Accurate

I mean, Octavia Butler saw it. You live in the compound, or you have to fight for your own resources and suffer when you can’t access them. Parable of the Sower.

Honest to God, it’s retribution for Saturday. Proving what a “big man” he is. And exacting revenge on We the People.

Hey isn’t it pretty bad that Microsoft didn’t want to build more server capacity for OpenAI? And isn’t it pretty bad the reason is because they “might not see a financial return”? If that’s the case here, surely it’s the case with every LLM firm?

My peoiple at the march in Wheeling, WV today

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Humans of New York has taken over all of Grand Central Terminal for a huge art installation called Dear New York. “For the first time possibly ever, there is not a single ad to be seen in Grand Central Terminal.” [news.artnet.com]

Let me give a proper & full attempt at an answer, rather than just the quote skeet answer because this is one of the most important questions that can be asked right now. What we're seeing is an ongoing attempt to rework American state & societal formation into a white Christian herrenvolk. 1/

If you think I'm not alarmed, read this. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS "A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

Please amplify, those with a bigger platform than me. It’s horrifying that the person running the US Homeland Security Twitter uses — and clearly knows — the exact same aesthetics, memes, and propaganda from fashwave, accelerationist, and Nazi Telegram. It says everything about where we are.

One of the things that happened when my mom had dementia was that her timeline regressed, and she lost the present and recent past, while able to connect more fully to the context of a few decades back.

Look can we get some sort of wellness check/adult protective services visit over on Pennsylvania Avenue, I think Stephen Miller/Brad Dourif may be driving the mad king even more mad.

Things have grown so dire in Portland, Oregon that residents may soon face a shortage of artisanal baked goods, almond milk rose petal beetroot lattes, and cold brew mushroom tonic.

AI is cooked

While the EO on "antifa" does not have the force of law, it does provide an opening for local law enforcement -- who have banded together in their dislike of any reform or critique -- to harass, prosecute, and jail people they do not like, namely anyone who tries to hold them accountable.

The want a right wing Che

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.

I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

Our government is full of bullies and trolls.

"There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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College doesn’t turn kids gay, it makes them finally feel safe enough to stop pretending they aren’t.

WTF WV

Our media continues to fail

A conversation in the hotel elevator between an elderly couple and me: -Are you with the tour? +No; the political scientists are gathering. -I hope you guys make good decisions. +We study other people's bad decisions.

VC ruins everything. We will end up with more Theranos and fewer real breakthroughs.

This is… totally… uh… normal

Marco Rubio would have been a great Cuban Secretary of State. For Castro

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

There were more than 120 domestic terrorist attacks, in which there were 11 murders, in the United States during the “relative calm” of the 1980s and 1990s. They just all happened to be at abortion clinics, so I guess those don’t count.

“gavrilo princep of the the coming groyper war” is probably not wrong, though the gods have cursed me to understand it

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ALL school shootings are bad.

A new report from @mediajustice.bsky.social focuses on data center expansion in the US South, looking at environmental racism and practices of resistance. Can’t wait to dig in!

Age verification? The first time I saw The Simpsons was on The Tracey Ullman Show.

Hegseth is now the Secretary of War, which is fitting I guess as RFK jr is basically the Secretary of Pestilence. We just need Famine and Death to round it out.

Remarkable stats from @ronbrownstein.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

It’s pretty typical of the Republican view on power that they think Trump’s tiny popular vote victory means he gets to be a dictator while demanding the popular vote remain irrelevant for choosing the President.

*grits teeth so hard my jaw falls off* Critical support to Comrade Massie

“A certain segment”

The spray-painted gold ornamentation is spreading like a cancer

A feature, not a bug.

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A few days ago I learned you can skip the AI summary feature in Google by adding "-AI" to your search. I love it!

We are doomed

Checking in on the latest of the “GOP has gone full Soviet” Kremlinology… wait, what’s that? Looking for Chernenko you say?

If you’re going to go down, go down swinging