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The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.

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Me: what’s moby dick about AI: Richard Melville Hall (September 11, 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, disc jockey, and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. Me: yes, you fools have wasted your life on that book

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The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

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everyone needs this right now. you have no idea how much you, personally, need this youtu.be/fAXO7SXK0Pc?...

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Seen this going around but I’m Reposting it with the full alt text bc everyone deserves to read this glorious reply from Boy George

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TIL about a) Charlotte Braun, the anti-Charlie Brown who appeared in ten "Peanuts" strips in 1954 and 1955; b) how deeply unpopular with both fans and Charles Schultz himself Braun was c) that Schultz responded to a fan letter demanding Braun's removal by responding with this letter. DAMN

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As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

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i came here to escape my horrible audience. they confound me to no end. i cannot be free of their torturous grasp. i'm moving to neopets next

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look there is nothing funnier than rediscovering placeholder dialogue

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Knight's Departure

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

submitted 4 days ago • 390 comments

More than anything, I think this speaks to the impoverished view of the role of government. The idea of organizing collective support and aid to solve overwhelming problems is reclassified as akin to some sort of dealer-addict relationship.

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DHS Chief: ‘We Are A Nation Of Immigrants Who Came Here Between 1776 And 1943’

submitted 5 days ago • 68 comments

The media is going to BOTH SIDES us right into martial law

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“This could poll well with midterm swing voters in Ohio” I remark sagely as I watch a fourth grader get bundled into an unmarked van at recess by armed and masked agents of the state.

submitted 5 days ago • 131 comments

I keep seeing the argument that the failure rate of AI is down to poor prompts, and that it isn't the tool that is to blame but the person using it. But like, if you had a hammer and the head fell off that hammer 60% of the time, meaning you had to hold the hammer a certain way for it to work...

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I've assembled a team of the most horrible perverts and criminals you've ever seen and we're going to fix this country

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The Marvel Family by Michael Cho.

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Statistically “America” is its cities. But we’re stuck with an 18th century political architecture that gives votes to cornfields & thus makes it politically viable to treat them as some kind of weird tumor.

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

Dem senator: Please, protestors, there are better ways to oppose the president Voters: Like not voting for his nominees? Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap

submitted 7 days ago • 58 comments

do you ever think about how this is all happening for no reason at all?

submitted 6 days ago • 361 comments

I love seeing what trivia turns up in articles about individual numbers

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Imagine if you were so bad at your job that you completely messed up 79% of the time. But instead of being sacked, your company sacks everyone else, and the government changes the law to give you everyone else’s money.

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The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

submitted 7 days ago • 309 comments

lmao The Sun has a livestream of the “LA riots” on YouTube and when you click on it it’s a bunch of troops standing around doing nothing you can literally hear birds singing in the background what a time to be alive

submitted 7 days ago • 233 comments

The Right Way To Protest is to stand very still in your apartment and whisper “I wish this wasn’t happening” then get your ass to work, you’re gonna be late damn it

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments