when you are pandering to people they can see you are pandering to them. who you are, what you stand for, will not seem powerful, valuable, aspirational, “real” to them. because it is not to you. live and profess your values like they matter to you and they might start to matter to someone else.

declare the (always right-wing) “vibe shift” and think about how we are going to accommodate ourselves to it might not, in fact, be the best way to do politics. re @mattyglesias.bsky.social www.slowboring.com/p/the-vibes-...

the collaborationist Washington Post

wouldn’t asking for health or mercy be weaponizing the pulpit though?

not sure i can afford it is there a generic?

“we’re replacing your oncologist with someone fully aligned with the Trump movement.”

wild.

i’m not flipping you off. it’s an etruscan salute.

what happens to doctoral students on student visas whose work is funded by these grants?

we are going to have to do better than all the king’s horses and all the king’s men.

so glad they’ve moved on from all the fine folks who are ripping us off and bankrupting us to the true scourge: DEI

they are moving so fast to destroy things. a dictator on day one. a wrecking ball on day three.

Meta’s free speech roots. ht @slothropsmap.bsky.social

cancel culture. ht @hurricanexyz.bsky.social

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the world’s status hierarchy is built on top of stock/token prices. both AI and crypto present opportunities for fast run-ups of market capitalization for those with ambition or grievance to contest the higher echelons.

Musk “known for going on his social media platform and lying relentlessly about the activities of others, is going to get full access to every single record the government has, the better to propagandize thru half-truths and selective disclosure. It’ll be a veritable department of misinformation.”

or maybe just to us.

meanwhile, he’s firing anyone who knows anything about actual national security.

AI: Great US champions do it with great fanfare, exorbitant finance, yielding either vapor or some bloated, uncompetitive thing. China: Some firm you’ve never heard of, one of probably a zillion such firms, does it on a shoestring, it works well, costs a fraction of what anyone thought possible.