some of you exclusively peddle what i like to call “market-tested nonconformity”

I’ve been thinking about this David Foster Wallace quote more and more recently “The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images

deleted my Platner tweet cause i forgot this is the app of “i like pancakes” “oh so you hate waffles” i just think its cool he figured out the cure to male loneliness is community and i appreciate his apology and i absolutely still fuck with him and you should too

I just don’t get why anyone needs to call people the r word (trashy in a bad way) when “jackass” is right there (underutilized, trashy in a good way)

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someone said their dad started believing in climate change because insurance companies started accounting for it and i still think about that

men would expose their war plans before they expose a feeling

When private tech companies were exercising their first amendment right to moderate their platform all we heard from the tech right was free speech. Now that the government which is what the first amendment is meant to control is literally disappearing people over speech, the

Paging @IfBooksPod

Halfway through Abundance. This is just an airport book for liberal corporate professionals and managers who want to feel good about the worldview and policy preferences their work fosters.

What stage of capitalism is this?

I am a Silicon Valley transhumanist psychopath who is here to till you that a fully-automated luxury utopia awaits if you'll just let me and my friends have another trillion dollars. I am also here to tell you that the most rudimentary social programs are naive and impossible.

god what a timeline we are living in

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks

it's amazing how some people are just blissfully ignorant of supply chains you think the fermentation tanks are made in the US, entirely from US steel & electronics? you think that the distribution trucks are entirely made in the US, entirely from parts made in the US?

rereading graeber is so illuminating. the right’s attack on the state forces us into the awkward position of defending bureaucracy, even though there’s much to change. what musk is doing is horrible, but we don’t have a coherent counter from the left.

James Baldwin’s Another Country

Apparently it’s my 14th lurkaversary

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