aidan walker

meme researcher
TikTok: @aidanetcetera

[aidan walker @aidanetcetera]

it’s time to replace the morning scroll with a morning stroll

[aidan walker @aidanetcetera]

you know, say what you will about him, theodor adorno at least wasn't in the epstein files.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

The "Frankfurt School" of Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, and (ambivalently) Habermas had a massive diffuse influence on modern academia, even if the original sources and lines of influence have been forgotten. This can be seen in its vague, incoherent, and ineffectual sympathy for some kind of not-exactly-but-sort-of Marxism, the conviction that capitalism is odious and moribund without any thought-through alternative. Scott Alexander @slatestarcodex explains in his review of a book on the history and ideas of the school. https://t.co/xCTjEHwH1t

[Faiz @fshakir]

Bernie Sanders: “That is why I will soon be introducing the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. This legislation would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest A.I. companies in our country.” https://t.co/XJUtwh3j9a via @NYTOpinion

[aidan walker @aidanetcetera]

@darwin8u I’m so grateful y’all are enjoying the pamphlet and found my work useful/helpful for your own conversations and explorations! The kids she works with are lucky to have her as their teacher

[Nick Cleveland-Stout @nick_clevelands]

Israel paid Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale $15 million to run a foreign influence operation on American soil.

Here's what that bought:

-$6 million to an AI chatbot company that texts Americans pretending to represent "peace" organizations.

-$5 million to a GOP strategist for media placement, consulting, polling, and advertising work

-$500,000+ in ads to Salem Media (the same conservative media company where Parscale is chief strategy officer).

Parscale's team also created pro-Israel websites specifically designed to be scraped by AI platforms like ChatGPT and Claude.

Full investigation w/ @JSweetLI in @RStatecraft and @theintercept (link below)

[aidan walker @aidanetcetera]

this is an affront to his legacy. Harambe was about love. Dicks out, forever

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Today, we remember a legend.

On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.

He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.

Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸

May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.

[aidan walker @aidanetcetera]

when they call me unc in the comments on tiktok

[aidan walker @aidanetcetera]

locking in

[Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr]

Remember when they said Trump would get us into a full-blown war with Iran?

Times like these should make us all realize how lucky we were to have Trump, his strength and his resolve.

[Nicole Grajewski @NicoleGrajewski]

I will not vote for a democratic party that favors the advice of men who have had the privilege to travel the world but still felt content with the grace of ignorance.

[Peter Mitchell @_bezpilotnik]

Lol, this is so good and so brutal

[aidan walker @aidanetcetera]

easy, low-lift AI regulation:

ban all models from using the words “I” and “me.”

solves 65% of all psychosis, improper use, and embarrassing behavior if we make it harder to anthropomorphize the bots.

[aidan walker @aidanetcetera]

@Chris_arnade my friend, the Louvre comment is clearly a joke

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

I think the vast majority of Americans would agree

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

I think this is the best picture I've ever taken

[aidan walker @aidanetcetera]

Blob "intellectuals" only do real talk off-the-record because they can't stand by their analysis in good faith -- actual thinking is subordinated to access-finding, the skill atrophies. Also Foreign Policy mag doesn't know what a Rorschach test is

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

What’s most notable about this piece is that none of McGurk’s administration colleagues were willing to go on record criticizing him for what they absolutely know was a catastrophic Gaza policy. What a bunch of cowards.

[Jeremy Slevin @jeremyslevin]

Net favorability among independents:
Bernie Sanders +21
Democrats in Congress -36

Net favorability among moderates:
Bernie Sanders +24
Democrats in Congress -31

Centrists on this website will do anything to avoid looking in the mirror.

[aidan walker @aidanetcetera]

@mattyglesias "absent" in the sense of clearly not breaking through and highly ineffective, no?

[David Austin Walsh @DavidAstinWalsh]

The strangest thing about the contemporary American and global crises is that you’d think the imperialists in the Democratic Party would realize that massive internal reforms are needed to restore American political credibility with both allies and adversaries.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Cory Booker claiming he had no idea who Hasan Piker was before a few days ago and he had never heard is name is either a bald faced lie or reveals how stunningly ignorant these politicians are abt the online world. Cory Booker is the one leading the Senate Dems social media stuff

[Michael Koncewicz @MikeKoncewicz]

Cutter is one of many from Obama world who have signed up to work for companies who are responsible for this country’s decline. This trend is much more serious problem for the Democratic Party than anything Hasan Piker has said on Twitch.