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Irish Times: What a surprise to learn this powerful wizard of the Dark Enlightenment is just another needy dork www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

submitted 21 hours ago • 14 comments

The way I formulated this for myself (when I went back after dropping out) was that I needed to do something I could continue to care about for the time it would take me to get the degree. That's how I ended up in anthropology.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s a difficult proposition for undergrads to work through, but choosing a major isn’t really about what kind of jobs you want to do so much as what sorts of questions you want to think about or how you want to think about questions throughout your life.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Smart observation by Mark O'Connell about the recent Curtis Yarkin profile in the New Yorker by Ava Kofman.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

Border Patrol is acting like the president’s personal police force. You would think the National Rifle Association and all those anti-government gun-rights groups would be concerned. They’re not. The constitution and individual liberty were never their true concern.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Mass protests are an implicit threat of potential violence even when they are entirely peaceful. They serve to keep state power in check by demonstrating “there are more of us than you so fix your shit.” The state knows this, which is why its agents often respond to them with unprovoked violence.

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

Just a quick observation on #Unbound. Unbound did not steal author royalties because Unbound is not an independent entity. People in Unbound made explicit decisions over and over again to funnel received money towards other projects or cash flow or whatever instead of paying author royalties.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Still seeing some folks doing the "those aren't Real Cops they're Proud Boys" thing & yeah, no, Proud Boys don't ride riot horses.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Freedom in the genocide

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

This is true. It is also true that it is foul to police trans people's bodies and to police immigrants on their own, regardless of what they also do to others.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Can't shake the feeling that 'spicy autocomplete is exactly like women & black people' being a take someone got paid to write for a major news outlet bears some relation to our pell-mell rush into fascism.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Disturbingly plausible.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Shooting reporters for the crime of exercising #1A rights is a great way for LAPD to show people they're a criminal gang. Lot to unpack, here - e.g. foreign reporter (she'll be deported) will be dismissed as having no 1A rights, ...

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

I think using the American flag is a powerful symbolic gesture, because it shows that these pigs don’t even give a fuck that you’re American. They’re just Fascists.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There is no reason for liberals and conservatives not to be unified in opposition to authoritarianism. It is the enemy of both. Bill Kristol recognises this. Remarkably many others don't, or choose not to because fighting autocracy is inconvenient to them.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Been trying to watch Scott's Napoleon but it's so DREARY.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

The next issue of Church Climbing has been literally years in the making, but I finally collected the last bit of content that I need, and I'm desperately working to get it out for you ready for Sunday (I'd hoped to get it out today but I just couldn't get access to take the final pictures I needed)

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

submitted 19 hours ago • 155 comments

One the protest starts we have to be real & recognize that what we're seeing is a police riot.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

"He is looking to deploy troops to the cities" he...he is doing it. That's the whole thing. Stop describing the things he is already doing as though they are in fact not done until the people are "provoked".

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

submitted 84 days ago • 481 comments

Don’t call for violence. Don’t be stupid.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

anyway vance is currently tweeting about how this is all part of the great replacement or something and foreign nationals are currently occupying los angeles and that's why we're deploying the guard

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

What happens to this vision when OpenAI either folds or increases their prices by a factor of 10 to cover actual cost?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Helpful resource to those who want to write good alt text! Walkthroughs like this are really helpful because sometimes I over think, am I alt texting right? Am I being thorough enough? Over-describing things that aren’t helpful?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

the fun version of this is when you’re posting about some nerd shit and someone pops up in the comments like “actually I am a world renowned expert in this field and here’s how this works” easily the best thing that happens on social media

submitted 2 days ago • 96 comments

For many years, US Air Force officers have been told that UFOs exist as part of a hazing ritual.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

One thing I’d say about ranked choice voting in NYC is that you don’t have to do complex calculations of viability. You should rank in order of who you want to be mayor and if you don’t want someone to be mayor, you shouldn’t rank them!

submitted 2 days ago • 134 comments