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I know that many don't want to hear this but we've been moving towards this current state of affairs over the past 65 years. And it's really been a bipartisan project. The expansion of the carceral state is the fuel for fascism. Folks have been trying to make this case for a long time.

submitted 19 hours ago • 26 comments

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

“Fund the police” was a whole applause line for the people best situated to prevent this.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Hey AP, WaPo, NYT and everyone else who runs those "so and so said" headlines: They're laughing at you. The dumbest people in the world know you are easy to trick. You are the Facebook Aunt.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Night of the Long Tweets

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

we should be very clear here: Jake Tapper is glad Trump is ruling this country like a king and is intentionally helping him consolidate power in the service of selling books

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

remember when the internet memed so hard that Sony Pictures re-released Morbius to theatres and it made less than a million dollars total anytime you start to think anyone at the top has any idea what's going on, just remember that at some point, it was Morbin' time

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

submitted 15 days ago • 31 comments

In 1938, a stateless Jewish teenager in Paris named Herschel Grynszpan went into the German embassy and shot a diplomat from the Nazi regime. He was arrested and disappeared. The Nazis used this action as the pretext for Kristallnacht, the most famous pogrom in history.

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

The level of surveillance and policing demanded by transphobia will always be more disruptive to your life than the rights and demands of trans people ourselves

submitted 19 days ago • 36 comments

I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda

submitted 34 days ago • 320 comments