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I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

submitted 11 hours ago • 136 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 13 hours ago • 410 comments

We're gonna look back on this era and be so baffled and infuriated about how much time the media spent complaining about DEI trainings. Yes some of them are silly but overall, companies recruiting minorities and trying to create less hostile workplaces is good!

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

All this bullshit immediately crumbles when it's presented to anyone who's not a sympathetic cohost on your podcast

submitted 16 hours ago • 145 comments

Being radicalized increasingly since 2016 has just been banging my head against this post indefinitely.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

if you look at a bad thing that happened and assume, evidence-free, that it's because a Black person got a job they shouldn't have, you're not a "DEI skeptic," you're a dumb gutter racist

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

I am tired of this horseshit. BP didn’t “go green”; it kept drilling for oil and gas in repressive petrostates and creaming billions in profits These analysts actually believed the greenwash, and are now calling for the black pill www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

I have committed so many crimes with a Minimoog and a string machine and the B major scale

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Unironically, these letters are a good example of how we’re ruled by evil men now. It would have cost them nothing to be at least slightly sympathetic. “Hey man, we know this is rough, but we have to tighten our belts and…” They instead deliberately made them as cruel as possible.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

I know we talk about this constantly but it is truly one of the greatest mindfucks of my lifetime. as an 80s kid a Nazi was the most unambiguously, nonnegotiably evil thing you could even be ADJACENT TO, like morality for kindergarteners, and now we have to relitigate that shit every day???? ffs

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

New litmus test - if you endorse an illegal action by the Trump/Musk administration because it leads to an outcome you like, you are a Quisling and should be kicked out of the party.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

My illegal Pinkerton is driving me to my illegal hotel while the hallucination machine in my phone summarizes the emails my coworkers wrote using their hallucination machines. My burrito travels separately in its own limo. This is innovation and normal.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

So many people of the people who can literally afford to be strong are so appallingly, embarrassingly weak.

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

People often assume the emotions associated with cruelty are hatred and anger, but it’s actually pleasure and joy. Fascists relish their cruelty. They roll it around on their tongue like a mouthful of full-bodied wine. They laugh as they harm.

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

Please don't say that no one is doing anything. We're waiting for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov to catch up with their constituents.

submitted 5 days ago • 67 comments

I got that dog in me (I’m scared of the doorbell)

submitted 6 days ago • 67 comments

Not to flex but anyone who followed Elon's hyperloop arc saw this coming a mile away. He said he could save 90% over high speed rail by ... buying land cheaper. That was it, he never offered any further specifics and the media utterly failed to convey how much of a charlatan he was.

submitted 5 days ago • 80 comments

This tends to always become the conventional wisdom. It's never the fault of highly-paid democratic operatives who dont' do their job, it is the fault of some sophomores at Oberlin who made us put our pronouns in our bios!

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

a starbucks barista is seen as more elite than a suburban car dealer

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

that new masculine energy is doing wonders for the company

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From today's rally to demand the Governor remove a MAGA mobster mayor who is an imminent threat to New Yorkers

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

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Welcomed the third arch of the new Portal Bridge home as it passed up the Hackensack River under the PATH Lift Bridge, the Harsimus Branch Lift Bridge, and the Wittpenn Bridge, our vantage point.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Further evidence that only people who grew up with forums know how to use the internet: lurk for a long time, post tentatively until you have 10,000 posts, then act like your seniority gives you some kind of say, then leave in a huff to an almost identical forum.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I still say it was the end of Google Reader

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

don’t think I’ll ever be persuaded a restaurant needs AI to prevent itself from seating Matthew McConaughey outdoors in the pouring rain

submitted 13 days ago • 44 comments

we gotta bring back "broken windows theory" but for billionaires

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

Can't believe the amount of heat we used to get for downloading an mp3 when every tech company is downloading the sum total of human expression to sell a scromited version back to us

submitted 14 days ago • 52 comments

Contributions is an understatement. They were the nation’s house paper for the “trans debate.” If you were trying to get your anti-trans bigotry to a nationwide audience, NYT was the place to go. What a galling thing for them to write now.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

As the expected Christian Nationalism EO came in, I’m seeing a bunch of “this isn’t real Christianity” noise in my mentions. Nope. Christian friends. 1/x 🧵 This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +

submitted 14 days ago • 124 comments

Hard to come up with a better example of one whose research made this world better. When you ride a bike over what used to be a parking lane, when your kids play without fear of being killed by a motorist or when you breathe cleaner air in your city, give Donald Shoup a small silent thanks.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Donald Shoup was a guest on the third ever episode of Adam Ruins Everything, “Adam Ruins Cars.” He was so generous with his time and so game to do a silly scene with us. RIP to a wonderful man and advocate youtu.be/skm6hp99-5A?...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Something Borrowed, Someone Blue Doo dah, doo dah Weekend City Press Review Oh, doo dah day

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

academic biblical subreddit continues to deliver the goods

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

"disrupt a tired diplomatic paradigm" is the most innovative euphemism for "perpetrate crimes against humanity" i've heard all week

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

How can someone be this fucking lame and not die from self-induced cringe

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

I understand why he hasn't been arrested yet—we live in a failed state—but it's still jarring to witness every day:

submitted 17 days ago • 80 comments

Floored by the commitment to bilingual vandalism here

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

One of the worst Gormless Gaps I know. Looks how the barrier slashes into the pedestrian space so that motorists are freed from having to drive carefully. And look at the cities we've got thanks to not expecting people to drive carefully

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

Yglesias and Smith use that word because they are eugenics-curious, or more than eugenics-curious. It isn't just some sort of contrarian shock value. (it never is). They use it because it embodies an ideology of contempt for the disabled that they like and want to promote.

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

beginning to think anointing hakeem jeffries to run the house democratic caucus because he was your strongest under-55 soldier for insulting and stymieing four specific progressive women representatives was a bad idea

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments