i can’t believe peter thiel once while on joe rogan, unprompted to say this, that he hung out with and continued to talk to jeffery epstein AFTER he was arrested for sex trafficking. like he was cool with all that
Reading in the first week of Critical AI and Curation class:
🗒️ Bender and Hanna (2025) “Chapter 2: It’s Alive! The Hype of Thinking Machines In The AI Con
🗒️ Kotliar (2024) “Can't stop the hype: scrutinizing AI’s realities” www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/...
If you are one of the rapture people… you should be GIVING your stuff away….
Why are you selling your stuff?
You don’t need money where you are going
Proof white people could join the fight if they wanted to. They choose not to.
300k Black women got fired, Jimmy Kimmel was gon be OK. Give them their jobs back
*opens TikTok one week from now*
“Did you know Black people have an extra muscle for crime?!””
“This isn’t the America I know”
Black People:
If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
Just block anyone who tells you that signing up for a No Kings email list is going to get you sent to the gulag. They are not worth arguing with and they cannot tell you anything of value. This whole debate is an excellent filtering mechanism for feed hygiene.
A white cis citizen saying this about people who appear to be mainly trans people, people of color, Black people and immigrants is nasty work.
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
ah, well
How we feeling? Not good?
“Starting on Day One, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.”
—Donald Trump, August 2024
the podcast government
Another stupid fucking column by Ezra “bend the knee” Klein platforming hateful racist Ben Shapiro, titled “Ben Shapiro and I Talk Political De-escalation”
Jeffery Dahmer and I Talk Cooking Recipes
the 3rd quarter jobs report going to be brutal
Tis the season 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way.
by Ezra Klein
He’s a MANIAC
fbi puts another one in the books. closing the case the way most crime is solved: someone calls and tells them who did it.
the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry
We'll get more clarity to the shooter's politics in the next days. The WSJ put out a piece saying he'd accused Charlie Kirk of spreading hate immediately prior to the shooting. I'm certainly not convinced he was a groyper (although a lot of groypers are) but I am sure he was terminally online.
When you elect a lawless President society becomes lawless. Turns out the character of the person in the highest office has an impact.
For anyone who may not remember, Anita Sarkeesian was one of the feminist journalists subjected to harassment and violence as part of Gamergate.
And once again, I’m always struck by how often we see echoes of the way we treated Gamergate in today’s politics.
In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses.
People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.
Many men won’t acknowledge that coercion isn't consent because then they would have to admit to themselves that at some point they've coerced someone.
Bernie Sanders says of Zohran Mamdani: "I find it hard to understand how the major Democratic leaders in New York state are not supporting the Democratic candidate."
