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There's been a very strong natsec argument for green energy since the OPEC crisis, but all the parties terrified of leaving money on the table flipped the argument to justify infinite fossil fuel extraction forever to protect the American Petroleum Empire

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one other side of this is something that I try to emphasize to my students: "what does freedom actually mean" is not a 21stC issue anachronistically read backwards into the 18thC. The US, French, and Haitian Revolutions happened at more or less the same time, with an overlapping cast of characters

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San Francisco is to 21st century technofascist cults as upstate New York was to 19th century spiritualist quasi-religious communes/cults. Would be more fascinating/amusing if they didn't control at least 80% of global wealth

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please don't tell me kids need to learn how to use AI "for their future"

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Feels like the current trend in the U.S. is that a lot of people will experience climate change as a creeping, steady boil of rising rents, insurance premiums and prices for everyday items that fewer and fewer people will be able to swallow month to month

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Dillerships

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The image you posted is actually Mictlantecuhtli, the lord of Mictlan. This is Mictecacihuatl, queen of Mictlan whom some devotees of Santa Muerte view as her Aztec predecessor.

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This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

submitted 4 days ago • 86 comments

Trans kids are wonderful and precious and I’m so glad they exist.

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My prediction for how this will play out: Most colleges will doubledown on AI even as employers realize their graduates know next to nothing. Elite colleges will market themselves as being non-AI. Not using AI will be a bespoke luxury commodity that's highly sought after.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

as a cis person I don't really have anything intelligent to add to the day's discussion re: Skrmetti, just a burning hatred of transphobia and the people who peddle it

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I'd like to thank the Democratic Party for today's decision. Without their feckless, cowardly refusal to stick up for trans people without question or hesitation even in words, they played a vital role in wielding the power of the state to harm my child specifically. I'll never forget it, gang!

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

i can only repeat this so many times but similar to abortion the government cannot end gender transition medicine (for youth or otherwise), it can only increase the danger and precarity of the lives of those who access it. essentially no mainstream media recognizes this correct framing

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we're not going to "you're valid without transitioning" and "you'll always have a place as a second-class citizen" our way out of the suicides and immiseration

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The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

submitted 8 days ago • 159 comments

Brian Wilson’s fixation on Shortnin’ Bread is like how Liszt and Chopin used to compile and rewrite Central European folk melodies

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Smart analysis of the No Kings protests estimates roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across America yesterday. The anti-Trump resistance is unprecedented, and exceeds his first term. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

Should be a lot more or ANY discussion about how this move, along with Trump NEVER stopping bringing in foreign workers to his businesses, undermines all the lies Trump has been telling about immigrants for a decade, especially the legal arguments that this is an emergency that requires a crackdown.

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Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

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I’ve been to a lot of protests etc the last few years, first time since 2020 it felt like joining with others in a historic moment somehow

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This is excellent on many counts (incl its reading list) but especially for surfacing that Satya Nadella has already acknowledged that the productivity projections for generative AI haven’t remotely panned out

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the last few days have put me through it but the No Kings Yas Queens Pride March & Protest was a nice way to end the week

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Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need

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It’s like they contacted Vic Berger to produce the military parade

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Is it too conspiratorial to think the call went out to the LAPD to attack the protest as a distraction from the pathetic showing in DC

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a big day for police doing what they’re good at: rioting against peaceful protesters and letting killers escape

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

wracking my brains to think of someone who would have had access to a police uniform, a police-issue plate carrier, and a police car

submitted 9 days ago • 90 comments

Where were you when MAGA murdered Melissa & Mark Hortman? Do not forget or forgive the politicians, the crooks at Fox News, the fire-spitting preachers, the entire rotten murdering right wing culture. They already think they're at war with you even if you haven't realized you're at war with them.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The second Republican lawmaker THIS YEAR who's been arrested on pedophilia-related charges (MN Sen. Justin Eichorn was soliciting a minor), plus OH State Rep. Rodney Creech was investigated for inappropriately touching his daughter.

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

pedcon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory

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Miller wrote this

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Seems obvious that the tactics that the cops are using on the protesters -- misusing "less-lethal" rounds in lethal ways, specifically targeting medics and media, indiscriminately attacking/arresting bystanders -- are tactics learned specifically from their Israeli trainers/counterparts

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The calls for restraint oddly all focus on the people running away from the weapons

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

The immediate adoption of AI tech 4 brutally misogynistic porn fantasies is a harsh symbol of how contemp women get fixed onto a nexus where the darkest vectors of capital, patriarchy, and technology cross. Breaking that nexus would revolutionize modern society & remake/unmake those 3 social forces

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great point from @maxread.info regarding "regarding white genocide," and one that relates to the weird ChatGPT sycophancy thing from the other week: crude interventions like this break the AI illusion maxread.substack.com/p/regarding-...

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments