you gotta hear him say it. really good stuff here

BREAKING The US State Department has revoked the visas of citizens from Argentina, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, and Paraguay for comments they made in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

NOOOOOO NOT D’ANGELO

vampires

Sapiens is mostly a Hayekian/neoliberal just-so story dressed up as history

there should also be a show called Dancing with the Rats

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

This isn’t really a classic both-sides treatment, it’s more the institutional rule that it’s rude and unsophisticated to summarize the facts of a situation in a headline if you can write an archly detached vague understatement instead

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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

somehow they managed to do the free press but worse

Wow, recalling my political history, and in a time of strife. Not a good look

The Israeli regime is torturing Greta Thunberg.

The New York Times doesn't tell you why the alleged murderer said he sent pizzas to the victim's house just before he ran down the girl and her best friend. He said on video that he was getting revenge for social media comments about death of Charlie Kirk.

Today, a million people took the streets of Italy in solidarity with Gaza. Protests occurred worldwide. Meanwhile, another solidarity flotilla is headed for Gaza, determined to break the siege via which the Israeli government is inflicting famine as a means of genocide: www.thousandmadleens.org

“The law says he can’t do it so it’s not clear whether he can” is such a 2025 headline

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Bibi Netanyahu intends to continue butchering Palestinians until he has exterminated all of them. Donald Trump wants to gentrify the blood-drenched ruins. As long as these fascists hold power, they will kill—and kill—and kill—until it is your neighborhood in their sights. crimethinc.com/Gaza2024

I think the case for “this was a decisive affirmation of the MAG ideology” is extremely weak & I think the view that we ought to take the election as an expression of where The People stand owes more to the insecurity and lack of confidence that is pervasive among our liberal elites than the facts.

i have said this before but i think that ones view of the current political situation is fundamentally shaped by how you view the outcome of the 2024 election. was it a definitive affirmation of the MAGA worldview or a narrow, extremely contingent result?

In the US, even a “cheap” transit bus costs 2-3x more than in Asia or Europe -- and one agency may pay twice as much as another for nearly identical vehicles. In Bloomberg, I explored a ripe opportunity to improve transportation by applying Abundance-coded, supply-side reforms. 🧵

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Absolutely wild. Israel targeted and massacred 31 journalists and media staff in Yemen. The second-deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded. The Israeli regime is built on war crimes.

Ezra Klein 🤝 Neera Tanden Despite the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights in all states, we should surrender instead

this thread is a nice reminder that hanania is an extremely poor thinker who benefits from the fact that many commentators are innumerate and can be easily misled with simple data manipulation

This is the tech strand of libertarianism that wants to replace all rule-making by market mechanisms. The result is just generalized corruption. But it's the exact shit that the weirdos from seasteading to pro-natalism have been advocating

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

100% correct. Having a spokesperson for a foreign power pen an op-ed attacking an American in a trade magazine devoted to a trade that spokesperson is no part of is genuinely despicable. That he tries to smear a Jewish woman as an antisemite is even more disgusting.

Last week, CNN's Jake Tapper had former Senator Kyrsten Sinema on his show to discuss a number of things she was "passionate" about, including AI and crypto. What he failed to disclose amid Sinema lavishing praise on Trump, was her financial ties to huge AI and crypto firms.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

This was 3 weeks ago

That said, no, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, your thoughts on this are not needed.

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

retweet if you believe only a TRUE veteran should go to war with Chicago!

This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

I follow this dude walking around the world and my favorite part so far is him being unable to walk through Uzbekistan without people pouring shots of vodka for him and shoving cash into his hands

"It is essential that the administration explain what legal authority it is using to take any action — and that reporting properly cover that authority and its limits. That is the law, and it is bad reporting to simply characterize the action as Trump and his team wishes"

NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.

Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities

Lawmakers in California killed an anti-AI price manipulation bill, and "a bill that aimed to protect electric utility customers from bearing higher costs associated with data center proliferation" that "required data centers to publicly disclose how much energy they use," per @khari.bsky.social:

In deploying California Highway Patrol troops to California cities, Gavin Newsom is mirroring Trump's every move, taking advantage of the extent to which Trump has normalized fascist authoritarianism to expand state violence under Democratic branding. More police means more violence, not safety.

Neoliberalism is unable to deal with the weight of fascism and will in fact normalize it and create the conditions for it to solidify further example 1,000,000