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just here for the vibes and takes

[Diego @ssabinnac]

@HappiDapp This feels like this

[໊ @xoeeie]

valid as FUCK actually. the reemergence and normalization of rape jokes is another reason why victims struggle to come forward. mind you all these men raped children! kids! minors! yall fucks disgust me.

[HOT SPOT @HotSpotHotSpot]

Kansas high school teacher is arrested for simply clapping in opposition to the development of a data center

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

This is insane. ICE hired a wife beater with severe mental health issues whose own family is terrified of him. Also worth noting that the military had previously accepted him in spite of severe mental health issues and sent him to Afghanistan where his family say he was turned into a monster.

This ICE hire isn’t just an accident or lack of vetting. Stephen Miller’s goal was to assemble a force of unaccountable marauding thugs. From his perspective this murderous psycho is a success story and exactly what he’s looking for.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

Vance has never had a tough interview in his life. He's used to people giving him the benefit of the doubt, falling for his aw-shucks shtick. Here's what happens when he gets the tiniest modicum of pushback. Imagine how he'd react to someone like Mehdi Hasan grilling him. He literally folds under the smallest amount of pressure from Rogan, who is *friendly* to Vance. You can see the insecurity and anger there, like he thought Joe agreed to not even give the gentlest pushback. I think Vance would have a Scott Jennings tier breakdown if you pressed him a little more than this.

[Cody Johnston @drmistercody]

Someone's gotta throw up on this guy.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Sorry, what? 1971 and 1972? Is this a joke?

Here's what a 2024 study by the Justice Department’s own research arm found - that the Trump DOJ then deleted from its website: far-right attacks “outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism,” and since 1990, “far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.”

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

The Bible Belt is also:

The divorce belt
The teen pregnancy belt
The obesity belt
The murder belt
The poverty belt
The high-school dropout belt
The uneducated belt
The MAGA belt
The prison belt
The disease belt

None of these are a coincidence. They are not simply correlation.

This is cause and effect.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Social Network got made because Sony owed Mark Zuckerberg nothing. No studio can say that about Sam Altman anymore.

That gap explains why a finished Guadagnino film, Andrew Garfield playing Altman, can't find a buyer. The script makes Altman a pathological liar and Ilya Sutskever the idealist his board tried to protect. Strong material. The reason no one will touch it sits off the screen: the subject is now the biggest customer in the building.

Amazon developed the film, then walked months after wiring $50B to OpenAI for AWS compute. A24 passed, and A24 sits behind Thrive Capital, which holds an OpenAI board seat. Netflix, Focus, and Warner's Clockwork all carry AI bets of their own. The buyer pool maps cleanly onto OpenAI's cap table, and no one can premiere a hit piece on the company underwriting their cloud roadmap.

Here's the part worth sitting with. Vertical integration promised control: own the studio, own the pipe, own the model. The bill arrives now. A film industry fused to its own infrastructure partners cannot finance criticism of them. The merger logic became the censor.

The historical rhyme is almost too clean. United Artists was founded in 1919 by Chaplin and three fellow artists to escape exactly this kind of studio capture. That label now sits inside Amazon MGM, the company that just dropped the film to protect a tech deal. The release valve built a century ago got swallowed by the thing it was built to escape.

So Mubi and Neon are the only names left, and it has little to do with taste. They took none of OpenAI's money, which leaves them the only distributors free to tell the story of what that money does. A film about a mission captured by capital is being orphaned by capital capturing its distributors. The industry is re-enacting the plot it's too compromised to release.

[Ted ☦️🐒 @Tawadros15]

The thing is Pope Leo is right. Hammering nothing but sexual sin while letting pride, wrath, greed, gluttony, envy, avarice, selfishness, hatred etc. get a free pass is not a good thing.

[Eric @breakingbaht]

Similarly to how "1% of people are criminals" life is made increasingly worse by a fractional, but significant portion of the population that embraces and revels in asymmetrical attacks on others.

Most of the politicians, cops, etc., people who defend stuff like this would never allow anyone to do this to them. If you just get a drone, site your local ordinances and start filming cops and politicians, you'll be arrested inside of a day or two.

That is the power display. The idea that *can* do things to others that others are unallowed to stop.

[Tired @_crustbag_]

-Gets cancer
-Refuses someone paying for his treatment
-Cooks crystal meth
-Ruins his family & poisons a child

Congrats Vance Gilligan, you wrote the worst teacher representation possible

[sarah @mariopusxyattac]

everyone was joking but this genuinely happens in the digital circus finale

[izzvaldo @thesamuraijaxon]

What Malcolm X said about the white liberal becomes clearer everyday

[The Empire Files @EmpireFiles]

There are hundreds of mock cities for Spec Ops to train for urban combat. The reason they are using your towns is because they are training for you.

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

Did you know the TV show “To Catch a Predator” was cancelled because they kept catching law enforcement, teachers, preachers, local officials, and other people who were supposed to protect children?

The final straw? An Assistant District Attorney in Texas was courting who he thought was a 13-year-old boy. He didn’t show for the sting, so they sent law enforcement and the camera crew to his home. The police entered, and Louis Conradt shot himself, taking his own life.

Can’t make this shit up.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

This is also what the US did to the northern part of Korea as punishment for its national liberation struggle. To this day, the US uses satellite imagery to mock the DPRK’s supposed backwardness compared to the southern US occupation zone, which was propped up with massive economic handouts while the north was economically besieged. Imperialism’s cruelty and shamelessness know no bounds.

[Swarthy Swabian @MuKuDk2]

Now if you actually watch that series then you know they open every episode with interviews of the actual soldiers depicted and even 60 years later they sometimes cry talking about this war because it fucked them up that much. This was bad. Noone should ever go through this.