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It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Concern grows for Suella Braverman as she completely forgets she spent nine years as part of the Conservative government, including two periods as Home Secretary, responsible for immigration.

WHY ISN'T ANYONE TALKING ABOUT THE REAL NEWS STORIES!!!

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

Trump and the IRS are in talks to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit over leaked tax records — NBC News The president's lawsuit, filed this year, alleges that the IRS failed to take the necessary steps to prevent the unauthorized release of his tax documents.

If the President can’t be sued while he is President, why is he allowed to file a lawsuit during his Presidency when he appointed all the people in charge?
This should be paused until he isn’t the President anymore.
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Not unlike focusing on the stock market as the only dimension of reality that actually matters when making business decisions

New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped

Past a certain revenue scale make it so that the CEO has personal liability for their stock options in perpetuity. Every company would suddenly become the most ethical firm alive.

it's so cool how comfortably employed legacy journalists can just follow a bunch of independent journalists, rip off their stories, and still pretend they are better than the rest of us.

yeah but at least the insider traders are doing great

Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue.

The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!

And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

i think i'm probably wrong, but a lot of cycling enthusiastic people kind of forget we can't all ride a bike.

i might even say having a car makes my life livable lol, i can leave the house and see things and do things

important to balance equities when your baseball buddies might have to spend a few more hours in the office, not so important when a generation of federal employees might lose their livelihoods

Is that good

a man in a grey sweater says " okay " ALT: a man in a grey sweater says " okay "

Banning algorithmic pricing ought to be a no-brainer call for any government: people don’t like to be ripped off, surveilled, or treated differently from their peers.

Algorithm pricing does all three of those things.

Counterpoint: no, it isn’t. Leo is in line with the traditional teaching of the church. Trump is a warmonger, corrupt, delights in humiliating others, and is blasphemous on a level that wouldn’t even occur to most people.

This isn’t hard.

I don't want to buy a dishwasher with WiFi particularly if I have to download an app to delay wash

This is a really odd argument because I think at the heart of it, there is a deep misunderstanding about what writing is for. I write to communicate my thoughts and ideas, and to bring people along with me, which AI cannot do for me because it isn't me.

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.

That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.

(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

Capitalsim continues to rob everyone of their free time and then journos ask “why don’t you want less free time?”

So: this is good and helpful reporting, it’s registering that the future is going to be wild when this generation take positions of responsibility. It’s hopeful news that things might actually change, decades from now. So, why treat it as if these women are wrong, as if *they* are the problem?

The lack of hope among this new wave of progressive, educated young women surprised me. In 2015, my school set up its first feminist society; we'd read Caitlin Moran and Naomi Wolf and we joined political Facebook groups, arguing with teenage boys about terms like intersectional feminism and structural racism. We talked about rape culture, Black Lives Matter, whether tanning was cultural appropriation and if shaving our armpits was a capitulation to the male gaze. But young women have become far more disaffected in the years since. After the isolation of Covid, and Western governments' apathy over the war in Gaza, a profound pessimism has emerged that didn't exist even a decade ago.

Could they be more disaffected because politics in the last ten years was the political/ media class mobbing and rioting: screaming abuse at and bullying the fuck out of the left, glorying in their own power and bragging about their total impunity, while grinding people’s faces into their defeat

Headline reading "Stocks Hit Record High as Wall St. Looks Beyond War"

I don't know why we're supposed to take much stock in the stock markets. Their movements don't seem to indicate any kind of long-term intelligence. They increasingly seem to just be a marker of the confidence of an oligarch class in keeping the corruption going.

My Catholic grandmother always said the US right wing didn't actually want Roe v Wade overturned because abortion was the only thing that kept Catholics and Evangelicals from gutting each other and only a complete fool would undermine that bargaining chip.

Anyway.

I taught an old Michael Walzer piece from the 80's called "In Defense of Inequality" in one of my classes this semester. I had to impress upon students that he was upset about a level of income inequality that is literally *an order of magnitude* LESS than what the U.S. has today

My brother, an old school Googler who used to go to universities to recruit kids was asked at a Q&A if he thought the internet was the greatest achievement in the history of mankind:

'No, it's the vaccine, and the internet is trying to ruin that one for all of us'

This is fucking huge and I love it!

NYC has long needed this.

The eyewatering hypocrisy writes itself.