Tim Benfatto

live and work on Kulin land. recent-ish nmfc fan. all opinions are my own and not my employer’s. he/him

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

Knowledge is being hidden from public view at a terrifying rate. Simple info you easily could’ve found for free online 10 years ago is paywalled and buried under tons of AI slop. It’s like watching the Library of Alexandria burn. Our collective intelligence is being choked out.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Here’s Booker pushing a ‘vote blue no matter who’ argument while hoping we all forget that he (hypocritically) refused to endorse his own party’s New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

[Damian @anarkissed__]

It's a trap. If you're poor and you criticize capitalism, you're envious. If you're rich and you criticize capitalism, you're a hypocrite. The truth is, of course, that the powers that be do not want capitalism to be criticized or even questioned. They want "no alternative."

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

Use it or lose it, AI is breaking our brains.

I can see it everywhere.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

zionists will talk about palestinians the same way nazis talked about jews, word for word, and not even realize it. it’s remarkable

[Francis McRae @FrankMcRae]

The western world just sacrificing everything to defend a grimy little terror state's genocide. Merely allowing the slaughter isnt enough we have to completely debase ourselves and give up our own freedoms for the cause

[Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers]

lol

[Shinzo Abe Lincoln @SaintJackington]

Hey so this is evil and fucked and terrifying, and if you weren't aware of this yet you absolutely need to be.

[Greg Jericho @GrogsGamut]

@RichardMarlesMP our AUKUS partner showing off those “shared values”, eh?

[Del @TheCartelDel]

The average monthly salary in Nigeria, Kenya, and Bangladesh is roughly $470, $393, and $220. Because Twitter no longer meaningfully penalizes accounts that spread lies, incite conflict, or promote hate, and has now monetized engagement, it's created a system where these bad actors can profit. For some folks in lower-income countries, provoking outrage abroad can earn double the pay of a full-time local job. They've effectively incentivized a perfect storm that funds & fuels Skrulls to cause chaos in western society.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

the same people who'd denounced "woke" politics are now initiating their own, counter-"woke" politics by allowing a single student, in a single class, objecting to a single issue in a single lecture, to have the power to end a teacher's career.
used to be called "canceling"--now it's called "following administrative orders."

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

Btw if you don’t see the connections between transphobia and this—specifically how the former is a funnel that leads to the latter—you need to start.

[Kashif Pirzada, MD @KashPrime]

I have a feeling that, when all the living and dead are accounted for, this will likely be one of the greatest crimes in history.

[Marty @ethicalmartini]

A confusing message from Albo.

Nothing says “made in Australia” like strip mining the country to “power American tech”.

Grovelling to Trump must improve social cohesion.

[🇨🇦 Kresimir @punished_kres]

tracking the popularity of Christianity via the sales numbers of the literal merchants in the temple is so cool, absolutely no notes.

[rosie @fernydyke]

never seen a species so full of hate. men hate their daughters, their wives, their mothers, their sisters, random women they see, their coworkers, women on the internet, etc.

[Margaret Kimberley @freedomrideblog]

I love when they say the quiet part out loud.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

jdvance and marco rubio made a big show of how horrible the free speech rules were in the uk?! now that its an actual egregious cynical violation of free expression, because its against israel - they'll say nothing. hell, they champion the same restrictions here!

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

Why would any nation, now, trust diplomacy?

Iran agreed to curb its nuclear programme in 2015 – Trump wrecked the deal in 2018. Iran signed up to a round of talks, only to be bombed by Israel two days before. Iran agreed to negotiate with the European 3 – the US bombed them two days later.

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

This man was calling out anyone who dare mention this genocide, accusing the greens, and anyone who criticised his government, as “weaponising” the conflict for political gain.

Now, with some permission, when it’s expedient to do so, as every nation in the OECD looks to physically reprimand Israel, he fluffs out this statement?