wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Great thread. So many doomers on here like “…pfft, yeah, if there’s even gonna BE an election.” Canceling elections, as Trump has vaguely and disgustingly threatened to do, is virtually impossible in the U.S., purely from a practical standpoint. We’ve got plenty of other problems to worry about!

It’s time to stop the influx of immigrants who take drugs, father children out of wedlock, and steal from the government. by Elon Musk

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

The list of things AI can’t do continues to shrink. There are plenty of valid criticisms of LLMs, but “can’t solve complex problems” is decidedly no longer one of them.

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

since this has gotten traction enough to ping-pong around our fair site today, i wanted to highlight that david roberts @volts.wtf already said this better than me over on the other place about harvard's "plagiarism" debacle--but it applies to whatever. haven't seen it posted here though so... 1/2

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

“The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for More Lord of the Rings Movies”

Well at least the U.S. has an excellent track record of fostering successful democracies after illegally toppling foreign governments, so this should work out in the en- hang on, I'm being handed a note

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.”

He's mad she won the Nobel Peace Prize and he didn't. That's it. That's what it's all about. Best part is she idiotically and sycophantically dedicated her prize to him and he still won't back her and prefers to publicly denigrate on a day like today.

It’s hard to make foreign policy a salient U.S. political issue, but this could do it.

Unless I'm missing something, and I'm pretty sure I'm not, Twitter's AI is cranking out CSAM deepfakes, Elon Musk is making jokes about it, and nobody is doing anything to stop it or hold anyone at Twitter accountable for its creation and distribution. Is that right?

You hear about people believing an LLM is a real person, even falling in love with it. Yes, it’s absurd on one level. But the quality of many of its outputs, even for novel inputs, is so realistic sometimes, that it’s easy to see how people are taken in.

Day #168: The Exciting World of the Metric System (1976)

Like, I read this article a couple of times to make sure I did not miss anything. They are telling a US permanent resident, who lives in the United States, that he cannot travel to the United States. For no alleged crime, merely for factual speech.

a suicide note whose existence and content federal authorities appear to have concealed for years while conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death in their custody raged out of control

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

I wish I could love anything as much as Erika Kirk loves the fact that her husband died

🎶 She wore an Itsy bitsy teeny weeny…

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 7,1951

what a day

Fun times on IG. I almost never go on, but when I do it’s apparently to report white supremacists talking about how being white means being hard-working, hygienic and educated. And then, months later, Meta decides that’s super cool to have on their platform. Ah, right. THAT’S why I don’t go there.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

The NYT is beyond parody

Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging. Here’s my response:

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

This is so funny, like pants-on-head ridiculous. It’s a blatant lie, obviously. But by this logic the president could just call anything a signature policy and the SC would just say “welp can’t touch that one”

Nothing matters, etc, etc. But maybe, just maybe, if the information keeps coming, eventually 5% of his supporters turn on him. He’d never resign, of course. But MAYBE it enough might come out that it finally damages the Trump-GOP cult.

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

Immediately after he releases his healthcare plan. 2020: "Trump has promised an Obamacare replacement plan five times so far this year. And the plan is always said to be just a few weeks away." kffhealthnews.org/news/back-to...

Nauseating. Can’t believe I didn’t see this story sooner. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal. The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.

This is fake, and there are some very Bluesky-toxic takes in the replies (e.g. bar dating automatically equals date rape?)… But also it should’ve been obvious it was fake, because (assuming accurate self-reports) a jump from 40% to 50% virginity in 1 year isn’t even statistically possible

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.

The financial ruin of credit card debt, now with the financial ruin of gambling addiction, applied to every last item you buy! 🎉 What could go wrong?!

edition.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b... Profound missed the opportunity to have written "which is mathematically impossible, says local average middle schooler Sally Jenkins."

me, eating an apple slice followed by an orange slice: I liked the apple way better, what are people on about, these are easy as hell to compare

They’re here to troll poorly and then whine when they’re blocked. Thankfully it’s easy to block them all before you have to bother with even a bit of their bullshit.

Cuomo: Mamdani "gave the finger to the Columbus Day statue—that's what we call a DISGRAZIATO." (turns to Sliwa) "Do you know what that means?"

If these people lost their cell phones they would instantly perish

Case number ten billion of “would have been a shocking months-long scandal for another president, but likely won’t even hit the front page for a day for this one”