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By Dr. Seuss in 1941

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The U.S. is slashing food assistance, education, and Medicare while firing a huge chunk of the government workforce. Where’s the money going? $600 million for “armored Teslas.” Yes, it’s real. The same crowd that killed the “woke” electric postal […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Tax strike time https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/nyregion/doge-migrant-hotel-shelters.html

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that "executive orders" are exactly that - orders from the president for the executive branch. They are not laws, and they do not directly bind anyone not in the executive branch of the US government. They might affect how laws are enforced and other things the executive branch does […]

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

I thought The Onion was supposed to be satire

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

If the federal government is not following the law, maybe it's time for states to pass laws ordering companies and individuals to no longer remit taxes to the IRS and just do things at a state level.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I now have a Google phone for almost ten years. Why the heck do I still need an internet connection for trivial tasks like setting timers? They should be able to run a pocket size offline model on a recent phone like my pixel 8 pro

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Billionaires are the problem, not our neighbours to the South. So, let's target billionaires with a 30% tax on any transaction by any financial instrument (company, investment vehicle, etc) that's more than 2.5% owned by a billionaire. It's not even a usurious tax: it's exactly the same as […]

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Made with balloons by BLCKSMTH.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Generalized version of this week, as a rule: If it looks like a Nazi, and fricken' Nazis are PRAISING it, then it's a Nazi. No exceptions.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

German newspapers of record "Die Zeit", front page today: "A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute"

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Once seen, never unseen!

submitted 42 days ago • 7 comments

This is a story about a human who has developed a ~relationship with an LLM and is therefore way out of my usual zone—the “AI girlfriend” articles always feel like rubbernecking a car crash to me—but Kashmir Hill is such a great writer and uses this fundamentally sad and tawdry situation to […]

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

[Neil Gaiman, abuse] https://www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html I hadn't read any Gaiman for a long time. After reading this I'll want to keep it that way. It's a painful read, but I'm glad to support such thorough journalism by being a […]

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

“It’s a story about a small, dingy sector of the world economic machine, where the gears are not turned by anything so tangible as commerce, but a shambolic, deathless spirit. Nothing gets made here, and nothing, not even a company with no purpose or product, ever dies.” […]

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

And the angel said unto me: "Thine eyes have grown myopic drinking of the lesser lights of thy devices while the limbs of the body have grown weak without labor. I command thee now: step from thy dark abode and place the palms of bare hands upon the grasses of the fields. Place the tips of thy […]

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

#2025: Looking Forward To The Past, Today.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

I think this is really neat: a map of where you can get to by train within 8 hours from any European train station. Hooray for trains. https://www.chronotrains.com/en

submitted 66 days ago • 7 comments

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

In 2024 San Francisco, more people have been killed by drivers (34) than by homicides (33). Of the 34 traffic fatalities, 22 were pedestrians. Yet, SF politicians seem more focused on property crime and other exaggerated threats than addressing the growing danger pedestrians face every time […]

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Seriously good news: Rupert Murdoch Fails in Bid to Change Family Trust: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/business/media/rupert-lachlan-murdoch-family-trust.html

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

The easiest way to "predict" a crime is to plan and execute one.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

I am still seeing tons of articles in the mainstream media about how Democrats need to win back disaffected Trump voters. This is despite the data which clearly shows that Trump's vote did not increate significantly over 2020, but rather that Democratic voters voted in substantially smaller […]

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

This is my tiny hill I will die on.

submitted 94 days ago • 8 comments

submitted 96 days ago • 4 comments

Americans: "Oh no, we couldn't _possibly_ replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20; what kind of precedent would it set if we just started changing the picture on our money?" Australians:

submitted 97 days ago • 6 comments

Good morning! I have thoughts about the internet. https://www.wrecka.ge/against-the-dark-forest/

submitted 102 days ago • 7 comments

Cascading Collapse in Online Social Networks #socialmedia #onlinecommunity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17135-1

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

The Civil War never truly ended. Confederates just went underground to continue the fight in the South. WW2 never truly ended. The seeds of Nazism took root and flourished in the US and elsewhere. The Cold War never truly ended. The USSR broke apart, but Russia still stands where it stood and […]

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

Sounds like Google has changed A LOT since I last visited them (back in 2016, I think): and entirely for the worse … https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/113492369837409804

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

#Parody #NYTimesPitchbot

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments