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You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

It's National Lie Down For A Bit Day

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Billionaires are not our friends. Cartoon by @acmedarryl.bsky.social

The issue that matters most.

Here's a photo of a helicopter landed on Joanne's 227 foot support yacht that follows around her 290 foot main yacht

It’s important to realize that we, the players, are no longer the customers of video game companies. We’re just a source of money. The real customers are the investors, and no matter what, the companies need to keep them happy and show them that their investments are paying off.

Plaster those "100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes!" blurbs on every piece of marketing you can find and bump those numbers up even more, let's make this HAPPEN.

We are in a climate emergency & yet the government just approved Jackdaw. As Green MPs, we've tabled an Early Day Motion calling on the Government to keep fossil fuels in the ground (including Rosebank) and to focus on things that would actually lower bills & create secure jobs.

US garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor unions, which united people across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. Also native-born citizens and immigrants. I think about that sometimes when I see people suggest such divides are unbridgeable.

For real, what would be the downside to outlawing the private equity industry?

If you're mad about this (AND YOU SHOULD BE) - I know indies can't be expected to save the game industry. But goddammit some help would be great. Go to Steam or wherever - find a game (NOT MADE WITH ANY AI) that you think is fun and unique - TELL EVERYONE ABOUT IT. Boost signals!

"I have friends everywhere."

Once again: You cannot ask for a service that is as expensive as hosting and maintaining a social media platform if you are also not able or willing to financially contribute to it, and use it.

“Irony is a means of depriving the object of its reality in order that the subject may feel free….Irony is thus destructive and what Kierkegaard worries about a lot is that irony has nothing to put in place of what it has destroyed.” — Donald Barthelme, “Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel” (1970)

"This is Marge Simpson. I'd like a hot fudge sundae with whipped cream and some chocolate chip cheesecake and a bottle of tequila."

I would like to once again cordially tap the sign: please support billionaire free, worker-led and/or independent news how and when you can. Marisa's work here is the kind of reporting we want on the regular, about everything of public concern

me as fuck holy shit lol

Kenney hit the infamous "two billionaires with one post" achievement, remains very rare, also shows once again that money does not equal intelligence, capability, or insight: Kenney is obviously right.

It’s depressing to see schools use AI to create flyers, banners, & t-shirts. When I was in high school the faculty would come to the art department to have students create these things. I learned so many skills that have followed me my entire professional life. That’s what I thought school was for.

Wait'll the folks who are mad at Zuck for muzzling No Kings get wind of the Rohingya genocide.

"Trans Lives are Real. Harry Potter is Not" Sticker spotted in NYC

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

A reason I don't do any callouts or "name and shame" for games I suspect might be using AI undisclosed is there is the potential for serious reputational harm to developers if I make an accusation and get it wrong, and it's weird a z-list steamer like me has better ethics than the fucking Atlantic!

Look at them (please)

#LocalAngle 🥧

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

This is why ppl get angry when "moderate" dems say they won't impeach this motherfucker again. If his actively flouting the tripartite system that's literally intended to keep him in check does not rise to the level of "Blatant Constitutional Crisis Requiring Extraordinary Measures" then what does?

Trans people get called extremists for saying “hey don’t watch a wizard tv show.” Meanwhile people out here literally calling for legislative bans on our existence are propped up as feminist icons. Really just shows how those who make people uncomfortable or disrupt consumption are vilified.

We're speedrunning toward a future where news orgs are forced to use AI to create photos that are no longer available from archives, and if I have to explain to you why that's bad then you're already too broken to be part of society.

"Decolonize Everything" “When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish caught… then you will realize money cannot be eaten.” Anti-colonial graffiti seen in Pensacola, Florida

yknow, one thing about this massive bot farm outtage that's kinda made me feel optimistic, is just... how inorganic this massive swing towards the right we've all had to endure over the last decade is. It's all fucking fake, it was fake from the start, and we know how to kill it

"You couldn't make a Mel Brooks movie today!" Of course not, nobody would give a Jewish veteran with a controversial Black comedian co-writer, both of whom have overt anti-fascist politics in their acts, a budget to make a parody of a genre nobody watches anymore.