SubGothius

SubGothius

@subgothius.bsky.social

Webmaster in Tucson, Arizona Schooled in Green Bay & Milwaukee, Wisconsin Born & raised in Lincoln, Nebraska

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In the days to come, remember who you are & what you stand for—your values, principles & ideals. As an abiding, born & raised Unitarian Universalist, this is what matters to me:

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Most important to realize is that they're not conservatives. They're reactionaries. Their aim is to completely overturn the international rule of law and have great powers divide the world into areas that they have unlimited control over. They think this is the natural order.

lastpositivist.bsky.social@lastpositivist.bsky.social

On some level I don't really get why the Western Right like Putin. Isn't he just the head of a rival group of mercantilist gangsters? They seem to buy into some kinda Legitimate Sphere of Dominance theory but I don't get why their ambitions work that way.

Exactly how it works, in the worldview of a Bullshit Artist. Their only reality is whatever they can get away with & convince others to accept. Neither knowing nor caring about any facts, only what they want & what they can say to get it. Reality bends to the will of whoever is most convincing.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

I don’t think this is how the world works.

Cyberpunk shinola happening in this 🧵

Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social

The tech side of all this is not my area of academic expertise but digital culture generally is so what I will say is that the key sea change here is AI overnight going from being a weapon the corporate class uses against us to one the masses are using against the corporate class

SubGothius reposted

If anybody had been putting off seeing the MMT documentary "Finding the Money" with @stephaniekelton.bsky.social, it's up on YouTube as of a few days ago. youtu.be/x3TJFoQWCHA

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MMTAction@mmt-action.bsky.social

Governments don't tax first and spend second. They have to spend first. How else would anyone have the money to pay the tax? #MMT #FindingTheMoney #UKGreenParty

Couldn't find a terminal screencap showing USENET content that I liked for this, but these DEC terminals with the amber display & nicely dampened key action were my favorites among the various terminal labs scattered around campus circa 1993. I set my terminal apps with #FFB700 amber text even today

Re: today's rerun of @waywordradio.org #1617 with a spot about corny nonsense icebreaker questions, a pithy term for them occurred to me: "Dad Koans", as they reminded me Zen koans, of which my favorite is: "How many zen masters does it take to change a light bulb?" [walks away]

Well, at least now we'll be able to deride it as Stupor Intelligence. 🙄🤦‍♂️

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump tells the UN he is officially changing the name of Artificial Intelligence to "Super Intelligence" and says all US government documents will now be changed to refer to "SI"

Which reminds me, been thinking #AI is rapidly acquiring such a "brand stench" that we'll need to coin other neologisms for whatever less-odious machine-learning tech may ultimately succeed it, such as Synthetic Intelligence, Virtual Intelligence, Simulated Intelligence, etc.

SubGothius reposted

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social

i don't care if the danged chat bots are "thinking." that's not my problem. stop putting them in my computers

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Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

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"He was confronted with a series of CAPTCHA screens instructing him to click on all photos with Presbyterians or argon gas." 😆

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SubGothius reposted

This is just your reminder that Goth has always been highly political. The choice to PRESENT as Goth alone is a major indictment of mainstream values. So you snowflakes remembering something else lived in a privileged bubble where you let yourself pretend you did not hear the fucking lyrics.

SubGothius reposted

Billions for DHS deportations. Protecting vulnerable kids? Not a priority.

Arizona Mirror@azmirror.com

More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children lost their legal representation because the Trump administration has not entered into a new agreement to take over their legal services after it let a longstanding contract with a nonprofit expire.

Article copypasta in replies if you hit the paywall here:

Joe Audino@joeaudino.bsky.social

From @emilybregel.bsky.social. Ana has been here for over 40 years, raising three kids in America. That's an American by any valuable metric; the government has no legitimate reason for this, it's another spurious detention: tucson.com/news/local/b...

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Boy he must have really been hoping no one would look at the documents he talked about tonight because they underscore what I've been saying for 6 years, which is that the Trump-Ukraine Scandal was infinitely worse than people thought from the facts revealed during Impeachment #1

SubGothius reposted

My ideal solution is not banning teens from large social media platforms but having the sort of regulatory apparatus that makes large social media platforms impossible. Let’s just go back to blogs and niche forum culture.

Da Sparrow@sparrowstrike.bsky.social

I just don’t think that closing kids off from the internet is in service of anything but ensuring they can’t develop opinions and ideas their parents don’t allow.

About damn time. Indeed, long past time, but Buddha late than never

19thnews@19thnews.org

Trials found that Carevix — a portmanteau of “care” and “cervix" — reduced pain during IUD insertion by up to 73 percent and bleeding by 78 percent, compared to the tenaculum.

Wilhoit remains undefeated. Double standards are the entire fundamental point of conservatism.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

SubGothius reposted

Lots of Dumocrats offended by the Newsom criticism! Good! We need a raucous civil war in the party. Billionaire ass-kickers vs the billionaire ass-kissers. Which side are you on?

Gil Durán@gilduran.com

One old trick in politics is to oppose something possible while calling for something impossible. Example: Here's Gavin Newsom leading the charge for a "national billionaires tax" while he and his paid goons work to kill a state billionaire tax. This allows him to be on both sides for 2028.