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[Riles @DukeofSaque]

@vinography Where?

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Yglesias on the 1999 "white supremacy culture" doc that spawned this:

"I wonder if it’s not a psyop devised by some modern-day version of COINTELPRO to try to destroy progressive politics in the United States by making it impossible to run effective organizations."
https://t.co/HvDdxnep73

[Riles @DukeofSaque]

@Affordable_Wino dónde?

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

It pains me to say it but this gives me no choice but to pull for France to win the whole thing

Thank you Mbappé!

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

I watched this debate because I am a very very sick person but it’s maybe the first time I can recall a debate where the grassroots candidate hit the corporate one over and over again on the fact that they are being literally bribed to support bad things.

Stevens had absolutely no counter to this and it’s wild that you don’t see insurgent candidates use this low hanging fruit far more often. Everyone from AOC to Bernie to Mamdani talks about corruption but they so rarely talk about it with directly naming who is being bought with such clarity.

I think people are absolutely desperate to see this kind of aggressive attack against people who hold the public trust being bought off completely by dark money. Abdul made it clear that Stevens is not only his enemy but an enemy of the working class and I wish / hope more politicians stop playing nice with these monsters and name this evil shit for what it is.

[Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos]

@martyrdison It drives me nuts too bc his main audience is kids 8-14yo, and the message conveyed is “debase yourself for money”. Thats why Jackass is more wholesome content for young kids, the message is “debase yourself for friendship”

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

I think if you really want to wear an always-on camera around in public it should have to look like this

[Andy Matuschak @andy_matuschak]

"A “thinker” who doesn’t write, who skips the step of “merely” synthesizing their vague thoughts into prose, is not thinking."

I think this is true-ish, though interesting to consider the extent. Lots of people "think through conversation", which supplies helpful responsiveness, reactivity, alternatives, etc. I'm willing to call that an important kind of thinking.

Some thinking-through-writing is about generating options, then stepping back and asking: does this really capture the intent? How is it wrong? If the machine generates while you judge and steer towards the next options, that is a kind of thinking.

But as Fernando points out, using AI as a thinking partner takes constant skepticism and vigilance—and hence more willpower and metacognitive muscle than many will consistently muster.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

I think I would take AI existential risk people more seriously if they recognized Israeli use of the tech in Gaza as an example of its most alarming hazards, but I haven't seen that.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The tragedy is that to make Israel's actions acceptable the propaganda must change international norms: murder as a state policy, ecocide, genocide, Christophobia, killing negociators, fabricating history, Apartheid, setller colonialism, demonizing resistance, scholasticide,etc.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 “It’s like you might as well be sitting with a fourth grader.” — Jeremy Scahill relaying how Iranian officials described U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff during ongoing negotiations with Iran.

Speaking on Majority Report, Scahill said the talks reflected a broader pattern of U.S. policy in the region being shaped by Israeli intelligence and around Israeli objectives. Iran came to the table with nuclear PhDs and experts fluent in every clause of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The U.S. “sent Trump’s golf buddy and his son-in-law.”

Scahill said Jared Kushner was “not…operating on behalf of U.S. national security” at all — but those of Israel, the Gulf states, and the “Trump crime family” business. He cited Kushner’s significant financial backing from Gulf sovereign wealth funds and reported ongoing coordination with PM Benjamin Netanyahu throughout the talks.

Contrasting that with Iran’s delegation of nuclear specialists and policy experts, Scahill said Iranian officials ultimately concluded the February negotiations were not serious, but a prelude to war.

@jeremyscahill | @EmmaVigeland

[Brian 🍄 @Is_Not_Brian]

When I first learned about this I was so shocked that Israel was allowed to do this & wasn't regarded as a Nazi rogue state. This was the Rosetta stone for me to understand how evil the world is. They killed 10k+ in 2 weeks BEFORE they did Sabra & Shatilla.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is a courage and a confidence in Trump’s humanity that I frankly don’t have. Moving display.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

While the world focuses on the destruction in Iran, we must not ignore what Israel is doing in Lebanon.

1,461 have been killed.
4,430 have been injured.
1.2 million have been displaced.

Israel now occupies 14% of Lebanon.

Enough is enough. No more US military aid to Israel.

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

This imbecile is a Bloomberg journalist.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

we are the bad guys btw. this is how we speak and behave. i dont believe the public wants this. but we have to seize back power from these monsters and hold them accountable so this never happens again.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

again I point out how strange it is that high-level diplomatic negotiations of war and peace are being conducted by freelancers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, both of whom have egregious conflicts of interest, and not the actual secretary of state