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"You can call it the Barbie AI treatment or the Barbie box trend. Or if Barbie isn't your thing, you can go with AI action figures, action figure starter pack, or the ChatGPT action figures trend. But however you hashtag it, the dolls are seemingly everywhere." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 21 hours ago • 539 comments

China is openly mocking us because we are openly mockable right now.

submitted 21 hours ago • 594 comments

Leo Marx provides at least a partial answer: www.jstor.org/stable/40971...

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I remember reading that the Varsity Blues scandal underlined the unspoken contract of elite universities: you bring in just enough bright minds on merit to give the school prestige, then charge wealthy mediocrities money to reap the social benefits of that prestige (this is related, I swear—)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

getting sent to a foreign megaprison for future thoughtcrime

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

if you regularly see posts from people online who you hate then that is a skill issue, especially on a site like this where the block is so all-encompassing

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

submitted 5 days ago • 481 comments

The woo woo antivaxxers wrapped around the horseshoe, and others are too. Much like far left and far right both want authoritarianism, and in that way are more similar to each other than to the center, both extremes prefer fantasy, feelings, and conspiracy theory over evidence-based decision-making.

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

doesn't appear to be engagement farming yet? odd.

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NEWSFLASH: At least 12 members of Congress are flying Appeal to Heaven flags outside their offices. Great reporting from @marabim.bsky.social tracking Congress & January 6th symbolism. The ATH flag is a symbol of Christian supremacy & political-spiritual warfare. baptistnews.com/article/a-vi...

submitted 7 days ago • 51 comments

how it feels to log onto this website with the heart and soul of a jester

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I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time

submitted 12 days ago • 152 comments

Historians are going to have better records from the 19th century than the 21st, is my most medievalist futurist prediction.

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

submitted 11 days ago • 188 comments

Gonna add one story to this great thread on the history of people wearing barrels. One of Portland's most obnoxious and notorious fascists, Grace Wick, got her start in the 1930s wearing a barrel around downtown Portland sporting an array of anti-New Deal slogans.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

The unbundling of teaching & research is a key strategy for EdTech colonization of educational institutions & when administrators parrot its logic they are either ignorant, & need to be informed, or they are collaborating.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

RIP King

submitted 14 days ago • 59 comments

Things like this are the consequence of a cultural atmosphere of generalized, unrepentant misogyny. If you're a man, speak up to shut down anything that even starts to head this direction, because this is where it goes (but not where it ends).

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes

submitted 17 days ago • 854 comments

there was a brief period where it was fashionable to say that it was actually harmful to believe your political opponents are ontologically evil. man have those people taken a huge L lately

submitted 18 days ago • 37 comments

Susan Sontag on Fascinating Fascism:

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thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

submitted 19 days ago • 270 comments

Don’t tell the eve 6 guy but my favorite song called “Inside Out” is by Spoon

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“We’re just locking people up and inventing the term ‘collateral arrest’ because that sounds better than kidnapping” is some Nazi shit

submitted 21 days ago • 14 comments

Russell Brand posted and then deleted a completely fake document which he thought was from the newly released JFK files and proved British actress Penelope Keith, not Lee Harvey Oswald, killed JFK.

submitted 26 days ago • 67 comments

They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

submitted 29 days ago • 756 comments

imo the left really needs to put a lot more effort into organizing veterans, especially now. they aren’t a political monolith, and a lot of them are getting screwed over right now.

submitted 32 days ago • 246 comments

People convince themselves that animals can’t feel or think but desperately believe that a computer program that spews out summaries is something magical and intelligent

submitted 33 days ago • 37 comments

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

submitted 33 days ago • 45 comments

Techniques used by Amazon to disrupt organizing “include leveraging algorithmic discipline on worker devices, algorithmic slack-cutting or ‘electronic whipping,’ in which algorithms rapidly alter quotas and rules, mobile device spamming, and social media monitoring.”

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Same shit different century...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

truthout.org/audio/fight-... - so many people do NOT understand that criminalization is THE fuel for authoritarianism and fascism. @mskellymhayes.bsky.social gets at this here.

submitted 40 days ago • 12 comments

Yeah well that is just a deeply unfortunate name for a clothing brand.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 41 days ago • 62 comments

personally would not describe the myth of a man cursed to roll a rock uphill FRUITLESSLY FOR ALL ETERNITY as “a reminder that you can overcome anything” but you do you, meta ad

submitted 41 days ago • 343 comments

Guess I need to say this is loudly and as bluntly as possible but: effective altruism has always just been fascist social Darwinism in a techno fascist newspeak paint job.

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

wearing a pink pantsuit in defiance as i’m executed by the state

submitted 42 days ago • 7 comments

We appear to have a literal neo-Nazi in leadership of pentagon press office.

submitted 41 days ago • 39 comments

We're deeply concerned about the growing number of attacks on academic researchers studying the online landscape. This is a tremendous overview of how this research works and why it matters. We will continue to stand behind our peers and colleagues who come under attack.

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