Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

probably the single best take i've seen on Hasan lmao

short king simp↙↙↙@yeospaceman.bsky.social · 2d ago

he's a video game streamer turned pundit whose takes are informed by a warmed over millennial understanding of Chomskyist campism. this makes him more directionally correct than like 80% of federal dem electeds older than 50 and 100% of the MSM, but it also means he's really stupid

There are two wolves inside of you. A fantastic result for the rewilding project you've been developing in your chest for the last few years.

There's a persuasive argument that based on conventional liberal principles (central planning, market distortions, coercion, interference in hiring, trade, manufacturing, mergers & acquisitions, etc.) this is the least market-friendly administration since FDR. Possibly ever.

Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Trump administration is so opposed to socialism that it has acquired — sometimes by coercion — equity stakes in 30 companies so far. www.cato.org/blog/governm...

All of this is to say, GM was picking the bones of the dying streetcar companies. Think vultures, not eagles. And when we talk about the GM conspiracy charges... GM-affiliated National City Lines actually kept streetcars running longer than peer systems. 10/

The second image is a game of Where’s Waldo where you have to find the moderate rebel

romanistani state-affiliated media@djangofetts.bsky.social · 3d ago

some real Diagrams came out of syria circa 2016/2017ish

Appropriate air quotes because the most infuriating part about Americans debating "lockdown" is that it simply never happened. Having to pick up your Applebees and eat it on the sectional does not count. There wasn't even a brief moment where "everything" was closed. That's not real.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d ago

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid

Overheard today: “I wish my job wasn’t part of the load bearing scam propping up the economy.”

Muppets Kermit & Fozzie Shrug

Alt: Muppets Kermit & Fozzie Shrug

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Me logging into to bsky.app

No Context Quest For Glory@nocontextqfg.bsky.social · 5d ago

You don't find anything interesting.

These long, ego-stroking meetings are beginning to look more like memory care. At some point they're going to end by playing YMCA and talking about the hottest clubs in New York circa 1982.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Bessent: "President Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton could not have imagined the economy that we would have created. It is the envy of the world."

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

lol yup, wrote about that recently at Techdirt. If these folks were so concerned about privacy, pass a modern privacy law and tightly regulate data brokers.

Michigan Lawmakers Want To Ban Chinese-Tagged Vehicles From Even Visiting The State. You Know, For Privacy.

Michigan lawmakers are pushing legislation that wouldn’t just ban the sales of Chinese-made cars in the The Great Lakes State, it would ban cars with Chinese tags from even visiting. The Prot…

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this guy (doomloop dispatch) literally killed a biker with his car… and he’s posting on twitter how it just made him even more anti-bike lane. The NIMBYs are not OK.

Theo Gordon@theogordon.bsky.social · last wk.

Move over zucchini lady, this guy calling 'bike lanes white lanes' and calling the Terner Center the 'Gentrification Center' is my new favorite Berkeley Council moment. #berkmtg

By golly, it's a rare Peruvian Onklunk!

I don't worry at all about terminator stuff, I worry quite a lot about Augmented authoritarianism, and I worry the most of all about a gigantic metastasizing perpetually low-trust neomedieval pile of shit that AI greatly exacerbates and possibly locks in for good.

dame@dame.is · last wk.

real talk, how many of y’all are genuinely concerned about super intelligent AI ushering in the end of days?

We get told to "learn to take a joke" when drivers laugh about hitting pedestrians & micromobility users that get in their way. We get told that drivers threatening us or revving their engine at us wouldn't actually hurt us & not to be so dramatic. This is the result of normalising & excusing it.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last wk.

A driver in Boston ran down and murdered a scooter rider because he felt "disrespected." Cars are weapons.

If someone is concerned about the risk to pedestrians from e-bikes, e-motos, and scooters, but doesn't support taking away space from cars to build safer micro-mobility infrastructure then I would question their commitment to safety

Why is it considered normal to just issue death threats against Arab Americans?

worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · last wk.

we got self-described "Hardcore Democrats" out here making genocide jokes (This account in on here too)

Trump said that because he’s 100 years old and thus thinks computers are magic, as corroborated by everyone in the replies who also thinks this

Brant Reeves@bireeves95.bsky.social · 2w ago

Looks Like Cheating to Win an Election…..

the world historical equivalent of what Trump has done for the fossil economy at Hormuz

Crowsa Luxemburg@quendergeer.bsky.social · last wk.

ok but what if elon musk makes racism so cringe no one wants to do it any more

I'm delighted with Mayo's win, and this will make me seem like an awful cranky bollix, but the amount of AI slop being circulated in the aftermath is disappointing. Every meme and every GAA club post is just the same slop. 🤢 I am a cranky bollix. Maigh Eo abú.

Yet another reason why any government and anybody with any sense shouldn't be on X...

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.

Bass promoting fare-free LA metro is a really funny example of a politician attempting to pander but instead landing on a proposal that, within the community of people who care a lot about the issue, is a specific shibboleth for not knowing what you're talking about: bsky.app/profile/mayo...

Mayor Karen Bass@mayor.lacity.gov · 2w ago

As Chair, I’ll build a long-term financial plan to make Metro fare-free. I’ve fought for a world-class transit system my entire career because public transit should create opportunity for everyone.

My favorite du bois essay is a dialogue with an imagined white friend (you can pretend it's William dunning or anyone) in 1923! It works *because* it's a conversation, like they say below. I think "The Superior Race" also originates the formulation "x didn't happen bc he's y, he's y bc x happened."

insomniac@phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've said before: we should bring back dialogues, so instead of carefully and defensively writing around any argument you could think of, you can just write a part where the argument gets made by someone named Uggo Dumbfuck and refute it directly.

If there's one thing Trump has usefully revealed it's that the gatekeepers in the media who supposedly had so much reverence for Support The Troops and Dead Soldiers etc when those things were being deployed to hurt Democrats were just liars and never cared about this even a little.

Ivan the K ™@ivanthek.bsky.social · 2w ago

I would never presume to know how a Gold Star family feels or what they should say. However if I were in one today, I'd be absolutely ripshit with Trump.

of course the minister for AI wouldn't be a tech literate skeptic who can properly regulate AI, deal with the environmental impacts, ensure any integration is appropriate, ethical, fairly compensated etc. they had to get some evangelist gonk who thinks the face on his oven glove is talking to him

There's no serious discussion of climate politics that doesn't begin here and the outcome of the elections in Colombia are a big setback for the world and the possibility of coordinated fossil fuel phaseout

Emily Atkin@emorwee.bsky.social · 2w ago

This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.

It just seems like we're expected to take any amount of being ignored & dismissed & misrepresented & thrown under the bus while always making sure to explicitly recognise car users' hypothetical problems when discussing our real ones & managing others' emotions while never being emotional ourselves.