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This Whole Thing Smacks of Gender: political polarization and the American administrative state, 1994-2025

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Time for my annual contrarian reminder that DST sucks and standard time is superior. Night time is for going to bed! We need sunlight in the morning because it is /morning/.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

well this made me cry over breakfast. to any democrats holding even a shred of power right now: look at what’s possible from people far more endangered and vulnerable than you and grow a spine, you fucking cowards www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-s...

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

It’s pretty interesting that both Tim Walz and Gavin Newsom are clearly positioning themselves to run for President and one thought he should publicize that he’s having diplomatic conversations with Canadian provinces close to Minnesota and the other thought he should publicize that he sucks

submitted 2 days ago • 267 comments

What about your childhood self was injured by simply watching the existing media

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz343bs

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

I can’t wait for people in ten years to say of their gleeful transphobia today that it was a different time, same as the people who abused us in the 80s, 90s and 00s said ten years ago

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

News stories about American factories shutting down when “foreign aid” is abolished reveal how predatory us foreign policy is, even in its benevolent guises, and also you /still can’t let children die/

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If some cis people can’t compete in sport on the same level as regular people, perhaps, as a modest proposal, there could be a sort of “special” Olympics, just for them.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

We actually SHOULD be “policing” pronouns use and I would bet all the commentariat saying you’ve never seen any have seen colleagues misgendered. So maybe step in the breach here.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

To be very clear, objecting to pronouns and land acknowledgments is picking the parts of the dem coalition you never liked and saying “let’s stop seeing them.”

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting that only 10% use ChatGPT weekly or more often.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Some Boston content

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Given how extremely affordable actual doctorate holders are, the only reason to use this is 1. Nobody will agree to do your insane and/or evil shit 2. You actually do not need a “PhD level agent” and you do not know what a doctorate means 3. Both

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

What if you wanted your cute candid snapshot of your dog at a party to look like it took place at the maw of hell? Generative ai has your back

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Having the realization that confirmation hearings make sense as something other than a spectacle in a less polarized political environment; had not really occurred to me that they might (have once been intended to) persuade rather than perform

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

What makes me most apprehensive about work like this, especially from otherwise extremely decent people or outlets, is the way llm use is treated as separate from the companies making and funding it, which are bound up inexorably in the fascist turn in Silicon Valley.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Embarrassing for everyone involved

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I wonder if “obey in advance” misstates the degree to which many institutions including some in higher education and nearly the whole tech industry were sort of aligned with this mission already

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Biden was both a war criminal AND one of the best presidents on domestic policy that we’ve had since FDR.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not a paragon of environmental virtue but when I hear about people using chatgpt to make a grocery list or whatever it does make me feel a little bit less wigged out about like, ordering work shirts online when I technically could take the train for an hour to buy them.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment