@onthemedia is hitting it out of the park with their explainers on just how dangerous the Christian nationalism being played out by SecDef Hegseth and the Trump admin is (and, in the second part, Thiel’s apocalypse fixation).

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/pete-hegseth-is-praying-for-a-holy-war

#Via Peter Morley ♿️ /petermorley
1:31 PM · Mar 29, 2026

"Disgusting and of course we can’t trust anything. The US attorney says. This is extremely brutal."

https://apple.news/ANdw-jzNZStO-nAgIQHzQGg

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/116230993416377035

On the folks who love AI slop in code and coding: “the problems [AI] solve are problems you only have if you hate this work and don't view it as an art form”

Yep. Replace “art form” with “engineering” and it’s about right (although arguably both are strongly related)

I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”.

No! Stop right there.

Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.

Ethics is the formalisation of how we are treating one another as human beings and how we relate to the world around us.

It is *impossible* to put ethics aside.

What you mean is “I don’t want to apologise for my greed and selfishness.”

Say that first.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

A really great breakdown of a study going viral about Gen Z men being more “traditional” than Boomers and how misogynistic and psyops-like the framing of it is, while the problem is real & remains unaddressed.

https://youtu.be/-7sNB-OnF6o

#misogyny #genZ #feminism #patriarchy