Zoomer Antimillenarian
@surcomplicated.bsky.social
Staunch liberal, hopeful Georgist, moderate intuitionist. Hoping to one day pass on an even better world than the one I inherited. Retweet =/= Endorsement
Chuck Edwards Ends Campaign After Harassment Allegations Pressure had been building among Republicans to force him out after a House Ethics report cited alleged inappropriate behavior.
Chuck Edwards Ends Campaign After Harassment Allegations
Pressure had been building among Republicans to force him out after a House Ethics report cited alleged inappropriate behavior.
theassemblync.com
Universities “are increasingly acting like other employers, finding “complicated and sometimes pretextual reasons” to fire employees, even those with tenure. “What we’re seeing at the New School is emblematic of the rising pressures on higher education as a labor market and as an industry”
He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway.
The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.
nytimes.com
i saw someone essentially asking 'why are people more willing to donate to ngos and charities than directly to vulnerable people's gofundmes' and i have to be real here i suspect the answer is 'because they don't know you'
for months, ive been trying to map out the ways the right and the left were uniting against data centers and AI both here's my story on my efforts, featuring steve bannon's anti-tech prophet, my girlfriend's high school english class, and the unabomber:
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
wired.com
It will never cease to amaze me how we had a panic over Mamdani far more intense than the one over a Nazi-tattooed Graham Platner, even including the last-minute collapse of Platner's campaign in the face of literal rape allegations.
ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 12h agoi really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office
Seconded. It’s wrong on principle, it’s unamerican—we rejected religious tests for office and dual loyalty smears with JFK, Jewish Americans, more—and every minority (especially but not exclusively religious) should recognize it as yet another assertion that only white Christians are real Americans.
ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 12h agoi really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office
Journalism is increasingly concentrated in NYC and DC. Not because the industry is booming in NYC and DC, but because it is collapsing everywhere else. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
also creating potential financial incentives for individual study doctors to maybe alter data seems pretty dangerous!
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14h agoThese betting markets sites are so socially corrosive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe
Looks like the only poll in the last month which is likely to get the result within the margin of error is the one that AES tried claiming was funded by AIPAC (that was Stevens +1 but the margin of error for each was +/- 2.5%)
Looks like most probably a low single digit AES win Once again proof that primary polling is drunk and should be largely ignored
This is a man who has a hard time looking in the mirror
I've barely have thought about changing a lightbulb in the last decade, at home or in the car, or have not worried about accidentally leaving them on draining my battery or bank account. I'd say that's a win.
Israeli *Druze* in particular are very much atypical for Israeli Arabs because they're a big part of the IDF and correspondingly extremely unhappy with the idea of a broader Palestinian identity for very obvious reasons.
And their relationships with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, let alone the Palestinian diaspora, is dicey on a good day and they seldom have that. Israeli Arabs may or may not see themselves as Palestinians, too, any given day. Identity is complicated everywhere.
One thing that a lot of leftists on Bluesky could do with learning is that Israeli Arabs are SUUUUUPER anti-Iran, because Iran also wants to genocide *them* for being something other than Twelver Shia.
Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️@metabluesky.bsky.social · 13h agoAnd a very important bloc of Israelis is Arab, both Druze, Christian, and Sunni! Extremely important part of daily life, political and otherwise, in the actual country. Never really comes up in any discussion of it on this site except from actual Israelis though.
And a very important bloc of Israelis is Arab, both Druze, Christian, and Sunni! Extremely important part of daily life, political and otherwise, in the actual country. Never really comes up in any discussion of it on this site except from actual Israelis though.
Zoomer Antimillenarian@surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13h agoThere are real parallels here to culture in other countries that are forced to live under perpetual military mobilization and they sandblasted all that potential material away to just do "JOOOS BAAAAD". Israel is a real country, not some abstraction in your head. However fucked up it very much is!
There are real parallels here to culture in other countries that are forced to live under perpetual military mobilization and they sandblasted all that potential material away to just do "JOOOS BAAAAD". Israel is a real country, not some abstraction in your head. However fucked up it very much is!
Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago
It's gotta be very rare, but stuff like this does happen. I lived in Missouri, where a dead guy won because he was against John Ashcroft. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Un...
2000 United States Senate election in Missouri - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
So, uh, a candidate who suspended his campaign a month ago is winning a landslide against a Trump endorsed candidate because of anti-Muslim prejudice against a guy who is not Muslim (and I guess probably also just regular racism). How often does a candidate who suspended their campaign win?
The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 14h agoSeems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.
Yeah, it seems like literally every Michigan primary poll got the margin wrong by at least 8 points and gave the candidates completely incorrect coalitions
brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · 13h agoSo El-Sayed is doing better with Black voters and worse with white voters than most people imagined? That’ll be fun for The Discourse.
just feels bad magn i love games always wanted to work in games and it just sucks so much rn seeing friends getting laid off and knowing it’s going to get worse
In MI-08, an R+1 district with a Dem incumbent, the GOP candidate Trump endorsed is losing by double digits to a guy who'd dropped out last month.
honestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate
Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 19h agoToday is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
FWIW I'm optimistic about a really epic video game renaissance enabled by AI (even when it's not used for final art or acting, just coding and dummy assets) but it's gonna be an ugly ride to get there and a lot of ppl are going to have their livelihoods blown to smithereens along the way.
Sasho Todorov@sashotodorov.bsky.social · 13h agoI feel like people are underrating how extremely bearish this is re: the overall health of the videogame industry. Major investors normally don't let a company get taken private unless they think that there's no major growth left in it. And EA was the most consistently profitable company.
I think the assessment of the industry, which I think is correct, is that audience sizes aren't growing and dev costs are spiraling faster than revenue. So even if you hold IPs with major consistent microtransaction revenues, its just not a place worth being in anymore.
I feel like people are underrating how extremely bearish this is re: the overall health of the videogame industry. Major investors normally don't let a company get taken private unless they think that there's no major growth left in it. And EA was the most consistently profitable company.
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 17h agoEA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest
