Lewis’s statement reads as rushed & unfinished

Right the bad thing about that sentence is the passive exonerative "have been taken" instead of "I made difficult decisions". You're the CEO! bsky.app/profile/kath...

Striking how badly written both statements are

This is the guy who nerfed Tumblr’s usage with the porn ban btw.

Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):

She was then sent back to Dilley from the PICU and denied her prescription medications. Disease is being weaponized to kill people our government considers undesirable. I hope you can connect the dots to how they told you to throw off your masks and stop getting vaccinations.

Rian Johnson for Knives Out

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

Forgiven for Dog Crimes and getting scratched in the best spot (ribs)

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Hell, I bet if the amount of money being invested in these data center was invested into the arts, you could get a thousand times the art at a thousand times the quality for vastly less food and water and living expenses. All of this shit was completely pointless.

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

Why the use of “partner” in the headline? Her WIFE.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

They didn’t even have an approved plan for what to build there!

The bosses are forcing their employees to use it. Politicians are competing to shovel money & infrastructure at it. The billionaires who control media are constantly lecturing & hectoring people to accept it & use it more. They don't care it's losing money. They don't care people hate it.

But the other piece of evidence -- the point of this thread -- is that we now have an example of what it looks like when US political & corporate elites *really are* obsessed with and committed to something. Namely: AI.

I’m very comfortable and cozy on the D-list, being known mostly by children and bisexual librarians, but every now and then I think it would be fun to be famous just for one or two reasons, and this is never more true than when I remember The Muppet Show

When white people see white supremacy in history & they side with it, then yeah, I’m sure you do feel pressured to apologize for it. But it’s not that you’re being asked to apologize for being white, but for actively trying to perpetuate white supremacy. 4//

Growing up learning about the horrors of slavery, I saw myself as one of the abolitionists (like my UU/Quaker ancestors) who would have fought slavery. When I was learning about Civil Rights, I saw myself as one of the white activists who became freedom riders & worked to dismantle segregation. 3/

If you haven't had the chance to see The Librarians yet, catch Kim Snyder’s powerful documentary when it premieres February 9 on Independent Lens on PBS. https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/the-librarians/

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

Immigration is very normal and very cool

is that bad

Are you going to a Big Game party on Sunday? Or perhaps going to watch the pro football championship game? Or take in the majestic splendor of the Superb Owl? You can also just call it by its real name: the SuperBowl. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Maybe, just maybe, people should start to understand that there is no such thing as non punitive detention. And so the entire premise of immigration law— that this is civil and isn’t meant to punish or coerce— is a tremendous lie

Hard to shake the sense lately that this world order is just disgusting and has been for some time

Have you considered making bad Art? It's literally better than making nothing and crying about it. No AI needed. There's all kinds of mediums. If you don't click with any of them make a new one up cuz that also is Art.

When you tell a bird they don’t need to worry about you and they seem to get it

He was with me the whole time

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

Schmitt ended World War II by getting captured by soldiers (not a committee!) from the United States, which at the time was led by... the Democratic Party. Like the context here is that Schmitt was *extremely and famously wrong* and I feel like maybe we should not lose sight of that lol

“Another unsuspecting subject of an activist group’s undercover videos at UNC System schools is now out of a job. This time, the group targeted NC State University’s LGBTQ Pride Center.” So universities keep outsourcing personnel decisions to undercover activists…

It occurs to me that Leon Botstein is good at cultivating exactly the kind of ego gratification that Epstein sought out: an appearance of worldly, old-money educatedness with none of the demands or rigor of actual substance.

Baldwin, Wisconsin — 2026

The degree to which both of these people are so completely full of shit, name checking things they have no understanding of, free associating “deep thoughts” & yet so perfectly confident in their half-assed knowledge, helps clarify why the entire elite class is so desperate to get us all on ChatGPT

Pea brained shit

The International Olympic Committee ruled that an image of Toussaint Louverture, born into slavery and and leader of the Haitian Revolution, on Haiti’s uniforms violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism

*learning Spanish before halftime*

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Why are these freaks internet famous to begin with? Why does their audience extend beyond their immediate families? Whose vessel is so empty that it craves content from these hacks?

Ironically it has been a demand of student protesters since the 1960s that universities end their entanglement with the military and CIA. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...