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Excuse me, I forgot that “working class” means “white and male” and that “class politics” means “affirming racism and sexism.”
December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Excuse me, I forgot that “working class” means “white and male” and that “class politics” means “affirming racism and sexism.”
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Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science
December 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science
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"An investigative report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) demonstrates that Amazon Business has been building a monopoly on selling office products, cleaning supplies, and classroom materials."
prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
Amazon Has Been Conning School Districts out of Millions - The American Prospect
Amazon Business is billed as a convenient one-stop shop for schools. Reality is more expensive.
prospect.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"An investigative report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) demonstrates that Amazon Business has been building a monopoly on selling office products, cleaning supplies, and classroom materials."
prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
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Really kind of dispiriting to realize how many men in my world see the women and people of color in their lives as thieves and obstacles to their thriving.
December 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Really kind of dispiriting to realize how many men in my world see the women and people of color in their lives as thieves and obstacles to their thriving.
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I can’t stop thinking about that unfortunate Conpact article yesterday. At its core, we are talking about entitlement. White men (some) genuinely believe they lose opportunities to women and/or people of color by virtue of identity. They believe they are inherently more talented and being overlooked
December 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I can’t stop thinking about that unfortunate Conpact article yesterday. At its core, we are talking about entitlement. White men (some) genuinely believe they lose opportunities to women and/or people of color by virtue of identity. They believe they are inherently more talented and being overlooked
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People don't hate cities, they hate the chaos that cars bring to cities.
December 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
People don't hate cities, they hate the chaos that cars bring to cities.
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the idea of “bouncing ideas off” AI or using it to “explore concepts in the pre-production process” makes me feel like a space alien. what are you talking about. that sounds miserable. like, i don’t even get mad. i just get confused. you’re asking the computer for art advice
December 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
the idea of “bouncing ideas off” AI or using it to “explore concepts in the pre-production process” makes me feel like a space alien. what are you talking about. that sounds miserable. like, i don’t even get mad. i just get confused. you’re asking the computer for art advice
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What this means after intense lobbying by German car makers is that due to economies of scale they’ll produce only high end internal combustion cars which means rich people get to carry on polluting, so that’s nice www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
EU waters down plans to end new petrol and diesel car sales by 2035
Carmakers, particularly in Germany, have lobbied heavily for concessions to the planned rules.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
What this means after intense lobbying by German car makers is that due to economies of scale they’ll produce only high end internal combustion cars which means rich people get to carry on polluting, so that’s nice www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Whew. Roll out that 25th.
December 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Whew. Roll out that 25th.
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Once you see it it becomes impossible not to notice the media consent-manufacutring machine that responds to literally every social crisis with the diagnosis that "women too free."
My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
December 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Once you see it it becomes impossible not to notice the media consent-manufacutring machine that responds to literally every social crisis with the diagnosis that "women too free."
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insurance companies literally kill people
UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims
The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderly
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
insurance companies literally kill people
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Support workers, not slop. bsky.app/profile/prop...
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Support workers, not slop. bsky.app/profile/prop...
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setting 3 is "the jews deserved it because of israel" and i dont even know what to say about that except fuck you
December 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
setting 3 is "the jews deserved it because of israel" and i dont even know what to say about that except fuck you
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antisemitism has two settings, "shut up jews you're overreacting" and "mass murder"
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
antisemitism has two settings, "shut up jews you're overreacting" and "mass murder"
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I believe that, in no uncertain terms, A.I. as we know it today is a technology designed explicitly to destroy consensus reality, undermine human labor, and estrange its users from other human beings and ultimately themselves.
I do not use it and will not accept its supposed "inevitability."
I do not use it and will not accept its supposed "inevitability."
December 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I believe that, in no uncertain terms, A.I. as we know it today is a technology designed explicitly to destroy consensus reality, undermine human labor, and estrange its users from other human beings and ultimately themselves.
I do not use it and will not accept its supposed "inevitability."
I do not use it and will not accept its supposed "inevitability."
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Horrible news to hear about Rob Reiner. Some movies I love, but I want to call attention to what a important team player he was on All of the Family. A favorite moment in one of my favorite episodes is when he gently talks Edith back into the possibility of belief. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGM7...
"We Need You, Edith!" (ft. Jean Stapleton) | All In The Family
YouTube video by All In The Family
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Horrible news to hear about Rob Reiner. Some movies I love, but I want to call attention to what a important team player he was on All of the Family. A favorite moment in one of my favorite episodes is when he gently talks Edith back into the possibility of belief. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGM7...
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Yearly reminder that the best Christmas action movie is actually The Long Kiss Goodnight.
December 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Yearly reminder that the best Christmas action movie is actually The Long Kiss Goodnight.
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American cops would have shot that man who stopped the gunman, let the gunman the away with a stroll and then sued the hero for making them look bad.
December 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
American cops would have shot that man who stopped the gunman, let the gunman the away with a stroll and then sued the hero for making them look bad.
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: My latest piece on Germany’s energy transition & the heating law.
It already offers a solid path to phase out fossil heating.
What we need: stable funding, better local planning & skilled workers. Cutting complexity instead of endless political debate.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
It already offers a solid path to phase out fossil heating.
What we need: stable funding, better local planning & skilled workers. Cutting complexity instead of endless political debate.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
German Heating Law: Stability Instead of Perpetual Debate
This is a machine translation of an article Jan Rosenow wrote for Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik (Journal for Economic Policy). The…
medium.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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"I am so tired of the quiet."
We live in a culture where it is far more dangerous to say what a man did to you than for the man to actually do the thing to you. And that is because of all the people who know without actually knowing…That silence is its own kind of sexualized violence. www.ms.now/opinion/jeff...
Opinion | The real Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy is one of silence
Lyz Lenz: Newly released photos show how powerful people's silence enabled Epstein's horrors.
www.ms.now
December 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"I am so tired of the quiet."
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The way the word elites has become devoid of all meaning is interesting. It’s a placeholder for “someone I don’t like” and it fascinates me that the people who use it most are wealthy, went to “elite” schools and hold positions of power. Look in the damn mirror. You’re talking about yourself.
December 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The way the word elites has become devoid of all meaning is interesting. It’s a placeholder for “someone I don’t like” and it fascinates me that the people who use it most are wealthy, went to “elite” schools and hold positions of power. Look in the damn mirror. You’re talking about yourself.
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Once again, I am grateful to @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @sifill.bsky.social for saying the plain truth of what we are witnessing, identifying a dangerous orientation that "you're not doing the rigorous work of politics if you're talking about race" that colors "objectivity" in mainstream news
The 14th Amendment Is Being Stripped For Parts. Here’s Why.
The conservative legal project and the president are in lockstep when it comes to rolling back the protections of the 14th amendment.
slate.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Once again, I am grateful to @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @sifill.bsky.social for saying the plain truth of what we are witnessing, identifying a dangerous orientation that "you're not doing the rigorous work of politics if you're talking about race" that colors "objectivity" in mainstream news
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Liberals say that the Supreme Court is undermining our democracy. But the United States has never been a democracy—it's always been a republic.
December 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Liberals say that the Supreme Court is undermining our democracy. But the United States has never been a democracy—it's always been a republic.
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For a long time, that was THEE affect that signaled you were a Real Journalist: being savvy and smart enough to know that people with principles were quaint, pitiable little curiosities. And if those people happen to be women, well then they're also just downright childish.
i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles
December 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
For a long time, that was THEE affect that signaled you were a Real Journalist: being savvy and smart enough to know that people with principles were quaint, pitiable little curiosities. And if those people happen to be women, well then they're also just downright childish.