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The right way for Mahmood to respond to the substantial and substantiated criticisms of the Supreme Court decision is to address them. To pretend it is illegitimate even to advance criticism is to mimic autocracies and amplify the stench of impropriety. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels. The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people

submitted 15 hours ago • 452 comments

A two-part object lesson in how performative authoritarianism done by the left is never enough for the right.

submitted 19 hours ago • 64 comments

I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight. 1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms" 2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral 3) How tools are productized is not neutral [rant]

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Interesting how everyone yells at me when I say something stupid but nobody compliments me when I go a whole day without saying something stupid

submitted 2 days ago • 103 comments

We're making sure next year's different.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

One of my beautiful crow friends posing among the cherry blossoms. 🌸🐦‍⬛ #Stunday #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Flowers #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Crows #Corvids #ArtYear #Seattle #smArtist #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

In the beginning, the political events were spaced by 24 weeks. Then twelve, then six, then every two weeks. The last one in Sydney was a week. In four days, we could be seeing politics every eight hours, until they are coming every four minutes. We should witness a double event within seven days.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime

submitted 4 days ago • 971 comments

How are things in general?

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Cooper: Wow, his image is being shown on a monitor.. that's why you hear people actually applauding. They're applauding President Zelenskyy when he appeared on some of the Jumbotrons

submitted 4 days ago • 668 comments

Milei looks like a 70’s Welshman who passed out drunk on his nephew’s stag do in Brynamman RFC & mysteriously woke up in the Vatican

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We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.

submitted 5 days ago • 1738 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 5 days ago • 608 comments

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

submitted 6 days ago • 2501 comments

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 7 days ago • 859 comments

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

submitted 7 days ago • 832 comments

"he's revealed a fundamental fragility in the American economy, which is that if we elect a leader who brings forward an economic program of destruction, our political institutions are not strong enough to stop them."

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Wow, that was fast and will be popular with white men who will be able to think “well I’m not the problem, it’s the foreigners”

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.

submitted 9 days ago • 2772 comments

Trans people told you we were just the start of a wholesale attack on human rights. We are just the lowest-hanging fruit. They are coming for a much larger group next…

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The reason the media at large needs to stop treating these moves with the tone and verbiage of policy is because this admin is motivated purely by its glee for using power to harm, and its contempt for rights or rules which protect us from their power to hurt us. It’s an entirely different ballgame.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This is some sick shit

submitted 12 days ago • 5456 comments

cuomo’s position here is basically that it is unsporting to do politics www.thedailybeast.com/andrew-cuomo...

submitted 13 days ago • 698 comments

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

submitted 13 days ago • 92 comments

My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music. Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity

submitted 13 days ago • 162 comments

A powerful US official is extremely cracked. www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

submitted 14 days ago • 80 comments

PRO DEVELOPER TIP: Instead of a pop-up asking me whether I want to allow unnecessary cookies while I'm trying to use your website, just put an opt-in button somewhere where I'll never, ever have to see it

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Felling of ancient London oak tree reported to police

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

Guys, we’re ALREADY at the “Then they came for me” part. The only thing we can’t be sure of is the order.

submitted 15 days ago • 35 comments

Kawese Hasui1883-1957 Evening Shower At Imai Bridge #Japanese #Woodblock

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This is another obviously-rightwing facet of genAI tech. Erasing the worker and elevating the owner of the means of production as not merely the owner of the output, but its sole progenitor. Recognizing labor gives it power, which is unacceptable.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

submitted 19 days ago • 68 comments

Gonna take this opportunity to say that I can personally deliver no script for as little as 7 million, and I know some other writers who can do it for as little as five million.

submitted 20 days ago • 366 comments

(the answer is the rich and greedy, of course)

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

submitted 20 days ago • 1804 comments

Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation

submitted 21 days ago • 564 comments

Never-Before-Heard Buzzword Flying Around Office Can’t Be Good theonion.com/never-b...

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Adjectives I like…

submitted 24 days ago • 416 comments

I keep seeing Liz Truss is in the US. Is she going to try to take credit for all this?

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submitted 25 days ago • 52 comments

Where is our humanity?

submitted 24 days ago • 1830 comments