The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

I think that's called Conservatism

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

It's strange to think that in the future, this period in American history will be defined by footage of ICE and the military roaming US streets, speeches from the president declaring war on his own citizens, and articles like this.

Who is telling the Labour Party that the way to blunt Reform's momentum is to fundamentally agree with them but propose alternate bureaucratically nightmarish forms of nativism?

I fully expected the second part of that statement to be '...and Labour feels that the policy doesn't go far enough. We will implement it faster and better and more cruelly than they could!' like they did every time the Tory government announced some illiberal bullshit policy.

this most "this could have been an email" thing i've ever heard

An identity war is, quite literally, the worst possible issue on which to attach it. "Let's roll IDs out, so we can more easily spot who is not part of the in-group" is the most damaging imaginable start to this conversation.

oh boy this is gonna get a lot of use in the group chats

It's a vocal warmup thing, iirc

If you're on LinkedIn, here's the opt-out for LinkedIn's AI bullshit using your content.

www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

The Disney parodies… holy shit

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Bruh

Just a reminder: they were never actually against cancel culture. They were against the cancellation of people they agree with or like. They’ve always been enthusiastically in favor cancelling people they don’t like. If you took them at their word you’re a useful idiot.

If I can only eat food from one of those regions then I'm going to have to choose A otherwise it'll be fucking freezing by the time it gets to me.

The Speaker of the House of Representative telling elected civil politicians to "yield" to military force.

A significant moment.

there is a simple question the government has fundamentally refused to answer here and it is plainly "is this proportionate policing"

We had a 'guess whose work desk this is' picture quiz at work last week, and I enjoyed the bafflement about who could possibly be doing so much paperwork that they needed so many pigeon-holes, letter racks and paper trays. 😅

Oops, not commission book time yet! Almost forgot to add the new items to my quick reference guides.

Time for some more posting about Empire prep to keep myself motivated and to give myself a quick break.
This afternoon has been adding the new Artisan Item to my datasource and printing some more almanacs - as well as stickers to add to the existing ones to update them.
Next: Commissions book update

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:

1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Someone you know IRL showing you something they used AI to make or do feels like a someone trying to impress you with a dead rodent that's been run over by a car. This is not good what do you expect me to do with it