This is similar to part of the plot of Robert Sheckley's 1953 science fiction story "Watchbird."

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

"Superintelligence" 🙄 claims aside, I think he's right. LLM boosters always start dissembling when you point out that the tech has two critical problems—it scales poorly and routinely generates errors—and nobody has a clue how to fix either. Both problems appear inherent to the tech itself.

hey, do you remember when Elon Musk allowed Dom Lucre - that Qanon influencer who posted CSAM - back on Twitter/X, kept giving him payments, and then the New York Times wrote a soft-focus piece about Lucre’s life?

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

Trump's hand is fake. His real hand was removed. The insiders all know it. Signatures with a fake hand aren't constitutional.

The Three Horsemen of AI Code Rot: "Phantom Dependencies," "Over-Abstraction Syndrome" and the "Confident Wrong Answer" *I rather imagine there's a fourth horseman who hasn't been recognized as yet medium.com/@kp9810113/t...

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

*Dutch NAIMBY www.techzine.eu/news/infrast...

i am still furious about how the entire elite media has been ramming trump's political commisar at CBS and all of her ideological fellow travellers down my throat as "centrists with some reasonable concerns, just like you."

Are they sneaking a hidden data-center into your area to secretly suck the electricity out of your back yard? #NAIMBY www.404media.co/researchers-...

JFC. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Bernie Sanders publicly swears in Zohran Mamdani as NYC mayor

Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This seems like the right call and it speaks highly of Mamdani that he made it so quickly www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

Republicans did this. We must keep reminding people of that.

Good morning. Let's make a collective resolution: this will be the year in which we start to turn things round.

BREAKING Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is officially mayor of New York City

Most daycares literally have rules about who can enter during certain time periods and not letting unauthorized personnel in when children are present. There are a litany of safety issues, from kidnappings to mass murder, that these rules are designed to prevent. These people are pond scum.

Especially since ICE has been dragging teachers out. They dont let anyone in.

The GOP’s midterm strategy is literally just Comet Pizza

Mar-a-Lago spa employees allegedly warned one another about Epstein after he exposed himself during appointments and pressured at least one for sex.

In Hegseth's view, a general giving and honest and accurate account of Russia's threat to Europe when testifying to our legislative branch is a fireable offense. If I were in Congress I might be a bit upset about this if I wanted to continue to receive reliable information.

Oh. my. god. This is the Asst. US Atty General calling people -- in print -- "hoes."

Gift link for a fascinating & characteristically problematic NYTimes article: What's problematic is the wholesale importation (pun intended) of the empty-headed zero-sum Trumpian view of trade. China sells & finances African solar, which is bad because...Africa won't build solar factories? C'mon

"The result is a look back at the relatively recent past of hi-tech art which now looks quaint and archaic, but with an extra layer of organic decomposition"

"If the full Epstein files were ever going to be released through official channels, we would already have them. History tells us how this usually ends. The Pentagon Papers did not surface because the government suddenly chose honesty 1/ substack.davidpakman.com/p/trump-thin...

The Latest Defenses of SCOTUS’s Corruption Only Make the Case Against It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-l...

And even at the end she tried to stop her most dangerous relative

What I have accomplished today learning PyBullet: I have made a thing that squirms.

Welcome to Little Patagonia!

*Whatever happens to Chinese musicians will happen to everybody who is Chinese

How cute to imagine that history is settled.

My luminous driveway.

Your daily reminder that an atrocity is not simply constituted by physical acts of violence but also by the way it is subsequently justified, covered up or deliberately misnamed. The refusal to acknowledge atrocity, in the past as much as the present, is in itself a form of violence. #WoundedKnee

@vicmmic.bsky.social Parking lot chickens in Hawaii.

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

Sauropods xkcd.com/3185/

Dog in the snow.

Yet another failed redacted allegation: "Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct." #doj #epstein files 👀⚖️‼️

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich not to throw a huge embarrassing snit over not having his ego fluffed.

It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.

Books on the shelf next to me.

Turkey contemplates an icy world.

First they decided to strip nursing of its “professional” designation. Now they’re removing a requirement that ensured nursing homes receiving Medicare or Medicaid funding had an RN available 24/7. This regime doesn’t care about the elderly & disabled. This policy change will kill people.

Trump thrills MAGA demonic Christians by bombing innocent black people www.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...

Interstate I-87 in the Adirondacks closed northbound between exists 30 (New Russia) & 31 (Westport/Elizabethtown).