Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.

Not fast enough? How about _zero_. Anyway I hope he fires leadership and throws the org into disarray. Maybe ask McKinsey. :)

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

Maybe we shouldn't have a coward in charge of the Dems in the House.

Imagine the Illusive Man from Mass Effect saying this

Memegen wept @mcmillen.dev. ht to @headmold.bsky.social who I guess is tapped in to meme news.

Glad the Democratic tent was not big enough for Cuomo, who has embraced gutter racism and xenophobia in his quest for power.

Big Signal protocol/app request: *pinned items*. A huge tool for organizing any group.

The article below is part of the forthcoming book Making a Career in Dictatorship: The Secret Logic behind Repression and Coups, written by Christian Gläßel and Adam Scharpf (@ascharpf.bsky.social) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

It's not just what Andrew Cuomo is saying—it's who's funding him. The single largest donor to a pro-Cuomo SuperPAC is Airbnb cofounder/board member Joe Gebbia, who promotes vile and racist messages about immigrants.

SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average. This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything. Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: Trump says in a social media post he's decided to back away from the plan to send more federal agents into San Francisco for now.

at the Internet Archive for their 1,000,000,000,000 pages archived celebration :)

The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

This rapid response guide for reporting ICE is specific to San Francisco. For the other counties in the bay area, the second post on this thread links to a list of hotlines and resources. To read more: sfilen.org/resources/sf...

Federal immigration agents are coming to the Bay Area. Here’s a guide on how to protect yourself. missionlocal.org/2025/10/immi...

Storm is coming.

They misspelled "commissar." www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Archdiocese of Chicago condemns Trump's immigration crackdown: "Families are being torn apart. Children are left in fear, communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear—the church stands with migrants."

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

Is this from 3 years ago?

NFTs are amazing because you apparently “own” them but the AWS outtage yesterday took out everyones apes lol

Bike team best team.

*whispering* Bernie’s personnel judgment has always been shit and it would have been a real problem if he’d won

Platner acting all "no, it's German for 'the Bart, the.'"

ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening. Make statues of this.

The federal government "jawbones" private companies by pressuring them to silence voices they can’t legally censor themselves, and Big Tech has erased ICE‑watching apps and an ICE-Sighting Chicago Facebook group. The full story: lataco.com/big-tech-ice By Nik Venet

good bit from the Guardian review of Giuffre's memoir; I have heard several people from the NGO world express the confusion and embarrassment they felt at billionaires showing up with very young women at events.

The credulousness of this site towards Graham Platner is pretty hard to take.

I know everyone’s following the Louvre heist but I would like to point your attention to the California LEGO LOOTER www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

centrist: Where do we go from here? We have to find common ground. We can't just call the other group "Nazis." At the end of the day, we're all just rich white men with podcasts. Republican lawmaker: Welcome to Hitler Chat. I'm Hitler Republican lawmaker 2: Hello. I am Hitler as well.

it's finally Infrastructure Week

I'm never voting for a Republican again in my life, but you can see how someone like Silwa is now maybe the best thing left in the Republican party. He's still crazy! But hearing a Republican telling billionaires to gtfo is refreshing.

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

You get the idea.

Minit-thread: Bears repeating daily at this point: There were no immigration laws at all until white people on the West Coat began to fear the dreaded Yellow Peril of Chinese immigration in the 1880s. That's right. While these people were building railroads across mountain and plain...

Tragically, once you introduce costly signaling, all mathematics is impure. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/signal-4 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

"this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit" - dril

Willing to pay for some AI feature where I never see baseball discourse again. (Sorry)

“Up to four satellites from Elon Musk’s massive Starlink constellation are falling to Earth every day, according to space trackers.”

Imagine thinking they ever cared about debt, fraud, waste, abuse, or anything of the sort. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

The NYT does not believe in covering the views of the people, just their elite friends:

The president of the United States is destroying constitutional government and literally calling himself a king and the pathetic journalistic and political class of this country is busy winding itself into circular meta-debates over the correct way to perform their reaction or nonreaction to it.

It's actually happening. My wife is swapping in her iPhone for a _USB-C_ one. This is it: the end of lightning cables in our home!!!!!!!!!!! [*] [*] Don't worry, "Thunderbolt 4 or usb-c?" is still a thing.

Literal shit posting, and the newspaper of record can't bring itself to call it what it is. Pathetic.

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23