This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

This is so worth reading to the end.

Fighting for trans rights has NEVER cost a Democratic candidate an election. NOT fighting for trans rights have absolutely cost Democratic candidates elections. If you want a Dem to win, they must fight for trans rights. The data is clear about this.

1. trans rights are broadly popular 2. it’s the right thing to do 3. fighting is better politics than not fighting of course it’s the right time, if such a thing exists, to fight for trans rights.

Check out my report from last year for more on these book club scams and how they work. 5/ www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...

Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders. Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond. Now Herry is threatening me. 1/

Pretty sure everyone here is aware but none of this moon shit is what scientists refer to as "actually going to happen"

What the actual FUCK??? JEEEZUS www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Still thinking about this quote.

“And in the end, it was them, these loved ones, these brave Black women — including the one who escaped by outsmarting him — who finally took this depraved serial killer down.”

This is Lil Cat. She’s in Mendocino. A little shy. VERY sweet. 8 years old. And was well loved. Can anyone give her a soft spot to land? That face! If not, can you share? www.mendocinohumane.org#sl_embed&pag...

i just it seems very unfair

A former Democratic colleague of hers once told me that Susan Collins is “usually there when you don’t need her and never there when you actually do.” The moderate brand she projects is entirely performative. It’s always surprised me that Maine voters don’t seem to care.

And this includes prisons btw!!

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

Calling these things AI has been a fucking disaster and I largely pin it on Sam Altman. As one example: “falling in love with an AI” should have been framed as “using a predictive auditory sex toy.” lol. That’s accurate, a lot less creepy, and doesn’t set people up with false expectations

that's fucking disgusting.

Members of the ProPublica Guild say management has been dragging their feet on several core components of the deal: just cause employment protections, cost-of-living increases, and guidelines around the use of artificial intelligence.

This “queer tales” series has been a labor of love since we founded Neon Hemlock in 2019. GLITTER + ASHES: QUEER TALES OF A WORLD THAT WOULDN’T DIE was sorta the first, but it stole the series title from…

ice/dhs/cbp orcs treating americans *worse* than our military treated captured insurgents in Iraq & Afghanistan theintercept.com/2026/02/12/m...

Kindly help this reach goal so I can read it, pals 😘

i could never be a defendant in a french court. what do you mean the guy presenting evidence against me is dressed like cruella de vil.

“Inventing the Renaissance” is having another $3.99 ebook sale. I think this one is Uk/Canada/AU/NZ too! If bit, that sale is coming in a couple days.

I’ve seen the critique that making these hats isn’t “doing anything” but I’d say raising 3/4s of a million for their local food shelf and rent assistance org seems like doing a lot.

American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders. Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

A local Ukrainian group is not pleased www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Out driving just now and saw this giant mural of Iryna Zarutska, the Ukrainian refugee who got stabbed on a bus. Despite the fact that her family has asked them not to use her death for political reasons, Elon Musk has been funding these murals all over the country.

if you want 100% nonfictional stories from measles patients and their families, follow voices for vaccines! more: voicesforvaccines.org/resources/blog/

Adoration. Real photo postcard from my collection, no date/info except an embossed photo studio logo that says “Duclos - Lowell” - a photo studio in Lowell, Massachusetts.

There are certain tactics which are universally condemned because they do ultimate and lasting harms. You don't do foreign ops by claiming you're medical personnel...or you can't do medicine because of generational suspicion. When they claim to need help or are in distress to do harm? Same shit.

this is such an absolutely wild take in 2026. Since 2022, no fewer than twenty-seven states have banned or severely restricted healthcare for trans youth. www.lgbtmap.org/equality-map...

we really did make significant progress in reducing smoking didn’t we

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen is going on sale today! Snap it up for $1.99. Gentleman/smuggler romance with awkward families, sinister secrets on the marsh, bugs. It's on sale wide but I'm not going out to the shed in this weather so here's the kobo link

man alot of you will repost anything without taking half a second to look into it, huh its ai generated if you didnt know. useless

“AI giant Anthropic ran a massive program called Project Panama where they spent tens of millions of dollars to hoover up used books, which they then sliced, scanned, and pulped.”

This is a deeply confused justification that is basically incoherent. “I care about truth, not persuasion, but if I persuaded one person to do what I think is correct then my packaging of fiction as truth was justified” is not a good argument.

I'm gonna throw this on the flaming mountain of reasons to never set foot in the US ever again. "Plead guilty or we'll financially ruin you." What a perfect distillation of the modern American cesspool.

I think Democrats should stop with “Trump is doing deportation wrong” because I think they should stop focusing on immigration as a matter of crime and punishment. It should a matter of freedom and opportunity. The question should be how is the government going to protect and advance both.

Fiction moves people more than facts; if it gets parents to vaccinate their kids against measles then it works. THIS is fact, and it is just as devastating fs.blog/roald-dahl-l...

Literally millions of people believe ChatGPT is a search engine that has been improved by a thinking machine to ensure it only gives you the best, most accurate result. It's horrifying.

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

An unseen threat to coral reef biodiversity: the international trade of live corals for the aquarium industry as reflected by CITES records (1990–2021) doi.org/10.1016/j.oc...

Reminder- turn biometric locks on your phone OFF, and shift to a passcode if you think you’ll be in any situation where you’d be filming.

Artists and photographers of Blacksky, Bluesky, and all of the fediverse: I implore you to use alt text! Here's how, courtesy of @manningkrull.bsky.social: manningkrull.com/digital-phil... I want to share your art and photography! Let's accommodate our friends and comrades who use screen readers!

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going. Things are changing, y’all. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

Not every day you see orgs as distinct as the American Federation of Teachers and the Young Democratic Socialists of America come together to push ICE and its enablers off our schools 🙏