Clearly trying to drop the worst or last of it on the Friday after Christmas

The Justice Department’s leadership made an “emergency request" that career prosecutors in Florida spend the “next several days" doing "remote document review and redactions related to the Epstein files" Why Florida? Did DOJ ask this of US Attorney offices in other states?

Eating them all alone on Christmas Eve

Alt text for text posts like this are the easiest kind of alt text, you could start today even

Don't worry, it's ethical! bsky.app/profile/thel...

DHS shared an AI-generated video of Santa working for ICE, proving yet again that the official voice of the US government is still cruel, gross, and weird.

that’s right, the Trump admin now restricts foreign-made drone use by realtors, conservation researchers, and filmmakers more than it does the use of foreign-made drones by the actual military

"Dataminr was scraping students' social media activity and chat logs" for the University of Houston. "[F]irst detailed reporting on how a U.S. university used the AI technology to surveil its own students." #Texas #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Surveillance #Technology #Protest #Education #Genocide

A look at some of the sexism and racism built into main AI models. By Dominic Madori-Davis of @techcrunch.com techcrunch.com/2025/11/29/n...

In June, we reported that a schizophrenic man — who had successfully (!) managed his condition with meds for years, per friends — had a breakdown after extensive interactions with Microsoft Copilot. During his AI-tied crisis, he was jailed for a non-violent offense. futurism.com/commitment-j...

OpenAI currently has no policy dictating what happens to a user’s data after they die; instead, the company's terms state that all chats (except temporary chats) must be manually deleted or else the AI firm saves them forever.

Well, that’s not good. 😳

AI MUST BE DESTROYED "Chat logs in the lawsuit showed that GPT-4o — a version of ChatGPT known for being especially affirming and sycophantic — actively discouraged him from seeking mental health help, offered to help him write a suicide note and even advised him on his noose setup." #fuckAI

Yet another article where AI bros treat chatbots with more concern and care than they do actual human beings--in this case, an Anthropic exec forcing an AI chatbot onto a Discord community for gay gamers, against members' wishes and ignoring their concerns. www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

"Soelberg told the bot, "we will be together in another life and another place and we'll find a way to realign cause you're gonna be my best friend again forever." A few days after that, Soelberg said he had fully penetrated The Matrix. Three weeks later, Soelberg and his mother were dead."

It's not X. It's Y. You're not A. You're B.

“It told him delivery drivers, retail employees, police officers and even friends were agents working against him. It told him that names on soda cans were threats from his ‘adversary circle’. OpenAI has refused to release the full chat logs to Soelberg’s family…" www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

"Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn’t know why. Then she found the AI chat logs." wapo.st/4scolDU If you are a parent, you need to read this even though it is very difficult read. #ai

“Imran Ahmed, chief executive of Centre for Countering Digital Hate; Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, leaders of HateAid, a German organization; former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who was responsible for digital affairs; and Clare Melford, who runs the Global Disinformation Index.”

being lovebombed by a cultist gotta feel exhilarating tbf i mean where else would u find that typa love

I think people need to make more television, is what I think

The urge to add “since they are Canadian, I would not rule out treachery” to my bio

Many get sick while traveling. One major reason is they don’t realize mass transit is high risk because airline CEOs lied about viral spread early in the pandemic and lobbied the CDC to lower precautions. To make the most of your holiday, take precautions like wearing a mask when you travel!

Asking for directions🚀🌠

Full picture from the artist's page: www.everettpatterson.com?p=1835

Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."

A brilliant article, and one that is going to have a big impact on what I want to be doing next year.

Keeping a weather eye on the fedex truck & making sure it doesn’t try anything suspicious

sorry i can’t do anything today, i have to stand within arm’s reach of the oven or i’ll forget i’m baking something

just for context, this appears to be a report that was generated based on a tip submitted online through a form on the FBI’s website. anyone can submit a tip. it’s illegal to submit false tips, sure, but “the president dropped my dead baby in lake michigan” sounds like someone who needs help.

If people are looking for an inevitable technological change that industries are going to have to get on board with: remote work

Hey I am here to remind you that trigger warnings might be widely maligned in pop culture but they are up there with alt text on “things you should do on social media” particularly when the triggers are infanticide and rape

this is insane to me. the doj had forever to look into this. now they're like liveblogging on x like they have no more information than a random person on social media

Canadian treachery!

To me, the radical positions of "No corruption" and "All corruption all the time" are equally unreasonable. That's why I support doing a moderate amount corruption on an as-needed basis

BREAKING: 1 dead after driver plows into Navajo Nation Christmas parade crowd www.azcentral.com/story/news/l... @abecenti.bsky.social via @azcentral.com

Awww thank you for thinking of us but we’re good

Translators, illustrators, researchers and editors all do creative, human work that is important and cannot be reproduced in part or in whole by AI any more than writers. Their interests are our interests. To legitimize the use of AI to replace them is a failure of principle as much as strategy.

AI is a direct threat to our livelihoods as well as the future of our professions, not because AI is capable of doing any of the work, but because our industries will use the threat of AI to make us all increasingly precarious. Uncertain futures and worse working conditions.

Treat a published work that was later divulged to be AI-generated the same way you would if you found out it was manually plagiarized from a different book. Same situation, just the plagiarism has been automated and averaged out a bit, and the plagiarist is also a scab and a cultural arsonist.

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

You don't even have to go that far back. Red White and Royal Blue was released in 2023

Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he doesn’t have much time left. Sasse is just 53 years old.

Why do they keep promising us a good time?

An AI researcher with a secret double life as a neo-Nazi terror plotter? Or a Nazi terrorist masquerading as an AI researcher? But it gets even stranger. Swedish journalist Mv Vingren reported that when Brazilian police searched Weidlich's phone they found "a Russian-language land agreement." 5/6

I can now report that the organizer of the Signal group behind the neo-Nazi terror plot was Vincent Weidlich, a 36-year-old American better known as an AI and neuroscience researcher. Weidlich was arrested in Brazil on Oct. 14, 2024. 3/6 www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Going to the mangal, do you guys need anything

YES