This is true, but it leaves out the even more concerning is the Heritage Foundation document pushing the FBI to define most speech in favor of trans equality as inciting violence. www.erininthemorning.com/p/republican...

What these posts make clear is that we need to crush and stamp out the most dangerous ideology of all: centrism

Testimony came from families suing Character Technologies and OpenAI, including a "Jane Doe" who had never publicly spoken about her son's mental health crisis. "He would yell and scream and swear at us, and one day, he cut his arm open with a knife in front of his siblings.”

they are vaccine deniers tbh

How’s that for timing www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know.”

what a disappointing outcome. yes, you’re a monopoly, but you can keep doing basically all the things you were doing to reinforce your monopoly. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

trying to come up with some pick-up lines about ontologies that i can use to *really* filter out the neurotypicals

Covid vaccines have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. This change to the vaccine label, which has been driven by falsehoods, may put vaccines out of reach of many Americans who want to protect themselves and their loved ones from illness. People deserve facts, not fear and confusion.

I guess to "qualify" for the CDC director job these days you have to be antivaxx, anti-science and willing to spread whatever health misinformation or lies the current head of the DHHS wants to push. My guess is she pushed back with science and got axed. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

WOW 🤮

Public education is part of the solution, and I am doing my best to do my part, but we also need regulators to step up. I miss Lina Khan's FTC that was interested in enforcing truth in advertising, among other things.

Makes me want to scream

Some excellent reporting from PBS & KNKX on how city governments in WA are using ChatGPT. It is getting urgent for people to understand how synthetic text extruding machines actually work, so we stop seeing things like this: www.knkx.org/government/2...

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

What We're Building.

fucking insane. a death cult.

I've been journaling my whole life. Lord knows I'm counting down the days 'til the Hobonichi 2026 drop. But I'm not a big fan of the idea of injecting AI into journaling, specifically the Pixel Journal I get the intent, but grappling with a blank page is the point www.theverge.com/analysis/764...

Inconvenience is really undervalued. We hate inconvenience. (Understandably so, I'm not trying to say that we should all love how difficult and inconvenient our lives are.)

Berger's three laws of chatbotics: 1) The bot should never express emotions. 2) The bot should never praise the user. 3) The bot should never say it understands the user's mental state. There's no use case for these things, and they're obviously problematic. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

Harvard has officially closed its office for LGBTQ life. They folded it into the office of culture and community. There are affinity support offices for veterans and religious students but not for LGBTQ students, students of color, or women. Absolute cowards. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

ALWAYS forgetting toothpaste

best campaign in at least the last 10 years

“Without immediate intervention, the last remaining reporters in Gaza are going to die.”

"Look like a girl, or else" is the deliberate and increasingly explicit threat.

New from 404 Media: hacked data we obtained reveal dozens of unknown people on deportation flights to El Salvador. No acknowledgement from DHS. "We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know." We are publishing the names here: www.404media.co/flight-manif...

Gender affirming care for cis folks gets celebrated.

It. Can’t. “Apologize.”

AI's key promise (that you too can grift to success) is also its biggest weakness. Despite ridiculous amounts of investment, Anthropic had to raise prices. Which means its customers (Cursor) had to raise prices. So THEIR customers (grifters) have to raise prices. And their customers (businesses)...

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland. Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”

New from 404 Media: Github is leaking Trump's plans to 'accelerate' AI across government. “ai.gov” is supposed to launch on July 4 and will include an analytics feature that shows how much a specific government team is using AI www.404media.co/github-is-le...

Imagine running for mayor on the platform of "personally I think this place is so dogshit that we need to bribe companies and rich people to want to be here" It's New York City! The capital of the world! Get out of here with this nonsense!

And if you're a young person living in NYC who plans to stay here, then it is absolutely in your interest to make sure Cuomo does not become the Mayor. Your prospects and life will be made worse by him.

Chicago: this post is for you.

Why didn’t the liberals and the anti-Nazi conservatives unite to stop Hitler? The answer will not make you feel great about today’s Democratic Party.

#NIH is still termination grants, zeroing out budgets, and issuing stop-work orders. But they are hiding more and more of it from the public. More than ever we need people to report so researchers can advocate and organize. Please report at grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

Exactly this. www.theverge.com/policy/66568...

Flashing red indicator that “ai” as it is deployed by people in power is an ideological and political project aimed at entrenching systemic bias, algorithmic harms, and surveillance, while centralizing control and eliminating accountability.

I understand the overworked prof better than most, but as institutions, schools are going to have to play a longer game—widespread adoption of these tools by profs is going to devalue what they are selling. Destabilizing education is part of their overall fascist project.

Andor is a very good star war but can we stop pretending a tv show made by a BDS-targeted megacorp has anything meaningful to say about genocide ? idk i worry some folks forget that these are entertainment products designed to fill a consumer need

The MOVE Bombing happened on May 13, 1985. Philadelphia police dropped two bombs on residential homes that killed MOVE members and their children. 61 homes were burned or destroyed and at least 250 people were left homeless.

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

It sounds like an exaggeration but the sum total of the evidence for lab leak is the Wuhan Institute of Virology is a half hour drive from the market where the first cluster of cases were.

It's hard to see this as anything other than a Washington Post columnist willingly laundering the Trump administration's conspiratorial talking points into the mainstream with no evidence. www.technologyreview.com/2022/02/09/1...