https://web.archive.org/web/20260212080952/https://www.thedailybeast.com/thomas-massie-roasts-pam-bondi-for-her-attempts-to-attack-lawmakers/

Is Kagi really that much different? I used their free trial for a while and the results seemed similar to what I’m used to on Duck Duck Go, so I just went back to that. Maybe I should try it again.

Well, one day he will be.

But think about the benefits of making sure those 30 people were violently kidnapped and deported from the USA at great expense and with great suffering! Can’t you feel your life improving? (Note: this only works if you’re one of those Americans who feels better when they see someone else feeling worse.)

Could this be turned into a business opportunity for someone to start a search engine prioritizing real websites that don’t sound like AI? It could carry some advertising or charge for a no-ads version. People would use it. What are the main obstacles that stop anyone doing this? Is it just this scale of the modern internet or the expense of training a model to downrank anything that smells like AI? Or is it that all the people who might provide initial funding are all-in on AI slop?

Noem, dubbed “Ice Barbie” for her love of cosplaying in uniform roles…

It’s also because she’s made of plastic.

No one’s going to be “fine” with the amount of catastrophic climate change we’re storing up. This will be the collapse of civilisation as we know it, and the USA is actively making it worse because tens of millions of gullible and ignorant people have been recruited into a fascist cult by a handful of deceitful billionaire sociopaths. And it’s not just the collapse of human society but also the loss of so much other life that will never be replaced in the lifetime of the Earth.

I think Doge got rid of the good public servants.

While we could do without Roblox and Discord, the bigger picture is that the internet is becoming a surveillance panopticon.

A little drone with a laser?

some idpol nonsense

I hope that’s your view of the Democrats introducing this bill right now, and not your view of the fight for trans people’s rights. Fighting for trans people and for immigrants are absolutely the front lines of the battle against fascism. Everyone lives behind those lines and everyone’s freedom depends on pushing those front lines forwards.

Personally I’d just patch it in software by coding up my own CPU cooler.

Fascists think germs harm the weak, who should die to purify the gene pool, and not the genetically superior and strong. And fascists always think they are among the superior, strong ones. Everything this administration does makes sense if you assume fascist eugenics are behind it.

Is that a strap with a buckle holding it on?

That’s because the Americans who were saying that are all either in favour of ICE or working for them. But there are just as many Americans who did not shout about the right to own guns because they could see all the problems with them, and many of these Americans are quietly organizing resistance. I’m not in the USA and I won’t judge American people for not picking up a gun and mounting a solitary suicidal attack on better-armed Nazi thugs. Proper resistance takes numbers and organization, and Americans have been trained to be inexperienced at collective action.

That said, some of the scenes in Minneapolis show that collective action can work against thugs like ICE. They are cowards in the end, and you need enough people to resist in small ways for it to be effective.

I think there’s value to being specific about the rights of trans people because they are in an especially vulnerable position and are actively being denied basic rights. Yes we need rights for all, but to say “Why should trans people get special treatment with a bill like this?” at this moment has a whiff of the “all lives matter” about it.

Decades? If you’re measuring impact on nature we’re talking a LOT longer.

Enforcement of what? Throughout the article the NYT uncritically uses the term “immigration enforcement” to describe what ICE is doing. This is propaganda. ICE is there to terrorize the population into submission to the fascist regime. To call it “immigration enforcement” is to leap right over the question of what the government is doing, whether they should be doing it, and how it should be honestly described, and skip straight to the matter of how they go about it. This is how the NYT tries to train its readers to overlook the big picture and get distracted into detail.

What’s your point in offering this?

I agree about not falling into their usage of the words. But I think she is using MAGA’s language here to make fun of them.