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"For fascist ideologues who glorify violence, AI’s tendencies towards epistemic, structural & administrative violence are not ﬂaws but features. The disruptive potential of AI will become entangled with the more savage disruptions of a fascistic social vision." Resisting AI, p97

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EXT. THE WASTELAND, NIGHT Grandchild: So they were literally doing Nazi salutes by this point? And you didn't do anything? Grandparent: This was all happening at the same time as- Grandchild: Skibidi Toilet. You said. Grandparent: And the Alliance and Skibidi Toilets were fighting the Astro Toi-

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This is just wall to wall bangers:

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Everything he's doing is bullshit, but Musk simultaneously promising efficiency and then demanding millions of federal workers send weekly updates on progress to the president or be fired is comically inept. This is like terminal LinkedIn Brain, pure gutter airport business books.

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Okay, it's been far too long since we had a Luigi, so I'm going to pitch some new Luigis who I think would be good. 1) Peach Female, 21-28, AuDHD, dyed hair (pink), cosplays, has pastel gaming setup. Luigis with a FN-P90 with several stickers (recovered at the scene). We do not sexualise her.

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A nice easy block for Saturday afternoon.

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Because of a century-old copyright dispute we now have both Dracula and Nosferatu, the only difference being that in one of them the dracula looks more stupid.

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I am very literally in the early stages of writing a book about this fact, since I think it's something we haven't actually grappled with as a culture or developed solutions for.

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Ah shit it turns out the problem with conservatism is that conservatives are all evil

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gerberts

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This is me.

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Why are we always having the same conversation about what work will be like under Communism when we don't know what ANYTHING will be like under Communism because some guys 150 years ago said that it was lame to think about what this thing we're working towards will actually be like?

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Visa handles 639 million transactions per day.

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NEW: Leaked audio reveals how Tesla[.]Sexy, the company owned by 19-year-old DOGE employee Ed ‘Big Balls’ Coristine, harassed and doxed people online www.dailydot.com/debug/leaked...

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NEW EPISODE What We Owe Each Other The culture is shifting, and not for the better. How do we make sure that the people we are in publishing relationships with really have our backs, and how can we make sure to have theirs? on.soundcloud.com/AdAgq81rMJsY...

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Probably says a bit about where I'm at right now that the reveal of where the title comes from had me sobbing. This is part of what I'm always going on about it with moral seriousness: acting like what you do and say actually matters, and that you're obligated to the world.

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There's always fun to be had at the Polish shop

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ELON: (replying to picture comparing 90s Lara Croft’s breasts to current day Lara Croft’s breasts posted by account called Western_Gaming) Woke must be stopped. GRIMES: Elon please call me back. Your sickly child Morty Mechahitler got cut in half looking at a photo of a Cybertruck.

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we used to be a real country

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rich people are excited that they "can" say the r-slur again, but they could always say it. i heard a poor white NH 12yo kid say it on the street the other day. that kid never stopped. the rich are titillated by swiping a new type of Nasty Serf Authenticity, like wearing cowboy hats or using AAVE

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Musk now he doesn't need his son for protection anymore.

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Nobody actually has “immigration concerns” that Starmer can in any way address! They want someone to perform joyous cruelty on migrants, and he’s simply not got it in him to be joyous!

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Imagining @killjamesbond.bsky.social doing Dragged Over Concrete as part of the Heists season because I hope that somebody, anybody, can thread the needle between 'this movie is reactionary and deeply nihilistic' and 'this is actually rather good'.

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The first three Metallica albums back to back then $25 to the first person to kick Lars in the nuts.

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The rise of gen AI, backed at every level by the far-right, suggests the arrival of an _anti-information_ age. AI offers a self-reinforcing bullshit loop that, much like a Russian disinfo operation, serves to muddy the information space and create doubt about the very nature of reality.

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Oh my god would people stop spoiling Severance already!

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Taking immigration concerns 'seriously' IS paternalism! Nobody in Westminster believes that immigration should be meaningfully reduced, but they're willing to pretend that they're 'tough of immigration' to appeal to a stereotype of flat-cap wearing, whippet-owning white working class voter.

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Every day I read the dumbest, most embarrassing thing I've ever read, and it's always written in that LinkedIn one-sentence-paragraph Sephiroth style.

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God I love @rosgakori.bsky.social's writing about 40k. Honestly one of the best doing it right now. I also love @noahvannguyen.bsky.social's Elemental Council, tied for best 40k book of 2024 with Deathworlder for me. It's a shame that more people aren't talking about it. medium.com/@aasa.timone...

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the soy right in action: people on twitter are pointing out that musk is painfully unfunny at cpac and countless blue checks are claiming this is ableist

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