Amazing that, with Prezident Bisiness currently wrecking the federal government, anybody is still going for even a nod towards "We need to run gov't like a business!" It's like calling for trickle-down economics or austerity. Nothing much we've tried more, bud. Maybe something new?

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

It’s easier to rewrite something awful then to write from scratch

The Strokes end Coachella performance with fiery political video condemning US government

BloodNSoil.AI: we want to destroy democracy and use sentient computerised weapons to eradicate cultures we see as lesser The Labour Party: please enjoy our health service

easy to get numb to how far previous norms have been eroded, but to see a company that our government plans to embed deeply in the UK's key infrastructure release the corporate equivalent of a school shooter manifesto is really something. companies used to have to at least pretend not to be evil!

“Earlier this year, the National Park Service tried and failed to erase history in Philadelphia. Now it seeks to soften and sanitize George Washington’s deep involvement in slavery,” writes Michael Coard, a civil rights attorney and founder of the Avenging the Ancestors Coalition.

Lentils and beans are making a popular comeback in trendy one pot recipes.

It’s the speed of the reaction that really tells on a lot of these big companies. Those programs had cost them basically nothing but they were first on the block as soon as the federal government modeled that it was cool to kill them, regardless of savings.

Explosive & really outrageous revelations in here about a billionaire's private surveillance network completely run amok. If we can't stop Dolan from spying on us at MSG, let's at least cancel his sweetheart tax break. (1/2)

Yeah. It’s telling that Donald Trump hasn’t mentioned “just war” at all but that the pope is “weak on crime.” Like the pope is the mayor of Minneapolis or something. Besides. Hegseth, Johnson, and honestly Vance (I said what I said) far better represent American religious antipathy for Catholicism.

Historically when there has been a ceasefire Israel has slowed down the mass murder just enough that the eyes of the world largely shift elsewhere, and this time they're making a show of it.

Israel twice in a row ramping up bombing on Lebanon immediately after a ceasefire announced is obviously evil and infuriating and horrible, but it's also strategically *fascinating* because it's such a loud declaration that they are actively sabotaging any American attempt to deescalate with Iran.

Is anyone still in denial that Schumer has a preference for candidates who possess views wildly out of step with the base of the party

It’s interesting how socialists should always be managing their politics and criticism in reference to what Democratic leaders find acceptable because they might be deemed ungettable voters when 1/3+ of the country already consistently opt out of standard bourgeois electoral politics (voting D or R)

Clearly, this disqualifies Palentir as a business partner for any other country than the U.S., not just in defense and security related sector but ANY sector — as information is power. European countries should not just start new collaboration with Palentir, they should divest it ASAP!

The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!

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Biden, Blinken and Sullivan were not “duped” by Netanyahu. They are true believers in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine for Zionist settlement. Just ask them who should have a “right of return” and who shouldn’t! That is their choice and nobody tricked them into it. Unpleasant but it’s the truth

Kamala Harris says Trump ‘got pulled into’ Iran war by Netanyahu https://www.europesays.com/people/32189/ Kamala Harris says Trump ‘got pulled into’ Iran war by Netanyahu 02:55 The Atlantic: Kash Patel’s behavior alarms…

some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small

literally every day my wife or I go outside with our daughter people go out of their way to be friendly, offer aid or a kind word, no matter where we've traveled. it's nice to remember that hostility as default mode of interaction is not destiny, much as it benefits some to pretend it is

there's no need to even be upset about this imo. I think it shows that he doesn't have the range. Maybe he'll improve over time but this isn't it. He sounds like the Yglesias wing of the Democratic party. They suck.

What this underscores IMO is that this is someone who doesn't believe that his opponents are fascists and that fascism is the threat. Because if you did, then this is not how you come out swinging. You punch the fascists repeatedly, not some staffer at a nonprofit.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

"The core population centers — not just San Francisco, but also Oakland and Berkeley — would have no advance warning. ..The shaking would start faster than the ShakeAlert system could transmit the message to them."

“Learn AI” is such bullshit. THERE’S NOTHING TO LEARN. It’s like saying “Learn how to call Domino’s and ask for a shitty pizza." #NotASkill #MotherfuckAI

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

“Repetition Legitimizes” It’s a saying about songwriting. It makes things “sticky” in your mind. It works, which means it can work *for* things, not just against.

pro-disinformation money doesn't just buy reach, it buys repetition across 40 different "independent" sources until it sounds like consensus. truth told once by one person can't compete with that architecturally. you need infrastructure, not just courage.

Omer Bartov on why Zionism isn’t redeemable www.instagram.com/reel/DXPkszw...

While the U.S. and Europe lead in AI development, the resulting mountain of obsolete GPUs and servers often flows to developing nations as "donations" or "used goods" https://restofworld.org/2026/global-ewaste-crisis/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

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Hemmati is also a promoter of the COVID lab leak conspiracy theory. Just like Bhattacharya, Kennedy, and Makary.

AI doesn't produce new knowledge; it relies on repeating the mistakes we've made in the past. Why let AI transcripts taint your research process? If you're short on time, turn to AAT for human thinking and critical transcripts.

Started watching the Pitt recently. So amazing. But it also was striking to see like, only one popular show that seems to actually address things like COVID, mass shootings, houselessness, opioid epidemic etc. Our media really does for the most part play on escapism and erasure.

Really common character traits across British politics, this: being beastly to your underlings and obsequious to your superiors. We've all worked with people like this, haven't we? And, having done so, did we feel like those people were good at their jobs, by and large?

Bsky staff is scrambling to convince ppl that today's outage has nothing to do with their embrace of ai. That's great. We should make them scramble more. The cost of replacing competent humans with AI needs to be greater on every single level for every single company.

also i love how they swore last time was their upstream and nope it was their code after all (note the blog post also has eau de slop) bsky.app/profile/davi...

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Literotica rejected my latest story for being snuff despite it not being snuff because they didn't read it they just saw the word "sacrifice" and sent it back after a full week in limbo! TO HONOUR THEM: One Like = One Story I Reupload from Literotica to AO3

It is absolutely impossible to search for the exact details of the query parameters accepted by YouTube on video URLs. (Try using Google Search for how to add a timestamp parameter. It's hell.)So I'm going to document here that the secret is to append "t=1h23m45s" to begin playback at offset 1:23:45

it probably is a ddos attack, but done by their own slop code it's a pretty common thing that ai generated code generates 100x api calls instead of 1, seen lots of cases of vibecoders doing this and running up saas costs; one of their devs admitted it in a post mortem for an outage 10 days ago

Evil hypnotist who constantly inserts Disney references into their inductions, so you can't talk about what they're doing online without it getting taken down for copyright.

I was once catching up with a few people whose careers I respect to get some thoughts about what to do next and one of them said "You know, your next thing doesn't have to be bigger than your last thing." And it remains one of the most creatively freeing things I've ever heard.

I linked it in an IRC chat, 300 people clicked it at the same time, and it was not set up to handle that much traffic. Same principle as designing one small bathroom for a large stadium: it's impossible to distinguish a DDOS from "I failed to expect traffic"

pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a... The postmortem of the *last* big outage shows that it was because they DOS'd themselves through vibecoded slop.

Some people have misunderstood this. We literally saw how Claude itself, coded by Claude, turns one API call into a DOS of thousands upon thousands of API calls done in the sloppiest fucking way possible. This postmortem shows Bluesky vibecoded a function to DOS itself, in a similarly stupid way.

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.