We *really* need to start using decentralized media for this kind of thing. Don't trust any SV company to protect your identity.

That's the largest of America's 11 air craft carriers, one of 51 aircraft carriers in the world.

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

i basically now assume that all but the most hyperbolic recollections of emperors from the middle and late roman empire are all basically closer to reality than not

Trump is a teetotaler who spends hours lovingly staring at models of his grand plans for the redesign of the nation’s capital, you say?

Conservative influencers:

I love to vote for the party of fiscal responsibility

jan - it's not a nazi salute feb - gestapo in la mar - gaza ceasefire ends apr - liberation day may - measles jun - alligator alcatraz jul - hegseth pulls out of ukraine aug - navy deployed to venezuela sep - charlie-kirk-lied oct - it's just a nazi tattoo

Why would Trump get involved? He gets to harass immigrants and build his pretty little ballroom while SCOTUS levels an all out assault on civilized society. There's nothing about the government being open that actually does anything for him.

Done: -buy all legacy media -buy largest centralized internet media distribution to control flow of information Next steps: -block or restrict access to all other websites -block VPNs so people can't get past the Great Firewall of America

the year is 2050. you use your VPN to get around state censors and log onto Xiaohongshu. the first thing you see is chinese netizens producing "aesthetic" edits of 1/6 and the white house demolition. it is overlaid with the distorted vocals of sabrina carpenter's espresso. this is your life forever.

… lol?

(the one guy on the planet who's heard of Death in June but not World War II voice) wait it means WHAT

more than 2% of the national population out in protest together is quite the thing

It's insane how reddit is a top three website now and it's not because reddit got any better. The others all just got worse

And look, I recognize academic discourse can be exhausting and self-referential. But that’s bc there are circumstances where rigorously defining things like “what do we *actually* mean by intelligence” is important. Otherwise you build intellectual sandcastles and think you’ve poured concrete.

I worked on a successful tech project at the University of Arizona and it got turned into a product that made >$130k (so far). The University kept 60% of the profits, the professor I worked under got 38%, I got 2%. The grad student who worked on it got *literally nothing*. Is this normal?

While I always knew that the Trump administration would eventually pivot from disingenuously using antisemitism as way of silencing political dissent toward actively embracing antisemitism I’d admit I did not expect it to happen this quickly and this boldly

important note from libcrusher:

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞 @sbmitche.bsky.social www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

I just found out that as of Sep 30, US taxpayers can no longer send checks. Most people will have to pay electronically through the IRS website. This seems like it would be an unpopular among Trump's older demographic, but it also paves the way for closing the USPS and thus ending vote-by-mail.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver this week is a complete takedown of Bari Weiss... and it's thorough and devastating. And a bit of interesting timing, given that Weiss's new boss, David Ellison (who is talked about in the episode) is trying to buy HBO, where Oliver's show is...

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

Somebody reversed-engineered ICE tools to show you how DHS's Big Brother wprks gist.github.com/ruvnet/da960...

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

So the WH just: - massively increased ICE budget to the level of a decently-sized military - told the military he wants them fighting for him against "the enemy within" - announced ICE would not be affected by shutdown - shut down the government - stopped paying the military ...

This malware is stealthy, a warning from Apple/Google is the only definite sign you’re infected (in that case, take it offline + email [email protected]). Otherwise, frequent reboots + system updates seem to clear Graphite. As a more extreme precaution, a factory reset protects against most malware.(4/8)

"This country was founded on the principle that government has no business arbitrarily intruding in our private affairs. Yet this administration is trampling on our privacy at the grandest scale, illegally hoarding our sensitive personal information and threatening our most cherished rights."

Here's the killer follow up question: Why?

People like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk aren’t tech creators — they’re tech colonizers. Rich white men who used privilege and capital to seize an industry built by real innovators, exploiting the minds and labor of creators while branding themselves as “visionaries.” #Pinks

This is *so good*, like a guide to memetic strategy

Figuring out how to prevent sociopaths from using their lack of empathy to find their way to positions of power is an existential imperative

Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.

AI bubble is bursting bursting huh

And from a pure privacy perspective, the problem there is that once you’ve demanded every encrypted app add a scanning component, then changing what you scan for is just a software update to be agreed upon quietly in some committee down the line.

Bearded vultures are so cool. They dye their feathers red and their nests have been known to contain stashes of human artifacts dating back hundreds of years. They're like the Etsy resellers of the avian world. Also they eat bones and I dunno how that factors into it but it's cool

You cannot be fucking serious

“.. the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked ..” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

That doesn't seem good.

id be completely fine with "tough on crime" rhetoric if it were explicitly about starting from the top down. maybe something like trickle down crimenomics or whatever. really lean into regressive bullshit

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Social media is very effective at creating sin-eaters. A sin-eater is different from an ephemeral main-character. It's a recurring "well would you look at that guy" person you see screenshotted on your feed constantly, who is meant to stand in for the evils of some larger group you dislike

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Heads up #Atlanta and #Seattle — ICE did huge ad buys to recruit: As of Friday, total spending on the ads had topped $5.7 million, with the most spent since mid-September being $853,745 in the Seattle area. However, Atlanta saw the most in the past week, $794,084, according to AdImpact.

this cannot be real, this has to be someone doing a bit