We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

🌙 On this day in Jodrell’s history... In 1966, the first close-up photographs of the lunar surface - taken by the Soviet #Luna9 spacecraft - were received at Jodrell Bank, with help from an early type of facsimile machine (a picture receiver) borrowed from the Daily Express newspaper. 📸: JBO / UoM

it must be annoying to be a 90 year old Republican congressman and have to pretend like you know what's going on anymore. you got into politics to pass laws giving out tax breaks for every horse you own but your groyper staffers are like "you need to condemn a new YA novel about bottom surgery"

I mean, yeah, this is true, but at the same time the rich think they are entitled to rape kids.

The US economy is based on child porn, gambling, concentration camps, and murdering Palestinians.

Cosplay Astronaut's space agency depends on a pedophile to get people and supplies to orbit. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Yeah, "advocates for the marginalised". Like, if you're pro-trans you get to rape people. Funnily enough, I just realised, this is how people defended Assange 15 years ago

If you were tear-gassed at the union march in Portland today If you have evidence or testimony, NLG is asking that you submit it to them [email protected]

The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026. Sign this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans/ for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

Every single billionaire is a ticking time bomb, able to make whatever fucked up interest they have into everyone else's problem for the next quarter century with the singleminded devotion that only an essentially infinite wad of cash allows.

Have they found Tim Sweeney in the files yet?

Rethinking my position that everything bad started with Reagan. Even if true, it looks like everything worse started with Epstein.

It’s making me insane how just about every shit-ass aspect of our current lives are the fault of a handful of rich idiots who think they’re entitled to everything. Like deep down I had my suspicions but to see it laid out like this is fucking crazy

The cause of the male loneliness crisis is that they arrested Jeffrey Epstein, the only man who appears to have had friends.

It is a settled thing, I think, that you won't have as good memory for something you didn't write yourself. This would be true if I handed you a list and asked you to read it passively vs write it yourself and rehearse it with quizzing. This is basic stuff. I don't need 10 million AI studies on it

And no, dummies, this doesn’t make what Epstein et al did any *better*. It makes society worse.

Me: If I post any NSFW art I might lose job opportunities or even have my payment methods or bank accounts frozen Every third dude in politics and tech: Hello Mister Pedophile may I request passage to Nubile Redhead Beach it seemed ever so interesting. Best Regards Jeffrey Epstein: yea h / .,

Ain’t I been telling you the reactionary backlash was driven by the very rich and powerful watching regular people use social media to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sex crimes, then watching him dragged sobbing to jail, unprotected by his enormous wealth? What do you think the cancel culture panic was.

i feel like one thing that we should be making abundantly clear from now on is that the majority of anti-trans consent manufacturers are goddamn pedophiles. are you going to believe what a bunch of pedophiles say about us? what does that say about you?

The reason we have a pedo man child as president is that we did nothing to shut down the pedo man child machine, a.k.a. 4chan in the early 2000's.

Is there a connection between the Cold Fusion scam industry and Epstein's academic base?

Schumer's positions will get more people kidnapped and murdered. Remove him from Senate leadership.

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Sam Altman: [passes the campfire warmed can of beans and a spoon] We'll always come back that one thing, Ed. @edzitron.com: [takes can] What's that? SA: We dug coal together. Ed: Fuck off, Sammy.

The @usdot.bsky.social, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”

I continue to think the fact that Ta-Nehisi Coates couldn't be ostracized as effectively as Tony Judt was played an underrated role in the desire of Weiss to take over CBS.

Remember that the "you are not immune to propaganda" sign is also propaganda.

People will poison themselves rather than listen to an expert. There's big money in this.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Seriously. SF, the Peninsula, and Silicon Valley have nothing. #Oakland would be there with multiple layers on if we could.

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

ICE actually needs less training because ICE shouldn’t exist

People say that the GOP is all stick no carrot, that they forgot the bread and circuses. But the thing is these guys are all incredibly cooked in the CSAM slop Nazi bar, playing to a tiny but loud group of utter freaks for whom murder and cruelty *is* the carrot and the bread and the circus.

honestly if we're talking structural flaws of america i think having oppositional defiant disorder be a key part of your national identity kind of works against the concept of governance

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

I don’t think we should make the mistake of signing in relief when Trump is finally gone either. He’s only part of the problem, but many people speak as though once he’s gone all will be well. There’s simply too much evidence to the contrary.

there seem to be two specific classes of problem converging on our political situation: people who work hard towards specifically evil ends, and people who peddle chaos and entropy for personal ends we don't get the problems we have without both, and we'll never fix them by only addressing one

if you think this administration is mentally unwell, you should see the cognitive sewage that its political base is consuming... it's hard to look at the absolute psychosis being peddled by candace owens (larger audience than fox, cnn and msnbc combined) and not conclude that things only get crazier

I hope ICE gets frostbite.

no, it is not a judgement of your character that someday you will be faced with a kobold. but what you do when you meet that kobold does say something about your character

It should be noted also that one of the ideas that some Zionists have put out into the open is that anti-Zionist Jews aren’t real Jews and Palestinians are a national security risk. These messages are in conversation with discourses about who is “American“ when Christian Nationalists are in charge.

Thanks. We have folks in our community giving vulnerable students rides to school, and a teacher shared that they were putting small stuffed animals on their dashboards to help kids identify safe cars. ICE picked up on it and started doing the same. Horrifying.

I recall reading an article about Clorox deciding to use CSAM generators to come up with product ideas.

I must point out that the consensus position of Greenlanders is not "we are content with Denmark," it is "we are trying to build up and diversify our economy so that we can become an independent country at soonest possible opportunity." Notably, of course, neither of these positions involves America

Except "abolish ICE" is growing in popularity and there's no reason to try and contain that because there is no reason for ICE to exist

The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose

Most countries: "check out all of our cool shit our taxes pay for" USA: "We built a factory that only produces bone cancer in locals. Also we're raising your taxes because the owner of the drinking water poisoning factory lost money gambling on AI generated child porn software."

"I'm sure there'll be a legitimate use for AI" says the Tech Thought Leader while people on X prompt a petabyte of child porn every minute.