Has anyone at least considered the possibility that if the state I vicariously identify with unleashes sufficient brutality on hated outgroups then I'll feel less lonely and afraid?

I think Gruber himself went through a phase of “X sucks, how could anyone use this?” right? So he’s probably just giving himself permission to go back to the mainstream within his own social circle.

(I still want to believe that at some point one of those behemoths who can confidently move millions of people wherever they go will realize they can keep 100% of the revenue they generate if they do their own thing on atproto, though...)

Also, unfortunately, I think what these “one-person-with-a-massive-audience” folks do is very significant in terms of shifting people around.

And yes, this is not a good way to convince people to give it up, and you shouldn't say it to their faces. But as a general observation about where society is heading, it's terrifying to see the extent to which some people have simply given up on personal dignity and embraced nihilistic hedonism.

Some people claim they still use X because their livelihood depends on it or because they have a duty to reach the masses. Those are not good reasons to use it, but they are plausible. But "I enjoy the Nazi CSAM site because the dictionary account is clever" is just a catastrophic personal failure.

I’ve made countless mistakes in my life, but at least I’ll never have to tell people that I once used the “fun and clever” posts from a dictionary account as one of the main reasons to use the Nazi CSAM social media site. Catastrophic levels of moral abdication.

Una cosa del debate este recurrente sobre que si X o Bluesky es que la inmensa mayoría de gente que se marchó de X acabó en Instagram, TikTok, Threads... o en ningún sitio. Cuando alguien está obsesionado con Bluesky como gran antagonista de X en realidad os está confesando algo de sí mismo.

I'm sure X is remarkably friendly if you aren't the target of racial slurs and harassment campaigns. Anyway, I wonder how many "niggers" I'll have to sift through if I start posting there again?

Finally read the new AfD strategy paper on Europe. It casts 2029 as a “historic window” to reorient the EU’s foundations through Treaty change, with a right-wing majority in the EP and a German government with AfD participation both within reach. Thread on some notable points:

Damn, this is so much better than the Vichy France/Resistance analogy.

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.

Amazing photo in New York Times of Gen Z protests in India.

31k+ steps in a single day is quite something!

Yo creo que más bien es que han visto muchas declaraciones de Rufián y muy pocas de otras personas, y desde ahí viene todo lo demás, ¿no? Pero igual ni siquiera es eso.

Sin pensarlo mucho diría que desde algún momento de esta última legislatura, pero últimamente me cuesta bastante tener una idea intuitiva útil de cuánto tiempo ha pasado desde A o B.