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In Paris I see people hanging out in the evenings, going to cheap art galleries, valuing fashion, enjoying food and talking about ideas. Meanwhile in the US we're devising "hacks" to not engage with art, ingest the bare minimum to live, and become the most efficient personality-free drones possible.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

ICE already can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

submitted 7 hours ago • 277 comments

Windows has become the Idiocracy meme where a guy watches TV but there's ads around the video. Paint has sign-in and ai. Notepad has sign-in and ai. Start menu is just a big ad space. It auto-installs sponsored apps like Linkedin This system costs $199. You paid for it, even if it came with the PC

submitted 12 hours ago • 17 comments

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

People think I'm biased against Jeff Bezos, but here's Sartoria F. Caraceni, widely considered one of the best bespoke tailoring houses in the world, commenting on Bezos's wedding suit. "The most terrible, frightening, horrible tuxedo ever seen in my life. I'm really suffering"

submitted 19 hours ago • 685 comments

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

Okay, that's pretty good.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.

submitted 2 days ago • 249 comments

One thing I really think needs to be hammered into “libertarians” & other right wing freaks is the cost of helping other people is almost always less than the cost of not helping them. Because we live in a society & we are all connected & you are SO MUCH CLOSER to being sick and poor than you think!

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

he's right and he's right to say it

submitted 4 days ago • 169 comments

“I feel like people mistook my 250k for enthusiasm” is something I’ve often found myself saying out loud

submitted 4 days ago • 139 comments

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets. He'll make a great mayor

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

I think this pretty much destroys the "no experience" narrative

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submitted 5 days ago • 221 comments

Democratic Party hastily commissions a study to figure out why so many people preferred the attractive, energetic, charismatic guy with the fun name to the disgraced vampire

submitted 5 days ago • 279 comments

I think win or lose the lesson from tonight’s nyc mayoral race is that the Democratic establishment are openly contemptuous of anyone that actually believes a better world is possible, will fight tooth and nail to stop anyone who does, and must be ousted before we can even hope to fight back.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

My latest for the New York Times:

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The most important part of republican fascism is the demand you must be nice to them.

submitted 5 days ago • 332 comments

When you're addicted to only fans

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submitted 6 days ago • 84 comments

This Film Adaptation of a Popular Video Game Is True to the Source Material: Everyone on Set Was Just Laid Off

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Democrats are racking their brains trying to find the "Joe Rogan of the left" while doing everything they can to defeat people like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who actually possess the skills they're so desperately looking for.

submitted 7 days ago • 113 comments

You know what's "not appropriate" Keir?! Arming a fucking genocide... Fuck The Sun and solidarity with Palestine Action. 🇵🇸

submitted 8 days ago • 53 comments

Yet Luigi launched a thousand hand-wringing op-eds from the chattering class. Makes you think

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

life comes at you fast

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

submitted 8 days ago • 445 comments

This is incredibly funny but, also, I hope everyone who is pro AI or a teacher that allows AI can see clear as day that the ultimate goal is to put the thumb on the scale of all of this shit. That's why they're forcing it on us. It's a joke.

submitted 9 days ago • 80 comments

A man shouted Britain First as he shot an MP dead and Britain First are not proscribed.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

I can't believe it needs to be said, least of all to a Labour Government, but we should be tougher on genocide than peaceful protest against genocide.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

Mr. Mamdani do you recognize Skyrim's right to exist as a Nord state? Mr. Mamdani do you condemn the Forsworn? Mr. Mamdani will you honor the right of the Altmer, as the chosen race, to maintain their post-White-Gold Concordat territorial integrity?

submitted 9 days ago • 43 comments

The pope posted this this morning and I’m thinking a lot about it

submitted 9 days ago • 302 comments

Oh is Superman trending again? #Superman

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

nationalize the space program

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re not really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t? So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

submitted 12 days ago • 204 comments

When Trump finally dies there will be calls for civility and “respect for the office” from even his harshest critics and I’m telling you right now I plan on saying things so harsh they might knock the earth off its axis

submitted 12 days ago • 278 comments

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 12 days ago • 1158 comments

It actually is somewhat amazing how well Tim & Eric predicted the way powerful men would use GenAI, well over a decade before it became a usable product

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

Nexus Mods, one of the primary hosts for modding, was just acquired by what is probably a Web3 VC company. Download the mods you like now, I guess.

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

The photos coming from Trump’s birthday parade are just incredible. No one showed up.

submitted 15 days ago • 213 comments

Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars. <Later> Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.

submitted 16 days ago • 63 comments

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

submitted 15 days ago • 165 comments