The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture. In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

All right people so literally I downloaded one of the government documents to Books on my iPad. I highlighted some text that was not redacted and it included some that was redacted and I copied it over to notes and I pasted it and you can see everything unredacted. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

"Free press," indeed

Can't wait until Chicago allows the creepy cars that can simultaneously shut down all of the streets

The AHA saying historians can use AI to generate fake historical images is pretty crazy.

OK so where are my historians who are quitting the AHA over these hideous AI guidelines

“.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” 🤡 @rani.bsky.social $TSLA @mims.bsky.social sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

This mf destroyed homeless' camps with his own hands.

My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

If you're feeling down because you were wrong about something, just remember that, no matter how embarrassing it was, at least you didn't sign the Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" declaring that the greatest threat to free speech was "censoriousness" among liberal academics. 🫶

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff. This should be headline news. x.com/uaw7902/stat...

"A.i." is a tool of racists and fascists and liars. Do not use it and do not spread it. Abolish "A.i." from every space and org you have authority over - at the very least from your own computers and social media feeds.

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

OK students, you know what to do

Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

@chargepointnet.bsky.social why is your billing support so incredibly horrible? You're putting random charges on my card and I can't speak to anyone nor can I get a call back nor can I use your online form

Books about “Asian wife sharing.” Detailed descriptions of orgies. Scenes involving “ladyboys.” That’s what @dfriedman.bsky.social discovered on a Goodreads page tied to the email address of a top Pentagon official and mentor to Pete Hegseth. What came next was even wilder.

nice tourism industry you got there - would be a shame if anything happened to it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

The Trump administration's withholding of research funds was certainly illegal and Northwestern's deal with them may be too. See statement from law faculty www.theuniversityunderthreat.org/updates#h.hk...

Ok it's been pointed out to me that this is supposed to be a rebus for "America runs on Dunkin," but it looks for all the world like a person running away from the US

As opposed to, say, 10 year olds, who absolutely are to blame for the wealth position of their families

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

Why do people think "it's here to stay" and "it's not going anywhere" are such persuasive arguments for AI? The same can be said for violence and hate

I now have comment from the Interior Department confirming it is holding up approvals for “federal resources, permits or consultations” related to solar projects on private lands Cc @heatmap.news

What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood

Looks like Spontaneous Objects is happening-- it's in the catalogue! And not only that but my cover image is on the cover of the catalogue! www.psupress.org/catalogs/PDF...

Tell me you have Pro-Russia bias without telling me you have Pro-Russia bias.

Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.

Almost half the US economy is now based on Nvidia selling GPUs to itself using other companies as proxies

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

“There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military,” Juliette Kayyem writes, “one of which is the risk of endangering them”:

Fuck, Northwestern just caved. Reading the deal now. ( www.northwestern.edu/president/do... )

Instead of "AI", say "entitled assholes with computers" Examples: Will your job be replaced by entitled assholes with computers? What's the environmental impact of entitled assholes with computers? Will entitled assholes with computers cure cancer? Do entitled assholes with computers lie?

I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics. COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs? ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons. conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...

Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays: "Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

"Blending family and governance," NYT? WTF?

They fuck you up, your mum and dad They may not mean to, but they do. And now thanks to some bright tech lad They will never, ever be done with you.

literally one of the quickest ways to watch most Americans turn into rabid frothing fascist zombies is mention the word “vegan” around them. i’m personally not even vegan, i just think it’s neat. a lot of the theory (especially from BIPOC vegan folks) is really fascinating.