains all qualities and tempers them,
She is in her place and moves with perfect balance,
She is all things duly veil’d, she is both passive and active...."