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!

Statement from the Writers Guild of America, West

In North Carolina right now the Democrat running for Senate - in a state Trump won *three times* (I hate it too) - is leading by 6-8 points. 'Oh, but they'll cancel elections' - then force them to cancel elections and radicalize the normies and then march with the radicalized normies.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

What we know about the Charlie Kirk alleged shooter Tyler Robinson so far: - White - Straight - Male - Christian - Republican - Conservative background - 2nd Amendment supporter - experienced firearms user - a good son - 22 years old - outside of the murder, law abiding.

Not even close.

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

lol this is what they fired him for saying

Here are two open-source apps that I use daily. [MRV2[ is a really good movie/sequence player which supports many formats incl EXR, Quicktime, Prores... github.com/ggarra13/mrv2 [F3D] is a great 3D viewer that supports many formats, such as USD, ABC, and FBX... github.com/f3d-app/f3d #opensource

This is pretty fucked up in lots of ways.

There is a real possibility that Charlie Kirk’s death will serve as a pretext for authoritarian purges. And our political culture does not have much experience with that. Mainstream reporters and politicians are not in the habit of recognizing or naming it.

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

Protestors in Nepal overthrew the government in less than 48 hours due to corruption. They refused a curfew, spread protests across all cities, fought police in roaming street battles, burnt down politicians' houses, stole military weapons, stormed the parliament & burnt it, forced the PM to resign.

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.