🎶 Get a taser and a cop for this wet amphi-bussy 🎵

I just watched a video of an ICE agent trying to find a costumed frog's rear air hole to stick pepper spray in it, and, like, why are we paying people to do this

One of the great ironies of political theory is that the best way to do radical politics is to not scare the hoes, yet many radicals fetishize scaring the hoes because, well, otherwise they wouldn't be radicals!

At a major "anti-hate" conference a few years ago I was on a panel where I lightly suggested big tech companies were faking their concerns about hate/misinfo. It didn't go over too well. But let the record show that once again I was right. They only care about money. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

once again, tapping the sign in most cases trying to identify or analyze the political leanings of a shooter one way or the other is falling for the bit

I've said it before, but I think the current spree of memekillings is the product of an ideological transition. It's hard to parse because it's rapidly evolving. It's clearly derived from far right precursors, but it hasn't progressed to coherence yet.

What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures? Let us pierce the veil. For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture. Consider this an urgent warning: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

During GamerGate, when women were targeted with threats of violence and death, everyone from the local cops to Democratic congressmen insisted “it’s just the internet. There’s nothing we can do.” Now come to find out that when you accurately quote a white man… well then they can do something.

We are rapidly declining across big democratic markers in the U.S. Media are threatened & jailed doing their job. Civilians are targeted by police & online users for their peaceful free speech. Corporate & academic entities bend the knee to our head autocrat. Truth is a fight. Hate is everywhere.

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

i can understand why right-wing grifters who want abhorrent ideas to spread or influencers whose bread is buttered by the “creator economy” would be hostile to crackdowns on social media and algorithmic amplification of harmful and sensationalist content, but that doesn’t mean we stop those efforts

Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.

There are good reasons why intel might be marked for domestic eyes only. But this is *so* clearly the politicization of intelligence that can and should be shared with Ukraine's allies, precisely *because* they are Ukraine's allies.

cyberlibertarian narratives are deeply entrenched, were explicitly designed in the 90s/00s to benefit tech companies, and have the added benefit of aligning with recent right-wing free speech bullshit. a lot of that context is obscured today. we need to keep that US influence out of our countries.

"In July, New York Times reporters witnessed other Adams supporters handing out red envelopes with cash at three separate campaign events." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...

I replace Jam’s food tray and bowls every morning when she wakes up and every morning when I put the tray down but haven’t gotten the food out yet she stares at the bowl with a look of disappointment and betrayal

In the abstract there's no inherent connection between crypto and being a malevolent, transgressive asshole. But the two things run together with remarkable consistency.

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

Extremism is the belief that an in-group’s success or survival can never be separated from the need for causing harm to an out-group.

*sigh*

It's so pleasant to be able to scroll on here and not endure a barrage of targeted ads 😵‍💫

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

ICYMI: Amazon still doing Amazon things The company is not only reintroducing new versions of old features that allow police to access footage from Ring users Amazon is introducing a new Ring feature that will allow police to request *livestream* access to our home security devices. @eff.org

it will probably be the best thing that ever happened to him

In my research on complicity one thing is clear: It is VERY hard for people to backtrack on rationalizations and self justifications, i.e., to admit they were wrong. People coming to a realization that they were scammed is a big deal; no one likes to admit they were fooled 1/

Biden calling out social media platforms for facilitating the spread of life-threatening bullshit during a pandemic = “censorship”, but Trump ordering athletic teams to change their names back to offensive racist tropes = ???.

I looked more into this episode, and the majority of these participants are influencers. They are openly & brazenly racist, antisemitic etc. They are using this to gain a mainstream audience by being boosted by both Jubilee and Zeteo. This is how the left often helps mainstream the far right.

I hate when someone unearths my pube-autograph to the world's most famous pedophile while I'm dying of cankles

BREAKING: Now it's 117% BREAKING: Wait, it's 4% BREAKING: It's 1,238% BREAKING: It's -50%

Given the use of memes and certain words it was basically impossible for this thing to NOT have 4chan post making up a decent chunk of it's training data. I said this earlier.

A new report reveals the rapid global spread of neo-Nazi Active Clubs, now with 187 chapters in 27 countries—a 25% jump since 2023. Founded by extremists Robert Rundo & Denis Kapustin, the network is recruiting teen boys through “Youth Clubs,” blending MMA training with white nationalist propaganda.

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

Notable that we're coming up on 100th anniversary of Mein Kampf, in which Hitler tries to draw a similar distinction between "good" citizens living up to their duty to the state and "bad" citizens unworthy of the rights of citizens

Neo-Nazi “Youth Clubs” are forming across the U.S., targeting boys aged 15 to 18 with white supremacist propaganda, MMA training, and recruitment tactics modeled after the violent Active Club network. Active in at least 42 states, the movement is spreading both online and offline.

Please be cautious about starting a conversation with conspiracy believers by "finding common ground." Some of them have been trained by their communities to use common ground to recruit YOU. In "redpilling guides" they circulate, it's step one. www.patreon.com/posts/45159246

The thing about surveillance states is that it doesn't matter if you follow the rules: the sheer amount of information collected on you makes it easy to manufacture guilt

After spending the week teaching high school students about foreign interference & information manipulation, I think I can say that Gen Alpha will be ok. They are very capable of picking up on propaganda messages on social media, and are concerned with learning how to determine what’s true.

Fitting that the first day of my @carleton.ca mini course, How to Rig a Foreign Election, fell on Election Day. Appreciate that @npsia.bsky.social was able to host us and our guest speaker after the power went out in our building!

All of this would have been best left private.

Will the position of Fentanyl Czar be available through FSWEP? I feel incredibly qualified after working in retail management on Rideau.