helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point

i don't say this lightly, but, nightmare blunt rotation this afternoon at dealbook

As labor, environmental, anti-racist, feminist, or anti-fascist critics of AI & the data centre economy we must work with AGI-risk obsessives when our interests converge (regulatory oversight; slowing automated weapons; stopping OpenAI & Oracle): & not when our goals are opposed. It's that simple.

things are going to get worse before they get worse

Canadian "sovereign AI" project: Look at this sovereign computing facility we're building in Canada! There will be so much sovereign Canadian compute here! Facility hardware specifications: Dell, Intel, Nvidia

Oh and at one point, one cop pepper-sprayed another cop. (Around the 12-second mark.)

how do we stop the global rise of the evangelical right? That’s probably the most important question for electoral politics and cultures of solidarity, globally. And we’re losing catastrophically. Especially in Latin America and Africa.

It’s all perfectly open and explicit now: be a US crony and your drug smuggling will be protected. Restrict the sale of everything to Miami-capital and get invaded, with drugs as the pretext. Even so citizens of the US’s ”friends” suffer as much as those who rebel www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Why there never was a Vibecession in one chart. It’s always been about the prices of essentials.

Everyone underestimates how entertaining I find these interactions

An excellent and very clear piece on LLM's and thinking. See also Farrell et al. in Science, our piece making the point about LLM's as a form of communication rather than cognition. alisongopnik.com/Papers_Aliso...

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

I missed this, what the fuck!!! I guess the Vermont guy advised by dysfunctional class reductionist influencers will stay behind his coalition, a little xenophobic. Thank god AOC, Omar, Mamdani, Tlaib, etc understand diaspora & transnational politics / political economy komonews.com/news/nation-...

Duralex is the closest thing to a perfectly shaped cup, I had no idea they are employee owned now.

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

It is interesting how Sudan is invoked as proof of hypocrisy on the part of left wing political dissidents re Palestine when ime the most ardent critics of the UAE are...more or less the same orgs critical of Israel

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

keith urban covering pink pony club at maralago is a level of losing the divorce the world has not yet seen

The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

It should be a very high priority to develop left wing leaders with administrative and organizational (building and directing consensus rather than just surviving fights) skill & talent. This is one highlight of the Zohran Mamdani and Kaitie Wilson elections & teams, if this isn't too early to say

…go thru this shit), the accommodations I got — including extra time on certain things and some tests — was invaluable for that rocky period of my life when I was getting my act together and learning how to deal. My heart breaks for students and others who never get access to that kind of help…

at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd. he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him. situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.

NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week. prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

If you lived 100 years ago, who would you have been? What about 1,000 years ago, or 10,000? My new history show, Past Lives, is all about the experiences of regular folks. Watch the trailer now and subscribe to the feed - we launch December 3 with three episodes! www.instagram.com/reel/DRAY51b...

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Documents reveal TC Energy pressured Canada for ‘private, high-level’ access to spy agency intelligence, a move critics worry could chill legitimate protest. via @writermjs.bsky.social and @zakvescera.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/tc-energy-cs...

Obviously these people are, on a literal, factual level, insane. But it's interesting to think about this in terms of what it suggests about the actual function of bus fares and similar user fees: to keep undesirable people out of public spaces.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...

Nice work!

One kitchen table issue is that food is prepared in kitchens and eaten at tables, and agriculture is one of the most vulnerable sectors of our economy to climate change, and food systems are also the #2 contributor to climate change after energy

the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results

Game players want sequels that are the year's new version of the car (the same plus a little more) - not movie sequels that take the core but reinvent it or pull it in a new direction. This is a central reason (in the aesthetic conservatism and how it allocates labor) for why games are still bad.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Kinda says it all. @weisenthal.bsky.social $UPS

New @lobbycontrol.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org data highlights tech lobbyists' tightening grip on EU policymaking: 📈 Total lobbying spend up by a third in 2 years 💼 There are now more tech lobbyists than MEPs 🗣️ Big Tech meets EU officials every single day corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...

How can anyone even pretend to believe that the hyperscalers are ushering in a prosperous society when they can’t even treat their own workers with dignity, respond to record profits with mass layoffs…

They revoked Wole Soyinka’s US visa? I keep typing reactions and deleting them. Another new low.

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

im tired of the collective being the subtext of the personal. Im ready for a phase of the personal being the subtext of the collective.

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

A huge and necessary form of activism, that frankly is not being done at the scale it needs to be, is to campaign for Flock and Ring camera bans.

It’s extremely funny how even the US government, with IMF and World Bank support, is so far incapable of backing Millei‘s Rand/Rothbard fantasies in a way the markets find credible