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Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.

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When we talk about former leftists who are now solidly MAGA but still self identify as leftists these tweets called out by Post-Left Watch are textbook 🤌🏻

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I was really hoping we'd have a woman as president before we had one from South Africa, but here we are.

submitted 72 days ago • 1899 comments

Full moon over the Round Barn at Churchtown Dairy

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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

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At least…

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Coperthwaite wheels (and a wagon wheel of Coperthwaite) 🧀 at Churchtown Dairy

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this is excellent, informed & informative on Trump-1’s grotesquely barbaric “child separation” policy & the prospect of Trump-2 exceeding its grotesquery & barbarism by many orders of magnitude — and also on the difficulty of saying any of these things effectively: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

submitted 89 days ago • 14 comments

Response to coups by elected leaders: - South Korea: blocked by mass mobilization of citizens - Brazil: coup leader indicted, barred from politics - United States: coup leader re-elected with majorities in the legislature and a compliant Supreme Court

submitted 89 days ago • 292 comments

NEW: Nancy Mace as recently as 2023 called herself “pro-transgender rights” and said she supported children exploring gender identities with different hairstyles, clothing and pronouns — Mace is now calling trans people “mentally ill” and targeting Rep. Sarah McBride. www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/p...

submitted 97 days ago • 135 comments

It's nice to remember that in most corners of the earth, Musk is treated as the fascist fraud he is.

submitted 102 days ago • 18 comments

The man wrote a check

submitted 103 days ago • 19 comments

Meet Trump’s new Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon

submitted 103 days ago • 301 comments

Canada knows what we’re all googling and is hitting us with the ads in Insta 🍁

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Wrote for @discourseblog.com about how it's always marginalized communities like trans people who get blamed for Democratic failures, rather than the highly-paid DC insiders who actually control the party discourseblog.com/p/its-blame-...

submitted 105 days ago • 31 comments

A woman testified to the House Ethics Committee that former congressman Matt Gaetz paid her for sex and that she witnessed President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general having sex with a 17-year-old at a party, her lawyer said over the weekend.

submitted 104 days ago • 53 comments

Wow: Latest Times tabulation has Trump at 50.1%. Cook Report says <50. NYT says wherever it falls will wind up being one of the smallest margins in history, and shifting just 237K votes across 3 states woulda changed the outcome Turns out that landslide is razor thin www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...

submitted 105 days ago • 57 comments

Cheese rind hieroglyphics. Geotrichum Candidum and B.Linen cultures being the primary with other yeasts and a dust of Penicillium Candidum

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WE NEED TO TALK MORE ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE, NOT LESS Trump's campaign spent millions spreading lies about the trans community. Now, it's on us to correct the record #TomorrowsPapersToday www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 105 days ago • 4 comments

Here's one example: if you think it's good to have new treatments for cancer, and you are competent enough to understand that the profit motive will never fund basic research into these areas, then you know why RFK Jr. gutting HHS is going to devastate health progress for the entire world.

submitted 106 days ago • 4 comments

The DNC still asking for money like I’m responsible for the tombstone too

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Bluesky needs more cheese content: here is my contribution, the washed rind Coperthwaite that I make at Churchtown Dairy.

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

The more magazine covers like this, the closer we get to when Trump turns on Musk:

submitted 107 days ago • 15 comments

All three branches of government are now controlled by a rapist who campaigned on purging the country of nonwhite immigrants and driving trans people out of public life, supported by a Nazi billionaire, I think maybe you can ease off the Has Woke Gone Too Far beat for a while

submitted 107 days ago • 123 comments

Fully 83 percent of the entire contiguous US is currently in some form of drought conditions, and that's better than the week before, when it was 88 percent.

submitted 107 days ago • 25 comments

An ex-NY Times columnist and Ivy League grad interviewed a billionaire about how he, the world’s richest man, and several other billionaires helped another billionaire/Ivy League grad/real estate mogul world defeat an HBCU grad to reclaim the most powerful office in the world. The headline:

submitted 108 days ago • 574 comments

I see the New York Times is already cheering on Trump’s attempts to knock down the “stubborn obstacles” put in front of him by the deep state I’m not even making that up

submitted 108 days ago • 580 comments

It takes an exile from Putin’s Russia, writing about the theories of an exile from Orban’s Hungary, to cut through the noise about Trump’s America, from which we have nowhere left to run. Gift link to M. Gessen in NYT: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

submitted 108 days ago • 71 comments

The United States has oligarchs now. Not merely rich people with more personal influence on politics than poorer people have, but a few extremely rich people closely connected to the national leader who act in government-like roles despite never being elected or nominated to any official position.

submitted 108 days ago • 291 comments

If anything, we’re probably under-imagining how disruptive and different the next decade or generation of America will be. I sketch out here two scenarios (not mutually exclusive) about the peril and challenge ahead: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/two-scenar...

submitted 110 days ago • 124 comments

Caffeinated from a late night drive and freaked out by how bad the coverage of Trump Sec Def Pete Hegseth is, I decided to start reading his new book, The War on Warriors. A thread. The new Pentagon chief begins by bragging he was pushed out for being an "extremist"... 1/

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