Scumdog Socialist
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i think a lot of catholic history happened because people were bored. why else would the acacian schism, which hinged on whether jesus was "fully divine and fully human" or whether he was "one person with a divine and human nature", last 35 years. there was just nothing else to talk about i guess
February 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
i think a lot of catholic history happened because people were bored. why else would the acacian schism, which hinged on whether jesus was "fully divine and fully human" or whether he was "one person with a divine and human nature", last 35 years. there was just nothing else to talk about i guess
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I feel kind of naive about it but I really assumed that putting an obviously insane dilettante shithead and sex creep into this particular office would be a bridge too far for the Senate. In retrospect I underrated how much more important it was to them to prove that such a concept no longer exists.
I understand the list of things this man has said and done is long but that he tweeted that COVID was engineered to spare Jews and Chinese people less than two years ago and is now HHS secretary is truly toxic icing on the antivax cake, to me
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
RFK Jr. confirmed as Trump's health secretary, over Democrats' loud objections
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wins confirmation to be President Trump's secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The vote was 52 to 48.
www.npr.org
February 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I feel kind of naive about it but I really assumed that putting an obviously insane dilettante shithead and sex creep into this particular office would be a bridge too far for the Senate. In retrospect I underrated how much more important it was to them to prove that such a concept no longer exists.
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I'm a one-issue voter and it's "we absolutely need to let banks do mortgage fraud again, it's important." So this is a pretty big day for me.
Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and one of the authors of Project 2025, just ordered the agency's staff to effectively cease all operations in an org wide email.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
Federal Financial Watchdog Ordered to Cease Activity
In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all supervision and examination activity.”
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I'm a one-issue voter and it's "we absolutely need to let banks do mortgage fraud again, it's important." So this is a pretty big day for me.
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Just push your way in! Make this brownshirt fuck put his hands on a congressperson on camera!
February 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Just push your way in! Make this brownshirt fuck put his hands on a congressperson on camera!
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the modern reactionary yearns for peasantry
Instead of letting people work from home, why not let workers live in the office?
This week’s @thetimes.com biz column on why we need to bring back decent staff accommodation.
www.thetimes.com/article/10eb...
This week’s @thetimes.com biz column on why we need to bring back decent staff accommodation.
www.thetimes.com/article/10eb...
Why not let workers live in the office?
Citigroup is spending £1bn to attract staff back to its Canary Wharf tower. Maybe it’d be easier to provide accommodation — it worked at Bournville after all
www.thetimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
the modern reactionary yearns for peasantry
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It's very serendipitous that my accumulation of personal wealth and power is also what's best for my country and fellow citizens
February 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It's very serendipitous that my accumulation of personal wealth and power is also what's best for my country and fellow citizens
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If this stuff is indispensable for modern life why do they need 332 million dollars to air commercials about it being indispensable for modern life?
Sources: OpenAI is expected to air its first TV ad during Sunday's Super Bowl; MediaRadar: AI companies spent $332M on ads in 2024, over double their 2023 spend (Wall Street Journal)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
February 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
If this stuff is indispensable for modern life why do they need 332 million dollars to air commercials about it being indispensable for modern life?
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The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem
February 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem
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i don't feel bad for the 22 year olds Musk is using for his coup but if they were actually smart they'd realize there's a reason he isn't using experienced engineers. they're not his most special little boys, they're disposable and too stupid to ask questions. if things go bad they take the fall.
February 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
i don't feel bad for the 22 year olds Musk is using for his coup but if they were actually smart they'd realize there's a reason he isn't using experienced engineers. they're not his most special little boys, they're disposable and too stupid to ask questions. if things go bad they take the fall.
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in increasingly desperate and manic tones: i will be, though. i will be
February 4, 2025 at 1:24 AM
in increasingly desperate and manic tones: i will be, though. i will be
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"you have the right to remain silent"
Elon Musk: she's breaking the law!
Elon Musk: she's breaking the law!
February 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"you have the right to remain silent"
Elon Musk: she's breaking the law!
Elon Musk: she's breaking the law!
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Seeing an ipad baby - no, this is not good
Seeing a cat watching the television - incredible, you are like a little man
Seeing a cat watching the television - incredible, you are like a little man
February 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Seeing an ipad baby - no, this is not good
Seeing a cat watching the television - incredible, you are like a little man
Seeing a cat watching the television - incredible, you are like a little man
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musk's new thing is telling anyone doing or saying anything he disagrees with that they are committing a crime
February 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
musk's new thing is telling anyone doing or saying anything he disagrees with that they are committing a crime
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LA's cuts to the fire department last year resulted in cuts to 58 positions in the department:
theintercept.com/2025/01/08/l...
theintercept.com/2025/01/08/l...
January 9, 2025 at 4:21 AM
LA's cuts to the fire department last year resulted in cuts to 58 positions in the department:
theintercept.com/2025/01/08/l...
theintercept.com/2025/01/08/l...
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Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
January 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
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“Mhm. And how will you uplift marginalized communities?” I ask an engagement bot, killing off the last members of an endangered species of mynah bird in the Amazon. The bot’s answer lacks intersectionality—I tell it so. A root system that had been alive since the Cretaceous period shrivels and dies
January 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“Mhm. And how will you uplift marginalized communities?” I ask an engagement bot, killing off the last members of an endangered species of mynah bird in the Amazon. The bot’s answer lacks intersectionality—I tell it so. A root system that had been alive since the Cretaceous period shrivels and dies
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If I was the richest person on earth one of my main goals would be that if some loser was on streams getting dunked on over and over there wouldn’t be a robust discussion going on if that was actually me. And I definitely wouldn’t want people to be going “well he’s not *quite* pathetic enough”
January 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
If I was the richest person on earth one of my main goals would be that if some loser was on streams getting dunked on over and over there wouldn’t be a robust discussion going on if that was actually me. And I definitely wouldn’t want people to be going “well he’s not *quite* pathetic enough”
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tech companies have been anti-consumer for years now but never have i seen them commit to the complete rot of AI integrated technology despite the pushback and annoyance of the general public,
iPhone sales are down after they focus on AI instead of something people want. But Microsoft went all in on AI for Windows 11, they must be doing well—
They’re losing market share to windows 10, their own operating system that’s 9 years old.
They’re losing market share to windows 10, their own operating system that’s 9 years old.
January 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
tech companies have been anti-consumer for years now but never have i seen them commit to the complete rot of AI integrated technology despite the pushback and annoyance of the general public,
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Coming around on a terrible new opinion: it actually rocks how much Netflix sucks. "Obliterating most of film history so they can better jam you into watching 90 seconds of an inert sitcom that looks like it's happening inside of a Zyprexa ad" is actually the gambit, here. It's cool to spell it out.
THE STING (1973) is now the oldest American narrative film on Netflix — one of only 5 released before 1980 on the largest subscription streaming service in the U.S.
#Streaming #FilmSky
#Streaming #FilmSky
January 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Coming around on a terrible new opinion: it actually rocks how much Netflix sucks. "Obliterating most of film history so they can better jam you into watching 90 seconds of an inert sitcom that looks like it's happening inside of a Zyprexa ad" is actually the gambit, here. It's cool to spell it out.
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going into 2025 with this energy
December 29, 2024 at 12:29 AM
going into 2025 with this energy
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Well that's a bit awkward
December 24, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Well that's a bit awkward
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This is an interesting case of language overriding substance in determining the ideological valence of an issue because “every neighborhood should have parks and street trees” is the most anodyne statement of environmental justice possible
December 18, 2024 at 2:31 PM
This is an interesting case of language overriding substance in determining the ideological valence of an issue because “every neighborhood should have parks and street trees” is the most anodyne statement of environmental justice possible