All I can say is that if there's a film you like that Warner Brothers produced... buy it on physical media NOW. NETFLIX despises people owning movies. www.wsj.com/business/med...

We started reporting this profile of @edzitron.com in July. Zitron's message has only grown more urgent since then. Read @harrymccracken.com's full story @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91448284/ed-...

The real Election Day is Tuesday, December 2, 2025. We’re closely monitoring this election and will keep you updated with any further warnings.

"In 2025, the US is France. As impunity and lawlessness have grown in the US over the last several decades, it has also grown everywhere else. Even now, in the days of dwindling US status as a global endo-ideal, US news is watched more than anywhere on earth." #3E #EndImpunity 🧵

“Following the arrival of the U.S. Border Patrol in Charlotte Saturday morning, hundreds of protesters gathered at First Ward Park in the afternoon and marched through uptown, delivering a clear message to federal agents: ‘Get out’...” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

At some point I might just write “what if everybody is wrong?” because there is a chance I believe nobody bothered to work out if any of this would make a profit or, indeed, whether you’d be able to power the data centers themselves

Hundreds of thousands!?!?! It’s like they *gift wrapped* this headline for @edzitron.com

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Democrats: Important to pick the precise dollar amount of minimum wage increase that’s most popular lest everyone get mad at us Republicans: hahah yes, a Gatsby party at the president’s luxury resort at the exact moment benefits expire for millions!! Voters: I like you roughly the same amount

here's the video

Every single member of @housedemocrats.bsky.social need to start being seen visibly working food lines every single day. The message needs to be clear who wants to feed America and who does not.

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Now that we have even more reasons to boycott Spotify, I thought I’d repost this video from @cutoffthespigot.bsky.social with recommendations for more ethical alternatives.

Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability. www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

The only thing that scales in an AI is its costs, directly above its revenues, always outpacing them. Your most passionate users are your most expensive. The more curious they are, the more they cost you. LLMs will go down as one of the single-worst business models of all time.

In a rare show of courtesy, police departments all over the US reported that the mass protests on October 18th were overwhelmingly peaceful and posted thank you messages for protestors. Out of millions of people, only MAGA agitators were arrested. ICE stayed away due to the crowd size. #3E #NoKings

This was Los Angeles, California on October 18th, showing the regime that they will not be subservient to fascism or corrupt wannabe kings. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota. we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

The Trump regime's war on Christianity continues, as regime troops attacks Americans across the United States and rounds up majority Christian immigrants, they've also targeted religious leaders. Here the Trump regime ICE forces shot a pastor in the head in the latest attack on civilians.

just an obscene lie, but because it's "will be" nothing happens. Oracle is posting razor-thin gross profit margins (which do not mean they're actually making a profit, by the way!). Oracle lost $100m in three months on renting out Blackwell GPUs. www.theinformation.com/articles/int...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

10/07/2025

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Just in case someone missed this detail: Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

@unraveledpress.com & other press have been threatened, shot with less-lethals and arrested while reporting on federal immigration activities in Chicagoland and on the resulting protests at Broadview. I'm now at a hearing asking the federal court to rein ICE & co in. I'll let you know how it goes.

"The primary reason is that Hollywood is making less stuff." THIS. I've seen so many people lazily (xenophobically) claim 'outsource is stealing all the work', but MOST countries are in the same boat rn. Never let the suits skimming more and more off the top convince you a fellow worker is to blame.

"Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities." 31 USC 5114(b)

No other technology in the world has been shoved upon us in this way i dont think. People are downgrading their software just to avoid it and these dumbfucks keep shoving it into everything. It is absolutely fucking pathetic to see them try and force everyone to use this shit

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

In re: the abject poverty of the neverending National Conversation™️ about how Democrats Must Not Talk Funny & need to Moderate & Do A Populism, because they are Alienating Real Folkz & not focusing closely enough on Kitchen Table Issues. Happy week(end), all:

When the bubble is over there’s going to be a looong period of news sources rebuilding their credibility. And we should make them earn it. Simply put: a synthetic is not cheaper than a human actor because it can’t provide the same deliverables, copyright or sustainability.

I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

As the shutdown looms, let’s play; what are the facts? FACT: Trump wants to distract from Epstein. RELEASE THE FILES FACT: Republicans run the House, Senate, & White House… if there is a shutdown, Real Math says it’s the REPUBLICANS’ SHUTDOWN.

Welcome to blackmail… at scale.

Since 2020 I’ve responded to AI with: “unsustainable systems don’t sustain” and gotten a lot of blank stares or challenges to explain myself (ironically more than any AI company has been asked to explain itself). I should’ve known @doctorow would say it best. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

This whole section really.

Cuomo could never.

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: "We hope and expect that Republicans will do the right thing"

ICE Trump regime troopers attacking David Black, a US citizen and pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, for advocating for human rights outside of the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. (Sept 21, 2025)

As per the "Part 2" title slide from my talk about writing asexual and aromantic characters from QGCon last week:

A US citizen & human rights defender identified as Rachel S. was abducted & beaten by ICE Trump regime forces in LA, then transported to the hospital and then a detention center, local rights defenders demand an investigation. She is heard screaming: "Let me go! I am an American! I was born here!"

Never thought I'd see PBS become a propaganda horn parroting government bullshit.

Yesterday people asked why Nexstar and Sinclair caved. The answer is simple: those who tracked which companies were advertising with them made a huge impact. Thanks to those calls, companies began pulling their ad budgets over the Kimmel blackout.

This is genuinely so, so bad lol www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-...

Great news for Canada, Mexico, and Europe, skilled workers are no longer needed in the United States as Trump adds a yearly $100,000 fee for H-1B visa holders. US tech companies now face a unique opportunity to leave the United States and hire skilled workers abroad.

I think the whole “wait for the midterms” strategy has worked about as well as I thought it would.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!