I am QPing this again so his social media team sees this: This idea is so dumb that I will donate the maximum amount of money I can to literally every other human in the primary against him. This idea is so dumb the person pitching it should not not allowed to operate a salad fork unsupervised.

Can't think why this is my morning listening... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_QSMTtUQYY

'Chariots of the Gods' author and Ig Nobel Literature Prize winner] Erich von Däniken dies at 90 [https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/erich-von-dniken-swiss-writer-spawned-alien-archaeology-129100696

Fans are cancelling tickets. FIFA has called an emergency meeting over the World Cup backlash. Boycott the Olympics too. Trump's Gestapo will round up and shoot anyone. No one is safe in America.

‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted #fifa World Cup over #trump admin “Would you have gone to watch the Olympics in Nazi Germany in 1936?” asked Pekka Kallioniemi, a Finnish social media analyst with a focus on propaganda and disinformation, in a social media post on X. “If […]

This is the sort of video you ordinarily do whatever you can to keep a jury from seeing. And they put it out believing it makes him look good.

Starmer is appalling. However the bigger point is we need to oppose Trump! Any politician supporting Trump needs to be challenged. Badenoch and Farage too!

RE: https://kzoo.to/@notsle/115861924421638563 "You die if you don't shit and you die if you don't say you're not a nazi"

I posted this in response to people expressing hopelessness and despair and someone just post quoted it “NO THAT’S ADVICE FOR CHILDREN GO DO SOMETHING” so I blocked them because that’s being an annoying douche and if I could block them across the fucking multiverse I would.

FBI "takes over" (i.e. begins rewrite) case of ICE agent killing US woman and cuts Minnesota’s access to evidence https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/minneapolis-school-class-canceled-ice-killed-woman #fbi #minnesota #reneenicolegood #ice #news #murder #crime

Texas A&M has decided that Plato is woke & thus has forbidden a philosophy professor from teaching Plato's works. Not a joke. Not satire. This is the world the anti-woke "free speech warriors" have bequeathed us. dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

lol The FT is not fucking around! #grokai #clanofpaedophiles #csam #noncensenual #misogyny #patriarchy #paedophilia #technology #elonmusk #musk #twitter #deepfakeporn

Sickening — the White House has put up a site about 1/6 painting himself as a hero and Pelosi, The Capitol Police, and Mike Pence as the villains. An attempt to rewrite history before our eyes. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

[ukpol, grok] "We need to hand the personal information of anyone who wants to look at perfectly legal porn, but we'll do nothing about the CSAM and involuntary pornography machine." Is Starmer genetically capable of making any sort of actual decision? I know he has all the personality of a […]

I'm beginning to think we need a term harsher than slopmonger to separate those who are stupid enough to use LLMs from those who try to force their use on to people who don't have whatever brain rot these morons have (people like Slopya Nadella). Wonder if we can get "Sloproselyte" to be a thing...

Attention, authors and writers of: #Scifi #fantasy #speculativeFiction #AI #Robot @cstross#scifi#fantasy#speculativefiction#AI#robotSE FORWARD to others Your work may have been used to train the #LLM used in this reported study. See toot at link. https://mastodon.social/@ErsatzCulture/115838841401363457

Dark as fuck meme. NSFW, NSFL, NMS

Also, as we're doing year end, I realized I will not write something better for 2026 better than I wrote for 2024. (the newsletter's coming back, it just lay fallow because John underestimated the stress of "go from murder trial to showrunning to pilot" in 2024.) buttondown.com/kungfumonkey...

Happy new year, cheese weasels. I'm back from playing the Hogmanay Street Party and then starting an impromptu 300-ish people party on the way home. Now, I collapse.

Sorry, a little more gushing on this message: ⁃ It was sent by SMS to my Spanish number. They don’t care that the number is not German. Their systems will allow this. ⁃ It was sent by SMS, not WhatsApp, which is annoyingly increasingly becoming the default messaging platform for this sort of […]

I’ve just gotten culture shock. Those of you keeping track will know that I did a Christmas market tour early December last year. I ended up downloading the Karlsruhe transit authority’s (KVV) app and buying a day ticket or two off them. These days I’m more […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Look, I'm just saying that if you had to pick exactly two role models, you could do a lot worse than Fred Rogers and the goose from Untitled Goose Game.

I know a few people on here as well as myself will FEEL this cartoon.

ACCIDENTALLY BOUGHT CHRISTMAS WRAITH. EVERYONE DEAD.

At this point I would not be surprised if a guy who just returned from working in the Arctic for a year and a half showed up to say he gave Luigi a ride that day for an ironclad alibi.

I have a new hobby. You see, our local Lidl is where a lot of the refugees in "temporary asylum accommodation" shop. And they are trying to get food that feels like actual food, in a place where there have been some really nasty xenophobic protests. The other day it was two guys from South […]

Buckle up Dem establishment, because me and my maximum wage tied to the minimum wage proposal are coming for your asses

The British Government's handling of the #PalestineAction #hungerstrikes seems to be even more crassly inhumane than the Thatcher regime's appalling cruelty during the 1981 Irish hunger strikes. The families of Palestine Action hunger strikers in hospital are 'blocked' from contacting them […]

A Saudi man and a rodent with an eyepatch are wanted in connection with holding up a Post Office. The suspects should be considered Ahmed and Dangermouse.

[PLEASE Stop using Spotify. Use literally anything but Spotify.] Why? • They don't pay musicians https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/confirmed-next-year-tracks-on-spotify-1000-plays/ • They fund right wing extremist podcasters […]

I … I don’t think the guy building a giant surveillance state mechanism gets to state what “truly progressive” is? Right? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

While the WGA has its own issues with AI, I imagine this is the sort of thing that might rile our friends in the DGA.

Re: last boost https://chaos.social/@dpk/115589097803252590 That LLM-generated OCaml PR is a textbook illustration of open source in the era of vibe coding... It's got everything: - PR submitted without the author acknowledging they didn't write it and don't understand it. - Copyright […]

These Valve announcements are getting weirder and weirder

SCHUMER: I rolled a one JEFFRIES: I rolled a one MAMDANI Fuck <FLUTE TRILL> So I'm gonna bring it all myself HEY

DM: The orange fascist lurks in his lair, hunched behind his massive desk, revelling in his stolen power. His acolytes hiss at you as you approach. What does your human bard do -- MAMDANI: Active perception check. DM: ...that's a natural 20 MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>

Time to move past the neverending trial stage. Yes, basic income reduces homelessness.

Hey the art museum in Portland is FREE ALL WEEKEND NO TICKETS REQUIRED - if anyone wants to go you can get there right from the streetcar. I think the NS and the A maybe? It’s the art museum stop. 🛑 yall should come check it out. And if you do you can get back on the NS going down towards OHSU - […]

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

A former Palantir exec just published an extortion letter in the Washington Post: Democrats must fund tech oligarchs, abandon antitrust, and create 15 deregulated corporate zones—or “lose.” When I challenged her, she blocked me. Tech’s moral rot, exposed: www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...

King of UK, to his own brother: "That does it, you're not a prince any more. Out you go." US, now that Trump is clearly implicated: "Technically it's not really pedophilia if the girl is 14." The freaking *British royal family* is doing a better job cleaning house than we are.

We need rid of Peter Mathieson. In addition to being the highest paid man in Scottish higher education, he is an incompetent git who is doing his damndest to burn the University of Edinburgh to the ground […]

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-accused-threats-eu-diplomats-bid-to-kill-green-shipping-rules-negotiations-personal-intimidation/ > “Our negotiators had never seen this before in any international talks,” said one European official, who had spoken to negotiators. “People being summoned to […]

Maybe a 4?

hm. i wonder what this may cause