jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind

Iowa closing the African American studies major during Black history month is diabolical. This article is from 4 days ago, but it is now official. The minor will continue.

Yes. The folks who study election rumors and conspiracy theories are worried that a forced (and false) confession by Maduro (of 2020 election fraud) is a real possibility, and we’ve already seen some (wink, wink) foreshadowing of such a move.

Look, if buying and selling sex with underage girls makes someone a pedophile sex criminal, that would mean all my fiends are pedophile sex criminals. So like,

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

"Axiom’s approach involves combining large language models with a proprietary AI system called AxiomProver that is trained to reason through math problems to reach solutions that are provably correct. In 2024, Google demonstrated a similar idea with a system called AlphaProof."

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

‘Fiends’ was a typo but it works I’m keeping it.

Openai-launches-a-codex-desktop-app-for-macos-to-run-multiple-ai-coding venturebeat.com/orchestration/… #AI #coding

Great piece. Important reporting. Gift link: wapo.st/4kpCBGc

Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations ft.trib.al/H1vYT7B

Great read. An ICE attorney working for DOJ temporarily explains that ICE has no clue how all of this "federal court" stuff works and makes clear that both ICE and DOJ were totally unprepared for the flood of habeases that were the inevitable result of the Minneapolis raids.

Vertical Ray of the Sun is better. but I Come with the Rain is weirder.

Shouldn't surprise us that Bari Weiss is willing to wage out all out war to keep Peter Attia on the new CBS. As I explained recently, her project is provide a life raft for the Epstein coterie

Breaking: Eight more prosecutors are leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, including Ana Voss, the current civil division chief, the Star Tribune reports. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

Scene: Hey Bill, yeah it’s Jeff. We’re setting up a shindig on the island, that little Russian girl from last time’s gonna be there. Oh you can’t make it? Earnings next week? Too bad, we’ll miss you. Feeling good about the numbers? End scene. And that’s how you blackmail your billionaire buddy!

Hey we’re doing the movie Give Artificial Intelligence Access to Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Fucking love that movie.

Doing this so you can IPO and be forced to report out exactly how much money X is losing every quarter is very funny www.theverge.com/tech/872619/...

Gift article www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"

Trump, Gabbard personally oversee FBI raid on Georgia election center.

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

If true, this could explain a lot: Epstein’s mysterious money; the wire transactions to former Soviet states; Trump’s submissiveness around Putin.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

Trump plans to close Kennedy Center for about two years, starting in July www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

It bugs me that the head of one of the main consulting groups Democrats use has these guys as clients. globalstrategygroup.com/team/jon-sil...

Damn guess Tommy Mottola and Epstein were tight.

"...a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis"

Top US, Israeli generals meet at Pentagon amid soaring Iran tensions reut.rs/4qfxklV

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that. This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one. I will post them one at a time. Ready?

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume