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I'm doubling down on my take that these (Weiss, the Ellisons, Musk, etc.) are not smart, self aware people feigning ignorance as part of their schemes, they actually thought that these were good and popular ideas, "if only they'd get a fair shake" or whatever.

Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social

I'm actually surprised by her apparent desire to do this: I thought she had the self-awareness to know her superpower is convincing the Epstein class of her brilliance, not conning us plebeians. But I guess I was giving her too much credit.

Lets keep yelling at Europe about AC. Europeans love when Americans tell them to do things almost as much as Americans love Europeans telling them to do things.

A temporary setback for the usually peerless German navy.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

How Rheinmetall gambled on Germany’s doomed warship project — and lost ft.trib.al/EHORYs0

Municipalities love having empty, rotting hulks abandoned onto their books. "Great, we'll put a library or something in here" says yet another Kansas comptroller.

Tim Onion@bencollins.bsky.social

When these data centers become debt traps in a few years at most, the next Dem president should offer to wipe out those debts if they're sold for a dollar back to cities for community centers, mutual aid hubs, YMCA-style temporary housing services. Try to salvage anything out of this mess.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions so I'm starting with bad intentions to stay safe

Happy for them but also tired of hearing about New York 😔

They'll be hunting me in the streets for my VERY NORMAL opinions

Modern GOP revealing their true form, the Renfield party

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

The mask is FULLY off from the man now.

See people, you don't even need AI to make terrible, chopped up bullshit

Criterion Channel@criterionchannl.bsky.social

Using custom non-AI software, Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes created the world’s first generative feature film, which endlessly reedits and resequences hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage, interviews, and unreleased music

We're going to get nothing but Gen-Z-sploitation movies for the next few years.

It's your fallow buckets

The people complaining the construction crew put up tarps are the same as the ones complaining the people complaining the California votes take too long to count. And they rubberneck traffic stops

The DOJ would never weaponize a subpoena, surely.

Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social

what are you saying in your group chats that you're worried about a subpoena

I'm something of a philologist, emphasis on the "lol"

that's the stuff

Barbara Broccoli #feminism

Amass power without turning evil, how hard could that be

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social

The temptation with being a particularly smart person with less structural power in an organization is thinking "I will prove how smart I am and then I will get more power" as opposed to assessing the situation and using your smarts to figure out how to get more power, you know without turning evil.

We never should have challenged Iran to a sporadic exchanges of missiles fight, guys. Wrestling a pig in mud.

More agriculture, more problems 😔

Ska on vinyl