If the response from centrists to a prominent Arab American endorsing Kamala Harris in 2024 despite her conceding nothing on Gaza or not endorsing Kamala Harris in 2024 is the same in both instances it sort of gives away the gams about what the problem is.
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
there's plenty of restaurants in this town, but the owner of the sandwich shop downtown hates me, says he's gonna kill me, and has a sign up on the wall saying that 5 cents out of every sandwich order will go towards buying bullets to shoot me with.
The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement.
I think journalists should recuse themselves from commenting on the feds coming after the NYT because their identity as journalists makes them too close to the story to be objective, sorry but that’s how fact work
Corinne Green@ket.bsky.social · 2w agoftr you have my permission to enjoy the failing new york times getting harassed by the feds. journos will tell you it's bad for any journos to get harassed by the feds but of course they'd say that. they can act aghast at you but they can't actually make you give a shit about nyt staff. fuck 'em.
Yeah and in Statistics 101 they literally tell you the numbers don't always mean what you can extrapolate from them. They told us that on day number one, they emphasized it over and over, because even back in 2009 you graph morons existed.
i need to be honest windows installations are more annoying to me than the average linux installation b/c you have to click through like 10 useless data collection things. even something like arch or gentoo looks complex to new ppl but step by step guides online make it fun at least
jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social · 3w agonoticing an increasingly common phenomenon of people online who hate their torment nexus ass propietary software but for some reason refuse to even entertain the idea of learning to use a non-torment alternative.
Plenty of candidates with Platner's nominal policy positions -- and a more credible long-time commitment to them! -- have been running successful/competitive races this cycle, and there's no stories about how they're abusive dirtbags because there's no evidence that they're abusive dirtbags
signing up multiple times to murder brown ppl (including as a fucking mercenary) should have already been disqualifying. this is what happens when you dont believe women, when you think being a troop is a morally neutral act, and when populism is divorced from left wing principles
If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.
AdotSad@adotsad.bsky.social · 4w agoOh its OVER OVER
cis society is more or less incapable of acknowledging us as people and instead can only treat us as representations of something else. every discussion about us involves a desire to supposedly decode us and the violence against us to figure out what it all Actually Means
depressioncore@princesscore.meangirls.online · last mo.conservatives: fuck them trannies, eliminate them cis ppl: they are saying this to force cis women to have long hair
My only contribution to the air conditioning discourse is to point out that solar panel productivity peaks concurrently with the need for peak cooling, so as solar continues to get cheaper and cheaper this problem can largely take care of itself in a pretty straightforward manner
Oh no that strongly worded letter is going to be devastating.
Axios@axios.com · last mo."There's going to be a war": Centrist House Democrats plot Mamdani Caucus counterattack
The Future Is Now Old Man
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Jaime Harrison@jaimeharrison.bsky.social · last mo.I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.
This Talon Air ICE flight is en route to the African continent. This is the same plane that disappeared from all flight-tracking methods for seven hours while on an ICE removal trip last week -- the first time I haven't been able to determine where an ICE flight landed (still trying!).
interesting thing to me here is how they've considered every possible zebra hooves edge case where agab might be relevant to a doctor, but doesn't seem to realise that disclosing trans status sometimes means no treatment *at all* which is infinitely more common
And also, the premise is entirely backwards. It's *publishers* who are *knowingly* blocking the internet archive, using AI as an excuse (but publishers had already been suing the internet archive before, they're not exactly fans).
SHUT THE FUCK UP, HOLY SHIT IT'S REAL the essay deadass starts with "it is unknowable through what lens and mentality daisuke operated when he declared that bridget was a girl" i am going to Throw Up
Michaela Joffe@joffeorama.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'll be honest, I've never really felt the same way about Death of the Author after learning its origins (Barthes was angry over a Balzac story about a chaser, written over a century prior, for referring to a character as a woman instead of a femboy no I'm not making this up)