WTAF? An academic institution asking the Trump regime’s NLRB to overturn their employees vote to unionize? A vote they encouraged? I grew up in academia and I don’t even know where to start.

Our employer, the University of Southern California, is asking Donald Trump to overturn the results of our democratic union election before the count is even finished.

Every state should do this

It’s possible that we’re not angry enough about the purchasing of our political class.

Gov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...

Oh, bless your little heart. People don't think the Supreme Court is comprised of "political actors" because it makes "unpopular" decisions. They think SCOTUS is composed of "political actors" because it decides cases along predictable political lines & makes decisions that are popular with Trump.

Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps There's a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. "Hans," one asks, peering at his cap, "are we the baddies?" The skulls had…

You're all laughing but I'm going to make hundreds of dollars with my "My smart glasses tell me you're horny" t-shirt!

ghoulish

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

I realize this is confusing, but the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran isn’t a domestic political story.

AI Jesus told me the money changers are actually the heroes of the Bible.

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is

Christ preached forgiveness, mercy, and peace. A guy who beats his girlfriends and has four gin-and-tonics before breakfast says we should kill for Jesus in Iran. For busy church-goers, it’s hard to know who to believe.

Folks, I give you the New York Times

According to court records, the CEO followed ChatGPT over his legal counsel. Now, he's set to lose. www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-...

Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.

Reputational damage? For actions you willingly undertook/embraced???That’s called consequences or, as Hunter Thompson would say, “buy the ticket, take the fucking ride.” I thought conservatives were big on personal accountability but I guess they get the ‘white boy goalposts’.

People were right to be upset at evacuation chaos from Kabul under Joe Biden. Now US citizens across the gulf are stranded as a result of a war Trump started and those voices are where exactly?

AI research: Researcher: Claude, please eat ten hamburgers. Claude: Done! I have eaten ten hamburgers. The first two were delicious, but after that I began to experience bloating and the meat sweats. Headline: Anthropic Says Claude has "A Fully Developed Digestive System"

Congratulations DHS Secretary Stephen miller on continuing to be DHS Secretary

Hunter knew the score long before most of us woke the fuck up.

It’s not supporting the troops to send them off to kill and die in an illegal war of aggression whose purpose is to make sure that their votes don’t count.

Kash Patel Faces Backlash After Partying With Nancy Guthrie’s Captors https://theonion.com/kash-patel-faces-backlash-after-partying-with-nancy-guthries-captors/

The thing about Kash Patel flying to Milan to party with the U.S. men’s hockey team on a private jet paid for with taxpayer dollars is that he’s protecting billionaire pedophiles like Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the Epstein files.

British bobsledder having second thoughts

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

If you keep bringing up Satan as a reason things should be banned or illegal I'm gonna invoke Skeletor as a reason why there should be more of them

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

That's my story 👍 -- we're staying on this and watching for further developments.

It is pretty funny that JG Ballard wrote a story involving a notebook whose owner can write the deaths of others more than forty years before Death Note.

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

The onion remains undefeated in delivering the most accurate news. theonion.com/ai-chatbot-t...

Ironic isn’t it? Had an ICE thug been hurt at the very same location 5 minutes earlier, Alex would have dropped everything to save his life. But 5 minutes later….

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. — W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939

*wraps crime scene tape around america*

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing

Twin Peaks: Agent Cooper enjoying coffee at The Great Northern.

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

fuck ai let’s go back to writing with feathers

Bob Weir, one of the best… California, preaching on the burning shore California, I'll be knocking on the golden door Like an angel standing in a shaft of light Rising up to paradise, I know I'm gonna shine I hope you’re jamming with Jerry. RIP www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

It sounds like comically specific hyperbole but it is verifiably true that in the same year Elon Musk predicted fully autonomous taxis serving half the nation, what actually happened was his chatbot became a pedophile

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

David Lynch gets it.

hope all the friends that live in my phone had a good christmas :)

Looks like a scene from Twin Peaks