Dan Quail
@avesmaria.bsky.social
Capitalism is a nightmare from which the world must wake. Pronouns: he/him
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NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes.
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
OPINION: The Chicago Public Library budget is under threat. Let’s remember what libraries do for us • The TRiiBE
Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources.
thetriibe.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes.
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
For some reason this comes to mind, “They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind”
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
For some reason this comes to mind, “They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind”
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Sounds good bro, we’ll start with you then see if people want more. 👍
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Sounds good bro, we’ll start with you then see if people want more. 👍
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December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
If by “curb their power” we mean “reduce their net worth to $0” then absolutely
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If by “curb their power” we mean “reduce their net worth to $0” then absolutely
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sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
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Less third spaces. Going outside costs $800. Everything is designed for extracting money. I'm so tired, man.
After the recent joy of Hard Boiled in a packed theater it hit me that one of the tragedies of capitalism’s manifestation of our tech age is that on top of imprisoning us in gilded cages disconnected from shared reality, they are transforming communal experience into an expensive, uncommon novelty.
James Gunn says theatrical releases are “incredibly important” for DC after the Warner Bros & Netflix merger news
“The communal theatrical experience is something that is incredibly important & remarkably well suited to our big spectacle films”
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
“The communal theatrical experience is something that is incredibly important & remarkably well suited to our big spectacle films”
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
December 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Less third spaces. Going outside costs $800. Everything is designed for extracting money. I'm so tired, man.
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After the recent joy of Hard Boiled in a packed theater it hit me that one of the tragedies of capitalism’s manifestation of our tech age is that on top of imprisoning us in gilded cages disconnected from shared reality, they are transforming communal experience into an expensive, uncommon novelty.
James Gunn says theatrical releases are “incredibly important” for DC after the Warner Bros & Netflix merger news
“The communal theatrical experience is something that is incredibly important & remarkably well suited to our big spectacle films”
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
“The communal theatrical experience is something that is incredibly important & remarkably well suited to our big spectacle films”
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
December 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
After the recent joy of Hard Boiled in a packed theater it hit me that one of the tragedies of capitalism’s manifestation of our tech age is that on top of imprisoning us in gilded cages disconnected from shared reality, they are transforming communal experience into an expensive, uncommon novelty.
Labour (UK) is in the exact same place as the Democratic Party (US). A party of right-wing careerists who sneer at the poor and immigrants while fellating the Musks of the world is completely worthless as opposition to the ultranationalist, supremacist right.
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Labour (UK) is in the exact same place as the Democratic Party (US). A party of right-wing careerists who sneer at the poor and immigrants while fellating the Musks of the world is completely worthless as opposition to the ultranationalist, supremacist right.
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The trajectory of UK politics after the Labour Party’s landslide victory in 2024 is obviously not a clean analog to what might have happened had Harris squeaked by Trump, but it’s certainly evocative. Recall that Senate Dems celebrated Trump’s inauguration by passing the Laken Riley Act.
December 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The trajectory of UK politics after the Labour Party’s landslide victory in 2024 is obviously not a clean analog to what might have happened had Harris squeaked by Trump, but it’s certainly evocative. Recall that Senate Dems celebrated Trump’s inauguration by passing the Laken Riley Act.
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bringing the late great man's words back to speak on netflix ted's assertion about watching movies on your phone
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
bringing the late great man's words back to speak on netflix ted's assertion about watching movies on your phone
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controversial opinion: movie studios should not be be owned by guys who's dream is every living person watching Stranger Things Fireplace For Your Home 24/7
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says BARBIE and OPPENHEIMER would have been just as big on Netflix.
“There’s no reason to believe that the movie itself is better in any size of screen for all people. My son’s an editor, he watched ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ on his phone.”
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@nytimes
“There’s no reason to believe that the movie itself is better in any size of screen for all people. My son’s an editor, he watched ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ on his phone.”
via
@nytimes
December 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
controversial opinion: movie studios should not be be owned by guys who's dream is every living person watching Stranger Things Fireplace For Your Home 24/7
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People who are "basically content" amidst historic wealth inequality are part of The Problem.
As Democrats’ anger spikes, Americans’ feelings about the federal government grow more polarized
Frustration is common across the political spectrum regardless of which party holds the presidency.
www.pewresearch.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
People who are "basically content" amidst historic wealth inequality are part of The Problem.
This is dude’s response to being called out for boosting AI slop. You are feeding into an environmentally and socially destructive machine for clicks and you do not care. If you share this you are being an active detriment to human society.
Just as bad as the people you revile.
Just as bad as the people you revile.
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This is dude’s response to being called out for boosting AI slop. You are feeding into an environmentally and socially destructive machine for clicks and you do not care. If you share this you are being an active detriment to human society.
Just as bad as the people you revile.
Just as bad as the people you revile.
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And now we know that the volume of #Arctic sea ice also dropped to a record low in October (zacklabe.com/archive-2025/).
It's been a historic fall in the #Arctic, which is already a season of rapid climate change. Not good.
It's been a historic fall in the #Arctic, which is already a season of rapid climate change. Not good.
October 2025 was the warmest October on record for the #Arctic. Arctic sea-ice extent is currently the lowest on record for late November. My newest 'climate viz of the month' summarizes some of this latest data: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-...
#ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz
#ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz
Climate Viz of the Month
October 2025 Hi everyone! Instead of designing a new special feature visualization, this next ‘climate viz of the month’ blog will focus on briefly summarizing the recent extremes in th…
zacklabe.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
And now we know that the volume of #Arctic sea ice also dropped to a record low in October (zacklabe.com/archive-2025/).
It's been a historic fall in the #Arctic, which is already a season of rapid climate change. Not good.
It's been a historic fall in the #Arctic, which is already a season of rapid climate change. Not good.
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perhaps organizing society on the principle "if it makes dollars, it makes sense" was a mistake
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
perhaps organizing society on the principle "if it makes dollars, it makes sense" was a mistake
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It would cost $30 billion to end homelessness in the USA.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
It would cost $30 billion to end homelessness in the USA.
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He also posted that video about the eye surgeries in 2022, and it took the company posting a YouTube video about not having been paid FOR TWO YEARS for him to pay for the work they did.
youtu.be/5RdAlPrtFko?...
youtu.be/5RdAlPrtFko?...
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
He also posted that video about the eye surgeries in 2022, and it took the company posting a YouTube video about not having been paid FOR TWO YEARS for him to pay for the work they did.
youtu.be/5RdAlPrtFko?...
youtu.be/5RdAlPrtFko?...
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the "???" is "a larger share of our chattering classes than you think is deep in the throes of a gambling addiction"
This is gambling, and we've essentially decided that it's okay to let it go on entirely unregulated for ??? Reasons.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
the "???" is "a larger share of our chattering classes than you think is deep in the throes of a gambling addiction"
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A horrifying CNN investigation reveals how Israel buried hundreds of starving Palestinians some of them alive using bulldozers and unmarked graves.
Missing in Gaza: CNN investigation points to the Israeli military bulldozing the dead bodies of Palestinians seeking aid | CNN
A CNN investigation into Palestinians who went missing near the Zikim crossing in Gaza this year points to aid seekers being killed and, in some cases, bulldozed into unmarked graves by Israeli forces...
edition.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A horrifying CNN investigation reveals how Israel buried hundreds of starving Palestinians some of them alive using bulldozers and unmarked graves.
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I think we’re approaching the point of no return if a critical mass of white people don’t start freaking the fuck out in public. I know that the wildcat internment camps where they’re torturing and raping immigrants should have done it but now we’re legally non-personing entire categories of people.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I think we’re approaching the point of no return if a critical mass of white people don’t start freaking the fuck out in public. I know that the wildcat internment camps where they’re torturing and raping immigrants should have done it but now we’re legally non-personing entire categories of people.
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cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’
The use of ‘nudify’ apps is becoming more and more prevalent, with hundreds of teachers having seen images created by pupils, often of their peers. The fallout is huge – and growing fast
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster
Between Mamdani genuflecting to monied interests before he’s even sworn in and Bernie doing a pro-ICE shtick, desperately need these “socialists” to grow a spine and some self-respect.
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Between Mamdani genuflecting to monied interests before he’s even sworn in and Bernie doing a pro-ICE shtick, desperately need these “socialists” to grow a spine and some self-respect.
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One thing that’s pretty consistent in American history is elites getting away with it
imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
One thing that’s pretty consistent in American history is elites getting away with it
Dude turned over a large part of his studio’s development to procgen tools instead of bothering to actually handcraft these elements. So this is the least surprising news I’ve ever seen.
Fallout and Elder Scrolls boss Todd Howard defends AI in game development, but aims to "protect artistry" and "human intention" in his games www.eurogamer.net/fallout-and-...
December 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Dude turned over a large part of his studio’s development to procgen tools instead of bothering to actually handcraft these elements. So this is the least surprising news I’ve ever seen.