Is there a way to buy human blood futures in Miami and Austin

If you ever think that a photograph of you is unflattering, keep in mind what the Washington Post used to illustrate John von Neumann's AEC appointment in 1955...

if you can’t write without the assistance of AI, you can’t write. be a dentist file770.com/erin-underwo...

Day laborers say they feel targeted over anti-loitering speakers installed in the parking lot of Home Depot in Cypress Park. Aisha Wallace-Palomares captured the sentiment shared by day laborers and community organizers over these speakers at a recent press conference.

The goat Christmas movie

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...

Just got brutally owned by my nephew

THIS is among the most important list of documents the public needs to see. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Mark Zuckerberg et al had better hope the rest of the world doesn't ever develop a "red line" like this for U.S. social media companies, because they constantly engage in extraterritorial censorship of non-Americans

NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

This company will now receive monetary bonuses based on how many immigrants it hunts down for ICE theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...

NEW: ICE has hired the infamous for-profit prison company GEO Group to help its immigrant bounty hunter program. GEO Group now stands to make money both tracking down immigrants and imprisoning them. theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...

This isn’t actually true. It’s clearly not the same photo. There’s also no such implication; the imagery in the dump is heavily redacted to the point where the faces on nude paintings get black boxes. The Epstein material is confusing enough without this breathy true crime investigator nonsense.

Someday, someone will do a story about why the Pulitzer jurors never nominated, and the Pulitzer board never awarded, a prize to @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, the @miamiherald.com reporter who broke the bulk of the Epstein story. www.miamiherald.com/topics/jeffr...

US defense firm Anduril has announced a joint venture w/ a state-run Emirati weapons conglomerate whose arms have been repeatedly linked to atrocities in Sudan, including the RSF’s genocidal campaign in Darfur, The Intercept reports. The partnership will focus on autonomous weapons systems...

stumbled across a steam group that rates games' wokeness, and the first game on their "NOT RECOMMENDED / TOO WOKE" list is Bloons

This company will now receive monetary bonuses based on how many immigrants it hunts down for ICE theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...

NEW: ICE has hired the infamous for-profit prison company GEO Group to help its immigrant bounty hunter program. GEO Group now stands to make money both tracking down immigrants and imprisoning them. theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...

This is, of course, always where this was headed. Things will only get worse as facial recognition becomes normalized unless lawmakers ban it outright. Next up: precautionary facial surveillance of everyone, all the time, just in case (with guardrails that will also eventually be rolled back).

"retraining the content recommendation algorithm on U.S. user data" in the name of safeguarding American privacy. Sinophobia is a hell of a drug

Again. It would be cold comfort had TikTok been sold to Someone-Awesome rather than Ellison, Kushner, and Abu Dhabi. The doctrinal damage -- which we will tie up First Amendment challenges to bad speech laws for far longer than this thing called TikTok will be around -- was already done.

This is some world-class Eliza-effect-experiencing. www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

'Anduril Partners With UAE Bomb Maker Accused of Arming Sudan’s Genocide. Anduril calls itself an “arsenal of democracy.” So why is it partnering with an authoritarian monarchy to build drones?' @sambiddle.com @theintercept.com

“I’d like to thank my wife and the great team at A24. W’s in the chat let’s fucking goooooo!!!!!”

AIPAC’s board president hosted a fundraiser in LA yesterday for Illinois congressional candidate Laura Fine, who has said she isn’t seeking their endorsement - while still taking money from AIPAC donors. They turned @jonahmv.bsky.social away at the door: theintercept.com/2025/12/16/l...

Also could be the absolute classic; the FBI convinced a bunch of losers to do a terror attack, including informants pushing them to make plans, telling them where to buy weapons and making "connections" with "arms dealers," and helping pick the target list.

Another day, another defense publication funded by the arms industry

Generative AI is amazing at tasks where I am not qualified to judge the output.

NEW: I looked into MAGA darling Anduril's latest foreign partner, and its weapons are accused of fueling the ongoing genocide in Sudan. theintercept.com/2025/12/11/a...

I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.” And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.

hey, that's official sponsor of Ohio State Athletics Anduril Industries to you, buddy

This CBS piece about the US’s extremely difficult and complicated mission to get Maria Corina Machado out of Venezuela only acknowledges that the US military buildup made it much harder in the seventh paragraph www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/sec...

Saving “democracy” and “the West” by arming the UAE, where “free expression and association are outlawed, and dissident speech is routinely and brutally punished without due process” 🤡

NEW: I looked into MAGA darling Anduril's latest foreign partner, and its weapons are accused of fueling the ongoing genocide in Sudan. theintercept.com/2025/12/11/a...

New: Pregnant immigrant women are showing up to deliver their babies w/ surveillance smart watches on their wrists as part of an ICE monitoring program. They’re too afraid of being detained to have the watch cut off even when it’s medically necessary. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Bircherism is arguably at an ideological high point in America today in terms of power and influence and the actual John Birch Society is reduced to reheating GamerGate leftovers

Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism

U.S. Realizes It Can Seize Boats After All After months of extrajudicial killings in the waters off Venezuela, the Trump administration opted instead to capture an oil tanker. theintercept.com/2025/12/10/u...

I'm still thinking about the undecorated Christmas tree in Hegseth's office from the GenAI.mil announce video

We need an app where you just input an opinion you hold and it generates two synthetic podcast experts explaining why you're right

Also talked with @sambiddle.com about the Crusader Cross image, the medieval nostalgia of which should concern everyone

The people of New Orleans have created an incredible grassroots community intelligence service to track the feds as they hunt the city's immigrants. A real good cops vs. bad cops dynamic being replicated across the country right now. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...

This place rules

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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

I love how the premise of trying again with a socially rejected product is now it's harder to recognise it

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.