Brenda Shaughnessy

Instagram is about to lose its optional end-to-end encryption feature. Without it, Meta can view every DM on Instagram. Mozilla has a petition to push the company to reverse this decision. [external petition link] www.mozillafoundation.org/en/petition...

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

I spend trillions to steal and manipulate enough of your data to trick you into perceiving me as conscious, therefore I am

Ok I’m pretty sure one of the things they teach at war college is to look at a map

Videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian,” and acknowledgements they failed to achieve the stated goal of lowering the government deficit.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

Sheriffs across the country make it a point to publish booking photos of every person they arrest and they run them in the local paper.

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.

Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof. That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy. The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

A++++++ question there

AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.

When I first started out as a journalist I thought it paid to have a background in US history when covering America. Then I thought it would probably be better to be a constitutional lawyer with expertise in jurisprudence. Now I think it would be useful to be a psychiatrist.

remember you can always burn Shein clothes for petroleum

"A device found outside of Gracie Mansion on Saturday during dueling protests in New York City was confirmed to be an improvised explosive device, according to police."

Even before this, my main point of suicide skepticism is Epstein spent a lifetime building a get-away-with-it power network and I haven’t seen a lot to indicate he didn’t think they’d come through again for him.

I love that @modernlanguage.bsky.social has posted the depositions of the DOGE bros who gutted the National Endowment for the Humanities. All part of the lawsuit the MLA, AHA, and ACLS have filed against the federal government.

Utterly disgraceful. The lifeblood of the humanities gutted by a bunch of 20-year-old incels too lazy to do the fucking reading. It’s just disgusting. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

Most of the talk about OpenAI, Anthropic and “mass surveillance” neglected to mention that widespread scraping of the web is in itself mass surveillance.

Yes, yes, random person without a profile picture and/or their real names, I, a disabled person who has written about, researched, and taught about disability for a decade and lived with a disability for 35 years am ‘ableist’ because I think disabled people should be careful/critical about gAI.

Gavin Newsom, Kristi Noem Nod Silently To Each Other In Plastic Surgeon’s Office

Screaming

“It’s incredible to think that just a few years ago, she barely knew the words to condemn one of her playmates to a life of forced labor, and now she’s already old enough to be meeting boys and issuing them death sentences,” said Kim Jong Un

Yesterday I read an interview with the singer in a punk band who uses GenAI to help with writing his texts. Punk. The whole point of punk was that if you know how to play 3 cords badly and have something to say just fucking go for it.

Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists? Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy. Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists? Noem: My condolences to their families Raskin: You lied about them.

Moskowitz: I want to end on a happy note. I got you a new Coast Guard blankie, the one you lost.

I’m shocked—SHOCKED I say—that Trump and Elon spending months and months gutting every aspect of the federal government has led to services getting worse I think we could easily fix this by giving Elon $40 billion MORE in taxpayer money so he can spread hatred of our government even farther online

this is what conservative students on university campuses really want: the freedom to say Nazi slogans, the n-word and call for violently killing Black people and more, without consequences of any kind. No protest from fellow students, faculty or admin. Utter impunity to be hateful little prats

What am I wearing to the press conference about how we're stripping human rights from the inferior races who have been undermining national unity with the help of Marxist traitors? I've got a sort of Nazi SS officer type thing, would that work? Perfect.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

This is psychotic behavior by Sheehy. My goodness

I was surprised to learn that Dunkin' Donuts is a subsidiary of a a privately held company and not a public utility

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Really seems like someone should be charged with a crime here

Now that they are fumbling for plans and popular support, i bet its occurred to somebody over there why the name was switched to Department of Defense

It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for. Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.

Between Mullin and Tuberville you couldn't power a heated blanket for more than 6 seconds

“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

LINDSEY GRAHAM: Our goal is to make sure Iran cannot become again the largest state sponsor of terrorism. WELKER: Does the the president have a plan to guarantee that happens? GRAHAM: No. It's not his job.

Who knew that putting the most corrupt, evil, incompetent, genocidal freaks in charge of the world's most powerful army against a country that historically has been virtually impossible to defeat would go so horribly wrong?

/Mistaking the SCIF at Mar-a-Lago for the coat-check for a chiropractor's second wedding that is happening in the ballroom right next to the SCIF at Mar-a-Lago and briefly seeing a drowsy Donald Trump in a suit and baseball cap looking at a TV with a bunch of tweets on it. "Ope, sorry guys."

Claude goes to war in Iran: "Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the help of those very same tools."

Today a bunch of my open-source projects got slammed by incorrect AI-written vulnerability reports demanding $299 for disclosure

“Mr President, the bombings have begun in Tehran and also customers are complaining we have run out of shrimp at the pool buffet.”

I actually am unhinged enough to think it’s not out of the realm of possibility that he launches a war to distract from Epstein files and have a reason to declare a national emergency to suspend voting. It’s not as if lost lives matter to him.