It’s actually not technically a leak. CBS News only operates in the US. A non-PSKY owned network Global TV has Canadian rights for 60 Minutes and aired it unedited since the call to pull the episode was made so late in the day. That broadcast was recorded and then shared across the internet.

And now CBS doesn’t get to take credit for the story, has incalculably damaged their journalistic credibility and made themselves the news. Great work!

Speaking as an avid Limewire user from back in the day, now I'm legitimately thinking about setting up a private dummy PC that I can load up with a barebones Linux distro and various filesharing programs that I can use explicitly as a signal boost for censored or lost media

when do we get to the carrier pigeons w 5 TB usb sticks samizdat part of the cyberpunk dystopia?

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does bari weiss understand media?

samizdat is the best part of the cyber dystopia

Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down

now this is the cyberpunk dystopia i signed up for!

The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel

And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV. There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.

Folks, you can’t have Christian Nationalism without the antisemitism. It’s a central tenet of the ideology. The fact some of these Jewish Heritage folks are just realizing this is wild to me.

made some progress ^<•>^

entire thread and the write-ups are worth going through historically segregation wasn’t built in a day nor smoothly - it was built law by law and decision by decision (among other things) over a period of 50+ years

6. Even after the Supreme Court’s recent Skrmetti decision, which allowed states to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth, it will be difficult for the federal government to argue that it can impose a nationwide ban in direct contradiction of a statute that forbids it from doing so.

5. The ACLU has multiple grounds on which to challenge the rule. For instance, Section 1801 of the Social Security Act explicitly bars the federal government from using Medicaid to “exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine.” www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssac...

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Walter Benjamin wrote that the work of translation is “to liberate the language imprisoned in a work" to find the “pure language” of “the unfathomable, the mysterious, the ‘poetic’”. This is all, of course, utterly anathema to AI

ai can’t drive itself to the library, archives, or museums let alone work microfiche or monochrome all you can print printer

Love this. We should all do a thread about serendipitous discoveries in the archives. Me? I found a murder mystery in my hotel workers history.

!!!!!!!

an ai won’t replace the joy of microfiche, jstor, worldcat, the archives, and a caffeinated afternoon in the stacks

“”LLMs allow me to find research for the first time!” My brother in Christ, have you ever heard of a library?

Seems like it's worth posting this one again.

having three different people explain reconstruction probably something like du bois, someone from the dunning school, and who else?

Does anyone have a good assignment to help history survey students understand how bias and context work in our discipline? I'm struggling to get them past "source is worthless because it's bias" to "evaluate the source's perspective using context and use that to help us understand things"

the a/b test cyber dystopia too w y l d

Last night there was a mass blackout in SF; thousands of homes still w/o power. Waymos were malfunctioning all over the city, stopping dead in intersections. Extremely dangerous. What if there’s an earthquake, fire or other major disaster? Are SF residents just Guinea Pigs for private companies?

There are a lot of unique road scenarios on the roads I can see being hard to anticipate and you just hope your software can manage it. “What if we lose contact with all our cars due to a power outage” is something you should have a meeting and a plan about ahead of time.

books are obsolete? what a statement •___•

Being even baseline literate in the 2020s is like never working out but slowly becoming the strongest person on earth as everyone around you eats shredded newspaper and chugs poison

Waymo paused its robotaxi service in the San Francisco Bay Area after blackout chaos… www.cnbc.com/2025/12/21/w...

four hours into this rogue trade play through and im having fun

LLMs can’t do historical research let alone source analysis and verification the library, archives, and museums reign supreme!

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

<howls with absolute delight>

llms can/do have a role in research work but it’s not actual research - more indexing, organizing, etc - the tasks as a researcher i don’t want to do but have to for success

an ai won’t replace the joy of microfiche, jstor, worldcat, the archives, and a caffeinated afternoon in the stacks

The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history. But that toll is a dramatic undercount. ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.

it literally memed the second klan into existence woodrow wilson screened it at the white house that movie is so so cursed

When the slightest bit of research shows he was consistently racist and a daddy issues Confederate fanboy. People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.

one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”

If you look at the section where participants tell the moderator where and how they get news this all makes a lot more sense. Vile in every way, but also the reality of a very online generation who came of age during the mass radicalization period that was Covid.

how have we lost the Youth so badly? like conservative zoomers ain’t right

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I must taste the forbidden sanction wine

roger b taney didn’t have to write 25 pages of racist legal thought but he did like went out of his way in dred scott to be that guy and this was before typewriters and electric lighting!

add the two andys and one roger and you’ve captured 90% of the canon’s bastards the last 10% reserved for the confederacy

none of that sandwich in a briefcase malarkey