I often think how among all the other things it is against, fascism (and its attendant authoritarianisms and make-believes) is fundamentally a war against complexity—against the inherent complexity and multiplicity of the universe and social reality—and against any efforts to understand them as such

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

X has restored the account of Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys group. McInnes's account was banned by Twitter in August 2018 ahead of the "Unite the Right 2" rally in Washington DC for "violating" its policies on violent extremism.

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

Reminder that unless you are a journalist, you very likely do not need to real-time subject yourself to the stream of utter & complete bullshit coming out of a fascist's mouth today. If you are a journalist, your coverage needs to fundamentally dismantle the bullshit coming out of fascists' mouths.

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

Post-information society/ascendent fascist fantasism society (now with state-mandated pseudoscience)

honestly I wish outlets like Wired would feature people who AREN'T surprised by this and DIDN'T spend years covering this ecosystem without recognizing the fundamental dynamics of power I can tell you exactly why it was missed:

First they came for Jimmy Kimmel, because I wasn’t paying attention to any of the people they came for before that

#NewPaper is out! With #NucleoMEPOP coauthors Claudia Lagos and @karengheza.bsky.social, led by the amazing Isabel Pavez in @jmcquarterly.bsky.social ❤️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Thread below 👇

I'd love to read a book that critically explores the inextricable entanglement of white supremacy and the automobile in America; and their further entanglement with manifesting the Apocalyptic, including everything from climate warlordism to manufactured suburban blight

The net effect of Elon buying Twitter and rebuilding the algorithm to constantly spoonfeed people right wing propaganda has been less convincing average people of right wing propaganda and more convincing the entire anglosphere elite class that the average person believes right wing propaganda

This guy was running from the scene of the crime

I have been saying this for 3 years now; it is evident from even a theorerical understanding of these systems' operations. But ppl keep claiming it's not true or not important, or could be patched over, & so I keep hoping each time an "AI" company CEO comes out & admits will be the one that sticks

We really can’t understate the psychic toll of knowing that the United States government is trying to kill as many people as possible

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

The Trump administration has aggressively rolled back efforts to combat human trafficking, leaving traffickers to operate with increased impunity, experts say. Guardian investigation by @aglantz.bsky.social, Bernice Yeung, & Noy Thrupkaew.

where’s the polymarket rapture line cowards

If we were really on our game, the evangelicals wouldn’t hear the end about how they, personally, didn’t get raptured after the raptured happened on this coming Tuesday for, like, the next three weeks

The NYT coverage of the Charlie Kirk Memorial atm is like... It's like watching a bunch of NYT folks not understand how evangelical religious ceremonies work. Like, yes of course they all know the words to the songs, of course they're standing in the heat for hours, that's Christian fundamentalism.

The tiktok rapture trend is going to look like a regular Tuesday after Lachlan Murdoch and Steven Miller get ahold of the algorithm

“But are there not many Fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.” - Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Getting close to 50k views and I'm wondering is it just everybody is scared to say this and pleased I did? Because if there's so many of us who agree, trust me I'd know if 1k people disagreed with me let alone 50k, why are we letting AI ruin our universities? Together we can turn back the tide.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Was this not… what critical AI researchers have been saying this entire time?

NYT Opinion: From retaking the Bagram airbase to geoengineering the sun, here's why magical thinking is the hot new decision-making trend

All the big corps have known for the last ~8 months that AI is in decline and the bubble will burst violently in the very near future. Their plan for dealing with this is to get the next bubble, Quantum Computing, inflated as quickly as possible. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/20/n...

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

The discourse around people being told to get off of tiktok and the reactions to it are going to be a blast

So the thing recent DHS statements and incoming attacks on nonprofits sound like they are going to try to do will be a reality inversion where discussing or drawing attention to right wing violence and hate speech will be painted as itself being hateful extremist violence

Post-information society/ascendent make-believe society

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead. We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

Peeps, Here's another link. It's the !@#$ bot army takover. Now with Machine Learning. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Criminal hackers using #AI to find victim organizations and break in is the old new thing. Hackers breaking in and then turning the victim’s AI against them is the new new thing, and it is going to get so much worse. Gift link to my story today. wapo.st/4nDfV5o

Let’s be honest about what that was: he’s said it in private- in person and otherwise, and it hasn’t happened. So, he goes in public, to signal to his supporters that Pam is being disobedient. Cue threats, cue some planning violent acts and some may well go beyond talk. It’s what he’s relying on.

Using Charlie Kirk’s assassination as a pretext, the Trump administration is planning on “an organized strategy to go after left-leaning organizations” that had nothing to do with his murder. trib.al/wWQ44nm

*opens TikTok one week from now* “Did you know Black people have an extra muscle for crime?!””

If I were on TikTok, I would take the precaution of deleting my account. If you’re comfortable with the regime mining your TikTok data, I wish you luck & hope you do not live in (or have any need to visit) the US.

Today, due to the recent spread of (false) narratives about trans perpetrators of mass shootings, I decided to look up search stats for the term “trans shooter.” The term was hardly used at all before May 2022, when the shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde happened.

so trumpworld is going to nazify tiktok like they did twitter

The Department of Homeland Security now engaged in the business of collecting the social media posts of citizens and government officials so that it can a) publicly draw attention to them for harassment and coercion, and b) threaten their free speech

FBI has been steadily diverting resources away from domestic terrorism investigations, decimating specialized units & discontinuing tools used to track extremism. the admin also gutted millions in federal terrorism-prevention grants. it's effectively abandoned the fight against homegrown violence.

I was concerned about the performance of my little JS faceted search front-end for a static site digital library, but based on my scale testing the build-times for a Jekyll site with an egregious number of files (> 10,000) become prohibitive long before any kind of slow-down appears in the search

Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.

Taking the temperature today…

Holy shit they are just straight up admitting they believe people who express anti-Kirk opinions are in danger of physical violence

The simple truth underlying all of this is that we actually *can* all live together, but they (people with hate in their heart, and their defenders) are the ones who are going to have to change in order to get there—not us

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.