Kanye No: Getting paid to report on civil rights abuses

Kanye Yes: Getting paid to inflict civil rights abuses

“I want to be a conscientious objector.”

“AR-NOLD!”

He’s got a lot of low-hanging fruit to pluck and he’s not afraid to roll out a wheelbarrow for it.

The demand for technical knowledge and expertise has never been higher. The requirements set by a handful of overcapitalized companies are acts of desperation implemented by upper management that got sold a bag full of AI beans and failed to produce a giant beanstalk.

Don’t break yourself on the millstone that these assholes built for themselves. Take them for every penny and then fucking leave their asses in the dust.

Trick or Treat!

¿Por qué no los dos?

Things are most assuredly changing.

Gorsuch voted to overturn Roe which was a fairly epic disrespect for court precedent.

Gorsuch had a long history on the bench as anti-choice. He overturned a 50 year old precedent, not one he’d just co-signed last year.

But I no longer put anything past this SCOTUS.

There’s more to the judiciary than just issuing rulings on a whim. They need the lower courts to line up behind them. And conflicting decisions at the highest level ultimately allow lower courts to rule at their own whim rather than according to a supreme precedent.

Imagine the SCOTUS ruling against California and sending it back down to a liberal California appellate court, only for the lower court to disregard the SCOTUS California ruling by referencing the Texas SCOTUS ruling. Or for the lower court or the state to feign confusion and refuse to follow the SC decision. Or do what so many other states have done and hastily engineer a new map that’s just different enough to force a new case. Without some kind of bright line distinction between the two decisions, they could just do that and send it back up to SCOTUS in a case that wouldn’t resolve before the next election.

As ACB said “we’re not just a bunch of hacks in here.”

If you’ve got to say shit like that out loud…

But she’s not wrong. These aren’t celebrity hacks who came in on the reality TV circuit, they’re legal street fighters who know how the system works in practice. If they do rule against California, it’ll be curious to see how they try to thread the needle. And how the California legislature - which still has plenty of time to submit revised (but still gerrymandered) maps - chooses to respond.

760,000 constituents per district in 2025. That’s compared to 213,000 when the number of US House seats was fixed at 435 back in 1920. Don’t even get me started on the US Senate. Two people representing 50M. Fucking bananas way to run a “representative” democracy.

The Republican justices have already signaled that they probably won’t strike down California’s maps

In fairness to the Court’s Republicans, they did suggest in their LULAC opinion that the Texas and California gerrymanders are mirror images of each other. The majority opinion in that case begins with the observation that after Texas drew its new map, “California responded with its own map for the stated purpose of counteracting what Texas had done.” Justice Samuel Alito, a Republican, also wrote a separate opinion stating that it is “indisputable” that “the impetus for the adoption of the Texas map (like the map subsequently adopted in California) was partisan advantage pure and simple.”

The thing about the SCOTUS is that they’re not total dummies. Roberts and Gorsuch, at least, seem to know the long game and aren’t interested in playing full-on Calvinball with the tool of court precedent. They aren’t going to gamble on an entrenched multi-generational procedurally generated conservative majority just to save a few California GOP House Reps who are likely washed in a D+10 mid year election anyway.

They’ll uphold the right of states to gerrymander and allow Republicans to turn the ratchet in another reactionary backwash election, once Dems fumble the bag in '28/'30. Because the important thing is undermining the function of democracy long term.

It’s been sliding all month.

It’s slid 8% over the last month. But at a 282 p/e, it could lose 90% and still be overvalued.

Tiktok’s user base is quite large

875 million to over 950 million daily active users (DAU) globally as of Jan 2026.

It is a shame people don’t choose better alternatives though.

TikTok was the better alternative. That’s half the joke. As soon as it caught on, the plutocrats stepped in and seized control

Not unlike how Facebook bought out and gutted Instagram or JP Morgan took over Reddit and cleaned out all the lefties before taking it public.

That’s before you get into the marketing budget that social media needs to build the kind of massive userbase you’re asking for.

How about we abandon ragebait shortform slop/garbage aggregators entirely

In my day, we listened to AM Talk Radio! 16 hours a day, to and from work! None of this prissy little short form phone slop, no sir. It was three hour long shifts of Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus, Doug “The Greaseman” Tracht, and Sean Hannity. I earned my hate honestly, by fiddling with a little dial on my walkman and getting five commercials about cigars and dick pills every eight minutes. I got to hear bad riff tracks about how Japan was taking over our economy produced on a AKAI S900 that had been dropped down a flight of stairs. I didn’t know these people even had faces until Limbaugh showed up as a talking head for the NFL for a few months.

The very fucking idea that these stupid petulant spoiled woke lib fuck-around find-out kids are getting their news from a five minute long vertical visual display? OOOOOOOOoh it makes me SO MAD! I hate 'dem kids. I hate’m!!!

-13°C weather won’t stop me. I actually like the cold.

One could argue that the currency system itself legitimizes the amassing of enormous wealth into the hands of a tiny minority.

do you have any idea how fucking cold hot is is outside right now?

So crazy that this guy built his career on being Matt Damon adjacent.

It’s so funny to see this pushed out as a marketing campaign for DuckDuckGo AI and it totally flopped.

I mean, I played with people who would just scrawl the name of the card over the top of another card in sharpie. Some of them even had a real copy of a card (bricked up in some two inch thick display case), but others would just be - like - “This is a card I wish I had” and we’d have fun playing because it’s fun to be across the table from someone with Power Nine tech.