"What the Trump Administration truly fears is not Chinese communism, Russian autocracy, or Islamic extremism but European liberal democracy.... people who talk about transparency, accountability, civil rights, and the rule of law." tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-enemy-...

Brazil succeeded in holding coup plotters accountable. "If — when the glass has been swept away & the trials are over — those who empowered, guided, mobilized, and legitimized [the riots] are never held to account, then... the conditions for repetition remain intact.” jacobin.com/2026/01/janu...

This whole thread. Also worth noting the absence of accountability for the outcomes of the safety incidents. Perhaps corporate governance can step in here, pushing accountability back to the directors on the boards of those vendors.

3) Substitution Comparison with “average human driver” safety doesn’t matter unless AVs are substituting for trips take by average human drivers. If they are substituting for transit trips, they should be compared against transit operators – on a risk per passenger basis. 7/

liberals need to think long and hard about what these guys consider communism before they start thinking they're safe

That horse has long bolted.

For me J6 was a final, unmistakable signal: this is all out in the open. There are no more dog whistles, no more hints & suggestions. Nothing is hidden. Words are pointless -- there's nothing to uncover, nothing to point out. If you see this & continue down the same path, *it's because you want it*.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

NEW: "Mark Kelly did not urge service members to defy lawful authority.…He articulated a general legal truth—one that every commissioned officer has been taught, and one that even Sec. Hegseth has publicly acknowledged in the past." Read @markhertling.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/why-mark-k...

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

Australia has lots of “stuff” that Trump wants including smart sands essential for digital transformation & energy transition, gas and uranium. Not to mention our Antarctic possessions & CIA’s biggest extraterritorial spy post convenient to China. Were I Albo, I’d be a tad nervous rn. #auspol

What’s wild to me is the whole ass Department of Justice has identified multiple police departments who use Black communities as piggy banks for their municipal budgets but that’d never be considered “ethnic fraud”

This is a Government Department wanting to "deport" roughly 1/3 of population. Madness. Equivalent in Australia is someone suggesting to remove the entire population of NSW.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

Until Kari Lake seized control of USAGM and collaborated with Elon Musk's DOGE to dismantle the Voice of America, the VOA Persian Service had a 24/7 satellite TV channel, multimedia website and five social media platforms reaching ~16% of Iranian adults.

Brazil has an arid zone. This is news, because it didn’t used to have one. It’s a new place where food can’t be grown. That’s how much we’ve changed the climate. Every time you vote for a party that doesn’t have 1.5° as a policy, you vote for a future with many more devastating changes like this.

the rules were never going to apply to them, they never have.

This is Trump’s long game. We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue - but this has been his plan all along. He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hhs...

‘Basically a free for all’: Robodebt expert’s warning on AI rules vacuum www.innovationaus.com/basically-a-...

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

My father has a master's degree in economics, and I am genuinely worried that, if I show this to him, his head will explode.

I actually think it takes a great deal of software engineering mastery to adequately wrangle LLMs writing code. You have to have a vision for your project, know how to split it into well-defined modules with clean interfaces, write tests, and know if the machine is BSing you.

🚨Beware all women: do NOT record your period & ovulation info on your health apps. Governor Hochul vetoed my landmark health data privacy bill with @lizkrueger.bsky.social that would have prevented tech companies from using & selling our data without consent. @nyclu.org @newyorkstateag.bsky.social

Albanese and Labor could barely have been more supportive of Israel, or less sympathetic of the Palestinian civilians massacred and starved. Did that satisfy News Corp? Not even. And now he invites the president of the genocidal state to visit. Does he think they will lay off now? Ofc they won’t. 🤡

You can’t make this up …

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

Narrator: His critics can't be satisfied. The criticism is the ends, not the means, where ghouls compete to see who can climb atop a pile of dead bodies to shout the loudest.

Oh god, we're doing the "A test of his leadership" shite. Which is always "look I, the journalist have no actual evidence, or fats to report, but hey, those vibes, feel those vibes, everyone in the gallery is just talking about the vibes."

Can we all agree now that conservative politics and most of our political media are filled with grubs? Putting the dead bodies of a terrorist attach through a mincer to make political and clickbait sausages. Sorry - your editors, leaders and advisors told you to? That just makes you a coward on top.

Always amazed that people are okay with moving services wholesale to expensive and fragile digital infrastructure that imposes monetary and privacy costs on the end user, as opposed to cash which is very cheap for the end user but imposes the costs on the people who want you to pay the fees.

RFK Jr. should have paid more attention to the comics in 1968.

I tell you what, @marcfennell.bsky.social is an absolute gem of a storyteller. Listening to No One Saw It Coming atm and it’s a great listen. Thanks for your hard work sir (not just on this, but stretching back to your JJJ days).

This is part Trump being a terrible businessman and also Trump being vey good at inflating costs in order to get more bribes

Like, fossil fuel companies do not want to cede market share to clean energy. I can guarantee you that this desire will remain, and will guide the industry's behavior, no matter what language you use -- climate, equity, national security, industrial policy, competing with China, whatever.

I know there's no bottom level to Australia's media but also seeing Pauline Hanson elevated to Expert Commentator status is fucking shocking considering SHE WAS RECORDED CLAIMING AUSTRALIA'S WORST MASS SHOOTING WAS A FALSE FLAG OPERATION Immediately memory-holed. Like it never happened.

'Major turning point': EVs make up over a quarter of global car sales in 2025 www.businessgreen.com/news/4523258...

If only the government had acted earlier to let an unqualified, politically appointed anti-semitism Czar police the thoughts of university campuses, the government could have .. <checks notes> .. persuaded a father/son IS terrorist cell from terroristing. <blink blink> Are we really going there?

Australia is more urbanised today than it was in 1996. Opponents of a new round of gun control are going to find themselves even further on the fringe than they were in 96. Especially if it focuses on use case.

A desperately needed paper on the power of fossil capital to repress civil liberties around the world.

The repeated pattern (see also Washington Post) is that these choices to veer rightward are not economic decisions: they turn off the core audience. Editorial choices are loss leaders for bigger corporate goals.

Due to a glut of mass manufactured Chinese solar panels, a new eco-friendly initiative from The North Pole will be phasing out the traditional coal deliveries this year, in collaboration with Beijing Congress has announced sanctions on 6 members of the Claus family for undermining US energy exports

"The innovators who designed the juicero disrupted breakfast. We should have them disrupt warfare" - NYT

The ALP need to realise they will be criticised whatever they do, so how about do things that are good? And do things to please those who voted for you not those who never will.

"the drops in sales volumes are largely the results of [.] manufacturer’s own strategic choice to prioritise large, more profitable models [.] Rolling back the EU’s 2035 targets won’t solve the problem. Rather, it could trigger even greater economic consequences for the industry and for consumers."

My fave* part of this whole saga is that even after YEARS of being on notice to stop lying and sort their shit out, the Department tells the Ombudsman they have an app for that. And when the Ombudsman asks to see the app they say 'actually, no we don't'. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

It's great when volunteers step up to help their communities. But this in no way can replace government action -- as the organizers of these volunteer groups themselves make clear Yet the White House still insists that gutting FEMA is a good idea.

In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal

the network state stuff is being slept on - listen to @killthecomputer.com and get your shit together so you're ready to destroy this shit when called on.