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Signal is making Telegram feel like Skype when Zoom quietly showed up and took over the meeting.

Oh… you mean besides the Teslas

The Content-Creator-In-Chief, the boot, the scroll, the weight of endless engagement, pressing down, dragging on.

It starts like this: the world flattens, the choices shrink, the sky turns into nothing. Then comes the war and, with it, the loss of third dimensional thought. www.bewilderingstories.com/issue582/wit...

Fascism always calls from inside the house: in the living room, flipping through old photo albums, wondering if things were better when the furniture matched

The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

Good faith, bad faith—doesn’t matter. We let go of belief, and now the institutions, protections, and customs are coming apart, like a papier-mâché parade float in the rain. Some continue to wave anyway.

In Austin where I’m heading to SXSW (South by Simone Weil), every startup pitch is actually about decreation.

Just like having to fight fire with fire, we must fight fascism with…[checks notes]…fuchsia?

“Power is for those who lack the courage to be beautiful.” —Constance Debré

The massive firings across multiple government agencies have very little to do with the economics of the budget, which is why the GOP is also proposing massive cuts to Medicaid to get their tax cuts, but they everything to do with the ideology of the economy.

Unfortunately a lot shit in the U.S. is in fact precedented.

“While the constitution bars Musk from serving as president, nothing in the constitution prevents him from owning a president” -some justice writing for a majority of a near future 6-3 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.

If we ever break free, they’ll sue us for stealing the plot. Organizing, they’ll say, is IP theft—Severance owns the cubicles, Andor owns the rebellion, Mickey 17 owns the clones. Solidarity is now under copyright.

Among everything else, what a shitty fate, to have national systems of support dismantled by two men who have never once changed a diaper.

Silicon Valley didn’t build the future—they perfected Superman 3 at scale. Every interface a siphon, every platform a skim. The skim lords take their cut—money, thoughts, connection—until there’s nothing left but fractions.

"Gulf of America" is just a loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up or look the other way.

"we arrested the guy with a palestinian flag, gonna try to figure out later what crime it was" really does nail something

Drake was dragged so bad that even Hector said “damn.”

Depending on the people you’re stuck with, any room can be an Escape Room.