It’s not just individuals of course. Its entire countries and sanctions are a tool they weaponize to preserve US dominance and enforce compliance with imperialist demands. Studies have found these sanctions punish the population severely, as internal systems collapse under their weight.

Who is the US going after? Anyone that opposes US interests basically. In this case it’s European regulators that want to combat US disinformation campaigns. Recently it was ICC judges for opposing genocide. bsky.app/profile/drop...

This means a complete cut off from the Western backed financial system btw. No bank account, credit cards, investments, retirement funds, limited travel, and other restrictions are the immediate impact. The US does this regularly and it is essentially a civil death sentence.

Former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton has been sanctioned by the United States for threatening Twitter with consequences for possible inaction on removal of illegal content and disinformation requirements. #Image(s) #EuropeanUnion https://i.redd.it/eir5vtgu019g1.png

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

At a city council meeting about an AI data center going up in my community. It's packed and people are furious. Calling the mayor and council members corrupt. Loud applause for open socialists and anarchists. Naked anti-capitalist rhetoric. Most folks here didn't even know about it until weeks ago.

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

The program will unredact in new copies, not the original files. Known bugs/limitations: 1) It only works on lazy censorship (when they leave the underlying data in the file and just cover it up). 2) It currently hits a lot of false positives, sometimes removing various images in the process.

To use it: Extract the zip file. Drag and drop a pdf file or a folder of them onto the Decode.exe. You should see the output below. (You may have to tell Windows it's all right, this isn't signed because I just started it this morning). If you get any errors, please report them to me.

I just released v1.0 of my #Unredacter software. It can be used to remove lazy censorship from PDF documents, like those in some of the #Epstein files. You can find it here: www.ingenthron.us/Unredacter-v... Free for all to use for all purposes (credit is appreciated, though). #uspol

DELTARUNE on sale! It's the big "20". Check websites for more.

I had been loosely following RAM shortages, but Micron leaving the consumer market made me take a deeper look at what's happening. If you're like me, and had filed away as 'a thing that is happening', it's worth starting to take a look, because this is getting pretty bad, pretty quick.

What the US has realized is that it no longer likes and benefits as much as it used to from the rules based order it created post 1945. It wants to extract as much as possible not just from its rivals, but from allies as well. A result of the current crisis within the US system.

My favorite liberal conspiracy theory is that Trump is somehow controlled or working on behalf of Russia and China when he's just doing what US imperialism has always done, but working with the wing of capitalists who want to move to a transactional system and remove previous rules-based constraints

Even after the news last week, we are still doing great research here at NCAR. My group has released a new paper, led by John Schreck, on arxiv about an efficient method for generating calibrated AI weather ensembles with reproducible scale specific perturbations. arxiv.org/abs/2512.18815

Remember when people were just furious that Biden wasn’t cancelling student loans fast enough? Why do I ask? Oh, no reason … https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/student-loan-borrowers-wage-garnishment.html

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

Everybody needs to make peace with the fact their GOAT is gonna dip their toe into AI shit. I've seen so many 'well they said they would but that was lying for investors' cope posts that later lead into a crash out when it became apparent they were not, in fact, lying to investors

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

new video up on jd vance youtu.be/zJuikC2nouc?...

One of the most dangerous persistent myths is that planes are safe due to ventilation. In reality ventilation is only on part of the time, and there is bad ventilation before and after take off. And viruses can still spread easily in crowds over short distances regardless of ventilation status.

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday said it will slap tariffs on Chinese semiconductor imports over Beijing's "unreasonable" pursuit of chip industry dominance, but would delay the action until June 2027. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Many get sick while traveling. One major reason is they don’t realize mass transit is high risk because airline CEOs lied about viral spread early in the pandemic and lobbied the CDC to lower precautions. To make the most of your holiday, take precautions like wearing a mask when you travel!

Every time I see a new person attempt the Manbreaker on the timeline.

If I could say one sentence to cats and make them understand it, it would probably be "If you are going to puke, please do it on a hard surface."

KC people, there's a Penzey's in old overland park they also have gift sets

Penzey’s out here still doing the work in 2025. Everybody needs spices, no matter how Caucasian your family. Buy them from friends.

if you don't play or follow golf (or just don't get why so many people love it) this probably isn't on your radar but it should be understood as both a naked land grab and an attack on a part of DC's black history

very specific to DC complaint here but when trump is threatening to take over the city's historically significant public golf courses so he can privatize them and make them another getaway for the 1% i don't think going "well maybe they shouldnt be golf courses to begin with" is helpful or realistic

Terrace House's omurice incident is still an all-time reality TV moment aftermath.site/terrace-houses...

On a whim I just went and found it. This is so bad it's a tremendous read. "And yet, for all that this country gets right, Australia is a bit like the hottest girl in your freshman class. She looks fantastic in her crop top but suffers from crippling self-doubt." wut

Bari Weiss' reporting experience is summed up by the time the NYT bizarrely gave her the cushiest possible assignment - go to Australia and hang out and write about it - and she produced a story so bad and so wrong about basic facts of Australian life that it became a running joke there.

In war, there is often no winner.

when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal

Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

Delighted to see this piece up! Massive thank you to all the women who shared their experience with me for this 🖤 www.gamesindustry.biz/a-decade-on-...

How on earth is chonqing a hidden gem. It has 20x the people of manhattan

In a joint statement, the prime ministers of Greenland and Denmark urged the US to show respect, saying annexation is not an option. Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen and Greenland’s Jens Frederik Nielsen stressed that Greenland belongs to its people, not the United States.

Since mid-October, Israel has carried out an assassination campaign in Gaza targeting resistance leaders. Contacts within the resistance say Israel is trying to lure them back into direct confrontation to avoid fulfilling its ceasefire obligations. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/isra...

65% of voters say Trump's policies favor the rich in a new poll from CBS/YouGov, up from 55% in March. Since then, he's instituted a crippling tariff regime and passed a tax bill that carried out the biggest upward transfer of wealth in US history.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is arresting people in front of their kids during school drop-offs, on the way to church, and at routine check-ins at immigration offices. Communities are pushing back, leading to clashes with police and protests. These raids are remaking the country.

makes you wonder the extent to which the loser behavior of a lot of Democratic electeds is just downstream of the loser behavior of apparently a bunch of Democratic voters

The comments on this video on TikTok are so interesting to me because it is a lot of people saying that we can’t do this because what if Republicans try it to or what if Republicans reverse it. “We have to change the court the traditional way.”

But there’s trillions to be spent on war, tax breaks for the rich, corporate bailouts, ICE, the police, prisons etc. For some reason they can do that stuff.

Everything is this argument now btw. Can’t build housing because homeowners will lose wealth. Can’t raise the minimum wage because prices will increase. Can’t tax billionaires because they’ll leave. Can’t regulate AI because it will hurt innovation. Failure of a system.

The only good thing about Trump is that he’ll just openly say what the ruling class thinks.

Donald Trump is a pedophile. His best friend, the now-dead king of pedophiles, said so in his pre-suicide note.

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

This morning, Instacart announced it will end its use of AI-powered pricing experiments following our report with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social & @consumerreports.org.