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Right-wing does not seem to an apt description.

Loves Putin and Orban, a fash is a fash. Usually it’s the opponents of people like that who get assassinated so I have to wonder what’s up with that. Could just be that lying down with crazies gets you this.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:40 PM on May 15, 2024

Why do some have and others have not?

It’s because of elites! Which could mean rich jerks who own everything, but more often than not it’s some other group, who coincidentally are people rich right wingers don’t like.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 4:01 PM on May 15, 2024

A gunman shot Slovakia’s prime minister. Here’s what you need to know.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:29 PM on May 15, 2024

Assuming Russia is responsible for anything they blame on other people is never actually a bad bet.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:12 AM on May 17, 2024

It’s a posibility, but that just seems to be speculation from unnamed officials.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:51 PM on May 17, 2024

She’s come a long way from running around distracting Sonic Youth when they’re trying to do an orderly pop video.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:46 AM on May 17, 2024

Trinity outlines plan of action for Israeli ties following end of BDS encampment
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:06 PM on May 8, 2024

“I didn't think he was gonna stop”: Cousin of infamous extremist rabbi Meir Kahane attacks student protesters with car
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:42 PM on May 8, 2024

Nearly 700 Jewish professors call on Biden not to sign controversial antisemitism legislation
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:49 PM on May 8, 2024

@cassidy@ mastodon.blaede.family :
White people in ski town: “Dear Native American, please come paint art about the struggle of native peoples.”

Lakota artist: *Paints a piece referencing Palestine, with proceeds supporting the UN Crisis Relief Fund*

White people in ski town: “Stay in your lane!” *Revokes residency program*
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:09 PM on May 11, 2024

Why far-right groups are disrupting US campus protests: ‘When there’s so much attention, they show up’ - Gaza counter-protesters at UCLA took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across southern California, researchers say
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:23 AM on May 12, 2024

Top Republican donors fund group doxxing pro-Palestinian college students
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:26 AM on May 14, 2024

Unmasking counterprotesters who attacked UCLA’s pro-Palestine encampment
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:31 PM on May 16, 2024

Also guy who got stabbed by the KKK a while back pulls a milkshake duck:

Neither did Tom Bibiyan, a 42-year-old who was once a local Green Party official. Bibiyan was stabbed at a KKK rally where he was a counter-protester in 2016 and has since become an ardent Trump supporter. His colorful Instagram page is a mix of right-wing memes, numerous posts defending famous men against sexual assault allegations and pro-Israel content.

Video… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:01 PM on May 16, 2024

Oh these people hate teachers and science teachers doubly or triply so. You’d maybe get them to let the sports coach have a say.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:19 AM on May 16, 2024

Which makes it interesting seeing what the process does to this person. Like. If they stick to their guns are they going to accidentally cult deprogram themselves?
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:05 PM on May 16, 2024

Dorsey likes Nazis and doesn’t know why anyone else might not like Nazis. He’s basically Elon-lite. Bluesky being a disappointment to him is very good news about Bluesky.

This thread by the Bluesky dev lead is also very good.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:56 AM on May 13, 2024

There’s certainly a kind of dumb that comes from being just reasonably smart but convinced you’re the biggest super genius that ever walked the world.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:31 PM on May 13, 2024

Because they are spoiled children.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:50 PM on May 13, 2024

He’s basically entirely surrounded by reactionary suck-ups, like all tech billionaires.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:35 AM on May 14, 2024

That just seems a lot like solving federation by not federating TBH.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:10 AM on May 16, 2024

It is universally agreed upon amongst comics fans that it looks like a Hellblazer cover. There are mock ups even. Generally accepted that it would be an Ennis issue, though I would also accept Spurrier.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:32 AM on May 15, 2024

There’s also been a Teressa May portrait that looks like a Shade the Changing Man cover.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:33 AM on May 15, 2024

LITERAL NOT METAPHORICAL.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:42 PM on May 15, 2024

Excellent deployment of “because of woke”.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:44 PM on May 15, 2024

Fucking great witches in that. Highly recommend.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:54 AM on May 15, 2024

To add further to Witch detail… that image at the 3min mark? Fucking genius. Love that shit.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:57 AM on May 15, 2024

It’s the End of Google Search As We Know It - Google is rethinking its most iconic and lucrative product by adding new AI features to search.

Say goodbye to finding anything that isn’t LLM garbage ever again.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:51 PM on May 14, 2024

Simply place an actual cat on your desk and have them chase the cursor.

Downside: cat butt on keyboard.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:47 PM on May 14, 2024

If Books Could Kill: Conservatives vs. Pride Month
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:26 PM on May 13, 2024

I’m not sure how much of Target’s decision making was swayed by worker safety, but anyway.

Some I’m sure… but it’s also their standard lie for closing stores, so I wouldn’t trust it completely.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:44 AM on May 14, 2024

They basically over expanded, got stuck with a bunch of underperforming small stores and started bigging up “crime” as a reason to close them all when that didn’t work.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:45 AM on May 14, 2024

Possibly the danger to employees was the fuck off big street between it and the part of Ballard people actually shop in.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:57 AM on May 14, 2024

Can he open the cabinets with the locked up goods?
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:29 PM on May 14, 2024

Sorry, wrong moral panic.

Lots of stupid moral police going on right now; concern at capitalism using this shit to mulch everything down to nothing sure isn’t one of them.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:18 PM on May 13, 2024

People really have to get into the habit of assuming the police and prosecutors lying is the most likely explanation of any outlandish accusation without evidence rather than treating that as an outlier.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:59 AM on May 11, 2024

When The Daily Dot, a tech news website, looked into the deepfake claims in May 2021, and asked Reiss about the methods he had used to establish that the videos had been digitally altered, he admitted he had relied on his “naked eye”, adding, “We hope Mrs Spone during the course of the preliminary hearing or trial will enlighten us as far as what her source and intent was.”

These would be the last public comments Reiss made about the case. On 26 May 2021 he was… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:00 PM on May 11, 2024

Fallout was supposed to be a warning!
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:00 AM on May 13, 2024

The procession to the cemetery will be extremely slow in order to pad out the running time.

It will also use footage from a previous funeral.

The attacking spacecraft will be suspiciously familiar and you might even argue it didn’t need it, but when you have an attacking spacecraft it might as well go in.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:40 AM on May 13, 2024

There’s a name I’d not heard in a very long time…
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:57 PM on May 12, 2024

Young Michigan voters reveal deepening political problems for Biden seven months after start of Israel-Hamas war
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:47 PM on May 8, 2024

Hillary Clinton Accuses Protesters of Ignorance of Mideast History

Honestly if she ran again I think she’d still have it in her to lose against Trump.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:29 AM on May 10, 2024

The audio version (there is an audio version!) has a little introduction about the challenges of adapting it as well.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:31 AM on May 10, 2024

Can’t say I care for it. Conceptually I guess it’s not so different from one of those “see all these objects? Your phone does that now” images that have gone around, but it’s tone is weirdly grim and destructive.

And we’re at a time when basically nobody creative is going to make any money again and huge corporations are going to make all of it, which for sure makes it bad timing.

The vibes are off.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:19 PM on May 9, 2024

I can’t say I’d care for the LG ad either TBH.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:56 PM on May 9, 2024

What are Pixies tickets going for these days, I ask you

Gouge away.

(Actually fairly reasonable, before scalpers jack it up, but nowhere near me. I see some $250 VIP packages in there)
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:33 AM on May 9, 2024

I don't care for Creedence.

Being a regular Just King Things listener means regular exposure to Uncle Stevie’s Mixtape and through it a shit ton of Creedance. It’s okay. He listens to/namechecks worse.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:17 AM on May 9, 2024

Can capitalism be taught to think before it kills us all? All signs point to no.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:49 AM on May 9, 2024

I’m gonna use something more human and sensible like microseconds since the dawn of UNIX.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:42 AM on May 8, 2024

To name streets?

Sure, fuck it.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:00 PM on May 8, 2024