Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history
This shit is what I mean when I say "AI" is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascism.
Nostalgia is a thought terminator.
the republicans are literally doing dems campaigning for them....
Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.
Grammarly went further and resurrected a historian who died in January 2026 to serve as an ‘AI’ reviewer/editor. It’s grotesque, the company is enslaving digital ghosts all so they can get a few clicks more.
worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
Makes you wonder if there were any other times in the past decade where an separate and independent political actor could have unraveled his schtick by confronting him with a robust and unyielding oppositional force! Something to ponder!
The funny thing is we all know the thing about him just repeating whatever the last person told him was, but right now it’s obvious he has different people trying to explain various possibilities and contingencies and he’s just fucking panicking and scrambling and saying them all at once.
says a stupid cunt desperate to feel relevant
You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us.
It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
Worth remembering, reading the absolute horror show that Pixar was under Lasseter, that he was unemployed because of this for a grand total of 6 months before Larry Ellison put him in charge of an animation company again, presumably to recreate this nightmare atmosphere there. Still has that job btw
Matt has been a mentor and a friend to half the critics coming up in the past few decades. He helped me get my very first gig. His bookstore is a treasure trove of gorgeous art and behind the scenes knowledge. I can't recommend it enough.
If he's the best hope to unseat Collins, I'll take it, but the fact that we're now rooting hard for "He's a giant dope" as the best-case scenario indicates a massive systemic failure--an indolent party apparatus combined with an enduringly dumb populist taste for unvetted blowhards.
this was what the Obama administration did to Gaddafi...which was wrong THEN too, by the way
We don’t kill people for sucking! We shouldn’t kill people for anything really!
Lina Khan as future Chairwoman of the FTC, please
Political cartoon of Teddy Roosevelt swinging a big stick with the bodies of "R.R. Trust, Oil Trust" and others at his feet.
Bring him back!
Lina Khan was the only person I can think of who tried to do the job the way it’s meant to be done.
not sure how long this will last but good news?
they're really building an alternate reality out here
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.
This is pure cruelty.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.
They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.
"Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead."
To read the words is to damn all involved, from Trump on down.
Woke 2 needs to include a complete and total purge of post-GG 4chan influence on our culture.
A lot of AI safety is a grift and the moment they have to do anything that requires Anthropic to actually handle a safety issue that exists in the here and now they relent. They don’t care. They never have.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...
One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.
The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money.
In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it.
Taxation without representation.
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF