Folks! Tomorrow I am recording a pod with the great Cory Doctorow. We're going to talk about enshittification, and specifically, how it might affect consumer-facing energy management software (as in your car, or your house).
Got any questions?
Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally is intended to evoke the 1939 Nazi rally, and you can tell that because every single thing that they are doing is evoking the 1939 Nazi rally.
Virginia voters will love this
grow a third arm, got it
Again, they had hopes she would be one of them: far right tradwife pop country icon, instead she ditched them to move to LA and do pop music. On a visceral level, she reminds every MAGA freak in exurban St Louis of their daughter who stopped talking to them after she went to college.
New in PN: Steven Levitsky, author of "How Democracies Die," on on Trump's Hitlerian rhetoric
“Sometimes I think Trump is like a kid testing to see how far he can go. Can he read directly out of Mein Kampf?”
Love how this guy, whose views are garden-variety conservative MLK trolling, gets a fawning profile in the NYT solely because he's a Black conservative—and he's of course totally fine with that, despite it being antithetical to his stated principles, because he doesn't believe them anyway.
Jesus Christ, these Vince McMahon texts. He’s like if an Andrew Tate-listening 12-year-old had infinite wealth and power. Put a jail on top of a jail and throw him under both.
Then what happened
Gaetz’s dumb comments about winning over “julios” and “jamals” while losing”karens” made explicit something that’s been in the air for a while, a belief that misogyny could lure black and hispanic men to the GOP www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
let's see, what's a cultural reference my audience will understand?
[the longest sigh I've ever sighed]
Swift vote veterans for truth
Trump has also privately claimed that he is “more popular” than Swift is and that he has more committed fans than she does, a person close to Trump and another source with knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone.
this is the most pathetic sentence? ever?
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Very unfair to trick me by asking me to decide if the government should have been in the business of ending chattel slavery.
The thing you can infer from this laughable cowardice from Haley is that white supremacist influencers have so much pull in the GOP that it’s like corn farmers in Iowa, you can’t afford to piss them off and run a campaign. bsky.app/profile/chri...
I’m certain that most Republican voters and media figures will greet Nikki Haley as a liberator.
when you can no longer recognize "biden is a fascist dictator" as a kind of inherently discrediting, flat-earth style opinion that distinguishes normal humans from raving nutcases on street corners, you're really past the point of salvage. reasonable people should cut ties and back away slowly
Seems very, very bad. plus.thebulwark.com/p/theres-a-s...
your honor it doesn't count if they followed people and scrolled on the app, you’re not supposed to follow people and scroll on the app.
My Argentina thought during this whole campaign was: Who would Americans be willing to elect if inflation was at 140%?
The era-defining inflation we just lived through was a bit less than 1/10 of that.
Elon should sue the woke companies that stopped advertising on X. Shouldn't be legal to not advertise there.
www.mediamatters.org/elon-musk/it...
An extremely wise friend once called Gamergate the Spanish Civil War of the modern fascist movement
The law, in its majesty, allows both the rich and the poor to buy luxury recreational vehicles for Supreme Court justices.
One thing that I think is confusing to a lot of people is that even in red states abortion rights are more popular than weed. (And voting rights are more popular than both.)
Turns out Moms for Liberty are a bunch of Nazis, there was no way to know except for literally every single thing that hate group has ever done.
A social media account recommended by Elon Musk for its coverage of the Israeli war with Hamas with a long history of antisemitic posts is connected to a southwest London teenager, according to research and a text exchange with the account.
