one of the funniest headlines of last year. he’s just like me fr

Normal candidate for governor

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

A couple weeks ago, Nicholas Keung at the Toronto Star reported on how generative AI is being used to assess immigration applications in Canada...and how it's led to refusals because of stuff the AI tool added in, that humans (clearly) failed to check. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

“People already hate the police.” No, they don’t. They love the police. They can’t imagine life without the police. They’re giving as much money to the police as they can.

Pick a state, pick a city, look at how much their police get in revenue and then tell me how the police are oh so despised.

I was a city councilor in a smaller city that had 54 percent of its budget devoted to police funding. I suggested finding ways to cut that budget or save money through efficiencies; fellow councilors stopped talking to me. Now they’re doubling residents’ water bills for extra police funding

Nine librarians have sued Grossmont Union High School District (CA) for being directed to not share LGBTQ+ books or make the libraries LGBTQ+ welcoming spaces. www.cbs8.com/article/news...

Irene Morgan (b. #OTD in 1917) was a seminal figure in the early #CivilRights movement. She refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in 1944. Her case, 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘷. 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 (1946), led the US Supreme Court to strike down segregation on interstate travel, paving the way for the Freedom Rides.

Was that diplomacy she did in Honduras?

One of the more embarrassing things the mainstream media has done to promote white supremacy is pretending this guy, who is responsible for killing the Voting Rights Act and Affirmative action is doing it based on race-neutral adherence to principle because he’s not wearing a hood.

The only thing more embarrassing than inviting Rufo to speak about intellectual freedom is paying him more than a graduate student makes in a year.

An excellent article carefully deconstructing the pseudointellectual drivel of Adam Louis-Klein.

The Israeli cabinet has quietly greenlit the construction of 34 new settlements across the West Bank— the largest single approval of outposts in a single step, nearly doubling the recent total from 69 to 103 www.i24news.tv/en/news/midd...

bitch you know exactly what happened, fuck off with this

there are like 100 articles from just this last week about rural hospitals cutting emergency services due to lack of funding and stories like this are about to become extremely commonplace. just one more accomplishment of the trump administration.

I don't know why people are talking about Harry Potter again but all I have to say on the matter is Ursula Le Guin wrote a far better series of novels on the subject of a boy wizard, decades prior, which Rowling adapted without attribution

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

The opening sentence: "Whether you find AI exciting or frightening, its widespread use—including among students—means we all need to learn how to interact with it responsibly" is so obviously terrible on a pedagogical, political, psychological and basic human level. The @aft.org should be ashamed.

It’s been fun the past few years, having people lie or be useful idiots about how Anti DEI is just about merit and not a backdoor whites only policy and then insist those of us who saw that clearly are shrill or paranoid

This NYT article about the removal of pride flags at Boston University ends with the Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality program vowing to replace them every time. “We have a nice stockpile,” she said. (Gift link)

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

And the critical sociologists are saying it is still happening. Because they hide behind what we now believe are more respectable terms and processes. T_T

You’re treating science as a timeless entity based on an abstract notion of objectivity when historically it is a socially constructed practice that is constantly and unavoidably filled with biases. Scientists have thought some people were lesser much longer than they have believed in equality

We’re saying it was science because Science has ALWAYS been capable of horrendous things and implicated in slavery, colonialism, the Holocaust. Not because we believe that racism, ableism etc are scientifically ‘valid’ or ‘defensible’ Begging you to think beyond memes.

“War is a relic of barbarism only possible because we are governed by a ruling class with barbaric ideas. The working class of all countries cannot hope to escape the horrors of war until in all countries that barbaric ruling class is thrown from power.” — James Connolly Irish Rebel

torrents are undefeated: www.404media.co/the-removed-...

Oh no, it looks like someone saved them all and there’s a torrent 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

But they’re already everywhere. Taking down the whole videos is only going to increase the virality of the clips.

Spot on, from @bakerdphd.bsky.social. Higher ed did NOT defend academic freedom in the McCarthy era, and most faculty were silent or indifferent. And now?

Anyone who still claims CBS has not been captured is ignoring very clear evidence to the contrary. Not only is the network pushing falsehoods (no, Iran doesn't have nukes & no, the US hasn't been at war with Iran since 1979), it is overtly partisan.

Yowza

NEW: Use our database to explore the financial disclosures of President Donald Trump and more than 1,500 of his appointees.

Ah well nevertheless

I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 2 NYT NY Atty Genl Leticia James orders NYU Langone Hospital to continue offering GAC to minors just 2 wks after it stopped, pointing out that it may be violating state anti-discrimination laws which bar treating a single class of patients differently.

The day after we put the final touches on issues #88-91 of “Swamp Thing”, news broke about the passing of Tatjana Wood, the original colorist on the series. Tomorrow, March 2nd, would have been Tatjana’s 100th birthday. Let’s raise a glass to one of comics’ originals.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

San Francisco mayor and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is trying to paint DSA SF as a hotbed for antisemitism, and rightwing trolls and corporate media ran with it

Mayor Lurie yesterday blamed a "group of individuals" for antisemitic chants at a San Francisco protest. The mayor's version was inaccurate. Video & witnesses reveal a lone, uninvited raving woman. But the statements led to viral online opprobrium. missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-m...

Mayor Daniel Lurie allowed the anti-Jewish rantings of a random street loon to be weaponized as a broadside against San Francisco. From @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-d...

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie Tells Viral Lie About Antisemitic Chant missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-m...

had posted something more harsh in response to this post, am just going to leave this here instead. any suggestion that the “tax the rich” protesters “began to chant” antisemitic remarks as Lurie’s quoted statement implies is false, period. they told this bigot passerby off, as they or anyone should

It’s clear that they wanted this to happen. Leaving it in was not an accident.

Fuck. This. Country.