ApocalypticaNow

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I've been online for 100 years. I believe in people power. I want us all to do better.

She/her. Phillyish. Crone-age. So so late.

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This is why the Israeli 'bubbles' idea for the future of Gaza is so bizarre. It's a new version of the old plan, which failed spectacularly www.ft.com/content/d6a5...

Can't let our disdain for AI make us forget to go after bitcoin too

The Murderous Energy Suck of Universal Paperclipshillheat.news The fracking to AI pipeline is a crime. And the crime is homicide.

you broke it you bought it

Dumbest plan I have ever read about in my life and it's not going to go the way Israeli nationalists think. Even if you didn't think this was evil, and it is in fact very evil and especially so in the context of our postwar history, it is also catastrophically stupid.

Israel tests Hamas-free ‘bubbles’ plan for postwar Gazat.co Pilot in northern neighbourhoods described by insiders as a ‘fantasy’ scheme that will struggle to take hold

Right on time

Sinn Féin on course to have more MPs than any other Northern Ireland partywww.theguardian.com DUP loses Lagan Valley seat vacated by former leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, and is under pressure in North Antrim

A note of caution: the results may be more a consequence of the unionist vote splintering rather than the Irish nationalist vote gaining a lot of ground www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

No one trusts AI to do this on its own but maybe it can snag the worse and most obvious ones

Wimbledon employs AI to protect players from online abuse

Wimbledon employs AI to protect players from online abusewww.theguardian.com Threat Matrix service monitors social media profiles and flags up death threats, racism and sexist comments

Someone flicks on the light and they scurry for the shadows

www.sundayworld.com/news/norther...

Neo-Nazi musicians hang up their swastikas after Sunday World exposes themwww.sundayworld.com Neo-Nazi ‘musicians’ have hung up their swastikas and abandoned the notorious Blood and Honour movement – and they’re blaming the Sunday World!

Media:

If Trump wins they will run stories about how did we let this happen.

I don't think Confederate monuments belong anywhere, let alone at Gettysburg This is what happens when sites/monuments/holidays/names are decontextualized

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

Opinion | Gettysburg’s Lost Cause Problemwww.nytimes.com The site of the battle is hallowed ground, but it is littered with Confederate propaganda.

Today I learned naacp.org/articles/dor...

Your regular reminder that Dorothy Parker left her copyrights to the NAACP upon her death!

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ApocalypticaNow

A snippet of his tweets. This non-voter seems like a bog standard rightwing creep

He also looks like a baby Hitler

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BTW this was the essay. No link because fuck these guys

Imagine the high the nation's columnists would feel if they could push out not just another president, but THE president.

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Everyday, I come across a new type of guy on here

There's room for the left and center to unite and prevent total catastrophe, but this is still pretty bad

If anyone needs me, I’ll be feeding everything in my house that can provide news updates into the garbage disposal

French election: Far right now the dominant political forcewww.bbc.com The right-wing National Rally is projected to top the first vote - but all is still to play for.

The below was in response to this post but the OP got cut off when I added the feed link

What's cool about the free market is that, if you can't afford these fees, there are literally thousands of equally talented artists out there who can draw you a picture for much less. You just have to find them! Here's one place: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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It's not just the usual partisan BS from Republican columnists. There are top Democrats suggesting Biden step aside at this late date Meanwhile polls haven't really moved

But look at the headline for the Axios piece reporting on the above poll www.axios.com/2024/06/29/b...

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His Bark Materials🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌌

This list does not miss

The system they've created in the course of a week

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Roger Ailes knows hack shit when he sees it

This is not activism. This is loser shit

I've just realized

they’ve ruined her

Intrigued. Though it does seem to have an expiration date because it runs on Android 11

The Boox Palma is an amazing gadget I didn’t even know I wanted - https://www.theverge.com/24184777/boox-palma-e-ink-smartphone-reader

The Boox Palma is an amazing gadget I didn’t even know I wantedwww.theverge.com It’s a better Kindle and a better iPod, all in one gadget.

Remember how Elaine Benes's boyfriend Puddy used to sit and stare into space when no one was interacting with him? I'm picturing a planeful of men being NPC Puddys

Being a man is so fucking embarrassing.

Why Men Are ‘Rawdogging’ Flightswww.gq.com “I've got DMs on Instagram like, ‘Bro, you need to teach us how to bareback flights,’” says a pioneer of the swashbuckling trend.

Welcome to internet 3.0

There's something that everyone gets wrong about the Ashley Madison data dump from 2015. And I should know, because I was one of the reporters who broke the story. It's my latest for @[email protected] (sign up for a free account to read). www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandalwww.newscientist.com Nine years after hackers targeted Ashley Madison, the dating site for wannabe adulterers, many people still don't grasp what was truly chilling about the scandal, says Annalee Newitz

How is it the Kansas AG's business to determine how the Education Department structures student loan payment plans? Why does one guy in a red state get to dictate federal policy? www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/p...

Two federal court judges in Kansas and Missouri have paused parts of a student loan repayment plan that the Biden administration launched last year, which lowers borrowers’ monthly payments and provides a faster route to debt forgiveness.

Courts halt parts of Biden’s student loan repayment plan | CNN Politicscnn.it Two federal court judges in Kansas and Missouri have paused parts of a student loan repayment plan that the Biden administration launched last year, which lowers borrowers’ monthly payments and provid...