The real scandal isn’t that Trump steals. It’s that voters keep handing him the keys and calling it patriotism.
Feral Mystic
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Expecting collapse. Avoiding Covid. Denouncing genocide. Writing psychedelia. Writing: https://feralmystic.io Meetings: https://collapseclub.com
Haven’t read the book, but this summary interview confirms our model: give up the future, deal with grief, find community, and live for simple daily joys. We tend to think that climate changes will overwhelm our adaptations, ultimately, but this approach will do, for now.
Your worst fears about cultural collapse might be true – here’s what you can do about it
Writer Sarah Wilson argues we’re hurtling toward the same end as ancient Rome and the Mayan civilisation – but there’s plenty to fight for
theguardian.com
That wall of smoke is headed west. It will cover Seattle and much of the coastal Pacific Northwest for three days while temperatures rise into the 90s. It means suffering for those without A/C, air purifiers, masks, or housing. This is our first climate disaster of the year. Will it be the last?
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
gonna make a tshirt — “all four of my grandparents survived the holocaust and all i got was a genocidal apartheid garrison state instead of a system of international justice to hold war criminals to account”
Chat is it bad if the center-left opposition in the U.S. is financed by Zionist imperialism?
daniel sieradski@self.agency · last wk.this is why they go out of their way to defend israel and this is what happens when they stop — pro-israel donors were the party’s financial backbone and now that day is over
him (a man of wealth and taste): please allow me to introduce myself. me (puzzled by the nature of his game): woo woo
I wish you encounters with beauty so piercing they shatter your cynicism and build your faith in the sacramental nature of ordinary moments I wish you the ability to metabolize your rage into fuel for creative projects that serve beauty and justice, rather than letting it corrode you from within
We've reached "the President wants you to call the federal government to have your disfavored neighbors forcibly removed from the country" stage of "small government conservatism," articulated in the "hip" youth culture idiom of "maxxing."
This is a fascinating read about consolidation in the tomato supply chain, and also, why tomatoes aren't so great right now.
Gassed Up
Tomato ripening rooms reveal the growing costs of the produce industry’s massive consolidation.
ambrook.com
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises from within us, our life’s star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. ~ William Wordsworth, from “Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”.
I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
This is amazing. OpenAI was internally testing a program in cyber capabilities. The program escaped containment and broke into Hugging Face so it could score higher. Zero-days, the whole schmear. Yikes.
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
openai.com
Sincere gratitude to Jesse Welles for being the folk singer songwriter for this moment. Oh, and F*CK ICE. 🧊 #Blues youtu.be/OjGHf7OvglM?...
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YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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America began to approach an actual meritocracy and idiot white supremacists weren't succeeding so now we have this shit.
Look, it's not Canada's fault it takes an entire forest of sage to try to smudge out the U.S.'s evil spirits.
Trump‘s ceasefire stops short of preventing armed conflict.
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Adam@rabidinsomnia.bsky.social · 3w ago
The Hidden Door ~~~~~~~~ “The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.” ~ Carl Jung.
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
the Republican party is a terrorist organization with a large support base, and must be dealt with like other such groups: through a long and painful peace process that incorporates them back into the political system while hypocritically disclaiming their extreme elements + largely escaping justice
Materialist Gnostic@walmsley.bsky.social · 3w agoI don't think anyone has a plan for "what if 40% of the country is Like That forever" in part because there really isn't a good one
It's sort of bleakly funny he talks about winning in Iran because that's actually a good analogy. He *maybe* can burn this government to the ground, but he can't take and hold it fully at this point.
This sun seems bad. Pretty sure we are in trouble when the sun looks like this.
"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it."