Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

okay!!!

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

Josh Marshall on the mistaken assumption that there is “a” reason why we attacked Venezuela. I have an odd perspective on this, since I spent ages fixating on the analogous question about Iraq. It started when I noticed that none of the books about how we went to war in Iraq mentioned a DECISION.

Lest anyone think the US invading a Latin American country and “arresting” the leader to be tried in US courts is a new level of lawlessness under Trump, I remind you: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_...

Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

The biggest challenge America will face over the next decade will not be defeating this political movement because it will soon collapse of its own accord. The biggest challenge will be cultural and it will rest entirely on the question of how we'll treat the people who voted for this.

When kids grow up, it’s good for families to stay in touch. But it’s also important for parents to not be in charge of their adult kids. So how do you not have disastrous chaos? Seagull Day is as good of an idea as any I’ve seen.

“It’s something I thought up all on my own. We are going to decorate a tree with stale food from the cabinet and leave it for the seagulls to eat. Those guys must get hungry in winter when there aren’t any sandwiches to steal out of people’s hands.” www.huffpost.com/entry/christ...

I find the idea that you need to know “how to use” AI tools really funny, as if it isn’t incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

I read through these (more in the comments) and hoped maybe this was some cheeky lefty publication that went looking for the most extremist nuts they could find to make the right look bad. Nope. It’s City Journal, published by the far right Manhattan Institute. Horrifying.

i made a helpful reference

This video was obviously made for me so I doubt you would enjoy it. https://youtu.be/w5QSVhgrqVE?si=5IDiChL7jlsmK2ZP

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Racist cruelty

This game is very good and worth the 20ish minutes it takes.

all the fake AI trash really contradicts one of the main ways we're told capitalism operates, with capitalists identifying wants/needs & developing products & services to meet those. turns out you can skip that step & just pretend. nigh everyone hates AI and it makes no money but it's everywhere

now here's an idea!

Literally a week ago Musk said that falsely labeling people as Nazis "should be treated as incitement to murder." And here he is (falsely) labeling the EU as Nazis.

Military personnel: This is what following unlawful orders looks like. Don’t do it. You don’t have the president’s get out of jail free card from SCOTUS, and these losers will not protect you.

"Prosecute ICE" should be a basic position for Democrats at this point.

This is a great deal! I’ve been a happy Nebula subscriber since, I think, Jet Lag season 4. Scav, Abolish Everything, and The Getaway are some stand-out originals.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

there is no reason to expect—or fear—computers becoming intelligent. we should be afraid that people have already stopped thinking for themselves

Holidays can be tough. Help is available.

It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI

First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.

The only thing better than dinner-party fun fact pedantry is being able to out-pedant someone else.

@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social Can I submit Kangaroo court.png commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ka...

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Tomorrow is a month away from Xmas Eve. Please have a look to see if you have any children's clothes, books, toys, etc that are no longer needed & donate them to your local charity shop ASAP. The demand for these items is now, not after Xmas. People are skint but still want to make Xmas special. ❤️

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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

Sadly Elon Musk has made me laugh exactly once, and I don't think it was deliberate.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

lf Dems had any sense they'd treat this guy the way the right treated Kyle Rittenhouse. Put him on tour. Give him Morning Joe's spot or something.

I had reason to check comments on The Minnewanka Curve Experiment and saw this lovely one from a year ago.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Let’s goooooo