i know we’re all supposed to hate the groups, but i say we start a group called “citizens united against citizens united”.
is anyone keeping a database of the black letter crimes that members of this administration seem to commit with some frequency, so that a next administration can finally take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed?
@admitsWrongIfProven i think i’d be placed at the north pole. which sounds very chilly.
there is a line. you can be on this side of it or that side of it. the line is bad, but if you say so you’ll be placed on that side of it.
@weltraumpirat “I’m Still Here” https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/im_still_here_2024
a touching, beautifully crafted, film and a straightforward depiction of where our current direction of travel leads. https://www.netflix.com/us/title/82040265
the 12-year-old just had me take a look at this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wu4hRYdhhg
No one should be remotely surprised, but this conversation between @sjshancoxli and #RobertBlack is remarkably deep and wide-ranging. Exceptional. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/liberalcurrents/episodes/Liberalism-101-Liberalism-and-Limited-Government-e39cukv
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@scott no, it’s not.
@arthegall i think it’s just a mockable analogy to the netherlands confiscating a chinese firm.
you ask a gen-alpha-er what they want to be when they grow up and they say “i want to be canceled when i grow up so i can be famous and make a lot of money and run the government.”
"The old world is dying, and its creators are pretty quiet about it." @Atrios https://www.eschatonblog.com/2025/10/the-world-is-flat.html
somebody’s going to make an algorithmic ai-generated porn app that examines users’ scrolls and pauses like tik-tok and modifies what it generates accordingly. some strange shit gonna evolve in that ecosystem.
@admitsWrongIfProven i find it’s such an easy catastrophe to slip into.
much more dangerous than being straw manned by other people, it is so easy to fall into a practice of straw manning oneself: getting cornered into defending a simplification or caricature of ones own views.
“Let me repeat that — social media silos are fighting against web links, the foundation of the open web. They do so to ‘encourage’ content and discussions on their own platforms, noble goals a stakeholder would say, except that now these platforms are filled with politics, rage, and AI slop.” @alexelcu https://alexn.org/blog/2025/10/13/outsourced-voices-outsourced-minds/
one video is tragedy. a thousand videos is just noise.
it’s weird how inured we’ve become. reliberation day is kind of a big deal, if we don’t TACO our way out of it very quickly. do we just presume we do? how much do China’s controls on rare earths matter in either case?