Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books to oversee its secret "Project Panama," new court docs show — quietly buying millions of used books in bulk, breaking their spines and scanning them to feed into its Claude chatbot. wapo.st/4rjXAMQ

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

Bolsonaro supporters protesting and demanding that he is set free got hit by a lightning bolt, 3 persons are in hospital now.

Grapefruit tastes like it’s trying to kill you.

The absolute accuracy of this.

New Yorker cover, “Bodega Cat,” by R. Kikuo Johnson.

A cammed bootleg VHS of ET that my dad paid $100 for

The leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.

Was hoping the KHive would take the day off

Gonna need to see a feature length movie about this hero

"captured"

HIDING YOUR EMOTIONS IS DESPICABLE

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Someday I should write about the time in 2005 when I interviewed for a job at the Huffington Post in Arianna's living room

sorry to sound like a comedy bro, but with the news lately, I can't stop thinking about george carlin's line "it's a big club, and you ain't in it"

Cannibalistic Oreos?!?

Jeffrey Epstein was developing a series, moderated by @lkrauss1.bsky.social, to bring scientists and celebrities together. The first season would include an episode where "Woody Allen talks about the human condition with Linguist Noam Chomsky." drive.google.com/file/d/14Sla...

I know it's only two episodes in, but PLURIBUS certainly seems like it's "about" the liberal fantasy Hillary Clinton presidency.

“Every person using ChatGPT costs OpenAI more money then they pay them. Every free and paying user asking how to make a fluffy omelette or getting it to draft an email to their kid's teacher drains their resources.” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-...

This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

lol r u kidding me

much to unpack but two things stick out: 1. once again tech bros are just selling the fantasy of having personal slaves and it's all just obfuscated human labor exploitation 2. why did they make it look as much like it will definitely murder you as possible. that's an enemy in a horror game

Big, if true

Mao

girl with a dragon tattoo > guy with a nazi tattoo

ok sorry to keep nazi tattoo guy discoursing but we have learned he was a guard at abu ghraib as well as the blackwater merc stuff and people are still like “hell yeah that’s my guy” about a guy they were not aware existed until like a month ago? we’re cooked

Platner was simply paying homage to Shepard Fairey

Has this guy considered that making end of life decisions SHOULD be stressful and emotionally taxing? Earlier on, he notes that he doesn't even know if hospitals would want to use this, so why are we doing this? Why are "playing" with introducing AI into end of life decisions?

Society is fucked. Nearly every person engaging with this fake news attempt at engagement farming thinks these Palestine protests are No Kings solidarity protests. Media literacy is in hell, everyone is operating on vibes, and the US exceptionalism/Palestine erasure is off the charts.

Happy Birthday, Divine! Today would have been his 80th birthday. 🩷💙🩷💙

Bunns Dumpty United States, Census, 1940

This is the aesthetic of the future

Hand sanitizer and plexiglass barriers at the pharmacy vaccine clinic because we believe in science but not all of the science

Ben Shapiro reminding me why I love One Battle After Another

Good piece connecting Thiel's interest in Girard to fascism, Palantir, and Vance archive.ph/tUoCU#select...

I am horrified by the news of multiple stabbings at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur. My thoughts are with the loved ones of the victims of this heinous antisemitic attack. We must defend a society where people of all faiths can practice their religion in safety and peace

People who coax chatbots into sensible answers are basically opening and closing the fridge until it contains something you wanna eat, yes, eventually you get hungrier & eat the stuff in there. But what changed was your cognition. The fridge stayed the same. You changed your mind about the contents.

I wonder if I've escaped a ghastly fate.

Just to recap, the actual president found an AI-generated video of a fake news report depicting a fake announcement about an imaginary healthcare system based on a technology that doesn’t exist and posted it on his official social media account

Menses R. Green United States, Census, 1880

personally, I think it's ok to yell "you bombed my family" at the former vice president

"War ravaged Portland"

Folks, some incredible news: A couple of weeks ago, a national theatre chain axed our release of Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile because it mentioned Donald Trump. Now, because of you, Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile will now run on over 25 screens throughout the world. theonion.com/badpedophile

"He was most certainly an edgelord, an irony guy."

Just gonna leave these here...

We're all conspiracy theorists now

So, a sniper killing ICE detainees isn't a big news story. A sniper shooting ICE agents would be. Got it.

vance has already framed this an assault on "law enforcement." if events of the past week haven't already driven the point home, the right's opportunism when it comes to minting martyrs to pursue its agenda will proceed no matter the actual events in question or the context that produced them