This is an example of the way AI is a crystallization (though not the origin) of a post-information epistemic culture that has taken an anti-documentarian turn where information no longer operates as evidence of the real world, and conversely can no longer tell when documents are evidence of fantasy

Fun fact: if defected Russian officials are to be believed, supposedly, Russian TV news makes special, Putin-only episodes, shown JUST to him, with extra helpings of "good news." And they've been doing it since 2015. That man could genuinely have NO IDEA how bad it is.

Shut down this whole industry.

Can you imagine if a Democratic president started a war for no reason, lost it within a few months, and surrendered? The media would eat that president alive. Then it would spend the next 50 years demanding every Democratic presidential candidate prove ahead of time they aren't similarly loserish.

No lies detected.

Just insane own goals. Generational errors. Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/c...

Break them

"youre raping our women" is verbatim what white supremacist dylan roof screeched right before he massacred a black church after having been radicalized online by the exact same racist snuff memes shared by elon musk x is a crowd-sourced mass shooter manifesto and an alt-right radio rwanda

Elon Musk and the ultrawealthy far-right vanguard started all this. Reflect on that. The giga—now tera—rich have not been attacked or even taxed disproportionately. They've benefitted from liberal democracy more than anyone else. They have chosen a path of destruction and domination anyway.

There is a thrill in this. There guys are PUSHING SO HARD. They’re relentlessly doing interviews, writing articles and pushing propaganda. They’re used to everyone buying their bullshit!! But this time everyone’s like “nah”. It must feel inexplicable for them and that is so satisfying.

They are just Saying Shit to keep the grift going as long as possible and have been doing so for awhile. It'll make jobs. It'll cut jobs. It'll write Hollywood blockbusters. It'll fuck you. It's your dead mom. It's your professor. It's your accountant. It's your therapist. Just keep paying, OK?

If you have yet to see this brilliant bonkers series i am jealous of you bc watching it the first time was one of my absolute favorite television experiences It also holds up to repeat viewing btw

Data centers are very similar in how prisons were pitched to ritual areas Telling them it would bring jobs and boost their economy when people were just brought in from outside and resulted in largely negative impacts for local residents. Both claiming to be a fix for towns that need help.

Relatedly, Trump and MAGA fully grasp that their longer term success will depend on our willingness to move on from everything they've done to our country, and directly to us. Musk as well. There cannot be any forgetting. www.offmessage.net/p/detrumpifi...

i think boarding school teenage masculinity is a part of masculinity but not of manhood. we have to get away from the concept of the opposite of "man" being "woman." the opposite of "man" is "boy"

the devil's greatest trick in my lifetime was convincing people that empowered capitalists couldn't come up with mass-murder utopias just like the Nazis and Stalinists did

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.

“A.i.” reproduces all the sexism and racism and bigotry of its inputs. If you use it uncritically, you’re accepting and furthering all that bullshit.

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

this is a catastrophe and he will do harm, and only harm, to those living with disabilities

imma demand 2028 dem presidential candidates name their picks for AG because if they aren't fucking pitbulls not just willing but EAGER to put motherfuckers in prison i'm out (gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/c...)

we’re going to need to seize every dollar this family full of criminals has taken from us and then take the rest, too

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

The center-white punditocracy spent ~2 decades sarcastically scare-quoting through takes like "Oh, sure, Oberlin students. Eeeverything's about gender and race. Eeeverything's about how white men perform their masculinity & their whiteness." Next thing you know: Pete Hegseth & UFC White House Night.

The trouble with saying "Violence gets results - just look at the Right!" is that the results the Right currently wants (less social cohesion, more individual power) are *achievable* by violence The results the Left wants (more social cohesion, collective safety) are actively undermined by violence

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it is really important to be loud about this stuff because it's typically kept very quiet to enable people to go "See? Nothing happened, it was just people being dramatic"

I don't like Newsom to begin with, but this disqualifies him all by itself. Anyone who leave a brick standing that Trump put in place is just inviting the next authoritarian to do the same thing. Destruction in this case is cleansing.

There is simply no comparison now, either between the scale of failure & incompetence or the way it is being (not) covered in the national media. Two wildly different standards:

Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later

Joe Rogan looks like Bob Hoskins trying to play a bad guy using the instructions "malevolent flea market owner" as his starting place

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Heads up: The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don't turn over voter rolls to the federal government. Dems say it's clear evidence the Trump admin is trying to unconstitutionally intrude on state-run elections.

If you’re not following this story you’re missing one of the weirdest fucking things happening in politics right now and that’s really saying something. This man has just disappeared and no one will say why or where he is.

"The German court’s ruling could have global repercussions for the artificial intelligence industry." www.wired.com/story/a-cour...

The fact that Elon Musk is now one of history’s greatest mass-murderers, due to his total destruction of USAID, is still far too little-known. It’s on all of us to shout this from the rooftops. Never shut up about Elon Musk’s genocidal crimes.

I don't believe this unassailable fact will ever stick. The media is too beholden to power and money. When we did Tesla Takedown, I'd give exhaustive interviews laying out Elon's murderous actions and the writer would ignore them, paint us as agitators and DOGE as Elon's 'cost cutting' initiative.

Exactly this 👇👇👇

This is accurate & not hyperbole from @jfallows.bsky.social With support from USAID, the DRC had built an outbreak preparedness & response system “ready to go,” e.g., surveillance, labs, health workers, & stockpiles of personal protective equipment When Musk killed USAID, that system collapsed 😢

I've always made it clear the abundance movement is an op to pre-empt genuine progressive reform as the obvious response to authoritarianism, and replace it with more 00s era deregulatory corporate earlobe nibbling

It's an objective fact that Elon Musk is a mass murderer. He intentionally caused the deaths of millions of people. There's no caveats to this, no alternative explanations, no defenses, no missing context; that was the sole reason for doing what he did.

IT'S REAL. @standard.bsky.social BUILT A FRINKIAC FOR LOWER DECKS. cerritos.ordoliberal.com

👴🏻What if School Resource Officers didn't carry guns? Or tasers or mace or batons? What if they didn't arrest or cite anyone? What if they didn't even have the power to make an arrest? What if they were trained in conflict resolution and were all board certified educators? 👩🏿THAT'S CALLED A TEACHER!

This is part of the long history of viewing education as a product. As just a set of right answers. But it isn't. Education is a process. Getting the right answers means absolutely nothing if you don't know how you got there. Or can't apply the process to a novel problem. THAT's education.

1. Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.” A Popular Information investigaiton reveals that it's a GOP front group. Following along for receipts. 🧵

I wrote about the contrast between the wacky Oval Office "fertility" meeting last month and a recent Heritage event on birth rates, which the organization is deeming the most critical issue facing the United States.