Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.

read your own paper

seems bad www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

almost made a joke last night about khan/mamdani 2028 lfg

Focus group behind two-way glass. Pete watches as the moderator asks, "Would it upset you if someone congratulated Mamdani in a tweet?"

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

california is not going to save us www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...

A friend of a friend of a friend of a guy they claim is associated with drug trafficking based on “fuck you because we said so.”

NEW: I scanned dozens of Grokipedia pages related to Texas. What I found were entries that downplayed slavery and promoted Texas secession, as well as an entry on the 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting that said Great Replacement theory may be backed up by "empirical data." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

"we drove toward reno, a city where nothing good had ever happened to me but i kept hoping" lolol rereading the chill ross macdonald is the goat

going through an excel file of microfilm holdings and "the inter-state tattler" might be the best newspaper name i've ever seen

“The startup decodes how people speak to understand how they think, decide, and collaborate. By analyzing more than 30 vocal signals—from tone and pace to word choice—Mappa predicts compatibility and performance with striking accuracy.” No the fuck it doesn’t.

This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Your periodic reminder that there is a bipartisan bill being advanced that will make it exceedingly easy to avoid paying taxes on profits from crypto, and that many Dems support it.

The Trump family’s crypto income is now approaching and could even exceed $1 billion. A big piece of that business came via crypto wallets likely held by foreign investors, a Reuters investigation finds. reut.rs/48LStPt

This is so bleak: www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...

to win elections the democrats need to shift even more right than the republicans. that way they can capture moderates and conservatives. and the left should still vote for the democrats

If the Democratic party had any fight or sense in them they'd be organizing huge and politicized food drives

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

every day leaders of the new tech frontier are spending billions of dollars to digitally reconstruct the mind of george zimmerman

"We’ve never seen anything like this before.” @jacobsilverman.com on the shocking scale of Trump’s crypto corruption It’s a system where foreign actors know “it is in your direct political interest to buy Mr. Trump’s tokens or invest” in his crypto scams. gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o...

The new Pentagon press corps: Tim Pool, Official Real News Only, BasedAnimeCentral, the Patriot Remix TikTok account, The Southern Swag Gentleman, A Man In His Car Wearing Oakleys Who Won't Stop Screaming, guy who got banned from Kick for pranking the elderly, the mods of /r/KnifeAttack

getting teary-eyed reading a treatise on memory and the crushing march of progress and what is perhaps the most consequential street corner in my life and now i'm getting teary-eyed thinking of mario's chicken soup which is basically my ratatouille from pixar's ratatouille

Bay Area friends, if you're free Thursday night, come listen to me talk about my AI reporting with @ihetz.bsky.social at the main @oaklibrary.bsky.social Thursday 10/23 at 6.30pm @ 125 14th st. Oakland oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/68a4e...

Phillip K Dick could never

Hot event alert!! this Thursday at Oakland Public Library

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

WHOA. The AP reports that in the latest strike on a boat alleged to be carrying drug smugglers (which has never been proven), there were actually survivors, and they've been rescued. The Pentagon has yet to formally acknowledge they have survivors in custody. apnews.com/article/vene...

openai to finally acknowledge what has been driving the AI boom for years and years but no one really wants to admit: chatbots you can fuck www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

between this sort of thing and the misinfo firehose that Sora has turned into it is honestly amazing reading OpenAI's original mission statement lol

To all my friends in The Town: Join the incomparable @nitasha.bsky.social for a talk about AI and your 🧠 at the library downtown next week

nearly 500 mill a year in crypto ATM scams alone!!!!

fiction should be 250 pages or less 300 max

israel has already broken the ceasefire