Windier E. Megatons
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Windier E. Megatons
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It was the worst of times, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Darkness, it was the winter of despair
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Look, it's just an unnamed foreign national paying the army's salaries. What's the worst that could happen?
“The department declined to answer questions about whether the donor is an American citizen or a foreign national.” Jesus Fucking Christ
So mad about the guy whose name I don’t even know
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RW discourse works hard to confuse things. A $15/hr Latina health aide trying to unionize in Los Angeles is part of the "coastal elite." An abrasive white guy from Texas who drives a $60,000 pickup and spends thousands of $$ on his gun hobby is the real "working class."
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a friend of mine insisted he was 'white trash' and therefore couldn't be judged for a Nazi tattoo, then continued to maintain this after I told her about his family. people don't want to let go of their first impressions of a smooth ad campaign
wait, graham platner's "oyster farm" _only_ supplies his mother's restaurant and two other places?
The three locations where he sells his oysters (they all look like pretty nice places to visit)
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The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.

But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
Generative AI is a societal disaster
Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society
disconnect.blog
Imagine, in the current moment, thinking “the people who brought us to where we are right now trust me” is something your party’s base voters would be excited to hear
Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday a decision on whether to pursue the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination comes down to whether he thinks he can meet “both the challenge and the promise of tomorrow” and execute on it.
Rahm Emanuel points to record, trust with Republicans as he considers presidential bid
Former Chicago mayor and Japan ambassador Rahm Emanuel said at a City Club of Chicago luncheon he needs to have something unique to say and know he can execute on it to run for president.
trib.al
Tellingly, it was so integrated that the entire crawl vanishes with it
Mine is “Lemon of Troy” but I’d put this top five. I think my whole top five might have come out between Feb 95 and March 96 (Comet, Lemon, Who Shot Mr Burns Pt 1, Lisa the Iconoclast, Bart on the Road)
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The US is wild because the only thing everybody agrees on is that everything is fucked up and doesn’t work and shouldn’t be this way, but almost nobody thinks that means anything important has to change.
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when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence”

when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:
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Devereaux keeps trying to make this point. There's a wide gap between "permanent social death, exile from society" and "not gonna win a majority-vote election to govern us at the federal level"

Maybe Planter's an alright chap nowadays, but there's lots of alright chaps who shouldn't go to congress.
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Reading about this luxury apartment building that's falling apart after only ten years because the developer wanted a pure white building, a color only achieved by weakening the concrete. LOL what a fucking living metaphor.
432 Park Is Cracking Up
Developers wanted the supertall’s cement façade to be a pristine white. Turns out that’s not great for durability.
www.curbed.com
“Conservative semiotics.” That’s the entire answer.
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zodiac killer found
Don’t cancel Platner too soon it has been less than a week since the Nazi tattoo thing & now we found out he worked in a torture chamber. If we wait just a couple more days we are going to find out he Accidentally started several dozen brush fires & that he ate a guy but Has Since Changed.
In Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here,” a disturbingly relevant 90 year old novel, the fascists who take over running things at the local level are by and large mediocre men who had always resented and envied their neighbors
Just a guy being dude
Joe Flacco has a new perspective with age 😂
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this remains the defining contradiction of our current moment
“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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He always sucked but it’s just so degrading that Alex Jones just does a show about how he loves the president now.
Extremely funny that INFOWARS has agreed not to publish anything without the explicit consent of the US government
The far-right conspiracy site Infowars says it has signed the Pentagon press agreement and says Breanna Morello will be joining the 'new media' press corps covering the Defense Department.

"I won't be moving to D.C. of course—thank god," she caveats. x.com/infowars/sta...
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The fact it is effective and popular is exactly why the wealthy are so aggro about opposing it
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."

Taxing the rich works!
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
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this is the telling thing about all the billionaire hysteria

they would literally rather set more money on fire propping up the most uncharismatic sex pest who ever lived than they’d pay in additional taxes

these are not serious people
MAMDANI, on Bill Ackman:

“.. He's spending more money against me than I would even tax him!"

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They don't want anyone who shows voters they have a right to expect better
it remains utterly baffling to me that a party whose leadership is historically unpopular with its base gets a generational political talent who is actually resonating with people and instead of thanking their lucky stars they’re like WE MUST STOP THIS MAN AT ALL COSTS
At this point they need Mamdani’s endorsement more than Mamdani needs theirs
Memo to the creeps who are the only market for this: there is another way for an individual to be sure they’re not being filmed by you and it costs $0 but you won’t like it
New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...
www.404media.co