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"Someone is paying him, and he uses menswear as a cover" is a very funny line, but makes me wonder if they're getting Derek Guy mixed up with someone else.

In January, Nik Kalyanpur and I pitched a similar piece to major outlets. We got back pleasant brushoffs that the comparison to oligarchs in Russia and Hungary was too far fetched. What a difference a few months make. blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20... www.ft.com/content/2626...

i misremembered, it was 2021. linking it here because i want to be able to find it later and people might think it's funny web.archive.org/web/20081021...

Stephen, I already said I liked it you don’t have to keep selling me on it

A lot of commentators have spoken of "colonial boomerang" in recent months as oppression once used only abroad now comes home But the success of latino led protests in L.A show that the ppl who have faced these policies for decades can show us exactly how to beat them (1/2)

god i hate RFK jr

Conclusion of report: "Ultimately, basic income is a policy idea whose time has come. It represents a significant step toward greater economic security and social equity — the foundation we need to build more sustainable and nourishing food systems."

Me when I put down a novel by Iain M. Banks

There's a large convoy of North African activists making their way by land to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. They've now reached Libya www.instagram.com/p/DKtr9pwM7uw Numbers I've seen are anywhere from 1500 to 7000 people. I'll incl the correct nmbr once I have it.

i think what’s most dangerous about this belief is that it legitimizes the structural demolition of science the US is carrying out and its underfunding elsewhere

Because they simply refuse to accept the fact that cops are not on their side. It gets worse: The Israelis have assassinated Palestinian and Lebanese journalists, and this has made absolutely no difference to the wider media narrative on trusting the IDF as a valid source of information.

day 1: few protesters, discipline is shaky day 2: lots of protesters, discipline is strong day 3: amazon prime 2 day delivery arrives

The central delusion of pundits who desperately try to guilt people into coming back to Twitter: they genuinely seem to think we all secretly MISS Twitter and are merely hanging out over here out of a drab, self-flagellating sense of moral superiority no, we're here because Twitter sucks shit now

Correct take. It's always been a niche Gundam in Japan because it had a stiff competition over there. Cool gunpla though

@cnn.com reporter showing LAPD's spent munitions and claims *protesters* are shooting them at police

I just hope Picard fired the Enterprise's Data Protection Officer after the Scimitar incident.

Real talk: This is actually part of how activism works and it's responsible for all the gains the Left made in the 90s, 00s and 10s that conservatives are still in conniptions about. We build powerful movements and seed new consensuses not by arguing every day with normies and nazi trolls.

THE 60'S WERE FUCKING NUTS!!! PEOPLE HAD SHOOTOUTS WITH COPS IN ARMORED CARS!!!!! SNIPERS SHOT IT OUT WITH THE NATIONAL GUARD!!!!!! PEOPLE THREW DYNOMITE AT POLICE LINES!!!!!!! MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED

Why yes, I'm a Data Scientist* *: write papers on Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation

someone cooked here

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Trump wants nihilism to triumph - that's why they are trying to break LA - to criminalize solidarity. In the face of the collapse of this civilization, we have to find the strength to come together and build something new, without the dead weight of the ruling class and their economy of death.

The discourse about how to protest right is a distraction from what the protests are actually about: SECURITY FORCES CAME IN THE NIGHT AND TOOK 2000 PEOPLE AWAY Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Dr Cass is getting sued ashleeee.substack.com/p/hilary-cas...

We made a comic about a shooting star.

If you stop thinking that Germany's response to anything Israel is about Holocaust guilt and instead about rewriting German history, you'd understand German politics better. 🧵

Noah Smith apparently released a book in Japan called "Weeb Economy"

Liberals fear that if people act unruly, Trump will be able to impose totalitarian control. That gets things backwards. Trump is already imposing totalitarian control. That's what is driving people into the streets. It's too late to avoid this fight. We can be passive and lose—or give it our all.

i make no predictions about how the next few weeks / months will unfold, but i just want to note that two-thirds of autocracies have fallen because of internal mistakes by the regime and that counterproductive repression is core to 12-15% of those failures wedontagree.net/maybe-trump-...

It is so frustrating when people say that Trump needs a pretext to escalate or a reason to be authoritarian. There is no justification for either and he has already done both without needing an excuse. This is what abusers do. They victimize regardless of what their victims do

The most well-known statistic about AI water use is a lie. This makes it frustrating to talk about AI and the environment, and this is a long deep dive on that specific point. www.verysane.ai/p/the-bigges...

"As a dissident, winning the culture war means cultural dominance, which means becoming fashionable. Culture is still downstream from power, but your hobbit coup will go way better if you have a fifth column within the elf ruling class—and a hidden cadre of dark elves who can emerge to rule"

At long last, good AI discourse

This is not just revisionist history, it's ignorant of reality. Activists didn't leave Twitter because they "thought they would be more effective" somewhere else, they left because Elon made it clear that he would *deliberately undermine their influence." Why make shit up?

Covid is stored in the balls

This is the way. 10 protests of 100 people much more disruptive to a city and its police than one protest of 1000.

this is a very old but very good analysis of riot squads and tactics www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT9b...