The same Trump-appointee who fucked with the Broadview 6 grand jury is the one going after E. Jean Carroll.

Any metaphor to describe generative ai that isn't poo is probably just making it sound better than it is.

These idiots don’t seem to realize that a border wall is not going to keep diseases out. What can keep diseases out is investment in medical research and international public health …. both if which they of course they decimated.

The Google Keep icon is also such a downgrade. Hard to imagine why anyone would fix what wasn't broken and deliberately make icons look enshittier, but here we are.

One thing AI LLMs are very good at: convincing their victims that mediocrity is greatness, and that the ability to generate high volumes of mediocre content is a substitute for skill, talent, or work. This is the distinct impression I get every time I look at LinkedIn.

lol 😂 fortune.com/2026/05/26/s...

"A Google software engineer allegedly earned $1.2 million by illegally trading contracts on Polymarket that allowed people to bet on who would be revealed as the most searched people of 2025, according to prosecutors."

So I deleted that quote repost about the UFC stadium at the White House because an oomf was like "this seems fake" and I was like "fuck, she's right, this is obviously fake, how the hell did I fall for it," but uhh ... it's real www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A temporary restraining order has halted work on a data center for Google in Pine Island, about 18 miles north of Rochester, Minnesota. www.startribune.com/minnesota-da...

All these data center boondoggles need to be rescinded and clawed back.

I don't have a lot of confidence in these people to know how to do this properly. 😬

The only people who are *for* surveillance pricing are profiteering creepo execs.

76% of Americans support bans on surveillance pricing, according to recent polling from @groundwork.bsky.social. groundworkcollaborative.org/news/strong-...

"...if the States were fully sovereign..." Are they arguing for the dissolution of the union?

This is deranged on multiple levels.

State driver's licenses have always been for proving the person was capable of driving the vehicle safely. The federal govt trying to turn state documents into Federal IDs is the issue. And if people sitting on SCOTUS don't understand states rights they need to retire to their gifted RVs.

I was living in Italy when their ban started (before the UK!) and thinking no way would Italians abide by it. Overnight *everyone* complied, clear indication of full consent of the people. The only people I saw complaining were bizarrely some politicians in their parliament!

The ship has sailed on what "ai" means. You can't go back to having it mean an automation with a discreet specific parameter. It means ai slop and chatbots now. That's how language evolves and the tech tycoons and boosters forced that change with PR influence operations and there's no going back now

Sadly this is the deal, it's the movers and shakers with their own elite ties. It's not every org, but the majority of orgs I've come in contact with seem to be controlled opposition or straight up front groups. Some orgs even seem to exist to catch and deactivate would be effective advocates.

When Trump’s Undersecretary of State Jacob Helberg—who came from Peter Thiel’s Palantir—defends the creation of a new special economic zone, as he just did re: the Philippines, it’s helpful to know this quote from the Sovereign Individual (quote from book; Thiel wrote a separate preface). 1/

Note: This is not the "american dream" When my grandma was growing up in the coal patch settlement (company town) - that wasn't the American dream, it was subjugation of immigrants by tycoons. The American dream sure isn't monarchy by CEO!! cc: @mattbevan.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/wat3...

Data centers are also power plants.

“Voters in Festus ousted 4 city council members after the body approved a $6 million data center.. Camdenton’s Board of Aldermen passed a moratorium on data center development after 100s of residents packed a meeting to express health and environmental concerns.” www.news-leader.com/story/news/b...

I've been saying this for years, as have many disabled people before me, bout time the pope said it. It's the most egregious part of trickle down economics and the "job creator" arguments for boondoggles. Why else are jobs always the end point offered to us when it's the outcomes that serve humans?

ABC Australia's If You’re Listening podcast has a really out there bizarre way to describe the tech tycoon monarchist network state company towns planning no regulations or human protections & NO DEMOCRACY as... 🧐 “promising to revive the American Dream”? 🤯 Please listen to @gilduran.com instead!!

The Mayo Clinic could just hire more staff instead of paying for surveillance tech.

Every single person involved in the decision to implement this is blatantly lacking in the ethical standards necessary to safely perform medical duties.

Data centers are also power plants.

The Israel lobby, crypto industry, and AI companies are spending millions to buy this year's midterm elections. And they're using shady campaign finance tactics to hide their involvement from the public. Watch.

"Residents along University Lane in Mason County have been impacted by severe flooding over the weekend, stemming from the construction of a nearby data center in the area." www.wsaz.com/2026/05/24/d...

There's some line I've heard about absurdities and atrocities. "As I watched representatives of Essential Energy LLC flounder ...()... I was struck by the absurdity of Archbald Borough Council’s 2nd “conditional use” hearing for a project an overwhelming majority of Archbald residents don’t want."

People called it the fatherland dept from the start. Many of us at the time were confused about why Democrats in Congress came up with such a terrible authoritarian idea. And even more confused about why some people were angry at those Democrats for "letting Republicans take credit for the idea"

from the moment it was founded activists and human rights watchdogs have warned that DHS was constructed to be an almost unaccountable private paramilitary force at the president's sole disposal.

Touching things no one wants them to touch is kind of the billionaire ethos, it seems.

Journalist Karen Hao on the artificial intelligence industry: "These really powerful tech billionaires have fused with the state and are trying to override what the people actually want."

Was this Donald Trump’s most corrupt week yet? Why is the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show so dangerous? And why is one of the richest men in the world attacking me on Twitter? Join us on the Coffee Klatch to discuss. https://youtu.be/apR3thMMBQw

Jeff Bezos’s CNBC interview made headlines this week. He’s been on a PR campaign responding to his critics — myself included. Some thoughts 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=apR3...

Actual link

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Wall Street says that a company that loses billions is worth trillions, because it is run by a guy who lies all the time about everything (Elon Musk) cepr.net/publications...

Elected representatives need to be interrogated on why they are ok with insulting and harming constituents, their neighbors, to appease this pathetic sexist and racist "anti woke" mental fixation by Donald Trump and his administration. Write your reps and ask them, tell them what you think.

Polis was one of the first "RFK Jr. has some good ideas" people so

Nothing to see here, move along.

Boondoggle

"‘A way of silencing the citizens’: Texas woman arrested for Facebook post exposing her city’s filthy water" l.smartnews.com/p-7LXhZcDS/J...

Arrested and jailed for complaining about dirty tap water. youtu.be/cEQy2TiyUDs

Starbucks retired an AI inventory tool after frequent mistakes, while Pizza Hut's delivery system allegedly lost a franchisee more than $100 million in sales. f-st.co/CQl21uy

what a non-surprise

I think you mean McMorrow. And she is not a good candidate for a variety of reasons. Not the least of which is ⬇️. Oh, and her husband just recently stepped down from working for a startup that sells nuclear micro reactors to data centers. Just a coincidence, I'm sure. 🙄 bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...

Yes. She voted for tax breaks that invite data centers to Michigan. Her husband, Ray Wert, recently stepped down from working for a startup that sells micro nuclear reactors to data centers also. bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...