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The Literature of Change
favorited 8 times, recently by Aya Hirano on the Astral Plane, Saxon Kane, cupcakeninja, mdoar, nat, Ishbadiddle, fimbulvetr, googlebombed
MeFi post - 18 minutes ago

Fascists do not like to gather where they will not have overwhelming numbers. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by zippy, Death and Gravity, armeowda, Reverend John, wenestvedt
MeFi comment - 18 minutes ago

Have not read it, but Jesus, that’s a burn. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by talking leaf, wenestvedt
MeFi comment - 19 minutes ago

I get a lot of “no, because I compensate like hell” mixed in with that. [more]
favorited 25 times, recently by vim876, metasarah, ASCII Costanza head, Dysk, busted_crayons, ApathyGirl, TwoWordReview, matildaben, taquito sunrise, Serene Empress Dork, The Ardship of Cambry, itsatextfile, MonkeyToes, limeonaire, parm, DSime, naoko, nofundy, Ryvar, MiraK, cmfletcher, Otherwise, potrzebie, antinomia, Wild_Eep
MeFi comment - 27 minutes ago

They also don’t like situations where the police might not be on their side, though admittedly that’s 50/50 here. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by armeowda, joannemerriam
MeFi comment - Almost an hour ago

Defund the police. People will argue against that, but… what else is there? There is literally no other thing that can be done to control them other than to stop feeding them. The money can be spent better elsewhere and you don’t… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by Sphinx, Scout405, pxe2000, adrienneleigh, CPAnarchist, Proofs and Refutations, lesbiassparrow, Brainstorming Time!, The Manwich Horror
MeFi comment - An hour ago

Seems a stretch TBH. Mainly I don’t think it’s good as it’s late 2010s resistance lib nonsense. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by joannemerriam, busted_crayons, Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted, DirtyOldTown
MeFi comment - 3 ½ hours ago

I hearing a lot about AuDHD these days. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by In Your Shell Like, Serene Empress Dork, adrienneleigh, limeonaire, dorothyisunderwood
MeFi comment - 4 ½ hours ago

It’ll also tell you “Barack Hussein Obama” if you ask it if America has ever had a Muslim president. It is dangerously ill considered irresponsible garbage. [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by DSime
MeFi comment - 4 ½ hours ago

The AI Revolution Is Already Losing Steam [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by OnceUponATime
MeFi comment - 7 hours ago

“The Mist” is a novella
favorited 27 times, recently by xenization
MeFi post - Yesterday

It Is Known
favorited 9 times, recently by xenization
MeFi post - Yesterday

You're not supposed to actually read it
favorited 48 times, recently by xenization
MeFi post - Yesterday

The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AI We are so fucked. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by jenfullmoon
MeFi comment - Yesterday

Johnson urges Supreme Court to "step in" on Trump verdict It really bothering with the whole illusion of impartiality thing they kind of sort of go for. [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by The Outsider, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, emf, Reverend John, meinvt, cooker girl, Gelatin, queensissy, adrienneleigh, Joey Michaels, not just everyday big moggies, mumimor, suelac
MeFi comment - Yesterday

I respect putting Trump in jail because fucker has asked for it and seeing things happen to him that would happen to other people is very, very funny. [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by abraxasaxarba, rifflesby, The Card Cheat, emf, ButteryMales, wenestvedt, qxntpqbbbqxl, Orange Dinosaur Slide, torokunai, not just everyday big moggies, DirtyOldTown, hydropsyche
MeFi comment - Yesterday

As someone who frequently and often shits on LLMs and their enthusiasts from a great height… not particularly seeing anything wrong with this. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by daq, doctornemo, deadbilly, hototogisu, chavenet
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

He gave a speech at the Libertarian Party national convention last weekend -- the MAGAts who engineered a hostile takeover of the LP in 2022 invited him -- and when the actual Libertarians started booing him, he shot back that the LP can keep… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by introp, syzygy, Gelatin, Suedeltica, gc, nofundy, Gyre,Gimble,Wabe, Esq., emf, Your Childhood Pet Rock
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

If you put him in house arrest he’s just going to ignore it and then you’re back to deciding if you do real arrest or not. [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by The Monster at the End of this Thread, rifflesby, The Card Cheat, unknowncommand, corb, Navelgazer, miratime, Death and Gravity, Kato
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Well there’s some weirdly unfounded optimism about the Republican Party from someone who is a member of the “Freedom Caucus”. [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by The Card Cheat, ButteryMales, adrienneleigh, joannemerriam, armeowda, hydropsyche, mumimor
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Kind of… I feel like personally guilty may be different than guilty via a shell org. Gets to be pulled into court and photoed coming out of it making that face for a start. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by emf, May Kasahara
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Greenland - I would have expected 0% so that’s something. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by mazola
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Alien 3 (monks version) was a prophecy! [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Halloween Jack, DirtyOldTown, Omon Ra, ver
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

She very clearly rolled a bunch of 1s on everything and is pretty open about it. I think she does a good job on speculaing on what a better experience might be like, but she didn't get one. And she doesn't get to do a do-over and hope for better… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by grandiloquiet
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Honestly it feels like the commentators were trying to spin up controversy out of something straightforward in order to make it a horse race, as we are familiar with from every other aspect of Trump media coverage. So a media thing, not a law thing… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by ButteryMales, maxwelton, adrienneleigh, a faded photo of their beloved, mumimor, hydropsyche
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Certainly an area where I would advise Johnny Vote-scold absolutely not to bother trying their schtick as they’ll just look like an idiot or make things worse. [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by The Manwich Horror, Kitteh, audi alteram partem, adrienneleigh, Pseudonymous Cognomen, Brainstorming Time!
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

US state department falsified report absolving Israel on Gaza aid – ex-official [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by adrienneleigh, The Great Big Mulp
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Seperate that man from his cellphone for 24hrs and he’ll go into a coma. Not that I am against this. [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by blueberry, snsranch, Pouteria, evilDoug, nofundy, May Kasahara, armeowda, Death and Gravity, Pallas Athena
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

"All of these things are happening now, and Biden isn't doing a goddamn thing about any of them, but at least under Trump maybe the goddamn liberals would care and be in the streets with us." Everyone saw what happened with… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by Pseudonymous Cognomen
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

I am both dreading and expecting a full TERF pivot from them, to match other pseudo-liberal institutions. [more]
favorited 15 times, recently by Pseudonymous Cognomen
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

That’s where selective application comes in. [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by corb, adrienneleigh, Reverend John, Proofs and Refutations, genpfault, The Manwich Horror
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Last time I saw Jerry Seinfeld he was stomping all over everyone else with deeply unfunny bits on Everybody’s In LA so I guess him being an ungainly giraffe is appropriate. Though I’m regretting this metaphor as he needs to get in the trash and… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chavenet
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

All the “good” economic news is like “AI is going to revolutionize the economy and put you out of a job!” [more]
favorited 17 times, recently by The Outsider, Monday, LaserCat
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

(Which makes this Isaac Chotiner interview with Democratic Party strategist Simon Rosenberg even more remarkable.) Giving me a little hope as though it’s a pitiful thing to see in a battle between FiveThirtyEight and a Democratic insider… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by The Manwich Horror, Brainstorming Time!
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

The civilian oversight! It does nothing! [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by Laura Palmer's Cold Dead Kiss, adrienneleigh, lalochezia, Reverend John, LizBoBiz, CPAnarchist, Proofs and Refutations, ob1quixote, The Ardship of Cambry, humbug, The Manwich Horror, jedicus, whm
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Jesus. No, it is not Putin and Tik-tok. Shit is really fucked right now, has been fucked for sometime, and no institutions have an interest in unfucking any of them. It’s pretty plain to see everywhere. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 days ago

The thing about crime is it’s mostly a vibes thing. Any attempt to materially change things in the world rather than appeal to the vibes is a complete waste of time. And the vibes are mostly based on knee jerk lizard brain shit that republicans… [more]
favorited 31 times, recently by joannemerriam, salix
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Young people don't really vote in local elections either, correct? Honestly if I was trying to persuade someone to vote that’s where I would encourage them to vote, presidential votes being terrifyingly irrelevant in pretty much… [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by joannemerriam
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

The other democratic message is pretty much "vote affirmatively for us and our hellfire missiles because otherwise Trump will put you in a camp", and that frankly doesn't resonate with anyone I actually know, especially young people… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by duende, LaserCat
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Did you just both-sides both-siding? Power move. [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by y2karl
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

A sandwich of compressed wealth would be a flatbread, obviously. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by Pouteria
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Biden sending a powerful message by not personally signing the GBU-39 glide bomb used in the refugee camp massacre. [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by salix, LaserCat
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Turns out the kids aren’t being cynical ENOUGH. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by LaserCat
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

I can assure everyone the child murdering is unpopular. [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by LaserCat
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

As in: not backed by data. Is there inflation? Yes. Is it outpaced by wage growth? Also yes. One of these is equally distributed. One of them is not. One of them has me paying into a bunch of GoFundMes so people can eat, the other is… [more]
favorited 16 times, recently by LaserCat, DSime
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

The most bleak and defeatist view of all. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by LaserCat
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

I’d say Putin, China, Saudi, etc. do enter into it, I’d say that’s entering into wishful thinking. [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by LaserCat
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Pretty much everyone is in fear of losing their jobs right now and even people with solid jobs are having trouble making ends meet. Housing is ruinously expensive and many are just getting straight up priced out of it. All the things that make the… [more]
favorited 38 times, recently by LaserCat, mygothlaundry
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

the ultra rich have already decided they want fascism, they’re not going to be swayed further towards that. [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by briank
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Although Ritchie often describes his upbringing as “middle class,” it was beyond what most people would ascribe to the term. His father, Bill, who died in February, owned a large, successful Lincoln-Mercury dealership in the northern suburb of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 days ago

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