Reporter: A new report says the military investigation has found it was the United States that struck the school in Iran. Do you take responsibility?
Trump: I don’t know about it.
The white Christian nationalists have been clamouring for some crusades for several decades now .. they’ve finally got someone dumb enough in Trump who caved into them
Bombed a school & then, 30 mins later, bombed it again—ensuring any kids who survived & any rescue workers would be killed
“People were pulling out children’s arms and legs. People were pulling out severed heads”
One of the worst war crimes in modern history.
It was a school—not an IRGC base.
Really kind of morally offensive how much contempt these people have for curiosity.
Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
THREAD: Whenever imperialist governments go to war, they become more authoritarian at home.
That makes censorship bills like KOSA, ID checks, and attacks on Section 230 even more dangerous.
Online protest, documenting war crimes, even news articles could be suppressed.
www.badinternetbills.com
"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"
HELL. YES.
I mean, there’s rewriting history
And then there’s this 😳
My daughter saw it, had never read the book and said it was pretty to look at but it didn’t go anywhere- very meh
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
Swear to god, so many of these uber rich guys who keep trying to intellectualize and sanitize white supremacy really are the dumbest motherfuckers alive. They constantly say word salad-y nonsense like this that would cause them to fail a fourth grade US history test.
"among those wielding the darkest power, chaos and collapse is not something they fear but rather aim to create. Brexit debate, Trump, the Voice referendum, climate change, Israel’s genocide, and many other events involve one side which actively desires collapse – and is ready to profit from it."
Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
M&Ms CEO: 'most, if not all' meals can be replaced by M&Ms within 12-18 months
Another good one - and there is never a bad time to read @alexsteffen.bsky.social
Ooh so pertinent. The number of c suite ‘Chief Sustainability Officers’ or similar has definitely been on the increase
‘A Premier who dines with a leader accused of genocide, who has signed the bombs dropped on civilians, while his police break the arm of an 84-y-o woman, assault a woman with Parkinson’s, spray a seizing child in the face, and brutalise people at prayer has forfeited all moral authority to govern.’
They're acting like it's going to be the Ferris Bueller movie when it's actually going to be WarGames
Vale @kudelka.bsky.social
Are police supposed to wear masks in Australia? This looks like the US now #auspol #nswpol
‘Spends hours writing procedure manual & documenting all possible scenarios’
Colleagues: just show me what you do and I’ll record it
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
One that still shocks a lot of people is Marion Zimmer Bradley, for many, Myths of Avalon was transformative & an introduction into fantasy and hailed as the first ‘feminist’ Arthurian retelling (it’s not feminist in the slightest though)
Thread.
Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.
Latest debacles at the State Library of Victoria: an arresting report by Gideon Haigh. Is the Board illegal as well as awful? Is the withdrawn 'restructure' proceeding by stealth (cultural vandalism, expertise-jettisoning, giant video screens in the Dome, etc)?
www.cricketetal.com/p/whats-stil...
Screenshot showing that r/Conservative, noted bastion of free/awful speech, is now ranked just one above us in weekly visitor numbers.
Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
