I agree that US institutions will never do shit about these fascists, but their partners and families and employers might, and I think that’s who “Greg” is actually afraid of (he’s just filtering that fear through the usual paranoid conspiracism).

Idk whether this is true (I’d like to hope), but you can tell these guys believe it because only the biggest losers and weirdos among them have switched to using their real names.

I have some sympathy for the weird beef guys on here just because the opposite kind of guy (posts “BREAKING” plus screenshots of tweets all day, zero beefs, 250k followers) is obviously so much worse.

Just saw an “independent journalist” with 897k followers on here posting a screenshot of a tweet from a scammy anonymous news aggregator quoting an interview that they could have just linked to. How the fuck did we end up consuming and spreading information this way?

Do the journalists who think Grok "apologized" also think that when you get married to an NPC in Skyrim, you're married in real life? Do they check "married" on government forms after completing that side quest?

I agree that we need responsible reporting on this kind of thing, for any people out there who somehow still don’t understand how bad it is. Some Bluesky rando making “see, Grok admits it!” posts is practically the opposite of that.

You are not going to take Elon down by posting Grok screenshots.

USA gehen mit Sanktionen gegen HateAid vor. Solidarität mit Anna-Lena und Josephine, die angegriffen werden, weil sie demokratische Funktionen erfüllen! www.digitalpolitik.de/usa-gehen-ge...

Before I moved to Europe I didn’t really understand how far north this shit is. Berlin is 800+ miles closer to the Arctic Circle than NYC. It’s so dark here. Of course it’s a big deal that sunset today is one minute later than it was yesterday.

It's become completely acceptable to be openly racist towards Arabs/Muslims/Latinx with no repercussions. Tech and VC companies and their partners have amassed so much power that they do not believe there are any consequences to their actions or the systems they provide which bolster this racism.

I have a condition that makes me unable to distinguish between men who call themselves “Jake”.

The last Community Notes data bundle was created over a week ago and published last Thursday, so it’s time for the 2025 Q4 round of “is this incompetence or is it just Elon acting pissy about something again”.

Get off my lawn, etc., but it seems like it’s becoming socially acceptable in Berlin to bicycle through graveyards and I hate it so much. I could not care less about respect for the dead, but it’d be nice to have one kind of public space that wasn’t given over to fucking vehicles.

It really sucks that you can leave America but almost anywhere you move will be downstream of America and sooner or later every piece of American trash is going to wash up in your backyard.

The specific latest project I was thinking of here went dark two months ago, but it just came alive again this morning. I know the Internet Archive folks who made that happen will probably never see this skeet, but they are heroes to me. Thank you for your service. 🫡🫡🫡

ACAB but I just watched Memories of Murder for the first time and the funniest moment in all of cinema is when the flying drop kick detective flying drop kicks the final suspect in the chair.

To the folks who are very angry at me because of this skeet: it really isn’t sarcastic. There’s some (mild) criticism here about a lack of transparency around policy and product decisions, but even that is coming from a place of love.

One of the things I love about the Internet Archive is that they are the last website that manages to make a broken and constantly degrading user experience feel mysterious and exciting.

Lots of people talking shit about Disney right now but what other studio gave us a scene this year where a Mexican guy in a spaceship murders the fuck out of a bunch of ICE agents in a cornfield

Is there a good choice for an ethically-trained, not-environmentally-disastrous coding assistant that doesn’t make the shittiest people on earth richer? Literally all I want from AI is for it to protect me from having to use awk.

This post is really making me think about how much of my identity is tied up in having worked at the birdsite before Gamergate and I kind of hate it.

One other little piece of good news on the X transparency front: several weeks ago X broke the approach I was using to find user subscription counts, but yesterday I got it working again.

X has 90 days to come up with a plan to bring its ads repository into compliance with the DSA, and in the meantime even the half-assed version criticized in today’s ruling has been completely broken for almost a month.

The European Commission has found Elon Musk's X to be in violation of the Digital Services Act. They're charging fines of ~$140 million US (EU 120 million) and giving X 90 days to show how they'll resolve the violations... otherwise more penalties would follow. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/e...

My brain has a bug that makes me always read “Michael Anton” as “Michael Anissimov”, which is often horrifying but sometimes just really confusing.

I would frame this not as a sacrifice but as the realization that the world had changed in a way that made open source communities less worth fighting for.

Just saw someone farming engagement on here by screenshotting the Thanksgiving tweet by this guy with the date cropped off (it was last year). Sometimes this place fucking sucks. Don’t spread X screenshots, don’t fall for rage bait.

I just spent two weeks driving around Texas, and the last time I was in the US was for a similar road trip last December. I can confirm that the change is kind of startling.

Wrapping up a couple weeks stateside for covert Antifa ops. Sadly none of the private jets were available for our exfiltration, but we’re still happy to be headed home.

NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man. We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:

I know things are bad in the US right now, but this number is still shocking to me. I’m not entirely sure how I would answer this question myself, and I’ve chosen to spend the last seven years living in another country.

Yes, it would be kind of funny if Dugin told Trump to kill himself. No, that random X account that says it’s Dugin is not Dugin, because of course it isn’t.

You don’t have to amplify Nazis just because they said something reasonable about Epstein. If you see someone approvingly screenshotting the fucking AF Post on here, just fucking block them, don’t make other people see that shit.

One of the striking things in Epstein's emails is how fucking inarticulate he is, and how *every other billionaire is just as bad at communicating*. They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.

Bluesky’s moderation is incompetent and bad in almost every way you can imagine, but “Bluesky has the worst censorship problem on social media” is still a wildly absurd thing to say.

A few days ago X broke the X Ads Transparency Center by shutting down the endpoint that handles search for the ads repository. Type e.g. “apple” here and it will spin indefinitely, with the search requests returning 404s behind the scenes:

Reminder that just because you see a screenshot of Grok spreading disinformation you don’t have to spread disinformation by making more people see a screenshot of Grok spreading disinformation.

Big neighborhood murder milestone this week. They’re finally eating out of my hand. Not sure if it took them two years to trust me or if I just wasn’t patient enough previously.

outstanding to see this research continue…

I don’t have time to resolve these at the moment, but in case anyone’s interested, here are the Twitter IDs for the earliest 1k followers for “End Wokeness” (excluding ones that have been suspended or deactivated):

Just published an updated list of X subscriber counts:

Was just reminded of a video published last year supposedly “proving” that Jack Posobiec “likely” runs the “End Wokeness” account. Maybe he does (I doubt it), but there’s no real evidence in that video.

whos in the social media bubble now you gooncel freaks

Just biked past the Volksbühne, where they have a big “AMERICA AT 250” sign, and for a second I thought “what, that’s years away”, but no, I just don’t understand the passage of time.

I could get used to this

An “I came across your work on XYZ” recruiter email just made it through my spam filter, and I couldn’t remember whether I’d ever worked on XYZ, so I Googled it + my name, and the AI overview says I made a YouTube video about XYZ, which is how I know it’s all hallucination.

Breaking my rule about posting X links to share my personal favorite Naomi Seibt video:

I know this weird little Nazi is probably mostly lying about being afraid of getting arrested if she comes back to Germany, but still, as an American who sometimes worries a little about returning to America, I love this for her.

This is the problem with building a disinformation machine like Grok when you’re an incompetent asshole: there are lots of competent assholes who would also like a disinformation machine.