Aspiring War Profiteer

It’s a dying medium

[David Adler @davidrkadler]

I simply do not understand how we, as a country, tolerate the hypocrisy of indicting Raúl Castro for defending Cuban airspace — while our own government celebrates the extrajudicial assassinations of innocent fishermen sailing across the sea below.

[Christopher Derick Varn @TheRealVarnVlog]

Schumer is an opportunist to the point of being a pro-war human shit stain—he just got on the TACO train on what would have been a world wide disaster.

[patrick "inverted vibe curve" blanchfield @PatBlanchfield]

hegseth pledged "no quarter." earlier this year a US sub sank a boat of iranians coming back from a fleet regatta. those we didn't kill we abandoned to drown. this week the iranians shot down and captured US pilots who were bombing them and it's being called a "hostage taking."

[roshan @rhymewithocean]

i try my best to live with it but days like these really remind me that we live in a nation of deranged cultists who experience christianity as a form of psychosis

[kate wehwalt @mcmansionhell]

once you dip your toes even a little bit into the depravity of the American empire it becomes insane how much of your upbringing and the beliefs of most of the people around you are all lies

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

The fact that Dick Cheney died of old age, free and probably surrounded by family, is a disgrace that this country will never escape. He made the world we now live in and suffered zero consequences. He won. We lost.

[GoliathFan1952 @ByYourLogic]

They’re only on the flotilla to take selfies and also they’re helping Hamas and they have trust funds and they are unemployed and they are baristas and they are going to be thrown off rooftops for being gay and they are Nazis and they are ISIS and I don’t care about them!

[Yasha Levine @yashalevine]

everyone busy issuing statements like they are sovereign citizens running their own press office. just the funniest age.

[Aspiring War Profiteer @Owlleg]

Underrated aspect of the Edward sharpe discourse: cultural criticism is dead

[Aspiring War Profiteer @Owlleg]

@BabiesWithGuns Real ones knew

[Find me on bsky @colin-fraser.net @colin_fraser]

I dunno I just don’t find this line of thought that compelling given what is observable about what LLMs do. It’s plainly obvious to me that whatever they’re doing is very different from human cognition, to the extent that I don’t find the comparison all that valuable.

[jake rhodes @jakebrodes]

Just dropped a 4 ton jack on my foot and said fuck me in my ass god damnit and the trash guy in the alley as he picked up a bunch of bulk scrap metal went “yes sir heard that.”

[Aspiring War Profiteer @Owlleg]

@rooster_ohio Yeah I’m no expert but I unfortunately think there’s a lot of pain to come that is still working its way through the system

[Aspiring War Profiteer @Owlleg]

@rooster_ohio My guess would be tariffs, lots of recent economic info to indicate manufacturing is slowing to a standstill

[Doug Henwood @DougHenwood]

Matt, 8% of US workers are in manufacturing, about the same share as those in bars and restaurants. Overall, 72% are in private services. 10% are in retail, 11% in health care, 11% are in leisure/hospitality, 13% in state and local gov. It's not 1955 anymore.

[Aspiring War Profiteer @Owlleg]

The left doesn’t exist and doesn’t matter, beyond a few media figures on places like this, but something so remarkable about the current debate around tariffs on the left is that it ignores the fact the vast majority of working class people work service jobs

[crisp mattman @cushbomb]

Tired: Hope.
Wired: Spite.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

This is what Trump wants out of the negotiations. It's not complicated. https://t.co/cRmyAbjrda

[Yasha Levine @yashalevine]

why are we talking about ezra klein? why? why!!!!!

[GoliathFan1952 @ByYourLogic]

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