Louis Deux (IYKYK)
@oletheros.bsky.social
“The car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel.”
Don’t bother following me hoping I’ll follow back. I don’t play that game.
Don’t bother following me hoping I’ll follow back. I don’t play that game.
Pinned
A lot of people with huge follower counts have been following me lately, so I feel compelled to say this.
Hi. I'm not going to follow you back, especially if I don't recognize you. I doubt you're really here to watch me talk about packing up my books so I can move house, but you never know.
Hi. I'm not going to follow you back, especially if I don't recognize you. I doubt you're really here to watch me talk about packing up my books so I can move house, but you never know.
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Empathy is generally considered a good thing. Why, then, is there now a large movement of people on the right arguing that empathy is bad? @nberlat.bsky.social investigates.
What We Can Learn from the Right’s Attack On “Toxic Empathy” — The Revealer
Why are prominent right-wing figures and conservative Christians claiming empathy is bad?
therevealer.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Empathy is generally considered a good thing. Why, then, is there now a large movement of people on the right arguing that empathy is bad? @nberlat.bsky.social investigates.
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The neoliberal state has spent 50 years systematically dismantling state capacity, selling off the public sphere, taking away all the things that substitute for wages in society, like public space, healthcare, social care, even free time. And then it complains people don't feel well off.
December 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The neoliberal state has spent 50 years systematically dismantling state capacity, selling off the public sphere, taking away all the things that substitute for wages in society, like public space, healthcare, social care, even free time. And then it complains people don't feel well off.
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Bullshit
Burgum: "Today we're sending notifications to the 5 large offshore wind projects that are under construction that their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns ... the Dept of War has come back conclusively that these large offshore wind programs create radar interference"
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Bullshit
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Also the 2nd Amendment doesn't work when the people who've frothed at the mouth about it existing to protect against tyranny just roll over and lick the boots of the tyrants.
Turns out the 1st Amendment doesn't work when regime allied oligarchs purchase the media and censor unfavorable content willingly.
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Also the 2nd Amendment doesn't work when the people who've frothed at the mouth about it existing to protect against tyranny just roll over and lick the boots of the tyrants.
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To save you all the time of googling: yes, of course this guy is hopelessly unqualified, he's some Kristi Noem flunky with no experience particular to cybersecurity. He's a business IT guy whose first job at all relevant was appointment by Noem to be South Dakota's chief tech officer in August 2024.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Good god
“At least six career staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were suspended with pay this summer after organizing a polygraph test that the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, failed.”
Good god
“At least six career staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were suspended with pay this summer after organizing a polygraph test that the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, failed.”
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
www.politico.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
To save you all the time of googling: yes, of course this guy is hopelessly unqualified, he's some Kristi Noem flunky with no experience particular to cybersecurity. He's a business IT guy whose first job at all relevant was appointment by Noem to be South Dakota's chief tech officer in August 2024.
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Which more than anything just shows you how badly they wanted this outcome and how much they like the new status quo.
Bari Weiss was so bad at Her Whole Deal that she couldn’t even get herself fired from the New York Times properly, so she just petulantly quit and started a dumb blog and a fake college and that was enough to get some billionaires to hand her control of CBS News.
December 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Which more than anything just shows you how badly they wanted this outcome and how much they like the new status quo.
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This is profoundly is a profoundly dishonest headling. Vance has taken the side of explicit white supremacy and a decade into a white supremacist revival the “paper of record,” still can’t say it plainly.
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is profoundly is a profoundly dishonest headling. Vance has taken the side of explicit white supremacy and a decade into a white supremacist revival the “paper of record,” still can’t say it plainly.
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A “respectful disagreement” is when I make an executive decision and ignore requests to talk about it!
December 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A “respectful disagreement” is when I make an executive decision and ignore requests to talk about it!
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why it's almost as if billionaires hired Bari Weiss to enflame cultural divides, disorient the public, and undermine journalism in a bid to divide and distract the electorate from the actual causes of most U.S. dysfunction
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
why it's almost as if billionaires hired Bari Weiss to enflame cultural divides, disorient the public, and undermine journalism in a bid to divide and distract the electorate from the actual causes of most U.S. dysfunction
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Bari Weiss could face the Streisand Effect here, causing the segment to get far more exposure than it would have absent her censorius meddling.
www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-s...
www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-s...
‘60 Minutes’ Suddenly Drops Segment on Major Trump Controversy
The show announced a programming change shortly before its Sunday night timeslot.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Bari Weiss could face the Streisand Effect here, causing the segment to get far more exposure than it would have absent her censorius meddling.
www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-s...
www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-s...
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Everyone's been in a class or a meeting with a Bari Weiss, a delusional half-wit with three-dollar words in love with the sound of their own voice and determined to make everyone else listen to it too
That photograph of Weiss they use - the one with the hand gestures - makes her look just as she is: the person in the meeting who knows exactly what words will impress the boss, but otherwise has never had an original thought, and lacks even a trainee secretary's basic administrative skill.
December 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Everyone's been in a class or a meeting with a Bari Weiss, a delusional half-wit with three-dollar words in love with the sound of their own voice and determined to make everyone else listen to it too
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Bari Weiss is an actual, unqualified diversity hire AND white supremacy hire at the same time
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Bari Weiss is an actual, unqualified diversity hire AND white supremacy hire at the same time
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*I blame the fascist world-burning plagiarizing autocomplete text slop programs.
It makes me bananas the way machine learning—the outcome of decades of specialized computer programming and collaborative scientific research—has been shoved into the same box as the fascist world-burning plagiarizing autocomplete text slop programs.
December 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
*I blame the fascist world-burning plagiarizing autocomplete text slop programs.
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What’s happening at Heritage:
Right-wing Jews at Heritage are leaving because they have realized that the Christians at Heritage are antisemitic—despite the rightwing Heritage support for Israel, and the nominal stop antisemitism efforts like Project Esther.
Right-wing Jews at Heritage are leaving because they have realized that the Christians at Heritage are antisemitic—despite the rightwing Heritage support for Israel, and the nominal stop antisemitism efforts like Project Esther.
December 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
What’s happening at Heritage:
Right-wing Jews at Heritage are leaving because they have realized that the Christians at Heritage are antisemitic—despite the rightwing Heritage support for Israel, and the nominal stop antisemitism efforts like Project Esther.
Right-wing Jews at Heritage are leaving because they have realized that the Christians at Heritage are antisemitic—despite the rightwing Heritage support for Israel, and the nominal stop antisemitism efforts like Project Esther.
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There are ways to do an empty debate in a way that's at least entertaining, but this isn't even that. This is bringing in a certain type of public intellectual to make a show of Having Real Conversations, which Bari has shown is extremely appealing to a narrow, status-anxious band of wealthy idiots.
December 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
There are ways to do an empty debate in a way that's at least entertaining, but this isn't even that. This is bringing in a certain type of public intellectual to make a show of Having Real Conversations, which Bari has shown is extremely appealing to a narrow, status-anxious band of wealthy idiots.
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The irony is, there actually IS one person I can think of who talks eloquently, and often, about how his faith informs him as a person and a citizen, and who does it in a way that even atheists listen to and respect. But CBS canceled his late-night show and it’s going off the air in May.
December 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The irony is, there actually IS one person I can think of who talks eloquently, and often, about how his faith informs him as a person and a citizen, and who does it in a way that even atheists listen to and respect. But CBS canceled his late-night show and it’s going off the air in May.
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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Alan Rickman getting into character to play an actor that hates Tim Allen by being an actor who hates Tim Allen should be a milestone in the annals of method acting.
December 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Alan Rickman getting into character to play an actor that hates Tim Allen by being an actor who hates Tim Allen should be a milestone in the annals of method acting.
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Polyamorous necromancer no longer invited to play Fuck/Marry/Kill because she always answers "Yes"
December 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Polyamorous necromancer no longer invited to play Fuck/Marry/Kill because she always answers "Yes"
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Trump's corruption is not only bad on its face, it's bad because it leads people to distrust the government, which in turn leads to more corruption as people elect demagogues like Trump. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office (Gift Article)
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Trump's corruption is not only bad on its face, it's bad because it leads people to distrust the government, which in turn leads to more corruption as people elect demagogues like Trump. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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I love this story and it also supports something I think quietly to myself a lot, as much as people disparage acting and other art forms as easy, they could not deal with the vulnerability it takes. For artists, vulnerability is the job, and most people are deathly afraid of vulnerability.
Parisot (the Director) tells a story about how Tim Allen just started crying after a scene one day
"I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off.
There's silence for a second.
"Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."
"I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off.
There's silence for a second.
"Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."
Galaxy Quest - a perfect movie, just a wonderful love letter to actors, sci-fi, Star Trek in particular, and to fandom - really deserves a proper physical release with decent extras. Think Weaver's right that releasing a R-rated cut would be fun, too.
December 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I love this story and it also supports something I think quietly to myself a lot, as much as people disparage acting and other art forms as easy, they could not deal with the vulnerability it takes. For artists, vulnerability is the job, and most people are deathly afraid of vulnerability.
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Really important story by @dougbockclark.bsky.social: The Shrinking Governor
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it fina...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Really important story by @dougbockclark.bsky.social: The Shrinking Governor
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
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The idea that autistic people lack empathy is still depressingly prevalent, partly because people conflate 'caring about other humans' wellbeing & wanting them to be happy' with 'reliably able to infer a stranger's motivation & emotional state based off observing a few external nonverbal clues'.
December 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The idea that autistic people lack empathy is still depressingly prevalent, partly because people conflate 'caring about other humans' wellbeing & wanting them to be happy' with 'reliably able to infer a stranger's motivation & emotional state based off observing a few external nonverbal clues'.
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New: They survived a Cybertruck crash. Then a fire killed them. Tesla has marketed its trucks as seemingly impenetrable — bulletproof, with shatter-resistant glass and able to contain blasts. What happens if those same features trap people inside? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
They survived a Cybertruck crash. An inferno led to a race against time.
In at least a dozen cases since 2019, people have struggled to access or exit Teslas during life-threatening emergencies, fueling lawsuits alleging the company’s futuristic features have caused injuri...
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New: They survived a Cybertruck crash. Then a fire killed them. Tesla has marketed its trucks as seemingly impenetrable — bulletproof, with shatter-resistant glass and able to contain blasts. What happens if those same features trap people inside? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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One More Hour (60 Minutes)
Bari Weiss’s politics have become as subtle as Janet Weiss’s drumming in Sleater-Kinney, as this Modern Girl seems more concerned with the Brownsteins of Portlandia than the brownshirts of Washington. Someone dig me out of this dystopia.
by Maureen Dowd
Bari Weiss’s politics have become as subtle as Janet Weiss’s drumming in Sleater-Kinney, as this Modern Girl seems more concerned with the Brownsteins of Portlandia than the brownshirts of Washington. Someone dig me out of this dystopia.
by Maureen Dowd
December 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
One More Hour (60 Minutes)
Bari Weiss’s politics have become as subtle as Janet Weiss’s drumming in Sleater-Kinney, as this Modern Girl seems more concerned with the Brownsteins of Portlandia than the brownshirts of Washington. Someone dig me out of this dystopia.
by Maureen Dowd
Bari Weiss’s politics have become as subtle as Janet Weiss’s drumming in Sleater-Kinney, as this Modern Girl seems more concerned with the Brownsteins of Portlandia than the brownshirts of Washington. Someone dig me out of this dystopia.
by Maureen Dowd