After killing one person without warning or trial, the US government let two other survivors die a horrible death by drowning after clinging to wreckage. Despite knowing this was a possible outcome, the US government appears to have deliberately chosen not to stage search and rescue ahead of time.

It’s fairly outrageous that they need a penny for legal costs. They, like all victims of these political prosecutions, should be fighting off high-powered criminal defense attorneys looking to get some pro bono hours.

Just a reminder that all those LLMs are built on the pilfered vast libraries of humanistic and social scientific knowledge production. Good luck, society. You’re gonna need it. www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

US used Musk’s Grok AI to deploy 2,000 munitions during war on Iran https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-used-musks-grok-ai-deploy-2000-munitions-during-war-iran

Barrister in Ukrainians’ ‘Starmer arson’ trial says huge amount was covered up https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/06/17/starmer-arson-trial/

Flotilla Activists' Harrowing Experience in an Israeli Torture Dungeon Revealed (w/ Thiago Ávila) | The Chris Hedges Report https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/flotilla-activists-harrowing-experience

Banning children from social media will disempower teenagers, according to a governance expert at the Oxford Internet Institute. Dr Victoria Nash warns that children will be denied positive social interactions online and cut off from online news and learning. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-06...

Visual art/writing generated via prompts cannot compare to human work. All our experiences--joys, traumas, our daily lives--go into our art, none of which a program can experience. It's not designed to. Its "creativity" is the most artificial thing about it. It's a house of cards. #writing #FuckAI

if human creativity is so frivolous how come these companies have to commit theft of it on unimaginable scales

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Forgot to share this yesterday - Black Raspberry Vanilla Goat Milk Soap restocks. I'll cut these this evening, hopefully it's pretty inside.

I really do think a lot about how big tech systematically destroyed all the reasonably-safe places intended specifically for kids online…. and now powerful interests are turning around and claiming that we have to destroy Internet privacy because being online is obviously dangerous for kids.

Trump’s losing power. His regime is getting more suppressive as its aura is fading. When he dies they’ll tear each other to pieces. Fasten your seatbelts…

Please tell em

Federal government seeks to halt the first U.S. reparations program for Black people. So there's money for Epstein war, genocide, and bombing children, but not for reparations?

It is so much worse than you realize. It approaches an unconditional surrender. This is well beyond the defeat we experienced in Vietnam. Read below for a full breakdown and analysis of every horrifying term in the Trump-Iran Surrender.

He's lying. You know why we know? WE HAVE THE AGREEMENT HE SIGNED!!!! Here's the operative language: "The U.S. undertakes, together with regional partners, a comprehensive plan...for the rehabilitation and economic development of Iran...of at least $300 billion."

Happy pride month

Sen Ossoff saying what millions of Americans are thinking right now.

November 6th... 2024. How did I do?

Zack Polanski urges London Mayor to take action after stolen Palestinian land advertised for sale in a pro-Israel event

Iran held all the cards. And the US had Donald Trump.

its genuinely one of the funniest things in the world to me that this is going to be a constant problem until they remodel it again to put it back to how it was originally designed lol

It’s CHAMBERED release day! This collection was a pleasure to be a part of. Six authors, six stories, one revolver changing hands! Revenge, dark humor, cults, nefarious schemes, derelict amusement parks, it’s got it all!

Popok is joined by Sen. Whitehouse who is on the Senate Judiciary Committee with oversight over the DOJ, for a hard hitting analysis for our audience of why Blanche's confirmation as AG should be blocked after his "leadership" of scandal after scandal, and what the Sen. is going to do about it.

Nurse, nurse. Tell me what it is.

This does. Not. Happen. The government does not agree to pay defendants’ legal fees. It is not done. They are doing it in the hopes of avoiding discovery, because they are hiding something that is somehow even worse than what we already know.

What would make me feel better is if the spineless/complicit media would say things like 'in a rambling speech during which he often went off topic...' or words to that effect. But read the reporting and you'd think what was witnessed was perfectly acceptable and normal. It was not

🇺🇸 Pres. Trump on Iran at the G7 summit in France: 🔸 “They have, in one way, a primitive culture, but it’s also a genius primitive culture. They’re very smart people, very good negotiators.” 🔸 “Missiles aren’t the problem.” 🔸“Am I going to let Saudi Arabia have missiles, but they can’t have..."

Elon Musk's incitement of pogroms in Belfast reveals he'll use his immense wealth and influence to foment untold fascist violence in the future. Only a global movement can break his power. New piece from @polphilpod.bsky.social and me. Threading highlights below. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2119...

Palestinian prisoner Ayman al-Fakhouri has been released from Israeli prison today after 26 months behind bars w/o charge or trial, Quds News reported, sharing before-&-after images showing his severe physical deterioration in detention. Israel’s widespread use of administrative detention allows...

there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless

Mike Tapp MP, also honorary chair of the Mossad front organisation - Friends of Israel - wilfully tried to bait Green leader Zack Polanski into saying he supported a proscribed group. Because Zack, a JEWISH UK politician dared call Israel's Genocide what it is. A BLATANT Entrapment attempt 🧵

This is not part of the agreement. He is making this up. Iran agrees to give up NOTHING on their nuclear program in this deal.

Putting AI in classrooms but banning kids from social media sounds like a way to make them good little workers with no ability to access independent information or find community.

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

As I walked away, I had another funny feeling. What if this "book" and his entire "experiment" is funded by an AI company? This is exactly the kind of "scholarship" tech bro overlords want -- influential academics, preferably men, telling the rest of us that we are now useless in the age of AI.

Light, shade and shadows. Photo taken from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

Ten years of solitude: why it’s time to take our seat at the European table again

The National Rejoin March is happening on Saturday 20 June | Yvonne Wancke

In a society that actually cares about people, someone who's even believed to be stealing diapers would be met with assistance, resources, and money to make sure they would never again feel like they must steal for their basic needs. In the U.S., we respond by sending government sanctioned killers.

Israeli Settlers Try to Burn Palestinians Alive in West Bank Arson Spree

Somebody said this morning that there really is no deal, that Trump wanted to turn up at the G-7 acting like the big man. Kind of makes sense

hey friends, today’s my birthday! and if you stayed awake all night last night worrying about finding me the perfect gift, well worry no more, you can just donate (even a tiny amount. one single dollar even!) to my friend molly’s fundraiser for our local shelter! i and the marcels thank you!

rockin’ my new shirt, check out Tony’s shop!

If you’re not demanding Donald and the Epstein Class be put in prison, then you’re complicit. God will remember everyone who sat on their hands.

👀 https://www.politico.eu/article/french-spy-service-drops-palantir/

NEW EPISODE: Days after the Callais decision, Tennessee became the first state to eliminate a majority-Black congressional district. Memphis was cracked into thirds in just 72 hours, with no hearings, no community input and no requirement to notify voters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JibI...