Justin.
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- Adam Conover got famous for promoting critical thinking in his show “Adam Ruins Everything.” Now he’s getting paid to promote an orb that scans your eyeball in exchange for crypto currency, which was trained on poor villagers in Africa and Southeast Asia. Yes, really. skepchick.org/2025/05/adam...
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View full threadare you on mobile or desktop? it’s just google’s standard auto ad insert but maybe I can change it.
- Mobile, Safari.
- Oh my lord, your site is so ad-ridden I can’t get further than 3 paragraphs in without the JavaScript crashing. But “The Orb” sounds like crap.
- my kingdom for anyone on the “dems should take culturally moderate positions” to explain what this actually means in practice? www.thebulwark.com/p/hard-calls...
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View full threadWhy didn’t they fight harder for their Republican Party, and why doesn’t the media ask more questions about their failure?
- The media’s position continues to be that Republicans lack agency and theory of mind. They’re senseless beasts that will just do what they do.
- It means making Black people permanently underclass, maybe even chattel slaves the way these people talk It means erasing all queer rights It means women out of the workplace; it means no women voting (SAVE act) It means white supremacy in all its evil manifestations Fuck nazis
- Beyond human rights, there’s basic stuff that is fundamentally harmful to everyone like trying to accommodate anti-vax views and an HSS secretary that performatively swims in raw sewage. What should we moderate with any of this instead of rejecting it completely?
- part of my frustration is that this proscription doesn’t really take account of our fractured media environment and the inchoate nature of “moderate” as a label.
- Fractured media, indeed. The right is currently waging a war on “due process” and “innocence until proven guilt” across the media. Does being a moderate in this environment mean trying to find common ground with those fundamentally anti-American positions?
- this is such a fantastic thread on trump’s zero-sum, anti-exchange worldview
- The “law and order” leader appears to be pro-thievery and pro-breaking-contracts.
- boy that sure is a headline
- Happy Mother’s Day, all the kids have hep b, giardia, pink eye, and 3 bacteria-borne diseases not yet classified by the CDC.
- this bill needs to be nuked from orbit
- Just imagining some dude in a Tennessee suburb going “this is why I vote red: to make sure Silicon Valley never faces any scrutiny and we replace all govt computers with lying machines!” It’s very clear that Republican voters that haven’t yet been hit by tariff woes are paying zero attention.
- I’m surprised it didn’t end with 1/?
- For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.
- Classic. A private entity gets a monopoly and finds ways to make money off no longer giving a shit.
