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  • They’re too far over their skies

    I’ve long maintained the current crop of assholes are too far over their skies… gravity is starting to have an impact. Jesse Welles nails it: All the masks are offAnd they’re getting lazy

  • The beatings will continue until morale improves…

    Meta is dying and I am there for that shit… everything that Zuck tries chokes on money For all its employees’ pain and suffering, Meta has surprisingly little to show. The company continues to trip over its own feet, struggling to release impressive new AI models as its competitors pull ahead further in the ongoing AI race. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-employees-fun-hackathon-layoffs

  • The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster

    I don’t mean to malign the entire U.S. press for its SpaceX IPO coverage. The Verge had the courage to publish a story openly (and correctly) calling Musk a killer. Smaller independent outlets generally did all of the heavy lifting when it comes to, you know, telling people the truth. The whole purpose of journalism. But pretty broadly the U.S. establishment press…

  • Man who hates paying taxes loves government handouts

    CNN quotes early Tesla investor Ross Gerber saying, “There would not be Tesla and SpaceX if it weren’t for the government.” That is the whole story in one sentence. Let us not get into the MLM scheme the SpaceX IPO resembles as Elon attempts to pay off the suckers who would otherwise have lost big…

  • “We need to let go of lost futures”

  • Think Gaza Is a Crime? Think Antisemitism Is Rising? Watch This.

    The harm unlocked by tying criticism of the state of Israel with antisemtism hurts my heart Connecting criticism to antisemitism creates a short hand that allows bigots to attack Jews wholesale. It’s a cheap rhetorical trick that hurts in both directions. It is a lazy and cynical connection that obscures pain at the expense of…

  • DaVinci Resolve – How software can find it’s way back

    This video starts as a fairly typical “whale being unseated by minnow” kind of story – but it turns into something more fundamental. It shows how eschewing the software status quo can both return software to it’s social roots and also be fabulously profitable. It is a story about how vertical integration can enable companies…

  • When Peter Thiel and Don Jr. Lose, It’s a Great Week for Humanity

    “Like most bad ideas,” wrote Mitchell Duran for Yahoo Finance, “Enhanced Games was born from a mix of grievance and the belief that, with the right amount of tech, financing, and new-age, untested science, any human being can transcend any and all natural limitations.” Tech and money sure do make a lot of damn winners in this…

  • New Right Wing talking point: Welfare make governments broke

    Here Stephen Miller tries to convince us the paying welfare is somehow making governments broke (obviously ignoring military spending): It turns out that Tony Blair leans on the same shitty neo-lib maths in his latest missive: It is no coincidence that Miller and Blair are trying to convince us to “other” the sick and weak…

  • Tony Blair: Arsonist Fire Fighter

    Blairs treatment as some sort of left-wing voice has mystified me. Even the Wicked Witch of the West saw through him: In 2002, twelve years after Margaret Thatcher left office, she was asked at a dinner what was her greatest achievement. Thatcher replied: “Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds.”…