European bond traders are discovering Project 2025 for the first time.

Reminded that one reason "open source" was coined against "free/libre" was to exclude licenses barring use by Apartheid police in South Africa. That's what motivated the "no discrimination against fields of endeavor" clause in the OSI's definition.

False claims about Australia's Afghan migrant intake policy widely exaggerate the numbers, wrongly describe it as indefinite and misattribute it to the wrong government. www.aap.com.au/factcheck/cl...

a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.

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AUKUS has tied Australia to a sinking nuclear defence enterprise called the United Kingdom. It’s not just a retired UK Admiral, the UK Audit office has tracked the structural failures for years. But don’t worry, Marles and Meade say it’s “on track” - they are dangerously deluded

impossible to write a horror story about AI deepfakes more horrifying than what literally just happened. The world's richest man created a revenge porn machine, used the outrage as free advertising for it, and then convinced the public he was sorry by monetizing it.

There has 100% been a vibe shift on Twitter this week — apolitical and sports people are talking about Minneapolis and even a lot of right-leaning Finance Bros are like “you freaks have lost your minds.” Whether that is representative of anything in the real world is TBD but it’s noticeable.

I know it's hard to shock these days but Elon Musk going full Rhodesia defender and calling for the ethnic cleansing of the US should still shock you. These are neo nazi views that were only previously shared on explicitly neo nazi sites.

An excellent (as always) video from Alanah about the disgusting shit going on on Twitter. I'm not going to criticise anyone for still using Twitter, but anyone that is, I urge you to watch this and then ask yourself if it's really a site you want to continue using.

Twitter is the world’s largest generator of CSAM & non-consensual porn by a margin of about 8000%, and somehow… MSM isn’t even reporting on it. (also includes advice for reporting ‘deepfake harassment’ to police if it escalates to a point where restraining order is necessary) youtu.be/p71qQKmIGhQ

This is spot on. X is not primarily a social media platform anymore. It's a power space for America's neo-royalty, and other governments are afraid of Trump's anger if they leave. That's why "our government communications now happen on a deepfake porn site", and nobody does anything.

So... The US under Trump has a history of using negotiations as cover for military actions against who they're negotiating with. "Rubio to meet Denmark leaders" this coming Wednesday.

the first victim *must* be X. it is in violation of child pornography laws, it is led by a person with an unabashed interest in undermining european national sovereignty, and unlike tiktok it only has an elite rather than popular userbase that would squeal if it got nuked

Tonight thinking about this all-time @ndrew.bsky.social banger

Weapons to Ukraine is too risky as it could enrage a nuclear armed state. Instead, we will be starting a war of aggression on all members of NATO.

Why did no one tell me about this? 👀 Phaidon released a book on Vietnamese cuisine written by a Vietnamese Dutch chef www.phaidon.com/en-eu/blogs/...

showing the boys a sick rock i found

I would love to show this tweet to someone in the 90s and tell them that this is what the 21st century will be like

Good video with @charalanahzard.bsky.social on X generating child sexual abuse material and non-consensual undressing pictures and how the mainstream US media have almost all failed to cover the story. youtu.be/p71qQKmIGhQ

The worst part about a Greenland invasion would be Trump misunderstanding an intelligence report about the Danish holding Nuuk and starting something that leaves half the planet uninhabitable.

There is a large number of responders here that obviously do not under the Tiananmen reference, probably because they were born after 1989. Which is exactly why you should NOT post AI slop and further pollute the information environment. Delete this sh*t.

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*. workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...

Hey, I know a lot of you use Discord. You need to get on this survey and make it damn clear to them that this would be the absolute wrong direction. The last thing we need is the slop-spewing environment-chewing plagiarism bots invading there, too. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?

Need I say more?

Hey folks, just added Dispatch to my Steam Curator page with an extremely enthusiastic thumbs up. Let me pay this game an astonishing big compliment: Dispatch did for Superhero media what Train To Busan did for zombies for me, and washed away the cynicism. store.steampowered.com/app/2592160/...

reposting

Incredible* to see the Times assert that apparently a woman hurting a man's feelings means he should be able to kill her. (*completely expected)

Did a quick video/blog post about how Gears of War 1's train level works, which will surprise few but perhaps interest many www.joewintergreen.com/how-gears-of...

This is not getting enough attention. Please share: insideclimatenews.org/news/0901202...

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

There are already laws about not sharing CSAM, supreme court decisions, even, Elon, you fascist cabbage.

Oooh, and a big Half-Life 1 (!) total conversion mod dropped today too! Very Fallen Aces-adjacent art-deco gangster fiction. Just download Half-Life 1 from Steam, unzip the mod into its directory and run Prava.exe

I think the thing I find some mystify I genuinely don’t understand what his game is – like at least Stephen Miller you know what he’s about, why he wants power, but Vance has just shape shifted and backtracked to what end? It can’t be for his family that he is imminently to throw in the trash.

enjoy your deathtrap, ladies!

In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼 www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

This is a great moment for people to not turn what's happening in Iran into the usual Western "pick a side like it's a World Cup match" thing, cheering for upheaval like they did for Syria a year ago. Every Iranian I know or know of, from expert historians to sociologists, agree on two things:

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

You may have seen reports swimming around claiming that X finally restricted the Grok deepfake/undressing features behind a paid subscription. That simply isn't true. Not even close. www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

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

a government agent, who murdered a civilian for peacefully protesting, flying a dont-tread-on-me flag is such a perfect distillation of the maga ethos it almost feels fake

Like Labour in the UK and the Democrats in the USA, Labor sees the rise of a more extremely explicit & unhinged racist party on its Right as a boon that simplifies their job and justifies their centrist neoliberal inaction. We are looking at a longterm fascist force in our politics like Reform/MAGA

ok so now only creeps who PAY to be on X can use grok to make CSAM and non-consensual porn cool cool

tip for parent management: my parents were asking me about chatGPT, and have some friends who love it, and none of my attempts to caution them were as successful as just sending them the Wikipedia page for AI hallucinations

Our story - Mother's Hip - is now available to read online: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/moth... Also available in audio format (maybe you have to subscribe to the podcast, I'm not sure), and there's an author spotlight interview too: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/a...

Grok producing vile sexualized deepfakes of women and children isn’t an accident www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/t...