Brooke Harrington | LightNews

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

GLP-Mussolini

He's even adopted Il Duce's signature gesture.

Stephen Miller pointing his right index finger upward at a press conference.

Mussolini doing his signature gesture, with right index finger pointing upward.

Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 6h

we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 16h

If you were an American, how would you have responded to "stop him" from renaming the Gulf?

Please be specific about the actions you would take as an individual citizen in that situation.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 16h

Good news: Americans will in fact get up off our butts to defend things/people we value.

Bad news: Trump really wants to have protesters shot, à la Renée Good and Alex Pretti. It does tend to put a damper on expression of our 1A rights.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you. It seemed self-evident that the premise of the event--"consensual non-consensual" sex between employee & boss--was so absurd that I didn't need to stipulate that genuine consent isn't possible given the structual power differential. It's not a meeting of equals engaged in temporary play.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17h

Are you in the US? Because
abcnews.com/Politics/pro...

Protesters form human chain at Kennedy Center amid Trump's threats to demolish it

Protesters are demanding Trump be removed as its chairman for failing to protect and manage it.

abcnews.com

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17h

I am aware of the BDSM community and that's not what the thread is about.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17h

Do you think an employee can freely consent to a rape role-play requested by her boss--the person who writes her performance reviews, decides whether she gets to keep her job? I don't.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17h

Very true. Inconvenient facts such as this have not prevented irony-poisoned edgelords from claiming that it's nbd if Trump tears down the Center.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17h

I don't tolerate AI slop on my timeline.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18h

Same reason they won't pay taxes: 1) they lose control of the money, and 2) they don't get to demand adulation for their "good works."

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18h

Yes. It does not matter if you think the Kennedy Center is bougie: private individuals do not get to destroy public goods.

If you budge one iota on this stance, then you lose the right to object when he demands bits of the national parks as a treat. You've already agreed with him on the principle.

Scott 𐚁 Cataloochee Hogtoe 𐚁 Cave @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 21h

I know there’s a savvy take that being attached to the east wing or the kennedy center is a sort of west wing lame-o attachment to the symbols of power and on the other hand

he fucking bulldozed our collective property

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19h

My neighbors just got the shingle roof replaced on their 3,000 ft2 two-storey house for FORTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS.

Dr. Phil Shocked Reaction

ALT: Dr. Phil Shocked Reaction

static.klipy.com

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19h

You win.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21h

It is "legit" in the sense that the broligarchs have a successful track record in getting the US government to insure them against the downside risks of their (the broligarchs') reckless decisions.
So even if you think their argument is self-contradictory, they may well get the policy outcome.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 21h

In authoritarian states, “law” upholds lawlessness, and its first duty is to keep the leader safe from domestic or outside accountability processes. Judicial capture is the means, and the conversion of the law into what the leader and his enablers need it to be is the end.

Scott 𐚁 Cataloochee Hogtoe 𐚁 Cave @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 21h

I know there’s a savvy take that being attached to the east wing or the kennedy center is a sort of west wing lame-o attachment to the symbols of power and on the other hand

he fucking bulldozed our collective property

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21h

25 cents for me

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21h

The Broligarchs bought the US government. The EU is trying to regulate them, but the US keeps threatening to pull out of NATO if the EU touches Trump's donors.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21h

I tire of these parasites.

They do everything in their power to destroy the democratic governance and regulatory systems of the countries that enabled them to grow rich, but they always come running when it's time to foist the costs of their reckless decisions onto taxpayers.

See also: SV Bank.

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 22h

Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21h

This is exactly how the anti-abortion argument works: via people unbidden appointing themselves the sole spokespeople for hypothetical future generations, who are conveniently unable to speak for themselves.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21h

Part of my professional life is the study of fraud--its history, its mechanisms, its hallmarks. I have published peer-reviewed work on the subject for ~15 years, taught courses on it, am generally considered a reliable source on the subject.

I know rich people's bullshit when I see it. ymmv

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 22h

Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

"Eat a veggie burger, soy boys!" is going to go over like the Hindenburg with the High T Alpha Male brigade.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

lmao

Bill Mitchell ®
@mitchellvii
X.com
With regards to beef prices, have you ever tried a veggie burger?
They're actually really good. A little lettuce, tomato, pickles, a portobello mushroom, slice of Swiss cheese. Excellent.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

When I tell you this is one of the most riveting, concise and accurate depictions of the catastrophically defective thought processes behind Effective Altruism and the larger Broligarch Epistemic Universe...

Run, don't walk, to read the whole thing (link below), which concludes thus:

Example of the problematic thinking behind Effective Altruism.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

Thread on the sociological studies of using coerced group sexual activity to test and insure the loyalty of group members, especially among male elites.
bsky.app/profile/ebha...

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

What's being described in the AI/EA community is not consensual group sex: it's coerced sex ("consensual non-consensual" they call it) with ppl who control your earning & advancement opportunities.

It's revealing bc pressure to engage in group sex is ALSO a hallmark of mafia & criminal groups. 1/x

Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

Honestly "cult" is probably generously downplaying the horror of an industry that has normalized the idea of boundary eroding sex parties attended by all the people who have control over your professional & financial future. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

I'm sure you're right. Making it even more interesting how Trump and the EA guys converge in their methods of group bonding. Remember the story about Epstein putting Trump on speakerphone to enjoy the experience of Epstein victimizing another girl? There's a whole sociological literature on this.

New Republic headline about Epstein putting Trump on speakerphone to hear Epstein victimizing a 16 year old girl.

CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 1d

That ensures no girl ever again qualifies for National Honor Society, Valedictorian/Salutatorian, whatever they use as Dean’s List (top 5%), since no boy will ever have his grades destroyed by a typically irregular teenage menstrual cycle.

and we wonder why so many people hate exercise.

Outcry as Michigan high school asks girls to share details of menstrual cycles

Students required to disclose information if they wish to make up swimming days lost because of their periods

www.theguardian.com

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

It is a common feature of groups that operate based on secrecy and/or criminal activity. There's a whole sociological literature that specifically references the role of coerced group sex as a loyalty test and source of kompromat.
bsky.app/profile/ebha...

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

What's being described in the AI/EA community is not consensual group sex: it's coerced sex ("consensual non-consensual" they call it) with ppl who control your earning & advancement opportunities.

It's revealing bc pressure to engage in group sex is ALSO a hallmark of mafia & criminal groups. 1/x

Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

Honestly "cult" is probably generously downplaying the horror of an industry that has normalized the idea of boundary eroding sex parties attended by all the people who have control over your professional & financial future. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, for more background on the uses of group sex to bind members of criminal conspiracies together via loyalty testing and kompromat gathering, I highly recommend the work of Kimberly Kay Hoang (see above) and Diego Gambetta on the Italian mafia, especially this book:

Cover of Diego Gambetta's "Codes of the Underworld."

Add to Home Screen

News, ranked by scholars

Add to Home Screen

News, ranked by scholars

Sign in to LightNews

Sign up to start reading

Connect Bluesky

Connect with Bluesky