In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:

Il rapporto Snpa fotografa un’Italia che cementifica senza freni. Ma la legge sul consumo di suolo non è mai arrivata in Aula. www.lanotiziagiornale.it/consumo-di-s... (il mio articolo per @lanotizia_giornale)

Machado has embraced the United States's indiscriminate murder of Venezuelan mariners in international and Venezuelan waters in the Caribbean Sea. She thinks it will help her gain power. This is your white "peace".

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

If you use Firefox: Go into Settings, in the search bar type "Sidebar" and select "Show Sidebar." At the bottom of the sidebar, click "Customize Sidebar" (the little gear icon) and un-check the "AI Chatbot" box.

i'm doomed to write a version of this essay every single year. i wrote about Matthew Yglesias' intellectual sophistry, LPE, Uber's business model, the problem with venture capital, economic welfare, "economic analysis," and more. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ride-shari...

Bill Maher: An Autopsy youtu.be/8THCFfg2BY8?...

Magistrale @ciropellegrino su Milano/Napoli e gli stereotipi, sia per dare pane al pane sul ridicolo. Voi immaginate se un sindaco di Napoli si fosse presentato con due discorsi come #Sala? «Che serietà, che lungimiranza, signora mia». open.substack.com/pub/ciropell...

“Pedocon theory does not involve secret networks of underground tunnels where adrenochrome is harvested for reptilian overlords. Pedocon theory is not hiding beneath twelve layers of misdirection. Pedocon theory is rooted in the basic politics of the reactionary right.”

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

Concentration camp jobs posted on Indeed. I wonder if they’ll start advertising that the uniforms are being made by Hugo Boss: www.indeed.com/cmp/Critical...

It's so crazy how the comics, animation, and video games industries are wildly popular billion dollar profit type shit and yet there is no money and no jobs for the people who make that possible

Tutto regolare 👍🏼

If I’m knowledgeable on a subject I don’t *need* an LLM. If I’m not knowledgeable on a subject I don’t *trust* an LLM.

A Bolzano all'uscita dalla stazione si veniva accolti da un grande parco che ospitava diversi grandi alberi, alcuni secolari e storici per la città, tutto questo fino al 2020: questo grande spazio pubblico è stato regalato a dei privati che dovevano tirare su un grosso centro commerciale

Comunque questa cosa che il solo andare a votare ai referendum ormai implichi essere d'accordo coi quesiti referendari è una manna dal cielo per mafia e padroni che possono semplicemente informarsi se vai a votare o meno (e ricattarti di conseguenza). Molto carina come cosa eh

Oggi e domani 5 volte sì

Every so often, I check to see if Alec Walen, the guy I talk about in this video, has aired a retraction of his “psychic harm” argument, since the number of dead Gazans has now vastly exceeded his estimated 30k. Nope! He was just kidding about that I guess youtu.be/Z7JQ_bkDtBs?...

So YouTube agree that the content they’ve been hosting on their site for over a year *is* abusive harassment… enough to take down a victim’s video about it, but not enough to take down the abusive videos themselves.

Martin Septim: Should the battle go ill, I brought my stash of Argonian… “romance” novels with me. Do not show them to Jauffre, and burn them unless you intend to keep them. #TheElderScrolls #Oblivion #OblivionRemastered

"If #Palestine dies, humanity dies" Last night, in the last Serie B match against Cremonese, the Pisa fans reiterated their support for the Palestinian cause. 👇

🇮🇹 Yesterday Pisa achieved promotion to #SerieA, a category they had been missing from for 34 years. This means that next year the top Italian division will have one of the most politically aligned and aware fan bases in Europe. If you don't know them, keep reading! 👇

The intensive livestock lobby funded a massive and successful disinformation campaign against the report on the impact of adopting sustainable diets. In the US we see the effects of a protracted war on facts. That war had very clear sponsors. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Paywall so I can't read - but SUVs should be taxed not just to pay for potholes but because of their significant contribution to the destruction of the living world (+ danger to people, air pollution even when EVs, causing congestion, etc)

In other criminal cases, the defendant’s views are reported when their defence is presented during the trial. At the end, the verdict is the angle. You don’t get headlines like “police are corrupt liars says bank robber given 10 years”. Why treat this criminal differently?

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group: “amazing job” “Excellent” “👊🇺🇸💥”

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory

My years spent watching every Mr Beast video for absolutely no reason have finally paid off Beast Games: An Autopsy youtu.be/SaiMNBpN9Yw?...

"Grand theft Hamlet" è un documentario su uno spettacolo teatrale organizzato all’interno di un videogame. L'articolo di Le Monde.

POV the imperial guards took your magic ring and you are asking politely for them to return it.

Gli americani che arrivano in Italia e si godono le Frecce chiaramente lo faranno avendo a mente i treni orridi che avranno in patria, ma anche qui la remunerativa alta velocità ha fatto sparire i treni regionali per cui raggiungere piccoli paesi o luoghi più remoti diventa sempre più difficile

“So that we don’t end up like Europe”

Genuinely appalling and revealing how much more thorough, thoughtful and well-researched the videogame speedrunning community has been in evaluating Elon Musk's claims than the tech press or DC political press youtu.be/z1ykCc588Zw?...

se i tutti i compagni italiani che hanno detto parole superficiali e di supponenza nei confronti di questa donna avessero fatto un terzo delle cose che ha fatto lei negli ultimi anni forse oggi la nostra situazione sarebbe diversa e invece…a criticà c’hanno il primato ma poi?

"Gaza: we analysed a year of satellite images to map the scale of agricultural destruction" theconversation.com/gaza-we-anal... #geosky #gischat

La Corte penale internazionale ha confermato di avere aperto un’indagine sul governo italiano per la scarcerazione del generale libico.

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole

Anche se in Italia non se ne sta praticamente parlando, ci sono novità rilevanti sulla strage di Örebro in Svezia: la polizia comincia a parlare di un possibile movente razzista. Tre le vittime ci sono diverse persone straniere, e prima di sparare l'attentatore avrebbe urlato "Fuori dall'Europa!"

NEW: A Harris campaign organizer says senior officials ordered them to erase voters who asked about Gaza—marking emails as “no response” so they’d be removed from outreach. No engagement, no persuasion, just ignored. “The only clowns are the ones who decided to abdicate on this.”

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

In un video di Youtube si vede un gruppo di cacciatori a Campagna Lupia sparare contro specie protette: nel gruppo c’è anche il figlio del presidente americano, Donald Trump Jr. continua su: www.fanpage.it/attualita/do... www.fanpage.it

my outsider perspective on US politics is that it seems like i spend 4 years getting told the democrats can't do the thing because they need just one more vote, and then the republicans get in and can do whatever they want because half of the democrats vote with them