echo "echo "\Please don't hack me. I'm just a little guy. 👶"\" > ~/.bashrc

I dunno why, but I have always been obsessed with sculpture that takes a common form or object and stretches it to make it seemingly bend reality.

My favorite example is this sculpture they have on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University. It is a long, tapered pole that goes on into the sky, and it has statues of people walking vertically up it, and depending on the weather and what time of day it is, it has this very convincing effect. Really makes you think that people are walking up into the sky for a second.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_to_the_Sky?wprov=sfla1

Most InfoSec researchers are unaware that most hackers can be stopped by saying "please."

BAND: "WHO'S READY TO FUCK SHIT UP!!!!!!!"

me: "haha me!"

I love how this gag has grown and adapted to the new era. Back when I was in college (late aughties), the joke in our social circle was to say something ridiculous, then say, "what? It's true. You're saying you don't trust eaglepatriot1776 dot blogspot dot com?

Just a friendly reminder, slavery has been an active part of the Neoliberal agenda since the 60s. For-profit prisons use their prisoner population to do factory work (cus nobody cares about them or their wellbeing), and the products of which can then be sold on the open market, which undercuts and drives small businesses out of operation.

Prison labor has touched and destroyed countless American industries, and has genuinely done more damage to the idea of a "free market" than every Communist on the planet combined. How exactly does one compete against a business whose cost-basis is quite literally the cost of Nutriloaf?

Baby, I hope you're posting this comment from inside a tent after a long day of training with your guerilla resistance militia, because it's horseshit and classist to dump on people who are actually doing something, even if that something is just the beginning of what should be done.

I cannot begin to express how over I am hearing the opinions of anyone who has already given up. Playing Red Dawn with your little pistols and rifles and mail-order TEMU body plate armor isn't going to save you against a global military hedgemon with more autonomous missiles than taxpaxong citizens. If you have theory that will fix all this, then get the fuck out there and put it into action and convince us with results. Jesus Christ.

Black American civil rights were struggled for by a rich tapestry of direct action, intellectual analysis, Christian pacifism, liberation through Islam, and Leftist theory and influence. It is not and never was any one thing. Violence was not the only ingredient.

I have been saying it for 6 months straight now, and now, I need you all to say it with me:

No matter what is to come, we. do. not. split.

yes, your quote is why I have often referred to American conservatism as "grievance culture." that is also why this moment in time has me really scared, because the end of grievance culture is obviously a satisfaction of grievances, which have been collecting since the very first day Rush Limbaugh went on air. the revenge tour has only just begun :/

Slavery isn't even illegal in the USA, only chattel slavery is. The private prison system gets to not qualify as slavery because they technically pay inmates some pithy sum, like $1 an hour.

People don't realize it, really, but the American slave industry has been out there ruining American industry or small businesses since the 90s. Did you know that in the 80s, virtually all cabling meant for the US military was produced by Americans in small factories? Prison labor decimated that industry. It has decimated so many industries too, like serving and waiting. Aramark uses prison labor to wash dishes. It's crazy.

I think leftists really have the best description for conservatism — "reactionaries." They don't believe in shit, they simply weave their beliefs depending on what allows them in the moment to react the way they expect they should.

For instance, MAGA being turbo anti-pedophile for decades until they all realize that their king is basically King Pedophile — now they're like, "ah, well, maybe those kids knew what they were getting into. Trump did have a reputation after all. Nobody takes responsibility anymore."