Very important insights contained within. Please read in its entirety. www.404media.co/police-told-...

Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

If people don't actually use the shitty AI we keep violently thrusting at them, the bubble will pop, and our wasteful investments into water guzzling, anti-human infrastructure will bankrupt us. Despite spouting shit about free markets/consumer first, we have decided you WILL use our slopgorithms.

"Unlike the bill, which is chock full of so many potential unintended consequences the IPA was warning against it, the consequences for Ley were as obvious as the split in the Coalition." @amyremeikis.bsky.social on how we are the losers of this stupid, stupid game. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Solid guide for disconnecting from US technology. Also has EU and AU options. disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

A whole bunch of artists and cultural workers have lost work because of the implosion of Adelaide Writers week — writers, producers, stage crew, front of house. None of this was their fault. Something for the Labor premier to think about

On Saturday, an imam and his wife were allegedly victims of a violent hate crime — forced off the road by another car, with attackers then getting out to assault the imam/threaten his wife. ANIC put out a statement on Sunday arvo, noting rising islamophobia. The media is just getting to it now.

There honestly cannot be a satire cutting enough to make fun of Americans. What the fuck do you mean the highest colonial ideal you could imagine was a parking lot with McDonald's on both sides

We are living through a time that some folks will attempt to misremember. They will rewrite, erase, water-down, placate, and pander. They will gaslight us. We have to refuse that. We have to remember. Our memory is resistance. Our rage is resistance.

Another obscene American war for oil www.euronews.com/2026/01/03/a...

this is irresponsible reporting. a neural network can't comment on why it produced CSAM. a neural network can't be held answerable for generating CSAM. accountability lies within the fascist ceo and the team willing to work for him www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

new feature added to Twitter that adds a button that says "kill user" beneath every post. If you pay for the blue check mark it acts as a shield that prevents your death once for every gallon of water you donate to grok

Today, people consider "Yule" synonymous with "Christmas." But centuries ago, Yule meant something different — a pagan mid-winter festival, dating back to pre-Christian Germanic people. n.pr/3YaZPp6

This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Israel Propagandists Are Uniformly Spouting The Exact Same Line About The Bondi Shooting open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj...

This from the @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social is excellent www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/11/jewi...

"I want a Clippy to be my sycophantic pretend girlfriend" is a hell of a take.

The only ageless part is the grift.

Social media companies attempt to detect and remove this type of astroturfing for violating their inauthentic behavior policies, which is why Doublespeed uses a bank of phones to emulate the behavior of real users. @evystadium.bsky.social explains more here: www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.

It's 10pm. Do you know where your children are scrolling?

Courtesy of the world’s richest man who just got a trillion-dollar pay package from his feckless board: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone looking into disinformation and scams on Meta's platforms but the scale is kind of incredible: "the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Explains a LOT. futurism.com/future-socie...

New: In a backsliding democracy, ‘public mobilization is the guardrail’ open.substack.com/pub/diplomat...

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces. This is truly terrifying.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app

TRON is a super cult-ass franchise *anyway* but I promise you more people would have gone to see it in theaters if Jared Leto wasn't in it

Yes, the internet has always had lies on it because sometimes humans are liars. But generative AI slop is always lies because the generators don’t ever know what truth is. They’re weapons of mass information destruction, a difference in scale nobody seems ready to acknowledge.

Genius.

If a four-year-old can pronounce a name correctly, so can a politician | Arwa Mahdawi

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Two months before Calvin Alexander’s parole hearing date, he was told he was no longer eligible. Why? An algorithm had deemed the nearly blind 70-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, a “moderate risk,” barring him from speaking to the parole board. (Published April w/ @veritenews.org)

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

You cannot build a social platform for humans without doing the difficult work of managing humans. There is no tech technological solution to this problem. It’s messy human weirdness all the way down.

If there were ever any doubt that internet celebrity had completely usurped other roles, such as area expert, public intellectual, or even TV star, it should be erased now. There is no discernible line or differentiation to who is listened to, beyond the willingness to be extreme in a suit.

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

It’s wild living in the Information Age and the Dark Age at the same time.

We are in it.