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This should be understood as being an example of the emerging moral panic in the media around kids cutting off their parents.

Republicans win the White House, enact trickle-down tax cuts, and collapse the economy. Feel like we've been in this doom loop before? Here's why it keeps happening — and how we can lay the groundwork to stop it this November.

And just yesterday: Meta restricted Brazilian president's Insta accounts during the election while "recommending the profile of challenger Senator Flavio Bolsonaro." What's it going to take people to get off Meta products? www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

How many actions has Trump taken in office this term would not have been undertaken had the Supreme Court not given the president broad immunity in Trump v US? Certainly many. Most?

Time for an era of tech trust-busting?

"Why would a spy agency be openly pro-queer" can only be asked by someone with nearly zero familiarity with the history of espionage

Ashley St. Claire speaks on her experience with Elon Musk

I don't think most Americans understand yet what a global laggard the USA is turning into here. Media instead told us that electric vehicles were a fad that didn't work.

Oracle is sending 30 TRUCKS OF GAS A DAY to one of its data centres due to delayed gas pipeline 🩻 still waiting for AI to solve climate change🩻 www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

Their scheme is to cheat and steal the election from us and then enslave us — take away our freedoms and make us work for them.

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

This proves once and for all that there's no such thing as fuck you money.

"Heritage Americans" = seven generations of my ancestors couldn't accumulate wealth under the most ideal conditions ever to grace the earth, so I want a handout"

dennis hastert died. he was a pedophile. he was the republican speaker of the house. neither the media nor democrats ever talk about it.

You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.

Reactionary backlash because the Indian tech support guy can afford a house in the burbs while the white perpetual fuck up who got kicked out of the army for a heroin addiction cannot, the war of the unemployable on the employed continues

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After years of experimenting and tinkering, I think I've finally found a way to simulate the Solow model in a way that could work for undergraduate teaching.

America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.

I know people instinctively recoil at monocausal explanations and want important trends to have sufficiently weighty causes, but “We built a novel social environment that rewards anger and lurid pessimism and moved 95% of political discourse into it” is a pretty good explanation for a lot of stuff

Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...

It's all such an embarrassment. These people are as embarrassing as they are dangerous.

🚨”Why would I want to abolish prisons, when I want Ashley Moody to be arrested & locked up in one.”

Lake forever, problems for now. Seagulls also for now

The United States government killed another innocent person.👇

An alliance of ideologues and grifters is remaking U.S. foreign policy, from Iran and Ukraine to Venezuela and Cuba. On @firinglineshow.bsky.social Watch here: youtu.be/4okBq3W_E-o

I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not

Anyways, this is genuinely the funniest chart in the world because it shows Jill Stein's twitter use spikes every four years and only during years where there's a federal election so if she's breaking her silence now *someone* is panicking

3000 block of Madison, Chicago c 1968-1969

Kansas Livestock Association comes out against the ICE Raids????!!!!

for every one "trans women are double super secret probation banned from playing sports at the military academies they already can't go to, fine it's in the NDAA" there's been literally 50 "the GOP wanted to insert a 'all trans people must go to camps' rider into an approps bill and dems got it out"

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

Transformers are an obscenity you should simultaneously be angry and in awe of how well this brutish fucking thing works.

Nothing that is being built here had any engineering work put into it and it has to be filled with bugs from every world spy agency. The next admin is going to **have** to tear this thing down because it will be unsafe to be inside it from both a structural eng and infosec pov