NFTs are the future!!!

If Jade Helm happened now, half the country would name their next daughter after it.

THIS ISN’T GETTING ENOUGH ATTENTION. More than 100 immigration judges have been fired nationwide since Trump took office. 21 in San Francisco alone, many without explanation. Why? Because these judges provided due process under US law. The Trump admin doesn’t want hearings or fairness. 1/2

kind of wild that in the span of like 20 years we've circled all the way back around to "get a film camera and never post any photos of yourself or anyone else really online ever" being the most reasonable position

In addition to big journalistic questions like "can you quote a chatbot if it lacks sentience?" Grok is also an unreliable narrator and a pathological liar Less than an hour ago it claimed "xAI has disabled NSFW image generation of real individuals," then 30 mins later it did literally exactly that

This is not a small thing, and it’s not just run of the mill misogyny - there is a war on women’s humanity and I’m fucking exhausted of people not treating it like the emergency it is

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

Companies with crypto involvement have contributed: ▶️ Crypto​.com: $20m ▶️ JP Morgan: $4.2m ▶️ Gemini: $1.5m ▶️ Shift4: $1m

As I write in the book, sheriffs (at least) do not care about these guys because they think they are, at worst, annoying. However a group of young multi-racial protestors, well, that cannot stand.

Law enforcement will say that they don't go after people like Bundy because he is "heavily armed" and it is "dangerous." Funny how they only say this about white guys.

Again, and with emphasis: it is not the purported advent of superintelligence that threatens the human race; it is the exponential proliferation of superstupidity.

Doctor predicts Trump will die before the end of his term. CW: he uses the R word repeatedly.

From the Library of Congress Geography & Map Division: The first full moon of the new year calls for a look at the beautiful lunar maps created long before satellite images became available. 🌕✨⬇️ https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2020/03/going-to-the-moon-early-cartography-of-the-lunar-surface/?loclr=blsky

Anyone Else Here xkcd.com/3188/

True facts with Kit! Did you know that humans actually invented the em dash and are fully capable of using it without AI?

I know we have bigger first to fry but this sucks so fucking bad. Location: Midtown Hotel Boston

Never gets old.

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Appears to be in Tenleytown, 4505 Wisconsin Ave NW

Trump's surplus hands

Buckley is described by his Yale professor (who likes him, btw) as someone who was “very good at discussing books he hadn’t read.” And yikes, that says it all really.

sequel opportunity

Two of my @SkeptInquirer articles made it into this article about #GriefVampire #TylerHenry and I'm loving it. 2nd paragraph ya'all. www.thelist.com/2059384/holl...

When @cnbc.com misleads its readers like this, is it because they're afraid of blaming Musk et alia, or because the editors & headline writers are really stupid? (yes, you can joke its both, HARDEE HAR HAR, but akshually those two explanations really don't overlap)

"I love America" [bari weiss brightens while reading my cover letter] ", I'm sorry to say," [with a deep sigh, weiss throws my application into an overflowing wastebasket]

Anyone who leaves twitter permanently this week because they don't want to be part of that grok nonsense gets a bunny.

I was curious, so I looked it up. Trump's three cognitive exams were on 1/12/18, 9/13/23 and 4/11/25 — not, as he suggested today, recently. www.pbump.net/o/when-were-...

Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor. One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”

Laura Loomer just told me this picture was from a HAMAS TUNNEL so please read before i am forced to delete

I'm old enough to remember when Michael Dukakis couldn't be president because a program started by the Republican governor before him gave a convicted criminal the opportunity to commit more crimes. Because Al Gore hadn't partially redeemed himself yet and thought that lie was fine to spread...

“‘The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog…'”

PBS is going full trash.

"Whirlwind" "Polarizing" Who writes this crap

One thing about supposed American exceptionalism is our version of this is that one reason we are a free nation is because our liberation was part of a proxy war with a French king and did we shower that monarch with loving propaganda? No, instead one of our most famous founding fathers went to…

Appreciate people remembering that the CDC's wild to mild vaccination ad campaign was stopped by RFK Jr and this administration.

They felt they had to publish all the internal files that showed the government politely urging Twitter to do something about disinformation, they can goddamn well release all the files about how X became a creator of CSAM.

A DC Water policy change this year left renters without access to water at home for weeks due to their landlords' inaction. Four days after we published this story from @maustermuhle.bsky.social, the D.C. Council amended the municipal regulations. Help us make more impact in 2026? 51st.news/signup

Denver! Tonight & tomorrow; to wit: comedyworks.com/comedians/em...

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

There are people who want to ban minors from using social media, who will oppose prosecuting Musk, Altman, etc, for creating CSAM. And I think it's probably all of them.

Chuck Schumer worked against this

Bewley didn't get off without any consequences, though. The judge upheld the rest of his sanctions, which include long stretches of suspension. (See below.) Still, MPD has been ordered to pay him for the time he was fired from the department, since that has been reversed.

Interesting: An administrative judge in D.C. has reversed MPD's firing of an officer who in late 2023 drove his department-issued vehicle while under the influence to try and interfere with D.C. police who had stopped his fiancée for allegedly driving under the influence.

If nobody goes to jail for this then does that mean that producing photos of sexually exploited children is legal? If they are fined instead of jailed does that mean producing CSAM is a civil instead of a criminal offense? Does this only apply if you're wealthy?

This fungus knows the time. And the time is death.

For decades, a grisly mystery has buzzed around one fly-killing fungi: No matter when the fungus infects a fly, it always dies at sunset. Now scientists have discovered why. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fly-killing-fungus-zombie-sunset

Hmm. "He also expressed confidence in continued co-operation with American companies to crack down on bad actors, despite US tech companies having aligned themselves closely with the Trump administration..." www.ft.com/content/854f...

amazingly, journalists assign agency to grok (a literal matrix multiplier) and don't assign agency to trump (a literal villain) literal @mtsw.bsky.social theory