A common mistake I still make some days when I come upon malicious ignorance is to assume that it's primarily ignorance, instead of primarily malice. They aren't *just ignorant; they're ignorant because ignorance better suits their malice than awareness. x.com/CAKitchener/st…

If you start with the premise Republicans actually strategically want massacres to happen, in order to achieve other policy goals, their otherwise hypocritical actions start to make a lot of sense.

I think it's important to notice how many problems conservatives approach this way. Notice how quickly they took a new problem—Covid—and almost instinctively acted in order to make it an endemic problem. Once it's endemic, you don't have to solve it.

one thing that's somewhat gratifying about the Fetterman win was that the post-debate take assumed the worst about the charity of ordinary people w/r/t to disability and it turns out that maybe it's just political pundits who are uniquely shitty and shallow people

I forgot to add: if you'd like to read more on the harms of this AI race, check out this excellent and important article by Timnit Gebru, @emilymbender.bsky.social, and @mcmillan_majora. dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

people love to post about deleting their tweets without saying how they're doing it. I'm using this method, seems to work upriseri.com/fight-back-how…