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Now is the easiest it's going to be for mass disobedience against the Trump administration. Replacing the heads of armed forces means they want to do stuff that the old heads might have resisted.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

the emotional logic of fascism

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Tapir cleanser

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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I've developed for several Oculus headsets over the past 10 years, and Quest 3 is underpowered for a reality-augmentation device. When you see actually lifelike graphics on an affordable desktop, that's a harbinger of VR. Until then, it's not a place to live and work.

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Some artwork I made in 2016, when many people were suggesting that Trump was a Russian asset.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Sanna Marin throwing some impressive shade here: ”To start, Europe must rid itself of the dangerous illusion that it is weak—and stop acting like it. There is no trade-off between investing in the defence of Europe as a whole and investing in the defence of Ukraine—they are one and the same.”

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Trump is trying to get Russia off the hook for invading Ukraine because he wants to occupy Panama, or Palestine, or invade Iran, or similar. He wants a pretext for invasion based on "there are people there who want to be American, and we want to help them out".

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NEW: Two weeks ago gov't IT experts warned us that the worst case scenario would be if DOGE got full admin access to agency systems. We can report at at least one agency DOGE has unfettered "god mode" access. Our latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.

submitted 3 days ago • 195 comments

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

Money is ignorant, but unfortunately we're built to forage and hoard, and money ticks those boxes. So it's worshipped. We often can't see it in the same way fish can't see water (well, probably, I'm not a fish). But it's clear that understanding money doesn't equate to general intelligence.

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Listen to this episode of This Machine Kills from around 40 minutes in... on.soundcloud.com/ib2ht1tNgQ4z... Musk using his power to roll out Neuralink is horrifying, and it'll be tested in different ways on different demographics - they are going to try to experiment on poor peoples' brains.

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The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

submitted 5 days ago • 278 comments

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

submitted 5 days ago • 840 comments

Why is there zero bounced light in the scene, EXCEPT for under some of the characters' chins?

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I never thought Mike Pence and I would have common ground, but here it is. Wonder why he reposted it now? 🤔

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

Utter failure to grasp what we are facing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u... 1. People lack the framework to recognize an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order 2. The lack of elites acting like point 1 is true makes it illegible. Without Ds behaving as if it's a crisis, it's not a crisis.

submitted 7 days ago • 119 comments

American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

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Due to activities of DOGE, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on what’s known as “the search engine of Internet-connected devices”, thus making cyber-espionage easier than ever cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Still really really really need a full-time job

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Dreamscape Learn listed a bunch of CONTRACT jobs for Unity. They're looking for: * Tech Artist * Audio Engineer * Animator * Character Modeler * Character Rigger * Environment Artist * Prop Artist * Texture Artist #GameDev #GameJobs #ArtJobs #GameDevJobs #3DartJobs

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

You say to people that the Trump administration is doing Nazi stuff and they’ll be like “oh you’re exaggerating” and no, we are not exaggerating, this is how the Holocaust started in Germany.

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Call me political, but 4-figure coats are becoming a high-street fixture because a sizable number of people get that amount deposited in their bank accounts each month by their less fortunate tenants. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...

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Five years on, and this paper on simulating bread is still one of the most impressive 3D sims I've seen...Any other favorite contenders? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBpo...

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So the U.K. decided it isn't in our national interest to sign a memorandum "ensuring AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all” and “making AI sustainable for people and the planet” - truly we are an asshat nation.

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yeah this is a straight-up heist

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

People out here like “Kanye’s music always sucked.” I am begging you to deeply internalize that terrible people are capable of making profound and incredible things. If we cannot hold these conflicting truths, monsters will always be able to hide behind their talent

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Artist critiques Burger King by going to Burger King and ordering everything on the menu: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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I had this article bookmarked for ages, and just read it. It's hard to think of another group who's input would be excluded from a government report on their particular demographic in the same way that trans people were completely excluded from the Cass Report. www.autostraddle.com/shroud-wavin...

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Please take a few minutes to watch @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social We can do this. youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s?...

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

For Nazis, skin color, religion, and race were just conveniently available ways of engineering a a power dynamic where some people got to discount the humanity of others. The actual criteria of division is arbitrary, Musk and West saying that they're Nazis requires no elaboration. It's unequivocal.

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