Anyone still using ChatGPT supports fascism quitgpt.org

Trump's CBP abandons a nearly blind Burmese refugee in the Buffalo cold. He is found dead 5 days later. I break down the disturbing details & offer background to his case. I am calling for accountability for Nurul Amin Shah Alam’s death & answers for his grieving family. youtu.be/PYoBh1Q6GdE?...

Great news indeed. But I'm still always confused why disgraced faculty are not fired outright? 🧪⚛️

How does America survive another three years with a soulless, immoral, bitter, and murderous government?

Saw a GEMINAI vainity laicense plaite on my way to work. Is there no escaipe!

It’s time to turn the Epstein files into the Epstein trials. - Rep. Andrea Romero, Chair of the NM Epstein Truth Commission

Excited to be a part of tonight’s lineup at State of the Swamp! It will be livestreamed so tune in (and I promise it will be a more entertaining alternative coverage than Kid Rock’s halftime show 😂)

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

BOYCOTT Trump’s SOTU tonight!   Join me & @joyannreid.bsky.social along with members of Congress, allies, & Americans impacted by Trump’s horrific policies.   We will be LIVE on the National Mall & LIVE on YouTube at the MeidasTouch network and MoveOn.org/Live. youtu.be/zA45dfsXJ6g?...

John Oliver and team do a great job here of explaining how Twitter/X is a cesspool and why you shouldn’t go anywhere near it. Only thing it misses is new research showing that its right-biased algorithm “works” in that it shifts users’ views rightward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...

"The U.S. Women's Hockey Team said it is declining President Donald Trump's invitation to attend his State of the Union address, a day after the president jokingly told the U.S. men's hockey team that he would be impeached if he didn't also invite the women's team."

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Get it from Jack Smith and read it on the floor. Immediately.

GOOD TROUBLE: Call your dem members of Congress and tell them to boycott the State of the Union *unless* they’re one of the members escorting Epstein survivors.

A Nazi invites KKK to speak to Imperial cannon fodder and their masters.

Everything is Connected. From Private Eye:

Where is it we are heading. So fast. But is this fast. I must speak what is in my heart. I don’t know if there’s anything left now in my heart. It is so dry. I must scour it with words. ‘You Shall Not Speak’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

i shouldn’t give this piece any more attention than it has already garnered but i feel like it is worth pointing out some flaws in the argument/unquestioned assumptions thread 1/

NEW: ‘It’s a coup’. One year on from when DOGE entered the US treasury & Trump’s blitzkrieg on the rule of law began, I’ve republished an article I wrote then about what the headlines weren’t saying. NB: They’re still not. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison. Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

My New Yorker interview with David Remnick. Give it a listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Took me three sittings to finish this, but great piece.

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

This year, we're celebrating a decade of the International Booker Prize in its current form. Ten books, authors and translators who have carved a route into a world where boundaries are permeable and magical things happen. Tap the link to discover every International Booker Prize winner since 2016:

Let's highlight the Deepak Chopra – an OG wellness grifter – Epstein connection. Chopra had regular contact with Epstein, including offensive emails www.yahoo.com/entertainmen... Good reminder that pushing exploitive pseudoscience for profit requires a pretty f*cked up moral compass.

WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Statement from the organizers: “We are a group of scholars committed to diversity, critical thinking, decoloniality, respect of expertise, slow science, and conceptual clarity values in academia. We strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply”.

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

I suspect part of the problem is that billionaire babies can't handle owning a company that is operating at a loss, even if they could absorb that loss indefinitely. They would rather destroy the lives of hundreds of people than appear like they are not the Aristotelian ideal of a businessman.

In two weeks, world leaders and tech executives will descend on Delhi for the AI Impact Summit 2026. There, power brokers will paint a pretty picture of the role AI will play in saving the world - from sharing prosperity to fixing climate change.

Welcome to Paris.

That one is some amazing Euro-centric imagination (or we might even say cope). People colonized Indonesia then Polynesia all the way to Hawaii, long, long, LONG before 1492 but it didn't spark a scientific revolution in the South Pacific.

West Hollywood. Seattle. Austin. Beverly Hills. One message for Tim Cook: #AppleIsCooked. We're done with corporations and billionaires licking boots while the Temu Stormtroopers kidnap our friends and murder our neighbors in the street.

more tobacco parallels h/t @lewan.bsky.social > In the 1990s Philip Morris implemented a 10-year “sound science” public relations campaign to create controversy regarding evidence that environmental toxins cause disease. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....

"We’ve seen other data-harvesting monopolies and Silicon Valley companies paying homage to Trump: Meta and Google and OpenAI and Oracle and Amazon and Nvidia, many of which have financial and other links to Thiel. Palantir is the very tip of this extremely poisonous spear."

To understand the logic behind these warehouses and this new horrific carceral regime, you can’t do better than Ruthie Gilmore’s The Golden Gulag.

If anyone else's personal Gmail suddenly started giving AI summaries of your emails with no option to turn them off: I already took the elevated blood pressure hit for you and figure out how to get rid of it WITHOUT getting rid of the multiple inboxes (which I personally need in order to function)

Tonight at Sundance, join Ghost in The Machine director Valerie Veatch, @themaybe.org’s Alix Dunn, AI Now’s Alli Finn, and others for a panel on AI ethics, data centers, and Big Tech. Register here: collab.sundance.org/catalog/Stor...

Does your #brain exist mainly to think? Or is its most important function something else? "Three Lessons about the Brain" is a talk I delivered at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology in Poland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aii...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ivan Ehlers. #NewYorkerCartoons

How might we seriously get back to normal? From my PoV in California, other than voting, I don't see many practical options. This needs international cooperation....

Spain's Sánchez did somewhat more.

Now Trump says "we" need Greenland. Well done weak European leaders who tepidly criticized/welcomed Trump’s invasion of Venezuela yesterday. You're next.

India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing "safe harbor" immunity (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Thank you!!! Hey, I was asked to outline why I believe AI should not be embraced in schools in the below link (no one is voting "no" with me, so am trying to find ppl who agree with me to vote here, if u have a minute. Well my video maybe 15 mins) generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...

Loved listening to this long, insightful, and entertaining critique of Turing's famous paper. pca.st/episode/d565...

You empty little mops. Grok didn’t say “sorry”. It’s not sentient, has no guilt, has no feelings, has no moral compass. Its owner Elon Musk also has no guilt, has no feelings, has no moral compass.

Something tells me that this easy comparison between how a compiler works vs. something output by an LLM -based bot (assuming that's what "AI-assisted" means) is fundamentally flawed, but I am unable to construct a proper argument....👇

Really enjoyed this conversation with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @olivia.science! The "homogenization" discussion made me think of 'The Joining' in Pluribus. pca.st/episode/f442...