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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.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

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...

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

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)

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

god i hate RFK jr

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

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."

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

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.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

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.

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

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

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 141 comments

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

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 324 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

someone cooked here

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

🤢 🤮

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

We made a comic about a shooting star.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

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. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

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-...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

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...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

"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"

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

At long last, good AI discourse

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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?

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

Covid is stored in the balls

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

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments