The rich talking about democracy is like a catholic bishop talking about god - they know it’s not real, it just helps them distract people from all the child rape.

Lol the gizmodo article about the preview of mythos has this incredible openly line:

If Anthropic is kind of like a kid at a Halloween party with a bowl full of spaghetti, telling its blindfolded friends the spaghetti is brains, European cyber agency leaders are like kids who are mad that they still haven’t gotten to stick their fingers in the brain bowl

Anthropic in particular seems to use “we’re scared of what we can do” as their marketing strategy. So maybe this unauthorized use is real, or maybe it’s just more PR.

If there’s one thing fascism has taught us, the two are hardly mutually exclusive.

died in a vehicular crash in the mountains of the Sierra de Chihuahua following a drug raid, alongside two Mexican officials

Anyone else think the most likely scenario was a cia hothead pumped up after a raid and driving like an idiot?

30% of the adult population voted for trump in 2024.

If we lived in a democracy, that would be a generational level defeat that may spell the end of the party, not deliver full control of both houses and the executive.

It’s just a bit rich blaming voters in an oligarchy with no real representative mechanisms.

Given that bluesky was hit a few days ago, could be a threat actor gauging the defenses/responses of 2nd tier targets. I wouldn’t put it past musk to use ddos to generate bad press for non-x socials either.

Plenty of ways this could be worth someone’s resources even if complete take down isn’t on the table.

Fraudsters with a bad bear suit and a dream deserve that money so much more than insurance companies.

Tabletop rpg design uses the term “fail gracefully” to describe being able to still function when you forget the rules.

Older games used to regularly stop amd collapse into boring chart-reading and index-looking-up. A lot of modern games are entirely playable if you forget everything except the core mechanic.

Agreed!

Yeah i can understand that others enjoy it, but even a poker night with friends sounds unpleasant to me - like a game night ruined.

I always describe gambling as non-alcoholic vodka.

It just does nothing for me and leaves an awful taste in my mouth.

once saw her as Bernie Sanders 2.0 but now think she’s more pragmatist than revolutionary

What hot fucking nonsense is this? No shade on bernie but no one left of john mccane thinks sanders is a revolutionary. He’s a pragmatic leftist who joined the dems for pragmatic reasons.

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You are 100% correct and it’s shocking that even this current headline is a massive improvement. It admits that it was israel and says what happened and who died: “Lebanese officials claim 3 dead in strike” is the kind of BS i’m used to seeing.

It’s not real. A delivery person wouldn’t get to the door of the oval office. And almost certainly an aide grabs the bag, though the fast food delivery obsessions is partly about security paranoia, so maybe he is paranoid enough to grab the bag.

Slightly but significantly less bad. For now.

Ah yes, legislative reform that emerges from nothing but the powerful suddenly deciding to be nicer.

The rich won’t stop killing us if we ask them nicely. All progress has involved threatening the lives or property of the powerful.

Hate the game, not the players.

“The game” is rich people brutalizing humanity to squeeze an extra dollar. The game wouldn’t exist without the players.

“Are you already aware of the situation?” [Ungaro tweeted @ pam bondi]. “Do you fully understand the extent of the information I possess regarding you and the individuals associated with you? I strongly advise you to consider the seriousness of these matters. Any actions taken against me or attempts to escalate this situation could have significant legal consequences,”

This is the brazillian “model” who was deported at the personal request of her ex husband and father of her child, Paolo Zampolli.

He is one of trump’s closest friends, was close with diddy, worked with epstein, was a “modelling” agency director and obvious sex trafficker. He was the one who procured melania and trafficked her to trump.

Ungaro is obviously referring to her knowledge of her husband’s role in the wider trump-epstein trafficking ring. Her perspective probably sheds a lot of light on melania’s role.