“I've dubbed this process ‘the shitty technology adoption curve’: the terrible things we do to prisoners, asylum seekers and people in mental institutions today gets repackaged tomorrow for students, parolees, Uber drivers and blue-collar workers. Then it works its way up the privilege gradient, until we're all being turned into reverse-centaurs under the ‘digital whip’ of a centaur boss” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/02/despotism-on-demand/

who will welcome their hatred?

@dpp rather an acid remark!

@admitsWrongIfProven i didn’t realize, but it’s an american election campaign so i won’t feel too chastened!

“alkaline bitch” just doesn’t have the same ring.

when you die they finally let you in on the joke.

"The hopeful news is that there has been something of a return to genuine mass membership groups, promoted by a new wave of on-the-ground organizing." #RobertKuttner https://prospect.org/power/2024-07-30-lefts-fragile-foundations/

// you are not going to build a world better for all on a foundation of charity from the very rich

perhaps, at least for one political party, it should be called the creepstakes.

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@FeralRobots Gack! I think the longest tenured are Thomas and Roberts. Sorry!

@FeralRobots under that theory, then, Roberts and Alito might be immediately retired, since they’d be the most past-due, and that would be consistent with the two-appointments per Presidential term norm they’d be trying to enshrine.

i wonder if unexpected vacancies would then remain vacant until a new term, to prioritize appointments fairness? a tie-susceptible court is an annoyance, but one we’ve dealt with fine from time to time.

Would the term-limit proposal in Biden’s three-part Supreme Court reform plan immediately retire Roberts, Thomas, and Alito (assuming passage in 2025)? How would those vacancies be filled?

#SupremeCourt

#KatiePorter describes working for #KamalaHarris in a piece by @ddayen https://prospect.org/politics/2024-07-29-member-congress-worked-kamala-harris-katie-porter/

there’s no shame in feeling ashamed.

i’d much rather get on a “social democrats for kamala” call than a “white dudes for kamala” call, even though i am both.

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@admitsWrongIfProven ?

@djc no, it’s not. it’s funny, sometimes hilarious, but i can’t condone character assassination based on a lie. not that the internet cares what i condone.

i think it’s weird to call childless liberal professional women cat ladies, or imagine we live in a Victorian novel and they’re spinsters. It’s very weird to talk about Soros chartering 747s for disproportionately black women who choose not to carry a pregnancy to term, and suggesting Federal policy should intervene to prevent.

@djc no, i don’t think that’s quite fair.

they are weird. and not, like, keep-Austin-weird weird.