There are no “cancel culture wars”. The right wing just pretended it was a thing so they could go after policies that were protecting people from bigotry, because it kept affecting them, because they are bigots. And the government punishing people for political speech is a quite different matter, and what the First Amendment was actually supposed to prevent. When MAGA claimed their First Amendment rights were being violated because they got fired by a private employer for violating anti-discrimination policies, or criticized online for expressing bigoted views, their rights were not being violated. When the government shamelessly and explicitly does everything it can to ruin private citizens’ lives because they expressed an unduly nonfascist opinion, people’s rights are absolutely being violated. Let’s not allow the media to frame this as a “both sides” thing.

Whether it’s a thing will depend on whether you pay your bribes and flatter the right people.

“We’re not discussing specific roadmaps at this time, but the collaboration is complementary to Intel’s roadmap and Intel will continue to have GPU product offerings,” Intel told PCWorld, reiterating the commitment that Intel’s Michelle Johnston Holthaus made before she abruptly left the company.

I don’t see any commitment in that statement. Indeed it seems carefully worded to avoid making any particular commitment.

Hopefully more hosts follow and point out the major hypocrisy from MAGA.

That will do nothing. They enjoy their own hypocrisy. They don’t care about consistency of principles and are quite happy to just want everything their way while no one else gets anything. They’re quite happy to abuse language by saying whatever suits them in the moment. It drives their opponents crazy as they try to point out how inconsistent and irrational they’re being. The fascists don’t care, but they do love to see you get frustrated. It’s just part of their sadistic fun: messing with people, playing with their prey until they are ready to exterminate them.

To complain that fascists are hypocritical or inconsistent is to miss the point of fascism, at least if your hope is to shock them into being more reasonable. I know this quote from Sartre is everywhere but he said it well:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Now all that’s needed is redefining having a different opinion as being political violence, and America’s transformation into a fascist dictatorship will be complete.

How about declaring opposition to fascism to be terrorism?

Trump says he will label antifa as a terrorist organization

Huh. The last I heard was:

Charlie Kirk suspect is a gun-loving Trump supporter

And this:

Charlie Kirk Suspect’s Grandma Says Family Is All MAGA

Is the MAGA accusation against “the left” based in anything at all except their own delusions?

And time to hold on to old devices. They’ll become like old cars: the only ones the owner can fully control.

Only approved AIs and humans carrying a corporately issued developer license will be allowed to develop software.