The best part is how they've set this up to be a long term problem. The only figures in public convo for GOP nominees are cabinet. Trump will be an anchor for the foreseeable future electorally.

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 5h ago

Some of these quotes are too delicious: “I think the scary part is we don’t know where the bottom is” “The environment has a lot people scared to death” “People that are in R+10 districts are showing [polling that] they’re tied and they’re saying, ‘I need help’”

So yeah, art is not meant to be a sycophantic feedback loop that just confirms your priors. That's anti-human in the worst ways. I do not understand a brain that would think this is good.

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 23h ago

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23h ago

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

Could probably write a thesis detailing the route from the "Welfare Queen" myth all the way to declining birthrates.

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · yesterday

It's because they can't afford to live.

No matter how hard they try brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain—or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other kinds of environmental stimuli. The human brain isn’t really empty, of course. But it does not contain

Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

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Some on the Left(s) have belatedly taken school board races seriously. There still aren't enough leftists running for those seats.

The fact that Geller took a public-facing job after what he did is pretty solid proof of non-rehabilitation, too. It's why any breathless mourning over his fate is insane. In *this* system he will move on and be fine. His victim won't. Why does he deserve consternation over this?

Fluoroantimonic Acid@moralconstraints.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is also over a guy who is actually the perfect example of the minimum of rehabilitive behaviour going on - he told his closest friends and now wife. This guy is the living example of how you still get to do things like have close friends and a wife even if you tell them what you did!

I read the article. It stinks, and I'll tell you why. You are demanding that people comport themselves as if they live within a system that does not exist.

Flora 🍓🏳️‍⚧️@floramerigold.bsky.social · 6d ago

Thank you. I would be happy to engage with people making this claim if I got a meaningful sense that they had actually read a single sentence I've written. I'm sure there's places to critique my views, but I've yet to see an accusation of rape apologia that wasn't in bad faith.

READING SOMEONE SAYING LICHTENSTEIN WAS A TALENTLESS HACK PIECE OF SHIT: oh yea absolutely READING SOMEONE LAYING OUT IN CONVINCING TERMS WHY HIS WORK IS INTERESTING: oh right forgot about that READING A DIFFERENT PERSON CALLING HIM A HACK: fuck him READING ANOTHER ARGUMENT ABOUT WHY HE'S GOOD: oh y

I use this letter every year in AP & in addition to being basically a perfect argument, it's also a template for engaging in consensus building with the ideologically adjacent, which is ironic considering how it's misused today.

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · last wk.

These are people who know exactly one line from the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and, after eschewing historical context as the weapon of the coward and also bravely misremembering what that one line actually says, conclude that white liberals were worse than the Klan

When you have made consumerism = happiness a primary message people see regularly, you cannot be surprised when everyone labels anything making them unhappy as an economic issue.

Embedded in this critique is where suspension of disbelief falls apart for many people when it comes to batman stories today: why wouldn't a committed billionaire be able to fix a city? It's why Absolute Batman is taking off - he doesn't have that power in Gotham.

Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · 2w ago

I want a "villain" for Bruce Wayne that's just some dude who's really positive and charismatic who thinks wealth disparities are central to Gotham's issues. I want him upset Bruce by doing things like building a homeless shelter over the alley where the Waynes died and dedicating it to them.

Look, if this song was anything besides an example of just how a lot of pop country is now itself just a cultural signifier for MAGA, the author might have a point. But this song is straight country slop, zero substance, intentionally. Of course we haven't heard it. It's MAGA whistles.

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2w ago

This kind of take made a Rolling Stone writer so mad they wrote a whole piece about it.

The pervasiveness of online sports betting is a social disease that's going to continue to prey on young people. Great reporting here.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w ago

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

I think I could most accurately give story of my life through what was going on when I played these games

Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · 2w ago

Time for something fun: here are nine PC games that were profoundly influential on me--mostly from my misspent youth (but with one more recent entry!) my9games.com/en/s/29d5486...

Deadwood not in top 10 is immediately disqualifying.

Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · 2w ago

Wait. The NY Times really ranked The Diplomat higher than Community and Gilmore Girls? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Agreed & an addendum: AI doesn't know what good art is either, at least not the way we know it.

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w ago

AI geniunely democratizes the creation of art. This is mostly bad, because the average person has terrible taste.

The cure for loneliness is investing like a quarter of this money into third spaces. Not even joking.

Aaron Huertas@aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2w ago

This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.

I want to believe

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 2w ago

No president has ever gone into a midterm election as unpopular as Trump is today. Not even George W. Bush in 2006. Trump's net approval is twice as low as it was at this point in 2018. blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/no-preside...

We've got so many candidates right now who are so good at this. It really sucks people like Newsom and Harris are still in the conversation for '28.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."

These are the people in risk pools that help everyone's prices stay reasonable. Oz probably knows that & wants them gone to drive up prices. Cartoonish villainy theory of Trump admin undefeated.

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 2w ago

wait what they are using is evidence of fraud is the fact that they have been paying for a service which they do not use?

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

look i'm not gonna complain about STATION ELEVEN being ranked too low. given how few people actually seemed to watch it, it's a miracle it's being remembered at all

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

TV lovers, we're releasing a list of the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century. To create the rankings, we polled more than 500 stars, showrunners and other industry experts. See rankings 100-81 now. nyti.ms/46CpICs

We've got a press now that looks after their own interests more than that of the nation. If the bridge too far is an impact on your bottom line for advertisers, you're not journalism anymore. You're just reality entertainment.

Scott Nover@scottnover.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I'm pretty anti-AI even on average but yes, in general, people are way better from a lot of tech advancement! That's such an easy answer! Don't let anti-AI make you take silly positions!

🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻@swolecialism.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yes

This kind of thing is why structural requirements are the only way. We have to change how schools receive funding, and we have to understand the intentional harm vouchers and school choice programs do to community. It's all rooted in Brown v BOE. Always has been.

The best example of this still comes from Pillars of Eternity.

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

There's no larger sign of how broken and insular media is than the absolute wall to wall blitz on their own behalf the last 24 hours. Trump admin is advancing policies that kill children weekly & they equivocate, but lock them out of the room where they get to hear about it & its tantrum time.

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 3w ago

Gonna be a lot of ink spilled abt the President’s assault on the free press from the corp press and I wonder how much is performative For the last 10yrs, he put reporters in holding pens, called them piggy, debased them, called them enemies of the state, etc. & they kept coming back. Access. 1/