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It’s just Content all the way down. We live in Baudrillard’s vision of hell
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I feel comfortable and secure in my belief that democratic leadership should not be pulling their slogans from venture capitalists. That this, at minimum, is a significant indictment of who they are listening and talking to. It’s not that complicated.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I feel comfortable and secure in my belief that democratic leadership should not be pulling their slogans from venture capitalists. That this, at minimum, is a significant indictment of who they are listening and talking to. It’s not that complicated.
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
One of the reasons I am not optimistic about the US in the medium term is that the right’s entire political project for the last fifty-ish years has been the destruction of civic virtue while hypocritically whining about the moral decay of society that they have been actively encouraging
The core problem is that in a state, something has to be sovereign - in a democracy, it is the people - and you can design and tinker as much as you like but there is no way to design around a loss of virtue in that sovereign entity.
If the people keep elected maniacs, no guardrails can hold.
If the people keep elected maniacs, no guardrails can hold.
one of the things dr schake and i were both wrestling with in this conversation--i think not really conclusively--is how you maintain the norm of civilian supremacy when the civilians are issuing objectively illegal, murderous orders
November 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
One of the reasons I am not optimistic about the US in the medium term is that the right’s entire political project for the last fifty-ish years has been the destruction of civic virtue while hypocritically whining about the moral decay of society that they have been actively encouraging
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The core problem is that in a state, something has to be sovereign - in a democracy, it is the people - and you can design and tinker as much as you like but there is no way to design around a loss of virtue in that sovereign entity.
If the people keep elected maniacs, no guardrails can hold.
If the people keep elected maniacs, no guardrails can hold.
one of the things dr schake and i were both wrestling with in this conversation--i think not really conclusively--is how you maintain the norm of civilian supremacy when the civilians are issuing objectively illegal, murderous orders
Neon Liberalism #54: Join Samantha and guest Kori Schake, author of "The State and the Soldier," as they discuss the history of civil-military relations in America—and how that relationship is being pushed to the breaking point. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
November 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The core problem is that in a state, something has to be sovereign - in a democracy, it is the people - and you can design and tinker as much as you like but there is no way to design around a loss of virtue in that sovereign entity.
If the people keep elected maniacs, no guardrails can hold.
If the people keep elected maniacs, no guardrails can hold.
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot
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AI companies want to usurp creative work in a kind of digital 'enclosure of the commons.' The future of authentic human authorship depends on battling this tide.
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
AI companies want to usurp creative work in a kind of digital 'enclosure of the commons.' The future of authentic human authorship depends on battling this tide.
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Once again, Big Tech has proven itself to be a bad actor: breaching the law and exploiting talent for shareholder profit. (Props to Judge Wang for standing up for the rights of creative ownership!)
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Once again, Big Tech has proven itself to be a bad actor: breaching the law and exploiting talent for shareholder profit. (Props to Judge Wang for standing up for the rights of creative ownership!)
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good thread about dudes whose grift is “we’re visionaries!” when they’re really clown-grade hustlers
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
good thread about dudes whose grift is “we’re visionaries!” when they’re really clown-grade hustlers
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Donald Trump is explicitly ineligible to be president according to the black letter text of the 14th Amendment and BOTH emoluments clauses.
He is and always has been a fake president who was empowered by an illegitimate Supreme Court. This is the way.
He is and always has been a fake president who was empowered by an illegitimate Supreme Court. This is the way.
Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Donald Trump is explicitly ineligible to be president according to the black letter text of the 14th Amendment and BOTH emoluments clauses.
He is and always has been a fake president who was empowered by an illegitimate Supreme Court. This is the way.
He is and always has been a fake president who was empowered by an illegitimate Supreme Court. This is the way.
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"fake news" and "Lügenpresse" were less about spreading novel lies and more about maintaining epistemological discipline in the face of countervailing evidence
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"fake news" and "Lügenpresse" were less about spreading novel lies and more about maintaining epistemological discipline in the face of countervailing evidence
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"A model of directed anticipation, the hypermarket (especially in the United States) preexists the metropolitan area; it is what gives rise to metro areas, whereas the traditional market was in the heart of a city, a place where the city and the country came to rub elb..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
"A model of directed anticipation, the hypermarket (especially in the United States) preexists the metropolitan area; it is what gives rise to metro areas, whereas the traditional market was in the heart of a city, a place where the city and the country came to rub elb..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
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If you still think that the left is a bigger problem, go get your head examined or admit you have surrendered any sense of morality and elementary decency:
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If you still think that the left is a bigger problem, go get your head examined or admit you have surrendered any sense of morality and elementary decency:
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Media outlets would rather look like fools 99 times out of 100 than admit that Trump is not a normal president
this sorts of things get written for normal presidents so a steady production chain of them must be produced for the mad king president if the media wants to fool people into thinking the mad king is a normal president
November 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Media outlets would rather look like fools 99 times out of 100 than admit that Trump is not a normal president
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And that is called paying the Dane-geld
But we've proved it again and again
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane
But we've proved it again and again
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
And that is called paying the Dane-geld
But we've proved it again and again
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane
But we've proved it again and again
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane
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Mfw yet another goddamn AI ad
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Mfw yet another goddamn AI ad
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Here it is with the byline and alt text
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Here it is with the byline and alt text
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ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
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Secretary Hegseth reportedly ordered the Venezuelan boat to be destroyed as soon as he learned there was no cocaine aboard.
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Secretary Hegseth reportedly ordered the Venezuelan boat to be destroyed as soon as he learned there was no cocaine aboard.
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Biden and Garland’s biggest mistake was failing to hold those responsible for all the crimes and corruption we saw from 2015 to 2021 accountable.
The next Democratic President can’t repeat this. We need a special counsel appointed on day 1 — and tribunals setup to judge war criminals.
The next Democratic President can’t repeat this. We need a special counsel appointed on day 1 — and tribunals setup to judge war criminals.
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Biden and Garland’s biggest mistake was failing to hold those responsible for all the crimes and corruption we saw from 2015 to 2021 accountable.
The next Democratic President can’t repeat this. We need a special counsel appointed on day 1 — and tribunals setup to judge war criminals.
The next Democratic President can’t repeat this. We need a special counsel appointed on day 1 — and tribunals setup to judge war criminals.
I seriously doubt any Dem who doesn’t more or less openly advocate for the mass distribution of Louis Capet neckties is gonna get very far in the 2028 primary
It's going to get worse. He's going to get pardoned, others too. Getting public buy in on declaring all these void, the presidency effectively void, most of his actions void so they can be prosecuted is going to be a mammoth job(even if wine moms want blood!) Elite inertia to do nothing will be huge
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I seriously doubt any Dem who doesn’t more or less openly advocate for the mass distribution of Louis Capet neckties is gonna get very far in the 2028 primary
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I do strongly suspect that the pattern of hit jobs, and capitulations, is almost entirely explained by activists on university boards who want to collaborate with Trump against their own researchers and students.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I do strongly suspect that the pattern of hit jobs, and capitulations, is almost entirely explained by activists on university boards who want to collaborate with Trump against their own researchers and students.
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Barry: extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!
Republicans ever since: damn, we were aiming for vice. I guess we have to try harder
Republicans ever since: damn, we were aiming for vice. I guess we have to try harder
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Barry: extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!
Republicans ever since: damn, we were aiming for vice. I guess we have to try harder
Republicans ever since: damn, we were aiming for vice. I guess we have to try harder