I’m just going to keeping saying it’s repugnant to see gambling advertisements on NBA floors. Adam Silver really is the worst commissioner ever.

A Pillar of the Economics Establishment Admits That It Was Wrong In a new report, the World Bank thinks better of its old free-market absolutism.

"It's actually enraging how the World Bank can suddenly change its mind about industrial policy like "Oops, for the past 45 years we systematically prevented you from using the most obvious tool for sovereign development, keeping you stuck in poverty and dependency, lol".- @jasonhickel.bsky.social

The reason nothing is changing is because the people in power don’t want it to change

it's worth noting that the quote they went out of their way to make look stupid was expressing a reasonable point — a restatement of the long-standing official US policy in fact! — and the quote they clean up and sanitize is expressing a deranged threat of war crimes in an illegal conflict

Nobody talks about how satisfying it is to unsubscribe from an email you’ve been deleting for four years. This is what victory tastes like.

one thing i will say as a general statement to all coaches of all teams at all levels: if you’re going to credit god for a win, i wanna see you out there after a loss being like “yeah, god fucked us over today, really let us down out there”

Ask yourself, is this really progress, Ireland?

It's recklessly irresponsible (talking to you, Business Insider) to write these words as if they have any connection to reality. So tired of the idea that "unbiased" reporting means credulously translating the ludicrous statements of con-men.

Nothing says working remote quite like staring placidly into a camera while three feet to your left, your cats are having an epic body slam wrestling match to the death.

My old person trait is that I believe single player games should still be able to be played without requiring an internet connection.

My old person trait is that websites should always work in a web browser instead of forcing me to download an app to access it. And the app should be optional.

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

can’t help but feel like if we solve Gender somehow a whole lot of other things get better too

Jimmy in the final scene of The Wire

Just finished watching The Wire again. A good TV show!

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane:

The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

I broke it, you fix it!

Immer schon gesagt, mit der Technologie wird Fußball besser gemacht.

Somehow missed this 2022 UK paper exploring responses to radical right parties (RRP) and whether accommodation - i.e. "beat" them by repeating a version of their tale actually worked electorally.

Short version: Nope.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

not the most important thing going on rn by a wide margin and not something that is new information to me but nonetheless my mind keeps drifting back to the absolutely confounding idea of going on vacation to dubai

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Fewer and fewer people having more and more power and wealth will surely end well.

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

I still think the best way to think of the ending of US AID is as the single worst genocide committed by any one US presidential administration.

even given all the horrific things the US has done, it's not really that close. 750k dead already; expected 14 million.

In 2008, during the last presidential election before the Citizens United decision, billionaires spent $16 million.

During the 2024 election billionaires spent $2.6 billion.

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

This whole thing where billionaires snap up media properties so they can run them into the ground to make it harder for people to call them and their cronies to account is extremely obvious and very tiresome. It also limits our access to largr information about culture and the world, also by design.

sports coverage is not about box scores anymore. it's about power and politics and corruption and sovereign wealth and real estate and the use of taxpayer money and the most publicized labor disputes in the country and yes, sometimes about ball go in hoop

Micheál Martin has been a TD for 37 years. He’s been in government for 25 of those years and in cabinet for 20 of those years. He’s been either Tánaiste or Taoiseach since June 2020.

And every time he’s asked to anything other than build a data centre, he acts like he’s just been handed the job