Thanks! Here is a longer version of the quote, with alt-text. From "Freedom and Government" by Bertrand Russell, ca. 1940. quoteinvestigator.com/2024/02/28/f...

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

look the victims of my evil spider wife were no saints

Hey, honey, wake up. The predations are merging!

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state. Tell them it will find your dog.

"Being dead is super conformist, if you really think about it." #ICotD

Not sure if anyone has noticed a pattern that everything this administration does seems to benefit Moscow: weaken alliance credibility and deterrence and signal unpredictability.

Here’s a former Goldman Sachs executive talking about how “well” they came out of the 2008 crisis thanks to Trump’s pick for Fed Chair. Tell that to all the Americans who lost their jobs and their houses.

"Carl Schmitt and I have the same opinion about liberals"

Internet Comment of the Day: "The female mice you used in your studies were obviously DEI hires" #ICotD

ICE and CBP face-scanned 100,000 people last year. So EFF is proud to support Senator Markey’s “ICE Out of My Face Act,” which will stop these agencies’ biometric surveillance. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...

Data centers are eating up computing resources and pushing chipmakers toward AI-grade memory, tightening supply for Nintendo and other hardware makers

The Trump Arch

Oh , no worries! We will, even if the USA won't. It's hilarious, how they think, they're in some kind of a bubble and other countries don't have intel services, investigators nor prosecutors 😂😂

Internet Comment of the Day: "In a completely commodified society the only thing that matters is the sale, not the production or the use." #ICotD

Help shape Columbus’ housing future. Council is hosting a public hearing on the affordable housing bond package to gather ideas on priorities and solutions. As the housing crisis continues to affect families and neighborhoods across the city, this is an opportunity to share your input.

Gestapos opened fire, striking Martinez 5 times in the arm, chest & both legs 1 gestapo had body cam ... Martinez has said in court that it shows an officer shouting "do something b--" The gestapo who shot her, in a group text: "I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys."

AI proponents increasingly feel like Renfields nibbling spiders and muttering about the power their master will soon grant them.

The clarity of @attackerman.bsky.social on @wyden.senate.gov's cryptic public letter to Ratcliffe is something more journalists should be doing. Explaining stuff is important; explaining stuff you don't know but understanding the mechanics is just as important. www.forever-wars.com/ron-wyden-on...

And it’s not like Bridgeton aims for historical accuracy! Jesus, it’s like a biodome full of microscopic organisms in pastel gowns, monitored by some deranged anglophile scientist.

What fresh copilot ai hell is being once again foist upon us? all of the settings in MS Word Advanced that apply at a file level, apparently default to [the obnoxiously truthfully named? ] "AI Agent AI Spy.docx". This is exhausting.

"Perhaps the most substantive change is that the US government has achieved its own kind of “golden share” of unfettered TikTok user data. In short, it might be the worst of all possible worlds." By @lalevasseur.bsky.social Irene Knapp and Bryce Simpson

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

Wyden, Merkley and Markey www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-r...

So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

This reminds me of Hetherington's Guerrilla Auditors, about dedicated civil servants secretly remaking the state to be more just in the long post-dictatorship transitions in Paraguay

If you like Marcuse, you really ought to read this!

Just finished Herbert Marcuse’s Counterrevolution and Revolt. Really prophetic book from the Nixon era about how left-wing movements can move on when there is no clear political agent for progressive change and far-right authoritarianism is on the rise.

It's kind of a trip seeing people debate which kings and emperors were the "good" ones when every single one of the rulers in question has a documented history of having people tortured to death for the crime of slightly annoying them.

This is an email where Hard Cock is written perfectly but vaginas are reduced to Pum-Pum. Tells me everything about patriarchy right there.

Rand Paul: "After seeing this, if you call this a good shooting you aren't watching the video. This was a real tragedy and a mistake. The man had been disarmed and then shot 10 times ... if we say things that are obviously not true, the situation is going to get worse."

Internet Comment of the Day: "Anger is good. Anger with a banjo is sublime." #ICotD

Sadly, his performative demeanor is rewarded. There is no value in virtue any longer. Unprincipled and corrupt is the new brand.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

This is all a long way of saying that *if* unmasking is going to produce social stigma, that stigma has to come from us. People are not as horrified by white men’s violence as the people pushing this policy think they are.

All of these senators pushing "reforms" need to explain how they will enforce them given the fact that ICE is a lawless band of Klansmen that breaks the law constantly.

This is a scheduled pogrom

I’m pretty sure we all heard Trump himself admit that Elon Musk rigged the vote for him - pair that with the pattern of every accusation is a confession, and I will probably always believe Kamala WAS elected. I don’t think myself a conspiracy theorist but then again what conspiracy theorist does?

The algogator is an ambush predator who lies still as a floating log, waiting to snatch your line of sight. So, we tip-toe the water’s edge, whispering of lynx in the bio, hinting at the real topics beneath the surface like the ripple of a fleeing frog sliding away from the banks’ soft-screen glow.

Reading your gritty dystopian cyberpunk RPG and realising that with a very particular selection of moves and traits I can use your Sexy Angsty Combat Doll playbook without modification to produce a character with the exact personality and skill set of Inspector Gadget.

On the plus side, if you consciously lean into it you have an excuse to give them a really cool hat.

Internet Comment of the Day: "He has major emaciated soul energy." #ICotD

Not really huge on dick-riding the founders, but there’s some absolutely amazing gardening tips for sustaining a tree of liberty

Political theater today is like tug-of-war with a 2 foot rope.

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.