Janto McMullin

“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris. hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...

Feel really bad for any women posting photos of themself on twitter right now and anyone who has ever posted photos of their kids. Things are about to get much worse for everyone.

High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

6 July 1940 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Istvan Ferenc Reiner, was born in Miskolc to Bela and Livia. In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

What a horrific response. She admits that russia is killing our civilians, fully aware that without Patriot missiles, more families will be burned alive in their beds in the middle of the night, yet she mutters something about how the commitment hasn’t changed.

Thanks, I hate it

This is the result of a Russian missile hit that damaged a civilian train today, carrying regular people, including the elderly, women, and kids. Sadly, people get used to seeing stuff like this, and it won't be all over the news. Don’t let it fade. Keep showing Russia's crimes

The fact that many people point out this is bollocks when you look at aid as % of GDP with zero engagement is kinda damning for someone who built an online brand as a pedant

Ireland has actually caught up a bit then, was suprised to see it at 87.4% of the population, meanwhile Finland is 89.7 Finnish parents, at least 90-something white, and people still complain

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

1) this is a vg column 2) I'd love to read some proper qual research on *why* people just don't mind AI, I'm so far down one end of the spectrum on it that I just can't really fathom why you'd enjoy "art" or "writing" done by the robots

The same is true of running a TTRPG

What is this witchcraft?!

New: A multi-year research effort at the University of Pennsylvania, by a team led by Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt, found it probable that the Russia 🇷🇺 was involved in the Nord Stream sabotage

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

i do not care about Skynet i care about every middle school boy having access to a "make porn of my classmates" button i care about renting an army of GPUs to spam someone's social media with personalized harassment i care about retirees getting fake FaceTime calls from their grandchildren

An entire family, murdered by Russians.

Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction: - forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe - incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents - immediately starts dating her manager - quits after two days to move back home

but they were all of them deceived, for *another* person was invited to the group chat

12 March 1912 | Polish Jewish woman Ala Gertner was born in Będzin. She was incarcerated in #Auschwitz in August 1943. She worked in „Union” munition factory from where together with other women she smuggle gunpowder to Sonderkommando resistance. She was hanged on 6 January 1945.

The world is tired of Gaza—I don’t blame you. But imagine being one of 2 million people, trapped, starved, dehumanized. Israel turned us into beggars for food and water, made you see us as less than human. But we are not. We are educated, we are civilized—we are people. Do we not deserve to live?

8 March 1930 | A French Jewish girl, Blima Motyka, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 10 December 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among the 661 people murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

Zelenskyy went into that nest of vipers and roasted them all. Good. They all exposed themselves, they demeaned themselves in a way that was undeniable. Perfect.

Goodwin is a disgusting apologist for tyrants.

Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.

American media in particular need to stop equivocating and speaking in euphemism and tell Americans that they are aligned with Russia now. They owe the people that honesty.

It's like people don't have relatives or friends who are not politically engaged. I get the frustration, but calling them idiots goes nowhere

"Amazon deliveries." This is Jason Calacanis, a venture capitalist & prominent Musk toady. And he does not know a big percentage of Amazon deliveries are made by the USPS. I will never get over how stupid the people at the top of US society are.

I genuinely believe that games, superhero movies and most fantasy fiction feeds this 'great person' myth as much as simple histories focussed on kings and explorers. It's why peak Pratchett is around Mort for me, before Vimes and the Patrician become unironic great men

If an Israeli - or British or American etc - woman who was eight months pregnant was shot dead by any other military, the whole world would know her name. Her name was Sondos Jamal Muhammad Shalabi. She was 23.

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

This is one of the pages withdrawn for review by the American Society for Microbiology as it chose entirely of its own accord to follow the racist anti-DEI executive order. Please share.

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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I don't buy the idea that liberal/lefty bubbles are inherently a bad thing. Most reactionary conservative ideas have grown and networked inside similar info silos.

Basic floorplans for a townhouse set into one of the towers of Sharn. Entrance is onto an internal spiral road, balcony faces out into the void. Full post explaining the process is here (Free access) www.patreon.com/posts/sharn-...

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I think my wife, always on the side of the fiancée in Neverwhere, is feeling pretty vindicated right now.

As we start the new year, I would like to remind everyone that it is now almost 120 years since the US decided consumer protection - by which I mean regulation - mattered. Given the upcoming presidential inauguration, let's talk about how that happened - and why it's so important. (A thread)

Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever. Make it go viral but make sure she benefits. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...