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I know, I know, polycrisis, existential risks, elite impunity & brain rot, but I’m over here still thinking about why street urchin, aspiring detective, and radio mad scientist Skeet Wheeler—father of Vineland’s Zoyd (who never shrugs)—has the last word in “Shadow Ticket” if not in Pynchon’s oeuvre.
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👇🎯 ~1/3 to 1/5 of the electorate in ~every rich democracy today supports far right/authoritarian parties. The difference, in 🇺🇸, is that of our political institutions are deeply minoritarian & antidemocratic (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) & have enabled that minority to become a governing majority.
One-third is the cursèd number in political psychology: in many Western countries over the past century, ~1/3 of the population prefer authoritarianism to democracy.
That's about the proportion of Germans who voted to make Hitler Chancellor & even now in Europe, 1/3 of whites want authoritarianism.
That's about the proportion of Germans who voted to make Hitler Chancellor & even now in Europe, 1/3 of whites want authoritarianism.
January 13, 2026 at 5:39 PM
👇🎯 ~1/3 to 1/5 of the electorate in ~every rich democracy today supports far right/authoritarian parties. The difference, in 🇺🇸, is that of our political institutions are deeply minoritarian & antidemocratic (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) & have enabled that minority to become a governing majority.
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I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
January 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
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For @techpolicypress.bsky.social , a quick turnaround and slightly longer version of the talk I gave at UVA last week, “Grok is an Epistemic Weapon.” Shout outs to @hbcompass.bsky.social, @eliothiggins.bsky.social, others.
Grok stands as the clearest example of an AI that is both ideologically aligned and operationally embedded in a social media platform, says @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social. "Its mechanisms should be taken apart under bright lights, in much the same way people learn how to defuse a bomb."
Grok is an Epistemic Weapon | TechPolicy.Press
Elon Musk's Grok claims to be truth-seeking while shaping discourse and amplifying ideology, argues Matthew Kirschenbaum.
www.techpolicy.press
January 13, 2026 at 2:55 PM
For @techpolicypress.bsky.social , a quick turnaround and slightly longer version of the talk I gave at UVA last week, “Grok is an Epistemic Weapon.” Shout outs to @hbcompass.bsky.social, @eliothiggins.bsky.social, others.
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AOC: Vance believes fundamentally that what happened to Renee Good is acceptable and what should be ok in America every day and so as far as what a person like that believes, you have to start right there with the person that you're dealing with
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: Vance believes fundamentally that what happened to Renee Good is acceptable and what should be ok in America every day and so as far as what a person like that believes, you have to start right there with the person that you're dealing with
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This is SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP.
U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson has been a vocal critic of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the Chicago area, but he’s also banking on shares of Palantir, a data analysis company that’s helping the Trump administration deport people.
U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson discloses stock shares in ICE contractor Palantir
chicago.suntimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:01 AM
This is SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP.
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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New Network State just dropped: Zanzibar.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
January 12, 2026 at 8:50 PM
New Network State just dropped: Zanzibar.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
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2026: Peter Thiel and Gavin Newsom teaming up against a billionaire tax proposed by a health care workers union...
As Newsom's closest political advisors gorge on lucrative contracts from venture capital.
Unfortunately, it's not just Republicans who are the problem
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
As Newsom's closest political advisors gorge on lucrative contracts from venture capital.
Unfortunately, it's not just Republicans who are the problem
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Thiel Gives $3 Million to Group Seeking to Block California Wealth Tax
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
2026: Peter Thiel and Gavin Newsom teaming up against a billionaire tax proposed by a health care workers union...
As Newsom's closest political advisors gorge on lucrative contracts from venture capital.
Unfortunately, it's not just Republicans who are the problem
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
As Newsom's closest political advisors gorge on lucrative contracts from venture capital.
Unfortunately, it's not just Republicans who are the problem
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
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deposing a foreign ruler and spending tens of billions of dollars on oil subsidies so we can put American frackers out of business, just in time for EVs to permanently collapse oil demand. that's the Trump business touch alright
January 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
deposing a foreign ruler and spending tens of billions of dollars on oil subsidies so we can put American frackers out of business, just in time for EVs to permanently collapse oil demand. that's the Trump business touch alright
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US plan to exploit Venezuela’s oil could eat up 13% of carbon budget to keep 1.5C limit
US plan to exploit Venezuela’s oil could eat up 13% of carbon budget to keep 1.5C limit
Exclusive: ClimatePartner analysis shows how move would risk plunging Earth further into climate catastrophe
US plans to exploit Venezuela’s oil reserves could by 2050 consume more than a tenth of the world’s remaining carbon budget to limit global heating to 1.5C, according to an exclusive analysis.
The calculation highlights how any moves to further exploit the South American nation’s oil reserves – the largest in the world, at least on paper – would put increasing pressure on climate goals, and risk plunging the globe further into climate catastrophe. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
US plan to exploit Venezuela’s oil could eat up 13% of carbon budget to keep 1.5C limit
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Eighteenth Brumaire undefeated explanatory text
January 12, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Eighteenth Brumaire undefeated explanatory text
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It was taken in Canada and features this person.
January 12, 2026 at 7:08 AM
It was taken in Canada and features this person.
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Logistics
Logistics - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The American military is a finite resource. Further, they operate by moving physical resources in time and space. Much of the Discourse does not reflect this. Donald Trump, of course, has had little awareness of such things, and his apparent descent into dementia isn’t helping. Let me be specific, if I am advancing such criticism. […]
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Logistics
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Well, those boots were not made for walking
January 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Well, those boots were not made for walking
Bro has never loved a toy like he loves this Xmas present. This morning’s game of fetch seems to finally be over though so I can resume my regularly-scheduled scrolling.
January 11, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Bro has never loved a toy like he loves this Xmas present. This morning’s game of fetch seems to finally be over though so I can resume my regularly-scheduled scrolling.
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The problem with ICE is not insufficient training or even training content.
It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.
It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.
January 11, 2026 at 5:16 PM
The problem with ICE is not insufficient training or even training content.
It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.
It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.
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“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.”
what the fuck
have we tried turning the country off and back on again
what the fuck
have we tried turning the country off and back on again
January 11, 2026 at 7:10 AM
“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.”
what the fuck
have we tried turning the country off and back on again
what the fuck
have we tried turning the country off and back on again
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Surround yourself with the kind of people who make small talk with stray animals.
January 11, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Surround yourself with the kind of people who make small talk with stray animals.
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the three strands of US politics rn are "pro-nazi", "anti-nazi", and "adults in the room mature enough to work *with* the nazis"
January 11, 2026 at 1:12 AM
the three strands of US politics rn are "pro-nazi", "anti-nazi", and "adults in the room mature enough to work *with* the nazis"
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The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.
if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed.
everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.
everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.
January 10, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.
Slightly diminish a band:
Monolab
Monolab
My Homeopathic Romance
Slightly diminish a band:
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Complaints
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Complaints
January 10, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Slightly diminish a band:
Monolab
Monolab
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An official DHS post quoting the anthem of the KKK. London's Independent previously identified the DHS social media poster as a known activist in several violent white supremacist gangs who was hired by Kristi Noem.
January 10, 2026 at 3:46 PM
An official DHS post quoting the anthem of the KKK. London's Independent previously identified the DHS social media poster as a known activist in several violent white supremacist gangs who was hired by Kristi Noem.
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Domestic violence.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Domestic violence.
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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
April 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
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Point one: dipshits.
Point two: it is a miracle that no one got shot from that unsecured rifle.
Point two: it is a miracle that no one got shot from that unsecured rifle.
Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down.
This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.
This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.
January 10, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Point one: dipshits.
Point two: it is a miracle that no one got shot from that unsecured rifle.
Point two: it is a miracle that no one got shot from that unsecured rifle.