anyway have you guys read any good books lately

Wejia Jang at one point looks like she literally falls onto a bent over DT, realizes what she’s doing and gets off (as a USSS agent turns to look at her). Then, you see her crawl on her hands and knees to the backstage area.

BREAKING: President Trump evacuated after a security incident at the White House correspondents dinner.

Trump removed from White House correspondents dinner as attendees take cover reut.rs/4tF6c2e

Requiring cameras pointed at every driver that the federal government has access to is bad. We have a 4th amendment for a reason, and white cis het techbro's deciding there is no reason to not trust the government are literally going to be the death of me and mine. Not an exaggeration.

BBQ shack. I have no capital, and no business sense, but I can maintain a steady wood fire in a smoker, and I make good food.

If he apologizes for this, there must be incontrovertible proof that the company is responsible for much worse, even if I cant quite imagine what that worse is.

Lazy and incurious assholes are also selfish assholes! Read a book and learn a skill instead of being part of this. It's like a whole bunch of Discount Lex Luthors but instead of world domination, it's for even stupider reasons Makes that "being anti AI is elitist" take look even more insane

They are coming to drive your electricity prices through the roof, destroy your environment, pervert your politics, enrich billionaires, take your jobs, and make you pay for the privilege. What’s not to love? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Backers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.

Green Bean needs a foster home in the Twin Cities area. new.shelterluv.com/embed/animal...

In 1970, Regan’s education advisor famously said “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow [to go through higher education].” They said the quiet part out loud over fifty years ago. An educated public is a threat to fascism.

We didn’t get here by accident. This is the outcome of a war designed to undermine education as a public good. Public education has shifted from a fundamental right to “woke indoctrination,” a framing that’s coming from the highest levels of government. College is a now a financial burden by design.

There’s also a through-line of educational and tech corporations collaborating with conservative governments to have an out-sized influence on driving educational modalities and policies, which creates more wealth for them and poorer learning outcomes for students.

This is a thread, so I’ve left things out and oversimplified a very complex crisis. But I do think it’s worth noting the that there’s a through-line here of conservative think tanks working behind the scenes, often invisibly, to reduce learning outcomes—especially for the working class.

This is the landscape that AI (specifically LLMs) has crash-landed into. A tool that has horrific impacts on learning outcomes, cognitive abilities, critical thinking, skills development (including writing), and mental health is being pushed on, and by, K-12 schools and colleges and universities.

16. State-level attacks on K-12 have expanded to higher ed; we’re seeing erosions of academic freedom, attacks on free speech, outright bans on entire subjects, and more states eliminating tenure. 17. Majors and programs that support critical thinking are disproportionately targeted by budget cuts.

The attack on education in the US is not new, but the slow fuse that arguably started with Reagan is now setting off detonations across K-12 and higher education that are going to be incredibly difficult to walk back if we don’t treat this like the urgent crisis it is.

I am calling on the Minnesota DFL to publicly and immediately address the transphobia happening within our own party. Every day of silence sends a message. A message to our trans and non-binary Minnesotans already under attack by the federal government. Jason Chavez 3/

Of course the only way to defeat a bad guy monitoring everyone all the time is with a good guy monitoring everyone all the time

After what happened with flock cameras, you’d think we learned our lesson about trusting unaccountable governments with surveillance tools. Hard fucking pass.

The things that people like this never consider when actively trying to have us all surveilled is that the problem they hope will be solved by giving up our rights will not actually be solved. They will give away our freedoms and people will still die in car crashes in droves. Great job.

Every day, I am more convinced that we are going to need to just turn everything off and start again. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/b...

NAS President Marcia McNutt claims she is being bipartisan by avoiding “topics for which there is a partisan divide.” But this is blatantly partisan. She is doing exactly what one party wants. Worse, in direct opposition to the science in these fields. 🧵1/?

Support your local bookstores & artists. Support your local witches & goblins who wander through the woods. Support your local ghosts & spirits who haunt historic theaters. Support your local cosmic horrors, who slumber and wait for your call.

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❌ Myth: Guaranteed income creates a disincentive to work ✅ Reality: Guaranteed income actually helps people find suitable and sustainable work that leads to more stable employment:

this is literally fascism. building power by attacking marginalized people and then using that power to attack marginalized people. that's what fascists do.

the nyt and the atlantic target trans people for two reasons. 1. many of the editors and writers are genuinely bigoted. 2. they believe that attacking marginalized people increases their credibility as bipartisan and makes them "normal" (ie, congruent with white identity politics.)

AI as an accessibility product is being sold by the same people who rushed us back into the office-not for productivity, but because the managerial class missed having people to order around in-person. This is the individualism imbued with white supremacy that outlaws masking except for ICE.

This comes directly out of corporate AI initiatives. Had to sit through a 45 min, corporately mandated AI and accessibility "training" that was entirely an ad for Copilot, where the whole thing was about how individuals can use it to work around the lack of legally required accomodations.

The prayer Amazon would like its employees to adopt: ”Corporate overlords, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to accept the things I cannot change, And wisdom to know my choices make no difference".

Ben Shapiro on Sam Harris conceded the liberal case against Trump — corruption, coup, dictator-talk — then explained why he'll vote Republican anyway. The most clarifying interview I've read in a year, not about who you'd think. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-most-a...

#OTD in 1945, the coward Benito Mussolini ran towards the Swiss border with his mistress, Clara Petacci, & were captured on the 27th by local partisans. Mussolini and Petacci were executed the following afternoon.

The Atlantic, watching tens of thousands of children get murdered: eh who cares really, fuck them kids The Atlantic, watching someone pocket a snickers from a CVS: have you no sense of decency sir

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

Trent reznor never specified WHAT animal, But based on the beat, my guess is that it's a tortoise.

This shit has been coming. We’ve been in another wave of the red scare for quite awhile now and this is part of it.

LOL I will tell you who is in charge: 3 corporations in a trench-coat

It’s Saturday and if you have beef with trans people existing you’re weird. It’s hateful and dangerous but it’s also inarguably very very weird to care that much about the internal struggles, debates, and contradictions of other people. We all have our shit. Grow up.

After a mother was detained at SFO, California’s U.S. senators opened a formal inquiry into how TSA data is being shared with ICE, exactly the kind of airport-level data-sharing most American travelers don’t know about: www.goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntim...

NPR confirmed that ICE has acknowledged using Paragon Solutions’ “Graphite” spyware, the same category of tool that can silently break into a target’s phone, read encrypted messages, and access the microphone and camera: www.npr.org/2026/04/07/n...

Automatic license plate readers have quietly spread to thousands of U.S. cities. Now they’re being plugged into AI systems that can track any vehicle, anywhere, in near real time. The Conversation on how fast this crept in: theconversation.com/cameras-have...

Flock’s AI license-plate-reader cameras are in thousands of towns. ICE gets around its lack of a contract by asking local cops to run searches. In Florida, even wildlife conservation officers are running plate lookups for ICE: www.404media.co/floridas-wil...

Thomson Reuters's CLEAR database sells names, addresses, Social Security numbers, car registrations, even ethnicity flags. 404 Media reports CLEAR data now flows into the Palantir system ICE uses to pick which neighborhoods to target. www.404media.co/how-thomson-...

American Oversight just filed a FOIA lawsuit against CDC, DHS, IRS and others to force disclosure of how Palantir tools are being used on Americans’ data, and whether safeguards exist. We need more of this If you want to work with me on this, DMs open. americanoversight.org/palantir-dat...

Your phone, your car, your neighbor’s Ring camera, every store you walk into... all of it is getting fused together by AI tools sold to the federal government. Law prof Anne Toomey McKenna lays out how this works in a must-read overview: theconversation.com/us-governmen...