It’s a question journalists should ask. They just never do. Just like they never asked Trump to name the 6 states that he claimed allowed for abortion after birth.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Exactly 80 years ago tomorrow (Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth should be very worried. www.executedtoday.com/2009/11/30/1...

Can the people who hire the kind of groundskeepers who just kill time blowing the same leaf up and down the sidewalk with an unmuffled gasoline powered leaf blower for the requisite 20 minutes at least coordinate with each other and all schedule it for the same day of the week?

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

ah yes, individuals, who famously and historically have had more bargaining power than the federal government

If we now have reduced services - no medical research, reduced weather visibility, no FEMA, no USAID, reduced medical support for poor & aging Americans, reduced VA services, then why do we need to pay the same Federal Tax as last year which only support billionaires and military-gone- ICE?

ICE abducted Leticia Jacobo and tried to deport her, she is Native American. Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’. Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared. www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

Before anyone gets too carried away here.

Post your favourite Star Trek character(s) wrong answers only.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

This is what pisses me off the most. They're all for light touch regulation, small government etc. Then it all goes tits up and they're begging for government intervention.

If you don't want ChatGPT reading every page you visit, including secure ones, don't install a ChatGPT-enabled browser. This is a textbook example of a trojan horse and completely circumvents any security or privacy you might have. tuta.com/blog/dont-in...

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Thinking of opening a turkey roastery called "Inglourious Basters"

They did and that’s EXACTLY why he caved harder. The millisecond it looks like progressive leftists have a shot with the party, the Establishment centrist moderates say “not on my watch” and tank the Party because “vote blue no matter who” only applies if you aren’t a progressive leftist.

This is also one of MY favorite things that’s ever happened on the internet!

I want to tell a true story about Rep. Mickie Sherrill. On 1/6/2021, she was a newly sworn-in Congressperson who was in the House chamber when DJT’s MAGA terrorists broke into the US Capitol building. 1/x

What he doesn't buy, his American buddies will shut down. PM Orbán, who is on his way to Washington, has already received his first gift from Trump: the closure of Radio Free Europe in Hungary. The reason? "Undermining staunch allies does not serve the American people." @rferl.org.web.brid.gy

What happens now is that every dropped piece of trash, every inch of graffiti, every broken down subway train, every disappointing sandwich, every rat in Central Park, and every single crime gets blamed on Zohran Mamdani... by racists who never go near NYC. My tip as a Londoner. Shrug and carry on.

So has he booked his appearance for this yet, or is he waiting for Mamdani to assume office?

If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

1000% increase in assaults. So _ten_ sandwiches were thrown this month?

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

Laws and rules cannot restrain King Trump except this one made up one that won’t allow him to feed hungry Americans

Quite an unfortunate place to drift off into an ellipsis.

In the long run, Biden keeping that wall between himself and DOJ - leading to the conviction and humiliation of his son - achieved absolutely nothing. The standard is gone. The incentive for future presidents is to punish your enemies and say "your mom, lol" when reporters ask about it.

What a great illustration. My compliments to the artist. www.axios.com/2025/10/20/a...

Hasan: Let me say to every Republican and conservative watching. Aren't you the ones that said no more big government? No tyranny in America? If you believe that, what are you doing defending masked federal agents in unmarked cars bundling people off the streets

The Secret Police lady needs two planes, but we can't afford food stamps or disease prevention.

Just look at how cops acted during the last DSA-affiliated mayor: David Dinkins. He wasn’t anti-cop, he significantly expanded NYPD, increased their budget, all that, but because he pushed to hold bad cops accountable, they literally rioted.

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

This is bullshit. The LLM happily spit out words that are used in papers and publications that have previously announced the design and synthesisation of viruses, but it did nothing of the sort. We don't even know if this virus is viable.

The European Parliament has called for a strong and united response to recent violations of European airspace.

We at The Steady State have studied the indicators of authoritarianism for decades — usually dry words in intelligence reports. But sometimes, a single photograph says it all. Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.

This thread of expected premium inflation is startling. Millions of people potentially are about to experience premium inflation in the 100s of %

CPD just relieved feds from this line too. Then a moment later the feds gassed the whole area, including the cops.

I just unfollowed someone with a very respectable background whose positions I agree with... because she kept posting awful AI-generated TikTok videos about important topics. Really, don't do that. If something is the truth it's available in more credible forms, written by human beings.

If Harvard bows down to this lawless president, it will cover itself in shame and betray its motto “Veritas.” Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.

The generals are calling them “Fat Man” and “Little Boy” because of how badly they bombed.

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."

the best fictional depiction of Trump is Homelander imo, because it nails the "stupefyingly dangerous" and "genuinely very pathetic and insecure loser" dichotomy