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Discovered thanks to Ned Resnikoff. publiccomment.blog/p/living-wit...

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I was today years old when I first read Who Goes Nazi, a 1941 essay by Dorothy Thompson. "Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. ...But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son....

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Our reviewer said that in 15 years of testing tech, this pellet-firing, story-telling, pretend-urinating robot attack dog called Clippy was easily the strangest thing they’ve ever assessed.

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This is for everyone who doesn't mind surveillance "because I'm not a criminal" but don't realise the definition of who is a criminal can (and will) change.

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One thing Republicans get is that the choice is fighting climate change or fighting science. There's no other choice.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

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Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

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The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.

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in 2012 i had a roommate who worked at palantir. i could see 2 things then: (1) they had occupied an alarming amount of the buildings on university ave without regular ppl like me even knowing it, and (2) it was the most cult-like workplace culture in silicon valley, which is really saying something

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AI isn’t fundamentally reshaping society, and it’s deeply frustrating to see even its opponents parroting this phrase. If the MAHA fake-citation scandal shows us anything it’s that “AI” is a rhetorical device an alibi allowing a powerful minority to remake society w impunity for their own benefit.

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Silicon Valley Is at an Inflection Point: “We are now closer than ever to a world in which tech companies can seize land, operate their own currencies, reorder the economy and remake our politics with little consequence.” - @karenhao.bsky.social gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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#caturday greetings from the Athens metro

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FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME: the thing driving the country insane is our media ecosystem. The right isn't wielding it as a tool so much as it's being led by it, so much so that the only way they know how to communicate with their own president is by reshaping the world to look like television

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Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it's all being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who has dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built his "political project". 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

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That said, that statement, caught on video, is all a challenger needs by way of a political ad.

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Re Joni Ernst saying "we're all going to die" in response to a question about Medicaid cuts: I'm old enough to remember the manufactured panic over "Obamacare death panels", when in fact the ACA *was giving* coverage to millions of people. Republicans win at the propaganda game.

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It’s fine, he’s just got all your personal data. 💊💉

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Yet again, the @nytimes.com takes the BS about 'Musk's goal of cutting a trillion from the gvt" at face value. Real reporting would have led with the 'significant personal benefit' he's racked up thanks to the DOG scam. (As for the black eye, if I was his 'prop' kid I'd have punched him too.)

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"No external foe we’ve fought against over the past 77 years has caused greater damage to Israel than what the Itamar Ben-Gvir, Netanyahu and Bezalel Smotrich-led government has inflicted on us."

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