is skibidi woke?

#FreeSpeech

they claim what the do is theater, but in fact it is only theater theater.

"These…horsemen of the MAGA-tech-bro apocalypse are in the position of penthouse dwellers who think their top floor apartment doesn't rest on all the floors underneath… [They] confuse coercion with power and cooperation with weakness, when in truth it is more or less the other way around."

"Mapquest won’t be getting invited to the White House anytime soon. They’ve created a tool where you can make up names for the Gulf of Mexico." mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa/...

in hell we'll all enjoy the irony.

“we live in a media ecology that creates incentives for Internet famous people to become crude approximations of themselves if they want to keep on being Internet famous.”

if the US shirks on flu surveillance and annual flu vaccines, for the rest of the world, are there alternative providers?

makes more sense if we think of it as white supremicist rather than ethnonationalist, with “white” constituted both racially and with gauzy hagiography towards tropes about Christianity and civilizational superiority.

“This is arguably the most important week in European history since 1991 or even 1945. It is conceivable that the NATO alliance is breaking down in front of our eyes“ @phillipspobrien.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

at whatever point on the spectrum a professional take-slinger finds themself, they tend to punch to their left. because that is where the money isn't.

evangelicals tied themself into pretzels about God and his imperfect instruments to embrace Trump. you'd think reconciling themself to Musk, with his transhumanist polymaternal marriage-less natalism, would be a especial challenge. but for now, there's no evidence they're having a hard time of it.

waiting for Musk to hit Amtrak, scrap all tracks in favor of hypothetical hyperloops.

sometimes a cigar is just… well, a turd.

"TSMC and Intel rumors stoke Taiwanese fears of losing its 'Silicon Shield'" www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

people on the tech right conflate capacity and propensity to destroy with human agency.

he thinks he is immunizing himself but his words could be equally taken to license an assassin. it's bad enough when they inadvertently fire the stewards of the nation's nuclear weapons. they know not what they do, and that is a big fucking problem.

every centimillionaire is a policy failure.

mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/1...

the claim was inaccurate, but a much kinder thing to say then many perfectly accurate descriptions.