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2026-08-19 17:08:47 UTC

"Strikingly, every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls."
Please Feminist Hulk, help us smash the nonce panopticon 🤬
[Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glass...](https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teen-boys-meta-glasses-harass-bully-girls-school )

2026-08-04 21:23:30 UTC

It is 2006.
I am 22.
The US is mired in a costly Forever War.
A predictable historic market collapse looms.
I do not have health insurance.
It is 2026.
I am 42.
The US is mired in a costly Forever War.
A predictable historic market collapse looms.
I do not have health insurance.
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2026-02-09 01:38:02 UTC

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

2025-11-14 14:33:58 UTC

"'I’m not sure what we’ve learned from it all,' Walter Johnson, a professor of History and African and African American Studies, wrote in a statement. 'I think Larry Summers told us who he was a long time ago.'"
Professor Johnson knows wassup.
[Harvard Faculty Disturbed by R...](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/14/faculty-reax-summers-epstein/ )

2025-11-04 05:29:44 UTC

The gunman who orphaned Bambi has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

2025-11-03 20:03:02 UTC

seems bad!
[www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZAdaSthhtnZy-pwftXDjsd3E )
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2025-09-21 01:08:46 UTC

LMAO WUT
[Oklahoma Republicans propose a...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/20/oklahoma-republicans-charlie-kirk?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2025-06-25 03:50:09 UTC

There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American.
A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!

2025-04-17 21:43:28 UTC

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
[Photographer Fatima Hassona ki...](https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/17/photojournalist-fatima-hassona-killed-in-gaza-day-after-documentary-selected-for-cannes )

2025-04-06 00:27:38 UTC

"It must be said: the effect of merging Zionism with Jewish identity (the premise of mainstream Jewish thought since 1967) was to encourage actual antisemitism."
This piece by Sam Adler-Bell is swift, sure, and true.
[It’s Time for Jews to Refuse T...](http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/liberal-jewish-antisemitism-trump-protection.html?utm_source=nymag_app_article_share )

2025-03-17 14:19:48 UTC

The entire extralegal treatment of these detainees is disgusting. The fact that they were all clearly forced to shave their heads sets off every human rights generational trauma alarm bell in my body
[White House denies defying jud...](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5219ezjrpo )