When amateurs and technology collide, good things happen.

Bari Weiss is the Barbara Streisand of Chris Lichts

Breaking: HHS to require every baby born in the United States to be named Donald J. Trump

trump is really just running with the idea that as long as you say the words "national security" you can do whatever you want the legacy of the war on terror coming home to roost--we chipped away at the rule of law for years, years, years. now here we are. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

This is a big deal in the conservative legal world: John Malcom and the Ed Meese center are leaving the Heritage Foundation, 15 staff departing in all. (Hard to translate this for a BlueSky audience, but it's a pretty significant move in the conservative legal world.) www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

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Schedule change at the Donald J. Trump and 60 Minutes Memorial Program

When asked for comment Elon replied, "Tesla vehicles will never have this problem because they don't stop for traffic lights."

The Donald J. Trump Department of Justice just released new tranche of the Donald J. Trump Jeffrey Epstein Files

lol was watching batman this morning and got hit with "ignore all previous instructions"

"Who's gonna stop you?" also drives internal politics at every cutthroat business in America. This is a cultural problem here and trump is its avatar.

How law enforcement solved the Brown/MIT shooting cases: An eyewitness came forward who had strange interactions with the shooter just before the shooting at Brown, and who wrote about it on Reddit. He had info on the shooter's rental car. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

The pervasive worldview among America's elites is that the powerful should be exempt from criticism regardless of their behavior, and those of lesser status must be disciplined if they defy this rule and dare to object. Gotta stand together to protect privilege against the barbarians at the gates!

Very hard to square these cuts to pediatric research with Christian values. How cold blooded.

just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"

One of the people who most instrumental in turning lies into reality was handed the keys to the kingdom -- and rather than having TSC access to what is ACTUALLY REAL, has chosen to go back to bullshitting people on his podcast. Let that sink in. The motivation of the MAGA political influencer.

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We talk about the House having the power of the purse but in practice budget bills are part of the exact same legislative process that requires both chambers and the president. A good amendment that a Congress might actually pass & states enact would be to remove the president from budget bills

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Andreesen Horowitz has funded a startup that floods TikTok with AI-generated people who lie to us. "I’ve seen TikTok accounts operated by Doublespeed promote language learning apps, dating apps, a Bible app, supplements, and a massager."

Prediction: “Melania” will become a cult classic, the Gen Alpha equivalent of Rocky Horror.

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Oh, OpenAI is pulling back GPT-5's router model because it is more expensive because it pushes users to reasoning models? Gawrsh! www.wheresyoured.at/sora2-openai/

Will he announce a new Trump Resort or a new crypto venture?

The strategy of AI executives appears to be to exploit people.

Nvidia serves as the backbone to this 2K-word, palpably ambivalent WSJ story about Trump's "state capitalism." But the story never tells the reader that China issued guidance to avoid the Nvidia chips after Trump approved the sale. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The market has decided that unprofitably spending billions of dollars to build AI datacenters in the hopes that OpenAI can come up with $1.4T in spend is a bad bet. The podcast interview between Sam Altman and Brad Gerstner was the nail in the coffin for investor confidence.

Just to be clear: if 'no one was ready' a lot of people fucked up, bc those of us who work on this laid out what was going to happen 8yrs ago. The twofold issue that 1)it's not just a tech problem, and 2) Big Tech allowed itself to be ref-worked into spinelessness. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...

America, you've spoken loud and clear: you do not like being stabbed in the dick with an ice pick. But what if stabbing yourself in the dick with an ice pick is the only way to fight, idk, climate change or whatever?

The WSJ claims that this survey said that "less than half of current AI projects had generated more in returns than they had cost," which is not something that's actually in the survey! It talks about 40-47% of AI projects "delivering a tangible ROI." amazing! www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ceos...

No, you do not need "AI skills." "AI skills" refers to prompt engineering - being able to 'prompt the model correctly' to get anything approaching what you need. It is quite literally gaslighting you into doing the "intelligence" work for a so-called "AI." www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...

Read this for a better understanding of the generative AI industry than you will find elsewhere.

People will find out the hard way how much the FBI had been doing to keep them safe.

trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol

You can measure the quality of news outlets' political coverage by how often they write headlines starting with the words "Trump says" that don't show any skepticism about what Trump is saying even though he's the most prominent American liar of modern times.

Here’s a sense of where priorities lie. The White House is “effectively positioning the president to operate [Washington DC’s] public golf properties.” 🤡 @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Maybe trump is doing all this work for putin for free

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Credit markets > equity markets.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday night that aims to preempt states from enacting rules governing artificial intelligence, a major departure from the typical federalist structure of American government that Trump said was necessary because of the issue’s high stakes.

AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022. For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.” For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”

Oh and Hock Tan added that OpenAI’s deal actually appears to be an “agreement and alignment on where we’re headed.” This is the shit you love to hear. Also Broadcom’s revenue backlog is “dynamic” which Wall Street also loves

Absolutely hilarious earnings call for Broadcom today as CEO Hock Tan gets mad at an analyst for asking for clarity over OpenAI’s supposed 10 gigawatt chips deal, which Tan responded to by saying that “they are on their multi-year journey to their own XP and let's leave it at that.”

Maybe Peter thiel is right that the antichrist is here.

Lillian Smith, the Civil Rights activist who Martin Luther King, Jr. called “one of the brightest stars in the human firmament,” was born on this day in 1897 in Jasper, Florida. I could go on and on about Smith, a white, queer southerner who fought her whole life for civil rights.

For the evening crowd: don't rule out the possibility of impeachment and removal. Even as soon as 2027. www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...

Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.