One of my longstanding but unfinished projects is to chase down the claim I was told by an OHRP employee that the Common Rule excludes consideration of "downstream" consequences of research in order to protect IQ race science. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Every time your PG&E bill goes up, just remember you are paying so that Elon can make pro-apartheid propaganda. calmatters.org/environment/...

It will be the funniest moment of history when a Brooklyn jury nullifies the case against Maduro.

That warm feeling when you're the first one to save a breaking article from Jeff Bezos' WaPo to archive.today #feelingcozy #piracyisback

All this talk about Avatar being 3:20 long and not having a pee break. But what about a vape break? How are 40-something parents in liberated territory supposed to survive this?

What happens in a "startup society" when your company matures and you're ready for an exit? Do you get exiled? Do you invite a hostile foreign nation to take over, as long as they install the C-suite as loyalists? Who pays for your shares?

Imagine being such a fucking tool that you thought you should build an artificial God to make lots of profit. That's the entire premise of our economy now.

It has fake hallucinated references in it too lmao bsky.app/profile/saxo...

🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE: They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet. DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

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

The discovery in Kimmel v Carr is gonna be a real banger.

welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Facebook allowed a foreign weapons manufacturer (Cambridge Analytica) steal my data to launch a fascist coup in the US and all I got was $35.

This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.

Some thoughts on yesterday www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...

We are ~6 months from a Jon McNaughton scribble of Trump and Jesus bombarding Fort Sumter being hung in the National Portrait Gallery. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/a...

With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:

This is how Taylor becomes the Lenin of the anti-technofascism vanguard. 🫡 www.reuters.com/business/met...

Starbucks is a glucose purveyor with a coffee side hustle. #psl

RFK wouldn't be able to identify a mitochondria on a 7th grade biology textbook diagram of the cell.

Pritzker, Moore, Newsom, Whitmer, Hochul, etc. could end all this bullshit tomorrow by declaring as a pact that any state which works with Trump to send uninvited National Guard troops will be subject to: - termination of all state government contracts with business from invading states

Absolutely committed to doing this all in the dumbest, most Boomer-brained, least effective manner.

You really could not find a more precise combination of everything I hate. 〽️ www.anduril.com/article/andu...

Surely this is a marketing ploy by Subway. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The catalog of violent goon shit continues to grow. youtu.be/xuSNmjqY2d0?...

I really appreciate how clear @governor.ca.gov is that the UCs will never bend the knee to Trump. What the Ivies have done is just so debased and absurd, but I never expected better out of those over-privileged nerds. Proud to be a UC grad, even tho I have The Ahnolds sig on my diploma.

The new AI business trajectory: skip the Trough of Disillusionment, go straight to the Slope of Dark Enlightenment.

I appreciate that Ezra is one of the few people in the mainstream media willing to look this in the face. But the only correct answer is that Israel was engaged in Gaza *before* 10/7. It was then and is now a genocide, and Israeli officials have been vocal about it. Take them at their word.

This kinda settles the question of whether that eugenics joke ad was Nazi shit, right? The Nazis said it is. abc7.com/post/califor...

Only getting weirder to think about the process from techlash to tech crash to tech fash

As always, "debating" fascists is pointless because the entire premise of their position is that debate will ultimately be overcome by violence and oppression. They want to end politics, not participate in it.

Heyo, good morning! I am in #PaloAltoCA in front of a nondescript white building where SEIU folks are gathering to protest Antonio Gracias, the CEO of Valor Equity Partners (i.e. the location), who is associated with DOGE.

Columbia devalued all future degrees to be basically rubbish.

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journalists and the press should make it very clear this move is about information control and mandating that all future automation tools amplify and protect right wing ideology and right wing propaganda

Funny, this is how I view Andreessen-Horowitz and their peers

Superman was a surprise piece of anti-tech oligarch propaganda. The plot essentially turns on Lex Luthor wanting to coup his way into a network state, by meddling in US foreign policy and taking private control over the government.

Remember when the Times refused to publish campaign intel on Vance because it had been obtained through a hack? I guess that was less newsworthy than the current thing, though

It is absolutely insane that the New York Times is granting anonymity to famous extremist race science activists in order for them to launch political attacks. More than the anonymity, the complete lack of relevant context here is egregious.

We might note that this is actually a great case for sincere anti-affirmative action positions: the categories are too restrictive and it didn't really matter. But in reality this "Cremieux" character is just a trash-hearted cowardly racist who lacks any convictions.

Hertz is rolling out AI scanners to detect damage on rental cars but it really seems like a way to add huge "processing feeds" and "administrative fees" on top of the "repair fees" — while also impeding people's ability to challenge or appeal any disputed claims. www.caranddriver.com/news/a651760...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Won’t be long before we learn of an ICE detention center setting up in a former regional hospital Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

This is after he turned up at Ramy Yussef's set where Mahmoud Khalil also surprised everyone h/t @karenho.bsky.social

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