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Eagerly awaiting the release of the upgraded Torment Nexus: Omniscient Panopticon Edition
sorry if I missed it in your thread—where was this dive?
December 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
sorry if I missed it in your thread—where was this dive?
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If we were to increase the number of undocumented workers in the US construction industry by 100,000 people, the labor supply of fast construction workers would go *up*, and the cost to construct a home would go *down*.
Everyone knows this.
But racist people pretend not to know it.
It's silly
Everyone knows this.
But racist people pretend not to know it.
It's silly
December 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If we were to increase the number of undocumented workers in the US construction industry by 100,000 people, the labor supply of fast construction workers would go *up*, and the cost to construct a home would go *down*.
Everyone knows this.
But racist people pretend not to know it.
It's silly
Everyone knows this.
But racist people pretend not to know it.
It's silly
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This was from Byers earlier today. Lizza sucks but Byers is somehow worse so on net this is great lol
bsky.app/profile/jami...
bsky.app/profile/jami...
Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
December 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
This was from Byers earlier today. Lizza sucks but Byers is somehow worse so on net this is great lol
bsky.app/profile/jami...
bsky.app/profile/jami...
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I'm sure it doesn't hurt that the only thing Dokoupil is widely known for is being a huge dick to Ta-Nehisi Coates.
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I'm sure it doesn't hurt that the only thing Dokoupil is widely known for is being a huge dick to Ta-Nehisi Coates.
You absolutely fascinate me Molly Lyons
December 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
You absolutely fascinate me Molly Lyons
Wedding Rings, famous for only being removable by sawing thru them
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Wedding Rings, famous for only being removable by sawing thru them
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If it all sounds like the intentional decimation of public education while providing welfare for privatization, that’s because it is.
December 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If it all sounds like the intentional decimation of public education while providing welfare for privatization, that’s because it is.
viscerally hating the “talent” as obstacles to success and setting out to degrade and belittle them (eg no professors, only instructors) sure is a business strategy
December 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
viscerally hating the “talent” as obstacles to success and setting out to degrade and belittle them (eg no professors, only instructors) sure is a business strategy
While maybe it is just little weird that no one actually wrote down the list until December but believe the DoD every one in the situation room knew those fishermen’s names by heart already
December 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
While maybe it is just little weird that no one actually wrote down the list until December but believe the DoD every one in the situation room knew those fishermen’s names by heart already
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The radicalization of Silicon Valley is the subject of my forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War on Democracy."
It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
The Nerd Reich
A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the inter...
www.simonandschuster.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The radicalization of Silicon Valley is the subject of my forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War on Democracy."
It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
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Odd for Vanity Fair to do this on the same day Nuzzi wins the FIFA Prize for Excellence in Journalism
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Odd for Vanity Fair to do this on the same day Nuzzi wins the FIFA Prize for Excellence in Journalism
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM