Elon Musk’s Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into Las Vegas manholes—then ‘feigned compliance’ and was caught doing it again Fortune Magazine©️ archive.ph/eQYCN#select...

So I'm on the new Digg. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dawg what

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

Who could have possibly predicted that when major sports sacrificed their credibility to cash in on gambling, it would lead to betting scandals?

Trump sure does look unpopular. Welp, time to cave to each of his insane demands

Jesus Christ, @kaine.senate.gov, getting a pinky promise to hold one single vote on ACA funding is not "a path toward fixing the health care mess" anymore than a lottery ticket is a "path toward fixing my personal finances"

Caving now will teach Trump and Republicans that they can win any fight simply by threatening to cause terrible harm to regular people. no possible way that could have future adverse consequences

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

All this pain and suffering because a loose affiliation of religious crazies, Nazi freaks, and wealthy creeps want to prevent an 80 year old sociopathic con artist from facing public retribution for raping some kids

The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

the first whispers of the Butlerian Jihad enter Catholic doctrine

Student surveillance companies cash in on the ai grift by promising schools and parents their tech will keep students safe from the harms of ai.

Never takes long for the internet to provide...

Trump is having the government take active stakes in the commanding heights of the economy. Zohran Mamdani is proposing free buses, universal child care, and higher taxes for billionaires. Which one of these is the socialist again?

"The use of force shocks the conscience." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

Shut up and take my money.

I listened to the Supreme Court's oral argument today so you dont have to With the notable exception of Alito & Thomas carrying on like 'what if aliens were gonna destroy the world and the only thing that could stop it was a tariff,' the Court seemed Not Into It ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/learn...

For fellow professors that require “interview a professor“ assignments, just know I will find you and I will have my revenge.

📽️ WATCH: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. Trump justified the deployment of National Guard troops by calling the city "War ravaged," with an ICE office under siege. That's not what we found. 🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/43fRCmF

I know it’s trite but if Biden ever said this it’d be on every front page in America and the urgency with which it would be reported would border on blind panic

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.” Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

oh my god they actually did it lmao

They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?

Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.

I suspect Apple has worked on something like this for years, both for giving Siri an instruction when phone/watch isn't nearby (shower thoughts?) and also for hand-gesture control of Apple TV.

Traumatizing children to meet Stephen Miller's quota.

Barnes needs to run for governor. (And surprise surprise the old guard Dems don't like the idea) www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

“Do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now?”

Milwaukee had three socialist mayors in the 20th century: Emil Seidel (1910–1912), Daniel Hoan (1916–1940), and Frank Zeidler (1948–1960). It was good for the city. www.mpl.org/local_histor...

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

Here's a great post about our recent whitepaper on privacy and Wikipedia research. Extremely grateful to Eli Asikin-Garmager, Leila Zia, Cameran Ashraf and the @wikimediafoundation.org Research team for bringing me onto this effort. diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/02/p...

When the suspects appear to be white guys, it’s not a bombing — it’s an intentional explosion.

Character.AI has resources for kids who are about to lose access to their chatbots. One is essentially “consider reading a book.” support.character.ai/hc/en-us/art...

Meta Claims Up To 2396 Pirated Adult Film Downloads From It's Corporate Network Were For “Personal Use,” Not AI Training torrentfreak.com/meta-pirated...

There's also the great www.wikiportraits.org project that attends many events for this same purpose.

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

Reuters: U.S. JUDGE PERMANENTLY BLOCKS EXECUTIVE ORDER REQUIRING VOTERS TO SUBMIT PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP - COURT RULING

sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is

In discussions of AI and jobs, we put too much emphasis on the technology and not enough on the corporate leaders who are actually making decisions about what they want to do with AI & its implications. It is a time where CEO vision matters a lot, and you can see a contrast in Amazon and Walmart

Read more from my fantastic team at D&S studying how people use general purpose LLMs for mental health and emotional support, including a new Big Data & Society paper:

We live in an episode of Veep

One year ago

This is so poorly written it probably came straight from Bezos's Notes app.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

Big tech firms are shutting down programs aimed at supporting women in STEM careers. Signaling once again that the spine of corporate America is as hollow as its pockets are deep. www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...

If your newspaper is not telling you what happened it’s not a newspaper