genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other

All of the global engineering prowess of the past 20+ years should have been redirected solely on improving music app visualizer technology, this is what Apple is still shipping in the year 2025

Medieval Peasant Brain USA

late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates

The latest “barber recommends frequent haircuts” op-ed

I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.

the Netflix Frankenstein looks and feels like an NBC made for TV movie from 2004

The notion that Palantir's "code of conduct" would stop it from engaging in civil liberties violations is a bad joke theintercept.com/2017/02/22/h...

infocom, game studio, catalog, back, excerpt (1983) archive.org/details/vgmu...

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I understand this argument but I disagree: being precise about who is doing this stuff matters, especially since we will eventually have to determine what to do in the future if reform becomes possible. I somewhat agree with you about political messaging, but that’s not what I’m trying to do.

SCOOP: Trump Has a Secret List of 24 “Designated Terrorist Organizations.” We Got Some of the Names. The U.S. claims it is engaged in “armed conflict” with Tren de Aragua, Ejército de Liberación Nacional, and Cártel de los Soles, among others. theintercept.com/2025/11/07/t...

Just had my first experience with an synthesized voice "AI" answering the phone at a business (called to make a restaurant reservation) and it resulted in the bot texting me a link to OpenTable that doesn't work 👍

This strikes me as an existential crisis for the social sciences

Musk just called his robot program, Optimus, "an infinite money glitch" for the wealth it will bring Tesla and urges his shareholders to hold on to their Tesla stock. One way or the other, we'll likely revisit this quote in the future.

YouTube publicly decries Biden pressuring it to censor, then quietly does this at Trump's behest: theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

caffeine free diet soda the night after everyone tried mexican coke for the first time

The great @attackerman.bsky.social on Dick Cheney www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know. The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list. theintercept.com/2025/11/04/t...

Nvidia is helping facilitate ICE investigations, federal procurement records show theintercept.com/2025/11/01/i...

ICE is planning to offer private sector bounty hunters cash bonuses for quickly tracking down the home addresses of immigrants across the US, according to a DHS document I reviewed. ICE encourages potential contractors to use "all technology systems available.” theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...

in early 2016 facebook came to the conclusion that everyone with a facebook account at the time was connected to everyone else on facebook by an average of about 3.5 hops research.facebook.com/blog/2016/2/...

Nvidia is helping facilitate ICE investigations, federal procurement records show theintercept.com/2025/11/01/i...

SCOOP: The Trump administration acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing; can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors; and consider those survivors to be “unprivileged belligerents." theintercept.com/2025/10/31/t...

ICE is planning to offer private sector bounty hunters cash bonuses for quickly tracking down the home addresses of immigrants across the US, according to a DHS document I reviewed. ICE encourages potential contractors to use "all technology systems available.” theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...

The medieval peasantification of America continues! www.wired.com/story/why-do...

microsoft wants to use your linkedin data to train LLMs turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

I’ve stumbled upon sometime on Uber Eats so conceptually depressing it’s having a destabilizing effect on my entire night

There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

There’s a lot going on in this godforsaken country but if you have found yourself wondering “What’s up with Richard Glossip’s case?” here you go. My latest for @theintercept.com:

As Israel resumes bombing Gaza, a reminder that Amazon is helping the companies that build its bombs: theintercept.com/2025/10/24/a...

Uploads Galore!

"MX Missile," slide 2 of 29 [gallery]

NEW: An NYPD camera points directly into their bedroom. They’re suing the city over it. It’s the first suit to take on the NYPD’s massive surveillance network, the largest in the world, that police use to track and profile millions of New Yorkers every day theintercept.com/2025/10/28/n...

"...with the casino-ification of the economy, the breakdown of a meaningful regulatory apparatus to rein in all of the above—well, it has all come just in time to give novice investors a vehicle to sink their savings into the vague promise of superintelligence." www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...

Every single Wikipedia "alternative" I've ever come across works like this. IIRC even the NSA's internal Intellipedia cribs extensively from Wikipedia. The amount of work it would take it actually replace Wikipedia is just too massive (unless you wanted dubious machine-generated entries)

Having to see barstool people during the commercial breaks is making this miserable

This is an incredibly important read. www.justsecurity.org/122643/antif...

Am always fascinated by what my cat finds engaging on TV since he ignores it 99% of the time. He’s locked the hell in

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Found this disclaimer at the bottom of some entries on Grokipedia, the Elon Musk alternative to Wikipedia

"Rafael purchased AI technologies made available through AWS, including the state-of-the-art large language model Claude ... The materials reviewed also indicate Amazon sold cloud-computing services to Israel’s nuclear program and offices administering the West Bank"

Ninth journalist I'm aware of ICE has targeted in apparent retaliation for exercising Constitutionally protected rights. Nothing damages American more than being so small/weak/petty that you abuse government resources to target speech. Hard to imagine something more unpatriotic and un-American.