As someone in the Left Foreign Policy Space or, less charitably, the "professional managed imperial decline" business, I think it's important to be crystal clear about the harms currently built in and what risks look like when building something different, even as unstable hegemony cannot hold.

Kelsey Atherton@atherton.bsky.social · 3h ago

It's the global leviathan problem: we know and see clearly the harms stemming from accumulated force and a world built around it, and also, the immediate lose of that superstructure is not the absence of violence but different violence, a different sorting of outcomes. Foolish to mess it up but alas

I thought I smelled something funny coming off of that trailer

Mathew Buck@filmbrainbmb.bsky.social · 3h ago

Wait, hold up, One Night Only, the rom-com set in a dystopian society where pre-martial sex is outlawed 364 days a year, ends with a character saying “Maybe the fascists were right about this”? Christ on a bike. Well, that killed any interest stone dead.

The other day I was looking at Twitter (still gotta, unfortunately) and I got ads for AI apps that were like "you can take pictures of girls and make them kiss in bikinis!" just regular ads on the regular feed

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 4h ago

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

10 years of centrist chuds complaining about bernie bros flipping to trump and now they‘d rather vote for wife beaters and genocide deniers than an arabic guy lmfao

Me from an American Context: Damn they really got his ass didn't they

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 12h ago

Rishi Sunak: £2,200,000 income. 23% tax.

BREAKING: Hank Green and Ken Jennings have agreed to fight to the death to determine who gets to remain in public life

the obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.

you shouldnt be able to livestream from your phone. you should have to be sitting in a room with a bunch of tacky LED lights everywhere and an ugly gamer chair

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 2d ago

if people really want to debate the validity of certain classes of person in our society, I suggest we start with "irl streamers"

I see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing

The best part of being a liberal is you get 20 homophobia points a day that you can spend however you want! And nobody can call you homophobic because you voted for a straight Democrat!

These kind of schools function as political entertainment for adults. The product they're selling is 'don't worry - those people you hate? They're being made to suffer.'

Andrew Sissons@acjsissons.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is a harrowing - though not surprising - read. It’s probably hard to quantify, but I think we need to know how widespread this approach is, and what impact it has on young people’s mental health

the big complaint generally revolves around schools, but the timeline there was pretty sensible: most schools were fully remote until the vaccine rollout, after which they fairly quickly moved to in-person learning.

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

I cannot believe The Internet was right

This has been a banner decade for The Kind Of Man I Resent and I would like for it to stop

Look I know there’s no way to tell whether a guy is like this based on his appearance BUT

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

This might sound elitist, but I don’t think the people liking the Peanuts slop posts should have rights

Barbara Longley Author (no DMs) 📎@blongley.bsky.social · 5d ago

People who dislike Wes Anderson talk about him like he’s as much of a racist as Tim Burton. And they don’t talk about Tim Burton like he’s a racist.

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the hank green thing rules dude getting caught out doing one shitty thing and immediately, unprompted, being like i’m so fucked up i have a serious problem i’m not normal i’m in therapy they gave me an intervention can you ever forgive me is like THE classic asshole guy move

I thought JID was just another Logic for an embarrassing length of time

Dave Moore@otherdavemoore.com · 4d ago

Hot takes are annoying, tell me a strong opinion you had about music at some point in your life that changed

Liberals: giving the New York Times money doesn't do anything to trans people The New York Times in just the last 24 hours:

i keep narrating pokémon like im werner herzog and it makes my niece and nephew crack up despite not knowing who that is. "i am driven by a compulsion to capture the creatures in plastic and airless prisons... these creatures, so small and vivacious... i must capture and subdue zem all"

Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · 5d ago

roasted by my 9 year old nephew who confidently told me if i was a pokemon i would be psyduck "because he is always worried and runs around holding his head because he has a headache"

An old tweet of mine from 4 years ago has been unearthed and I am being hailed for my clairvoyance lol

Hank Green realizing he got caught reading a prompt and being like ahh yeah I'm entering a 12 step program for talking to the computer is so funny man.

Vince staples self titled is his worst album

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

It is objectively hilarious that, after a decade of Christian rap fans begging for chance the rapper to collaborate with somebody in that space, when he finally relented, he picked that one

you can give em feedback here www.amnesty.org.uk/contact-us/