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The disciple approached the master. "O Teacher," they intoned, "is it possible to understand life completely, before one dies?" The elder inclined their head ever so slightly. "It is required."

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I'm trying to figure out which categories of due diligence were satisfied before deciding on trillions in tax cuts. I think perhaps Mr. Wright omitted "to ensure we are funneling as much wealth to the top .01% as possible." I mean, then I would understand.

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Can we have any voice in the fact that MOST of our interactions with AI vividly put on display - again and again, with nearly every prompt or query - its abject stupidity and inability to understand - while government people are proposing to allow this tech to make life & death decisions?

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So let me see -- scientists bad because (a) orthodoxy is religious in nature, and (b) scientists only do stuff for money. But religion and capitalism good because..........

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A movement that stresses gender identity the way this christofascist MAGA cult does, in particular with its obsession on gun-toting masculinity, absolutely goes hand-in-hand with racism for one reason: if you're 100% "man", you're 0% "person" and thus crippled from recognizing another's personhood.

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A lot of hard scifi and gaming is like, what if you could go anywhere and do anything and everyone you encounter is radically different from you in every possible way and you have license to vaporize them on sight. No wait - that's the unholy union of MAGA and oligarchy.

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The takeover of NIH by an addled brain and his coattails of MAHA influencers is grotesque. For any of these self-serving hucksters to claim their "purpose" is "better health for Americans" is like a Tesla dealer saying his purpose is to improve transportation options in cities without mass transit.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Someone: Hey, you okay? You're going awfully fast from zero to frustration. Anyone: Oh honey. You thought my everyday was zero?

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The worst part of being woke is seeing evidence-based policy out of DEI-enabled committees being reversed by knee-jerk bigots intending a return to the Dark Ages -- superstition for medicine, diddling clergy for mental health, patriarchy for society, and feudalism for economy.

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I didn't expect to get cheery news from the few MAGA mailing lists I'm on -- but O'Keefe and Project Veritas are feuding and suing each other and I don't know, it's just a lovely gray Monday here and I have a grin on my face.

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Interactions of the past 15 years that have stayed with me: the libertarian who said there should be zero regulation of business, including handicap access, worker safety, and harmful ingredients. Businesses that harmed people would be punished in the free marketplace and self-regulate. 🤔 1/

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everything is the greatest thing since breakfast because you can’t remember breakfast without checking the AI agent imagining your Insta feed #amwriting #writingprompt #future

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

He enters a room with the energy of a male talent in a porno, fresh from fluffing offstage, confident that while the cameras are rolling he will be the object of adoration, and that if he delivers his mindless money-shot as scripted, he can go back to watching cartoons and sucking his thumb.

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It’s incomprehensible to me that anyone on earth would be suckered by the political platform “we’ll cut government to shreds, collapse the economy, and then when things are real bad, capital and ingenuity will step in and provide for everybody.”

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The Faux Singularity is upon us and it speaks in the obdurately cheerful majoritarian voice of Karen's older brother who actually finished high school but got sacked a few too many times as quarterback. The interface will be televised, and it will be white, white, white.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Well winter scarpered in a hurry.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll tell you one thing - in the future, when they talk about the Great American Experiment, it won’t be the founding events of the 18th century they’re referring to.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I was today years old when i learned this beautiful Geo Harrison song is actually a kind of f’d up breakup letter.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been having fantasies of confronting a MAGA and at the first propaganda shit out of their mouth, instead of arguing, do like the agents in Matrix when Agent Smith has removed his earpiece to interrogate Morpheus: “he doesn’t know”. Deep dismay. Don’t answer his questions. So unfortunate.

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My illustration this morning of America waking up to what’s happening. #hope

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

A lot of what's happening today is a descendant of our national response to 9/11. I wish Trump had the capacity to know how much he is even now a pawn of Bin Laden's -- self-own after self-own in service of hatred of 'the other.' Vale patria.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Be careful what you wish for.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

New Pentagon lexicon dropped. OpSec = OopSec

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

submitted 38 days ago • 21 comments

Draft title for my work on this period: Skullduggery & Numbskullery

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cannot be said enough how much these people genuinely hate your freedom to live your life as you choose. newrepublic.com/post/194212/...

submitted 40 days ago • 328 comments

I feel like a common category error not often remarked upon is people’s general expectation that other people are the way they are on purpose

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

A notable weakness of ChatGPT is that it thinks all my ideas are awesome.

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I despair of getting through to some people that denying intersex exists is morally and functionally the same as saying “people identifying as intersex should not exist,” and not “people should not identify as intersex.”

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Why does it seem like everyone's 'Color of the Year' lately has been some shade of feculence?

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I feel like I'm constantly trying to answer the question "so what if a government doesn't care if its citizens live or die?" but I'm not allowed to open a history book.

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One thing I learned from COVID: if you make policy from the best available evidence, you make a lot of people unhappy. Alive, but unhappy.

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