this is a good thread but I might actually take it further -- I don't think manosphere shit is actually about getting laid, I think it's literally about male loneliness, by which I mean, men addressing their loneliness via homosocial bonding through misogyny RE:
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let me throw some fuel on the fire that is the discourse about boys getting laid!!! current-day manopshere content is not good at getting boys laid and that's an effect of the incentives at play. you cannot build an audience of resentful little virgins if you succeed at helping them to have sex
I would call myself a professional pessimist and "extremely depressed about the future" but god, please stop going into people's mentions to tell them that the law/courts no longer matter or post "AND YOU'RE SURPRISED???" at them, especially so if they are actively engaged in making the world better
“I call it the Great Unmasking, because we really saw who are the bitches of Big Tech. And Ted Cruz was the biggest loser in this,” Bannon said. Here's Tina Nguyen's tick-tock of how Bannon and Davis turned the Republicans against the AI moratorium: [www.theverge.com/politics/704...](
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The unholy alliance that killed the AI moratorium
‘Ted Cruz was the biggest loser in this,’ said Bannon.
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The unholy alliance that killed the AI moratorium
‘Ted Cruz was the biggest loser in this,’ said Bannon.
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personally, I think it is a problem if a Substack eugenicist has access to lists of millions of people by race [www.theverge.com/analysis/703...](
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The Columbia hack is a much bigger deal than Mamdani’s college application
A politically-motivated hack on a politically-vulnerable school is flying under the radar
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The Columbia hack is a much bigger deal than Mamdani’s college application
A politically-motivated hack on a politically-vulnerable school is flying under the radar
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explained to a zoomer today about what the new york times public editor job was. "what the hell that sounds like such a good idea" welp yeah
today's protests: kind of notable to me how many signs had guillotines on them and how little the boomers cared about it
ok I feel completely insane asking this but like weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"
this timeline is fucking wild https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:4t2ziwnnescprzorvmrfduey&cid=bafkreic6on5bvot2wu2sfisvvc2b6udez4zcgdikfufo6pjec32o5sutt4
the weirdness at the Copyright Office intensifies, with both Dems and MAGA pointing fingers at Elon Musk for the firing of Shira Perlmutter, and identifying the AI report as the reason [www.theverge.com/politics/666...](
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Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired
Trump fired the head of the Copyright Office over the weekend.
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Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired
Trump fired the head of the Copyright Office over the weekend.
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