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Parents, you are standing at a fork in the road right now.
If you buy your kids the Harry Potter video game, they'll grow up to be big maladjusted losers who only read bad YA fiction as adults, if you buy your kids Yakuza 0 they will grow up to own a cool jacket.
If you buy your kids the Harry Potter video game, they'll grow up to be big maladjusted losers who only read bad YA fiction as adults, if you buy your kids Yakuza 0 they will grow up to own a cool jacket.
June 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Parents, you are standing at a fork in the road right now.
If you buy your kids the Harry Potter video game, they'll grow up to be big maladjusted losers who only read bad YA fiction as adults, if you buy your kids Yakuza 0 they will grow up to own a cool jacket.
If you buy your kids the Harry Potter video game, they'll grow up to be big maladjusted losers who only read bad YA fiction as adults, if you buy your kids Yakuza 0 they will grow up to own a cool jacket.
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Someone on TikTok repeatedly messages me with, “do a TikTok on each of your books, what they’re about!”
You mean like…the books I’ve written, in which the words sort of (hopefully) explain what the book is about?
I am happy for people who can do all that work but Jesus the internet has worn me out
You mean like…the books I’ve written, in which the words sort of (hopefully) explain what the book is about?
I am happy for people who can do all that work but Jesus the internet has worn me out
April 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Someone on TikTok repeatedly messages me with, “do a TikTok on each of your books, what they’re about!”
You mean like…the books I’ve written, in which the words sort of (hopefully) explain what the book is about?
I am happy for people who can do all that work but Jesus the internet has worn me out
You mean like…the books I’ve written, in which the words sort of (hopefully) explain what the book is about?
I am happy for people who can do all that work but Jesus the internet has worn me out
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“The political problem with A.I.’s hype is that its most compelling use case is starving the host — fewer teachers, fewer degrees, fewer workers, fewer healthy information environments.” - Professor Tressie McMillan Cottom
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
Opinion | Actually, A.I. Is Pretty Mid (Gift Article)
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“The political problem with A.I.’s hype is that its most compelling use case is starving the host — fewer teachers, fewer degrees, fewer workers, fewer healthy information environments.” - Professor Tressie McMillan Cottom
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
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Favorite philosophy *books* from the last ten years? Please self-promote!
March 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Favorite philosophy *books* from the last ten years? Please self-promote!
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no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
March 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
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A legend passing www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...
Athol Fugard, South African Playwright Who Dissected Apartheid, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
In works that included “Blood Knot,” “Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and “The Island,” he exposed the realities of racial separatism in his homeland.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A legend passing www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...
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should democrats be turning a big dial taht says racism? our nation’s most unlovable pundits weigh in
man he really hates trans people huh. what is going on in your head where you think harris was one charlie kirk beer summit away from flipping all the swing states she lost?
March 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
should democrats be turning a big dial taht says racism? our nation’s most unlovable pundits weigh in
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bathroom bills were considered a hugely bigoted overreach a decade ago and the backsliding on trans rights is the result of a sustained propaganda campaign by elites
the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry
the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry
the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.
In a leaked recording, State Senator Elena Parent (D-42) said she’d vote for Republican transgender healthcare bans because trans rights are too “unpopular."
"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"
"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"
March 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
bathroom bills were considered a hugely bigoted overreach a decade ago and the backsliding on trans rights is the result of a sustained propaganda campaign by elites
the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry
the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry
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This is so cool human beings could never figure out that someone who only leaves the house once a week to drive directly at trees to the liquor store while crying "I wish I was dead" is having a rough go at it
March 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is so cool human beings could never figure out that someone who only leaves the house once a week to drive directly at trees to the liquor store while crying "I wish I was dead" is having a rough go at it
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A good summary of the right-wing ‘intellectuals’—motivated by personal grievance and vendettas against perceived conspiracies of secret leftist and Jewish elites, alliances with white supremacists and tech billionaires for spoils and lucre, anti-science and anti-democracy thinking. That’s them
Grievances such as "I was fired for sleeping with undergraduates," "I was suspended after years of racist comments, some directly about my students," "I was uninvited from a lecture after comparing BLM to Nazis," "The university didn't discipline a grad student who criticized me on Twitter."
March 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A good summary of the right-wing ‘intellectuals’—motivated by personal grievance and vendettas against perceived conspiracies of secret leftist and Jewish elites, alliances with white supremacists and tech billionaires for spoils and lucre, anti-science and anti-democracy thinking. That’s them
Apparently the new hobby for Rahm after closing black schools and covering up police shootings is transphobia. I thought the transphobic/gender warrior pipeline was only for children’s authors and weird reactionary philosophers.
Rahm Emanuel admits that he, and not trans people, is the problem
Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spouts transphobic talking points to Bill Maher.
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
March 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Apparently the new hobby for Rahm after closing black schools and covering up police shootings is transphobia. I thought the transphobic/gender warrior pipeline was only for children’s authors and weird reactionary philosophers.
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Senator, welcome to Bluesky.
Can you explain why you're sponsoring a bill to repeal Section 230, which would effectively make it impossible for Bluesky to do what it's doing today, creating this kind of space?
Thanks.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...
Can you explain why you're sponsoring a bill to repeal Section 230, which would effectively make it impossible for Bluesky to do what it's doing today, creating this kind of space?
Thanks.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...
February 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Senator, welcome to Bluesky.
Can you explain why you're sponsoring a bill to repeal Section 230, which would effectively make it impossible for Bluesky to do what it's doing today, creating this kind of space?
Thanks.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...
Can you explain why you're sponsoring a bill to repeal Section 230, which would effectively make it impossible for Bluesky to do what it's doing today, creating this kind of space?
Thanks.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...
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Elon Musk at CPAC
February 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Elon Musk at CPAC
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51% would prefer the same or more liberal, something something "how to lie with statistics" something something
A plurality of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents — 45% — said they want their party to become more moderate, according to Gallup polling conducted following Trump’s inauguration.
Democrats want a more moderate party, new Gallup survey finds
Forty-five percent of Democrats want a more moderate party, a Gallup survey conducted after Trump’s inauguration found, pointing to growing dissatisfaction among Democratic Americans.
www.semafor.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
51% would prefer the same or more liberal, something something "how to lie with statistics" something something
Time to bully the ever loving fuck outta Joel Webbon and enact the will of god
February 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Time to bully the ever loving fuck outta Joel Webbon and enact the will of god
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if you are on a plane in the United States the safest thing to do right now is to jump out
February 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
if you are on a plane in the United States the safest thing to do right now is to jump out
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Only if you're not too busy! I get you've got a lot on
US Senate Democrats on Monday afternoon “to sound the alarm” that Elon Musk and his DoGE team were reportedly granted access to the federal government’s central payments system, which handles nearly $6 trillion and the vast majority of all federal disbursements.
February 3, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Only if you're not too busy! I get you've got a lot on
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Mark Cuban used CENTRISM
It wasn't very effective...
It wasn't very effective...
Trump is doing what you do after you acquire a company. Crazy I know. But reality. The Dir of NIH should reach out to DOGE and offer to bring them in to remove inefficiencies.
There are always some and the Director know what they are.
DOGE gets a win. NIH gets back to work.
There are always some and the Director know what they are.
DOGE gets a win. NIH gets back to work.
Hi Mark, how do you feel about cancer research being canceled.
January 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Mark Cuban used CENTRISM
It wasn't very effective...
It wasn't very effective...
Yes, remember how simple things were in 2003 on this teen drama where a kid from a broken home went to the wealthiest neighborhood conceivable and every rich person there had insane neuroses and problems and couldn’t face life in any meaningful way and how normal that was as opposed to now
how is every Twitter post like this now, the worlds most boring losers nostalgic for 2004. Grow up! This site used to be good!!
January 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Yes, remember how simple things were in 2003 on this teen drama where a kid from a broken home went to the wealthiest neighborhood conceivable and every rich person there had insane neuroses and problems and couldn’t face life in any meaningful way and how normal that was as opposed to now