sonch

One of the main ones on here. Flawless alignment. Williamson voter. Twitter account haver. Just a character I’m workshopping don’t worry

[sonch @soncharm]

Still strikes me as pretty weird that the US government using public resources funded ridiculously ill-justified virus-breeding research that created a pandemic killing millions and counting, and no one’s in trouble for it and no one cares, but maybe that’s just me.

[sonch @soncharm]

@EricLevitz The good news: Ds don't really care about two of those goals. The raison d'etre of D politics is to Raise Taxes, all else is subservient to that overriding obsession, and can be happily jettisoned to get what they really want (to Raise Taxes)

[eugyppius @eugyppius1]

Greta Thunberg is told about the latest Fridays for Future demo happening in Berlin – the climate protest she helped found. She bursts out in laughter. "Really? They're still doing that?"
Jokes on you climatetards. Left has moved on.

[sonch @soncharm]

i just assume any big 'visionary' 'left-wing' 'egalitarian' political project has a budding-baron client class attached to it

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

The plan here is to make lefty NGOs wealthy real estate barons and thus able to spend more on politics advancing lefty causes.

This development will be unrelated to the fact that they're going to do an actually abysmal job providing housing relative to the open market.

[sonch @soncharm]

There also just seems to be a perpetual dynamic for busybodies to ‘find slurs’ so they can be Savior and call them out, police language, change words to other words etc

At some point the demand for slurs outstrips supply and we start getting totally normal and innocent language usage being chastised as a ‘slur’

I’m not joking at all when I say it seems totally possible that people will later decide Inuit is also a slur, and everyone will have to switch to something else

[sonch @soncharm]

This thread was the first I’ve ever come across the notion that the word Eskimo (for Eskimos) is a ‘slur’

In replies someone said they’re Inuit. What’s the diff, they’re both just foreign words, how do I know ‘Inuit’ isn’t a slur?

[belle (still here somehow) @laszlokisser]

did we as a society ever come up with a replacement lyric for the slur in the Christmas Song. or did people just kind of quietly retire that one

[sonch @soncharm]

@aguy123452 Mmm. Yes. Quite.

[sonch @soncharm]

It’s not enough to be not racist (against white people). We are going to have to all learn how to be antiracist.

[Bernard Stanford ✡︎ @stanfordNYC]

"This American Life" finds it totally unremarkable when a black interviewee says (of blacks and Arab-Americans like El-Sayed) "We need to band against white people, you know, my opinion. Because it's us against them."

This is her pitch to "talk [people] out of their prejudice."

[sonch @soncharm]

@gran1te_mtn His corrupt isn’t genteel enough. It doesn’t grease the palms of the right lawyers, consultants & contractors.

[sonch @soncharm]

@aguy123452

[sonch @soncharm]

What's your favorite indie rock album?

[sonch @soncharm]

@ll_r_ps @g_shullenberger ‘all disease and cancer cured within 10 years’ meanwhile I’m the one who needs to get a trip

[sonch @soncharm]

@ll_r_ps @g_shullenberger (thing with obvious parallels) "Zero parallels"

remarkable

[sonch @soncharm]

@eigenrobot *we learn about it more frequently lately

[px @peakexperiments]

What if most symptoms of the supposed decline of the West are actually the result of enemy action

[sonch @soncharm]

@g_shullenberger

[sonch @soncharm]

While everyone predicts doom & gloom about AI and its 'killing us all' I guess I'll get in on the act and make a (1) doom prediction

-Yes, there will occasionally be a big visible thing that AI 'screws up' that affects a lot of people (the mail system...grocery store supply/distribution...airline ticketing...traffic lights...school homework/grades...)

-In the near-term, as the problem is addressed (and the AI/computers are disconnected from it), people will 'band together' to 'roll up their sleeves' to solve the problem 'the old-fashioned way' (shuffling papers around, stamping things, collating stuff, sandbags...whatever it is)

-Everyone will find it very amusing and charming. It'll all make for tons of good photo ops & social media virality. "It's just like the 1950s again" "this is how our grandparents did it, I guess we're here again" "so wholesome" "I could get used to this" "why did we ever stop" etc etc. (like when people were 'baking bread' during the Wuhan Virus Mania)

-And then eventually it'll basically get fixed for real & people will all move on/forget about it.

[Geoff Shullenberger @g_shullenberger]

If you can’t see at least some parallels with Elizabeth Holmes here I don’t know what to tell you…

[sonch @soncharm]

CPI index based just on tracking these. Economists if you're listening

[sonch @soncharm]

i am so frick'n good at prompting its not even funny

[sonch @soncharm]

ohhh. so that's how it'll be like

[sonch @soncharm]

reading fiction has this one (1) purpose that I decide and prescribe it has

[Danni @DanniBrener]

Reading fiction teaches children empathy. The idea that people think boys CAN’T empathize with women (or read their writing) is actually a reason to encourage them to read more literature by and about women.