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This can’t be right. Zuckerberg said he’s a true believer in free speech on principal.

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I can’t claim to be an expert, but I called hundreds of voters before the election, and among the many who said they trusted Trump on the economy, I don’t think a single one thought he was offering a period of austerity and recession.

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Excellent, but bleak reading both for Europeans and for the US defence industry:

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

submitted 2 days ago • 125 comments

See, all Dems had to do was send a letter about corruption and the media jumped on it. Imagine if there was a coordinated and concerted effort to highlight the absolutely brazen corruption going on.

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Oh man. That’s pretty retro. I feel like this “blockchain will solve {food provenance, healthcare records, collectibles authentification}” hype went out of fashion like 5 years ago.

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Weird how these fascists: a) always want to explain to Jews what’s antisemitic and what isn’t b) also often have weirdly close relationships with Nazis But, sure, this was definitely about fighting anti-semitism. Got it.

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Musk literally did a Hitler salute in front of the entire country, but yeah, we have to send out a form to find out who might be associated with totalitarian anti-American political parties.

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I can't believe Big Balls, the Douche and Tommy Tuna could make a mistake like this, given their combined year of work experience.

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I bet if you had access to the Mar-a-Lago visitor logs, you could pretty easily build a model for whom the President just met with based on his tweets. Something like, "threatens sanctions on Russia" -> just met with Richard Grenell "calls Zelenskyy a dictator" -> just met with Stephen Miller

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So what are we calling the newly aligned groups in geopolitics? I propose: Europe+Canada: the Free World US+Russia: Axis of Fuckheads

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At heart, these people have such small imaginations. President of the Free World, and the best you can come up with is fleecing your supporters for a quick buck via a memecoin rugpull.

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😕

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

I have an upcoming flight to the US. Do I have to worry about being shot down by a SpaceX rocket? If so, are there any bribes I can pay in the form of $TRUMP and/or other memecoins in exchange for not getting shot down?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I will repeat my gradually-less-sarcastic-and-terrifyingly-more-serious question from two days ago: At what point will the US need to explicitly budget for the cost of military assistance to Russia?

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This feels like it represents something new in academia, and not something terribly desirable. I actually think this tension is especially acute in computer science and engineering programs, which naturally are pre-professional but, ideally, are not only that.

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There’s so much to criticize among elite American educational institutions. But also, this alternative sounds likely worse!

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Also great. Maybe there’s something to be said for family ownership instead of selling out to a distracted Silicon Valley billionaire having a midlife crisis?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I give the Times a lot of shit, but this is a good front page article.

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I am as dedicated to fighting fascism as anyone but you still should respect the office of the reich chancellor

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

When Musk took over Twitter, he launched a payroll audit to root out dead workers getting paid. Now, Musk is launching the same campaign across the federal government.

submitted 3 days ago • 119 comments

Trump has introduced the "nano-tariff:" a hefty tax imposed for a few hours, then lifted after shattering business confidence.

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

In 1943 the US government made an antifascist film called "Don't Be a Sucker" in which we see a college professor in Germany removed from his classroom by government officials who do not approve of what he's teaching about race. youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4?...

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

Excellent overview by @brianklaas.bsky.social of the ongoing destruction of American democracy and how to save it. The time is now: "it’s far easier to save a democracy than to resurrect one." www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-america...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

There’s no opposition party, just a few brave voices in a sea of vichy cowards bsky.app/profile/greg...

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

Learn to vote in your state's primaries. That's where the game begins.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I'm not saying that Democrats are wrong here, but it does feel a bit like saying "we have a chance to take back the steering wheel" when the car is already tumbling through mid-air having driven off a cliff.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Conventional wisdom is that volatility and uncertainty is bad for markets, and so obviously the Trump chaos engine is also bad, but, uh...what if that's wrong? Hear me out...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I don't have an opinion on the content of the question here, but it's noteworthy that an already long-politically contentious topic in Switzerland now seems to be heavily influenced by the (rational) belief that the US is no longer in any way a reliable defense partner.

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Think we’ve forgotten about the time that Elon was booed so badly by fans of Dave Chapelle (of all people) that he locked himself in his office and Twitter employees considered calling the cops to do a wellness check. What I’m saying is we can go harder.

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