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I’m going to keep saying it: both the “male loneliness epidemic” and the techbro obsession with AI are, at their core, about a complete lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of relating to other people and a terror of vulnerability/interdependence.
we talk a lot about the weirdo techbro obsession with immortality these AI necromancy projects embody, but I'm arguably even MORE fascinated by the terror of allowing yourself to experience deep, complex emotions they so obviously reveal
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
December 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I’m going to keep saying it: both the “male loneliness epidemic” and the techbro obsession with AI are, at their core, about a complete lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of relating to other people and a terror of vulnerability/interdependence.
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I mean this: if your DAs and AGs aren’t talking about prosecuting this, get some who will if you possibly can. Either by shaming or voting.
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I mean this: if your DAs and AGs aren’t talking about prosecuting this, get some who will if you possibly can. Either by shaming or voting.
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And THIS is why ICE has become dangerous. They don't actually CARE whether someone is an immigrant.
Pretty soon EVERYONE who is black or brown will be targeted (except for black/hispanic gangs because ICE "agents" are COWARDS).
And Noem may be fired because she isn't AGGRESSIVE enough!
Pretty soon EVERYONE who is black or brown will be targeted (except for black/hispanic gangs because ICE "agents" are COWARDS).
And Noem may be fired because she isn't AGGRESSIVE enough!
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
And THIS is why ICE has become dangerous. They don't actually CARE whether someone is an immigrant.
Pretty soon EVERYONE who is black or brown will be targeted (except for black/hispanic gangs because ICE "agents" are COWARDS).
And Noem may be fired because she isn't AGGRESSIVE enough!
Pretty soon EVERYONE who is black or brown will be targeted (except for black/hispanic gangs because ICE "agents" are COWARDS).
And Noem may be fired because she isn't AGGRESSIVE enough!
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This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.
McDonald's has taken down a Christmas ad made with AI following online backlash
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash
McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".
www.bbc.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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I always think it’s important to reiterate that, even while the VP is a Catholic convert, the vast majority of people being deported are Catholics.
This administration is purging brown Catholics, while trying to appeal to white Catholics, and it is NOT working.
This administration is purging brown Catholics, while trying to appeal to white Catholics, and it is NOT working.
ICE trying to ORDER a church to REMOVE A NATIVITY SCENE is one of the most astonishing First Amendment violations I've seen in ever
ICE’s acting director ordered a Boston Catholic parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene—stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message “ICE WAS HERE.” The parish priest is refusing, citing he pope’s call to stand with migrants. It's another chapter in Kristi Noem's war on Christians.
December 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I always think it’s important to reiterate that, even while the VP is a Catholic convert, the vast majority of people being deported are Catholics.
This administration is purging brown Catholics, while trying to appeal to white Catholics, and it is NOT working.
This administration is purging brown Catholics, while trying to appeal to white Catholics, and it is NOT working.
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about a third of people experience long-term nerve pain after a case of shingles, and ocular shingles can cause permanent vision loss
the shingles vax makes you pretty tired and the fever can last up to 5 days
the shingles vax makes you pretty tired and the fever can last up to 5 days
Happy to help. Just recovered from ocular shingles (yep, eye shingles) and it's fucking terrible.
Just get the fucking shot. This shit sucked and it sucked for at least a full month.
In my eye forever btw, and can't get the vax cuz my body just needs to chill with it as a part of my eye now.
Just get the fucking shot. This shit sucked and it sucked for at least a full month.
In my eye forever btw, and can't get the vax cuz my body just needs to chill with it as a part of my eye now.
people gotta talk about their shingles experiences. no one is going to enjoy this
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
about a third of people experience long-term nerve pain after a case of shingles, and ocular shingles can cause permanent vision loss
the shingles vax makes you pretty tired and the fever can last up to 5 days
the shingles vax makes you pretty tired and the fever can last up to 5 days
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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many have already said this but one of the most mundane bad things about the current era is that I have to spend this much brain space on fucking Donald Trump
December 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
many have already said this but one of the most mundane bad things about the current era is that I have to spend this much brain space on fucking Donald Trump
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December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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There has been no debate here among constitutional scholars, historians, political scientists, anyone with a pulse really.
Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.
Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.
Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.
December 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
There has been no debate here among constitutional scholars, historians, political scientists, anyone with a pulse really.
Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.
Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.
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A reminder that "we just want immigrants to come here the *right* way!" was always a lie
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
A reminder that "we just want immigrants to come here the *right* way!" was always a lie
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It doesn't matter if you can prove you're a U.S. Citizen.
Without due process there's no one to prove it TO.
And ICE clearly doesn't care.
Without due process there's no one to prove it TO.
And ICE clearly doesn't care.
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It doesn't matter if you can prove you're a U.S. Citizen.
Without due process there's no one to prove it TO.
And ICE clearly doesn't care.
Without due process there's no one to prove it TO.
And ICE clearly doesn't care.
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The Supreme Court paved the way for a felon to return to the presidency — where, behind the shield of office, that felon has ordered a string of murders.
The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
December 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The Supreme Court paved the way for a felon to return to the presidency — where, behind the shield of office, that felon has ordered a string of murders.
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the economy is understimulated because people aren't buying things
to counter this, we should stimulate the economy with stimulus checks
in order to bring stability, we should keep doing it consistently, perhaps every month, for every person, universally
it's quite basic really
to counter this, we should stimulate the economy with stimulus checks
in order to bring stability, we should keep doing it consistently, perhaps every month, for every person, universally
it's quite basic really
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
the economy is understimulated because people aren't buying things
to counter this, we should stimulate the economy with stimulus checks
in order to bring stability, we should keep doing it consistently, perhaps every month, for every person, universally
it's quite basic really
to counter this, we should stimulate the economy with stimulus checks
in order to bring stability, we should keep doing it consistently, perhaps every month, for every person, universally
it's quite basic really
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
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This clarity is so rare among the pundit class
I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This clarity is so rare among the pundit class
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9/ For the last point about international human rights being the correct body of law:
See section entitled, "Applying International Human Rights Law to the Alleged Facts" in this article written by @mikeschmitt.bsky.social @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and me
See section entitled, "Applying International Human Rights Law to the Alleged Facts" in this article written by @mikeschmitt.bsky.social @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and me
Unlawful Orders and Killing Shipwrecked Boat Strike Survivors: An Expert Backgrounder
An expert backgrounder on the reported Hegseth "no quarter" order to kill everyone aboard a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2.
www.justsecurity.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
9/ For the last point about international human rights being the correct body of law:
See section entitled, "Applying International Human Rights Law to the Alleged Facts" in this article written by @mikeschmitt.bsky.social @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and me
See section entitled, "Applying International Human Rights Law to the Alleged Facts" in this article written by @mikeschmitt.bsky.social @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and me
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the energy we all need to find within ourselves
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
the energy we all need to find within ourselves
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In college, I had to read the Department of Defense’s Law of War manual.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In college, I had to read the Department of Defense’s Law of War manual.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
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it's always a good time to learn about the first dotcom crash
![Anyway, Lucent really fucked up big time. In 1998 it signed a $2 billion “equipment and finance agreement” with telecommunications company Winstar, which promised to bring in “$100 million in new business over the next five years” and build a giant wireless broadband network, along with expanding Winstar’s optical networking. In December 1999, WIRED would say that Winstar’s “small white dish antennas…[heralded] a new era and new mind-set in telecommunications,” and included this awesome quote about Lucent from CEO and founder Will Rouhana:
On one level we are a customer and they are a supplier. On another level they are a financier and we are a borrower. On yet another level they are providing services around the world to accelerate our development. They also want to use our service, and have guaranteed $100 million in business.
Fuck yeah!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreifk5hhjtxq4xziq5drtistjsduo4eebqteau4oj2qyhardr3bbcsa@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
it's always a good time to learn about the first dotcom crash
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But OU should be limited to the question "did the instructor do something that took this grading decision outside of legitimate academic freedom, such as assigning a grade based on personal/non-expertise-driven disdain for the student or their views?"
December 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
But OU should be limited to the question "did the instructor do something that took this grading decision outside of legitimate academic freedom, such as assigning a grade based on personal/non-expertise-driven disdain for the student or their views?"
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Well this is right up there with "tech hoarding" and "people are not dining out enough"
November 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Well this is right up there with "tech hoarding" and "people are not dining out enough"
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread