Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

if you're a renter and have had to use an online application platform or a property management app - now's a great time to reach out to your property manager, link them this article, and ask them what they're doing to make sure that the tech they're using is keeping your data secure

Harvard professor Robert Trivers tried to get Jeffrey Epstein in touch with Norman Finkelstein. Instead of accepting, Norman sent a reply calling Alan Dershowitz a pedophile rapist and saying Trivers should be ashamed for defending them, and both should be strangled instead

Some folks out there might be too young to remember that prior to 2016 the president being implicated in a child sex trafficking ring was not considered a survivable political scandal

Both the erosion of the TV monoculture and the streaming services just not promoting a lot of their shit are crazy. If I told you there is a currently airing show by 30 Rock co-creator Robert Karlock with Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe would it be your first time hearing about it?

I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

From the start of the year to last Friday, the Vice Chancellor of my university was paid the equivalent of an entire annual salary for a full-time Associate Lecturer. (maths based on full pay + super before tax, based on VC's reported 2024 income from the 2025 financial statement).

News came out today of serious security vulnerabilities in seven popular Australian ‘RentTech’ platforms, leaving millions of documents containing renter personal information exposed. Renters often have no choice but to use these apps in order to secure housing. I wrote about it for the Guardian:

lol this is absolutely the wrong take, jesus christ

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

This is how direct the lineage is, Muddy Waters learned guitar in Mississippi Juke Joints watching Son House & Robert Johnson. 20 plus years later he finds Buddy Guy, fresh off the train from LA & starving in Chicago. Buys him food, & gets him a gig. Legend isn’t even enough.

Wait you're telling me *this guy* slots seamlessly into One Nation? Shocked.

Incredible story

People are getting tumescent about a site that points text engines at each other so they can recursively dredge up parts of their search space that were trained on the entirety of Reddit while also triggering automation subroutines that have access to your API keys and passwords #moltbook

"Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon boasted that he urged Australian billionaire Clive Palmer to bankroll an advertising campaign worth tens of millions during the 2019 federal election as part of a wider plan to disrupt global democracy."

i am a bari hater and take no pleasure in reporting this but nellie does seem to have been on the up and up re epstein: she contributed reporting to at least one story on him (www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/n...) and also specifically wrote about him emailing her (www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/b...)

2014-02-04 @tomscocca.bsky.social writes Gawker post about Cosby sex-assault allegations 2014-10-16 Buress performs Trocadero bit based on Scocca's article; @dhm.bsky.social posts video of it 2014-11-18 Netflix cancels planned Cosby stand-up special 2014-11-19 NBC cancels Cosby project 2015-07-27:

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

And most of the major media did not take it as seriously as they should have because they were also often ridiculed by Gawker etc. An entire century thus far of reactionary politics from people getting owned online.

well that’s not true, the maltese journalist daphne galizia was murdered with a car bomb

ohhhhhh okay so what we've learned from the epstein mail drop is that the entirety of the fascistic culture war since the 2010s onward was basically wholesale consolidated through the anglosphere bourgeois old boys club network of pedophile rapists

So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?

Kinda reveals how Weiss was able to rise so high and so fast despite being an objective mediocrity - she simply tapped into a huge network of elite pedophiles and signalled that she could help them!

I thought "ceasefire" meant that fire ceased, so again I must ask, how many airstrikes killing how many people constitutes no ceasefire, rather than a "strained" or "tested" or "uneasy" ceasefire, or a ceasefire that is "inching forward" amidst ongoing fire?

somebody please organise an opportunity for that community to grieve.

The wealthy have class solidarity and we'll only beat them when we have it too

i feel like one thing that we should be making abundantly clear from now on is that the majority of anti-trans consent manufacturers are goddamn pedophiles. are you going to believe what a bunch of pedophiles say about us? what does that say about you?

Deep drag on cigarette "Just when I think I'm out... they pull me back in."

I hate this. I hate that scholars and teachers are supposed to be digital fraud experts. I hate that this part of their job description is becoming larger and larger. I hate the widening distrust. I hate a culture that aggressively devalues the curiosity and humility required for ongoing learning.

"It is all but impossible to explain why things happen the way they do. Our lives are like little bébé crows carried upon a curious wind, and all we can wish for our families, for those we love, is that that wind will eventually place us on solid ground."

i once bought a new blazer for a schitts creek panel, and when i walked into the green room, catherine o'hara complimented me on it, and also noted that i had forgotten to cut all the threads off the vents. and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"

Nonsense. It's not possible to steal AI technology. I know this because Google's own LLMs are built using a complete copy of my legal blog, and that's somehow not stealing because, as Google says, a complete copy of my legal blog is both trivial and utterly essential for their tech to work.

this is a sincere post: particularly if you live in Aus or NZ you need to wear SPF every day all year

what a year canada is having

Sickos.png www.youtube.com/watch?v=78aS...

The department and minister have refused multiple requests to turn off mutual obligations during this heatwave. People with health issues & disabilities are being put at serious risk and this government does not care

OH MY GOOOOODNESS. Literally all my faves working together? Sex Crims? Iconic Fraction/Zdarsky joint? Emily and Kumail? Tze? Am. I. Dreaming. This is truly sincerely amazing news. Congrats all & can't wait to watch #brimpers #sexcrims #detectivehole #notinthis #yet

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The Americans are freaking out because Detective Harry Hole is coming to Netflix. It took me a second to work out why and then I remembered how Americans pronounce “Harry”.

i gotta say one more thing having worked in animation for years now, calling this "animated" is a fucking mortal insult. completely get fucked. animation is a creator thoughtfully and painstakingly giving something life. this is fucking nothing compared to animation

The Americans are freaking out because Detective Harry Hole is coming to Netflix. It took me a second to work out why and then I remembered how Americans pronounce “Harry”.

This also means that Tesla and SpaceX have funded an AI company that has created nonconsensual sexualized images of children.

I think my favourite part of moving house two weeks ago after being evicted for a sale was also having to come up with several thousand extra dollars for bond *the day of the move* because we mistakenly believed this scheme was already in place.

When I teach genre, this is a major frustration for me. Prestige/elevated/literary/etc are marketing genres! Every work has genre. But prestige works get marked as "not genre" because genre, like accent or race, is something you only need comment on if it's outside of the enforced norm.