Episode 421 is the one I was thinking of: soundcloud.com/thismachinek... They don't really get in-depth on what's happening in China with AI, but they do talk about how US media and tech industry people are reporting on what China is doing with AI.

Oh if that's the case I bet hobbling our education and scientific enterprise is the smart play.

First of all, these clowns don’t know anything about the law. Secondly, they didn’t even claim it is against the law. They said “It’s not safe.” This is a direct threat, against a person who is doing nothing wrong, because they’re fucking Nazis.

@thelouvreof.bsky.social Candidate for you.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Short thread about how DHS, ICE, and cops in general just freely lie. First, the lie:

The part where I burned the absolute fuck out of my wrist on Sunday and am now looking forward to when my dead epidermis finally starts sloughing off tomorrow, will hopefully not end up being the best part of my week. I guess we’ll see.

Latinos in Chicago are our neighbors. They make our community better. They're not a problem at all. Texas National Guard troops are not our neighbors. They make our community worse. They're our main problem right now.

I think it is quite reasonable to ask whether the supposedly rigid standards Secretary Kegstand announced at Quantico just days ago do not actually apply to any white men from red states who are in the process of illegally invading blue states America has the right to know it if that's the case now

The last post in this thread is a jump scare

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

I burned the shit out of my left arm, just trying to make coffee today. Like, swollen and red, two hours later I d or 2nd degree burned. That’s how it’s going. You?

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie. Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

The "war zones" the Administration keeps talking about? It's *making* them by attacking peaceful neighborhoods. Those "domestic terrorists" ARE FEDS.

Bari Weiss' only talent is telling billionaire oligarchs what they want to hear dressed as dangerous truth. Her obsequious sycophancy for the oligarchs and appeal to their existing prejudices is the only value she has. Without them propping her up, she wouldn't have a career.

actress tilly norwood has been deleted after being found unconscious next to a script containing a mistyped wildcard. she was 0

“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

This is why I don't trust the @nytimes.com

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

Masked men causing terror. #AbolishICE

ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks

Just in case the racism wasn't already completely transparent.

if youre a white man having an existential crisis its important to avoid right-wing propagandists, as their entire machine is built around exploiting the fragile little minds of white men in crisis

Per SWRR (instagram.com/p/DPJfpOZjss_), as of an hour ago, feds were/are once again staging behind the Dollar Tree in Back of the Yards at 47th and Damen. This is near one of a number of Home Depots where they've repeatedly grabbed people. They've targeted this area hard over the last several weeks.

Richard Dawkins, friend of Jeffrey Epstein, has contributed to a new book compiled by Lawrence Krauss, friend of Jeffrey Epstein who publicly supported him after his conviction for soliciting child prostitution, in which he argues that recognition of trans people are a threat to women’s rights

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

I actually think it's off base for the descriptor of these angry young white men who think violence is cool and/or funny to be "non-political." They are making rape jokes and saying racist things and wanting to sow chaos. That's literally the Alex Jones, Steve Bannon playbook.

Why do they want to control people on the autism spectrum? Honey, why do you think that one kid in the story wasn't afraid to call out the emperor's nudity?

ICE is fucking evil, and we need to be prepared to prosecute these fuckers.

Today we saw a fascist Gesamtkunstwerk, but done the right way. by Ezra Klein

Damned straight! I’m Antifa, because that’s what my grandpa who joined the US Navy in 1940 taught me to be!

Despite refusing to coordinate with the state or city, we’re monitoring the ongoing federal deployments that are instilling fear in our communities. Americans have a right to peaceful assembly and to make their voices heard. Even if the Trump admin won’t follow the law, we will.

1. Telling trans people that even if Democrats won't protect us we should be selfless and vote for them to protect other people is a shitty thing to say. Asking for our rights and calling out Dems when they won't support us doesn't help fascists. Tell Democrats to support and defend us instead.

I know Van's speaking from the heart and I appreciate his thoughts, but what does a "respectful dialogue" about race look like? Just because Kirk was polite doesn't mean he wasn't also a very clever manipulator of media figures so that they would do exactly what Van's doing here - giving him cover.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

To be fair, Ezra Klein is a pretty dumb person, who has always had terrible political instincts. So, maybe it’s on Sam for not having seen this coming.

i do like that The Mouse failed to foresee liberals voting with their wallets almost a full year into a boycott that is bleeding Target dry as we speak

Seriously, iconic shot.

Good morning! I’m at the Broadview Detention Facility in Chicago, Illinois. Several dozen protesters are here protesting against the ramp up in federal deportation raids in the Chicago area. Things are testy already, several attempted arrests from DHS.

Pathetic: Jacqueline Garretson from @conservativecaucus.bsky.social wrote "loser" on her own Starbucks cup, and then tried to pretend that workers had done so to diss Charlie Kirk. When these goobers can't find someone to take their bait, they just lie about it. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

The United States is now North Korea, only with nukes that work and grocery stores full of food, but only if you have the money to buy it.

You win the leadership by showing useful leadership in the struggle. Not by withering condescension to newcomers about how they should sit down, shut up, check privilege, respect elders

Fuckin A. There *will* be repercussions

They're openly saying they want to sacrifice LGBTQ people and the planet to appease fascists. This is not only a losing strategy, this is morally repugnant. Every single one of these people should be ashamed, but we know they won't because they are amoral sociopaths.

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

If Pope Leo has not canonized Charlie Kirk by April 20th we will prosecute. by Pam Bondi

My chiron is raising a lot of questions that are already answered by my chiron.

losing my mind now that everyone else finally noticed that ezra klein is stupid

Thread of good posts about Kirk