Is it true that now X allows to edit with AI any artwork an artist uploads to their platform? Why are platforms so insisting about not only not supporting artists but also screwing them? Obv short answer is money. Obv anyone can do it with any art you upload anywhere. But this is legitimizing it.

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

Your regular reminder: The Atlantic routinely platforms what amounts to long-form shit posts by meritless goons who do not deserve to have their opinions treated with respect. You do not have to read this magazine; you do not have to give their takes any of your attention.

This new flock leak is honestly terrifying in what it opens up

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work? archive.is/2025.12.17-0...

This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:

Relatedly, the other thing I love about this recommendation by AHA is that it instructs members to violate the TOS of the databases they're getting their materials from. Most databases have a restricted to no genAI uploading clause in the vendor contracts.

This is a dumbfounding guideline. Absolutely a destructive and incompetent recommendation that was clearly made by people not qualified to judge such decisions.

So embarrassing & one of many reasons I am glad I am no longer a member of @historians.org . V disappointing to see the largest professional organization of historians get right in line with "let's boil the oceans training LLMs on stolen work so we can paraphrase the internet badly & inaccurately"

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BREAKING: The Florida Supreme Court upheld Florida’s law, making it the only state to allow juries split 8-4 to sentence people to death. Permitting non-unanimous, divided juries to sentence people to death is unconstitutional and increases the risk of executing an innocent person.

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Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

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This is targeted state violence against the Somali community by the federal government.

I think Fomoria's GM screen is going to be cool. #fomoria #ttrpg

So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.

In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.

At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.

"At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded there on Saturday have survived school shootings before."

I think people should be pretty angry that a handful of men unilaterally decided culture, art and civilization should be fed into a woodchipper so they could attract VC funding.

Oh man the copyright wars from this are gonna be fun.

Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised. Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

People detained at the nation’s largest ICE detention center report that officers have beaten them and used the threat of violence and criminal charges to coerce non-Mexican immigrants into crossing the border into the Mexican desert. We're demanding that the facility be shut down immediately.

oh my god, he admit it x.com/Acyn/status/...

Dan Bongino hardest hit

DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power

Hey Ezra Klein, is this practicing politics the right way?

The Hepatitis B vaccine was expected to prevent 9.5 million infections, 2.4 million chronic cases, and save 600,000 lives in the US by 2050. The federal vaccine committee has blood on their hands.

I can’t tell you how glad I am to be released from the disgrace of Temu ACIP. I made a commitment to watch and comment on these proceedings. Not sure I’ll do it again. In summary, ACIP is no longer a legitimate scientific body. Every U.S. state needs to decouple their vaccine policy from ACIP.

She doesn't ask twice. Or once. Jotna is one of the 8 pregenerated characters you will see in Fomoria's Quickstart, coming later this month. Will she survive the Spawn of the Hungering One? #fomoria

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

a lot of bad shit that is done to disabled people is harder to pull when things are universal so yes, make it universal

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Anti-abortion groups are pushing to ban abortion coverage for anyone who gets tax credits to pay for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. If Congress caves, this would be the first federal ban on private insurance coverage of abortion, and could push care out of reach for millions.

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NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution. Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors. Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture. www.justice.gov/pardon/media...

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I'm cooking up plans to get this made even without the crowdfunding money, but still, it would be nice. Can we get one last push over this next day and a half?

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Another of my illustrations for Devil’s Due: A Space Pirate Haven for Mothership RPG ~*

There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

Critics have likened John Gotti’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with the Gambino family

Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.

Among the provisions are ones agreeing to the Trump administration's definition of sex as "biological sex" and agreeing "not perform hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries ... on any individual under the age of 18 years old, effective immediately."