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Holy shit, this guy is real. I (from Canada) thought that "Count Binface" was a character in British shorts, because I'm not really up on regional British politics. Guys, I just found my new favourite politician. I'm going to be SO MAD if he's not elected.

People keep asking why/how investors keep "falling for this" and the answer is, I think, that they don't. Investors aren't buying for the long term, they are buying for the short term. The plan is to buy, ride a small wave up, and sell. This is very bad and will cause a crash eventually.

Lynch dying cos he had to be evacuated from the LA Fires continues to be a magician thing. As such, this line is the distillation of EVERYTHING he ever did. It is the "spell" we must hold and repeat for ourselves and others. It is the mantra he gave us to dream a better dream. I'm dead serious.

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“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do” is a quote in the actual publication for which Douthat has written over most of his career since he graduated from Harvard

Trump Is Shutting Down the War on CancerAmerica’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.www.nytimes.com

Also: the Trump presidency isn't even half over yet, and the maximum alarmists weren't nuts. ICE is operating as a death squad or is at least building up to it. Birthright citizenship nearly died in court. Mass corruption. Iran War. Haitian ethnic cleansing. Concentration camps. It's very bad!

Trump 2.0 has blown up US scientific research in a way that will take decades to roll back. Labs that took years to build have closed, young people have left science. NYT Mag published a long report on Dismantling Cancer Research. Why does Ross Douthat lie like this?

it's just such a wild coincidence how many far-right influencers are suddenly bleeding cash and switching sides re: Ukraine. life is funny like that, i guess. ah, well, nevertheless.

I check Facebook 1-2x a month for family stuff. Turns out a few days ago my dad made a long post begging for understanding about trans people by his fellow boomers. Last paragraphs are below. Dad doesn’t always get it 100% right. He doesn’t need to. He loves and defends me; that’s all that matters

There is a certain type of bad guy whose main contribution is sowing confusion between good and bad by failing to understand things that are easily understood.

watching my wife try to hire someone to work under her this week has been wild- like 98% of all resumes aren't even real candidates and come from fraud farms trying to use AI to scam a paycheque to a fake candidate, we have officially hit a point where the biggest global growth industry is fraud

A little on the edge of tears reading through this thread so maybe there is something to the whole 'we are all traumatised but expected to act like normal' thing (duh)

I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.

My long-standing theory (and resentment) about CGI is that its rapid adoption was specifically boosted by a deluded belief that it would accomplish what AI-boosters dream about: the elimination of illustrative animation labor for a system that can be piloted by now-deskilled workers.

Also, when your self image is constructed from a place of permanent innocence and victimhood first, you lose your boundaries against evil because you cannot perceive that you would ever be anything but an innocent victim.

If you aren't angry then you aren't paying attention.

Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.

I came across this a while back and ended up saving it because it was so accurate and depressing

what the fuck

mamdani feeling the furry joy is the energy I need this Monday