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stephendaedalus.bsky.social
i got values but i don't know how or why
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You know, I’m starting to think that wealth and intelligence might not be correlated after all

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

One of the most honest things a super PAC donor has ever said

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

i have never been so mortified by anything in my entire life

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Dear @kenwhite.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

IT'S. NOT. A. BITTER. DISPUTE. It's a one-sided authoritarian assault on a private institution. What are we doing here, and what is journalism, anyway?

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

For the sake of comparison, 9% of Americans approve of the Black Plague.

submitted 4 days ago • 128 comments

Have a national “Dress Like ICE” day where everyone wears a skull gaiter, an ill-fitting tactical vest with an Etsy POLICE sticker on it, Shein camouflage cargo pants, and the douchiest Oakleys available. If anyone gets upset and starts claiming to be “real ICE” everyone laugh and say “sure buddy.”

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

what. the. actual. fuck.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

the only political power i feel i have left is to urge people not to support the democratic party, even though i know that's the last thing my country needs. i recognize something else at work in what i'm feeling, something disconcertingly familiar that taps into a deep-seated personal trauma.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

F*ck yeah! 👍

submitted 6 days ago • 48 comments

During the largest protest in U.S. history, a protest against the gravest threat either has faced in their time in politics, Schumer and Jefferies were at the Hamptons wedding of a mega-donor. It's hardly a surprise the base wants better.

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

the future of the democratic party is this old guy who sucks

submitted 7 days ago • 122 comments

from a friend: "I didn’t realize just how toxic the [Democratic] party [establishment] was. I did not credit the 'far' left as much as I should have. Bernie ... [was] absolutely correct." the party appeasership is hemorrhaging supporters like him, like me, b/c it refuses to reckon with our moment.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Sunday, I posted Terri Lyne Carrigan's timely take on Max Roach's Freedom Now suite. #Juneteenth is a good time to revisit the orig., composed to celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation & growing civil rights movement. #jazzsky #jazz #MaxRoach feat. #AbbeyLincoln: Freedom Day (WE INSIST!, 1960)

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I'm not sure they were even "taught to be convincing", humans just have cognitive biases that "if it speaks to us in plausible sentences from a relative position of societal authority it must be true"

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Rereading Neuromancer and some 80s and 90s tech culture writing is reminding me we used to imagine the internet would be a weird and individualistic culture of DIY hardware and strange people in strange corners battling corporate takeover. Instead we got platforms and everyone wanting an iPhone.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Women are lagging behind on going bankrupt on DraftKings, drinking themselves to death, and fist-fighting anyone who looks at them funny on the subway but they can catch up.

submitted 8 days ago • 88 comments

anyone else cancel a @nytimes.com subscription of 15+ years? if this place is indeed an echo chamber, it's one that once echoed with the voices of long-time nyt readers. people who comprised the core of that paper's subscribership what happened? the last quarter century it's not me, it's you nyt

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Should have canceled my subscription years ago. It was mainly nostalgia for my dad that kept me tied. No more. Unsubscribed.

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

hey do yall remember the days when conflicts of interest were bad

submitted 11 days ago • 48 comments

the discussion few want to entertain is whether US police are in fact under local civilian control.

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments