Well, unless you want to become basically Britain, where we’re stuck e.g. screaming about the evil leftists persecuting the unprosecuted state criminals of 50+ years ago as a way of distracting from the war crimes of ten years ago.

When is it 'mission accomplished' for the Labour government? When the first big university collapses completely? When the 'knowledge class' is just AI grifters and missile designers?

Keir Starmer ninja sword ban looking more and more foolish every day imho

I’m not a kings college war studies guy but I’ve always wondered what the rationale behind “increasing defence spending” is other than as an attempt at artificially boosting the economy that never really works in the long term

Reading this and realising I wasted so many years of my life knowing about people like Whasbappin

Do you note how “we’re going to round up and mass deport a million people” is rarely received with either visceral disgust or screaming, puking fury? How it’s considered instead in terms of its potential appeal to the public.

Not only no culture, but no *commons*. The dependency on the capitalist overlords will be complete, because you can’t ask for help or context from others when there is no common frame of reference. This has already happened in coding, the first space where they destroyed the commons we’d all built.

Perhaps those mathematicians who are now worried that AI will kill their discipline, should have studied something more useful instead. Perhaps Events Management ?

Kids these days would rather be clip farmers than terrorists, is really my thesis statement

There’s no real incentive to being a terrorist now. The best you’ll get is a Netflix series where they use that weird filter to smooth you out and people will forget about it within a week. And the most obvious thing to happen is some kind of Kirkification where your forehead keeps getting bigger

Here’s the thing. This is probably one of the best podcasts to do it at the moment

strikes me as interesting that a decade or so ago, the centre left was losing electorally and its answer was mostly “we need to become more racist”. Now, the right are losing, both electorally and in actually enacting anything that isn’t spectacle, and their answer is, “we need to be more racist”

We know this but Pete Hegseth is a psychopath

Haven’t watched that Jay z series on HBO but just wondering if Rick Rubin asks him about the monster verse

Ultimately still convinced that Trump is going to try use a nuke in the next 2 years

Of course, you will be yelled at for mentioning this, or suggesting that one understands it in its current manifestation and based on what its actual adherents have stated directly to cameras and newspapers when asked

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

🚨BREAKING: ICE vehicle RAMS through NYC protesters attempting to block it from leaving after ICE agents SHOT a man in NYC—the man’s young son was in the back seat. WE’RE LIVE ON SCENE ⬇️

Kind of nervous to see how this shapes the content economy if I’m really honest!

Not to hammer the point that “everything is content” but Pete Hegseth deciding to execute people (and particularly, Muslims) as a live stream really was something I thought would be a bit and not just another thing that happens now I guess