Today's threads (a thread)Inside: Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox; and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/vulgar-thatcherism/#Pluralistic1/

There have been 47 episodes of mass violence on school campuses this year. The 47th took place at a Denver-area high school, 26 years after the Denver-area high school in Columbine, where three people were shot on Wednesday, two of them students. The 46th school shooting of the year had just one victim. Charlie Kirk, the conservative campus activist and podcaster, was shot in the neck during a question and answer session at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.1/

@CaffeinatedBookDragon @pluralistic MAGA shot one of our sitting congress members in Minnesota a month or two and just acted like it never happened. Their moral outrage about a lowlife like Kirk being killed is hollow. They're already in the midst of carrying out their most violent, depraved fantasies, this recent death changes nothing that they weren't going to do already.

At @johnquiggin's suggestion, I've set up a Pixelfed account:https://pixelfed.social/pluralisticLooking forward to digging into image-based social media for the first time since Tumblr was founded!

If you've ever spent time around Wikipedians, you've doubtless heard its motto: "Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a mess." It's a delicious line, which is why I stole it for my 2017 novel *Walkaway*.--If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before1/

Trump is bad at dictatoring.Ryan Cooperhttps://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-05-jb-pritzker-shows-how-to-handle-trump/

#Enshittification