We’ve reached peak Idiocracy.

A German court has ruled that Google is liable for the false statements generated by its AI Overviews feature. The ruling could have massive impacts on the world's biggest search engine, which recently doubled down on giving users AI-generated results. www.wired.com/story/a-cour...

I hate these freaking journalists, storing these important stories for their freaking books.

The “Freedom 250” UFC fight at the White House features ad placement for the Saudis, along with gambling and crypto companies.

Every so often, some washed up sitcom dude do this sort of thing where they pretend that they made some truly edgy and controversial comedy that couldn't be made today, and it's just like... you're saying this about THE OFFICE?

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The Knicks victory is generating so much passion and excitement that if it ran in a primary election, Establishment Democrats would not support it.

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

even from a purely realist perspective, ambitious politicians should be trying to outdo each other on prosecuting ICE and the like. life pitching this one at you underhand

This dish probably slaps if you're zooted off Valium or whatever they were giving 50s housewives.

Chilling shit. AI social media bot swarms allow for "deeply embedded manipulation that lets operators nudge public discourse almost invisibly over time. ... In cognitive warfare, AI’s relentless operational endurance becomes a weapon against limited human efforts." www.hbs.edu/ris/Publicat...

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

The Scots found the Boston cop slide @everyone @edsbs.bsky.social @brianmfloyd.bsky.social @cjzero.bsky.social

The troubling power of Elon Musk. This man is the world's first trillionaire, and he got there on the strength of a business with a single client: government, and a business funded entirely, and involuntarily, by taxpayers. There is something fundamentally corrupt and unsettling about him.

Yup, been saying this will be the effect of AI in our book and elsewhere, too. The economic model we should be thinking of is fast fashion: Compete on price, not quality. That logic is now coming to coding, the industrial production of text, etc hagenblix.github.io/posts/sats-a...

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

Some of the efforts being made in Belfast right now to protect people, because the government can't or won't, will be familiar to Minnesotans.

@aoc.bsky.social time to be a legend

Watching the right wing Belfast reaction and understanding how a lot of outlets would have covered the Tulsa race massacre

it's incredible how many people are resistant to this lol

🚨 The White House May Have Just Confirmed The Most Important Part Of The Epstein Story Without Meaning To. New reporting comes out. The response isn't: "None of this happened." The response is: "Find the leaker." Think about the logic. If officials are launching a leak probe, they're looking

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It's wild to me that not only is this the one foreign country that politicians talk about this way, but if you say how insane it is, they'll call you a bigot. No, you shouldn't be serving any foreign country or fighting for the people of any foreign nation.

New from me: A defense lawyer wrongly arrested for drug smuggling into Rikers because of a false positive on a notoriously unreliable field test has filed a federal false arrest and defamation lawsuit against the city, the correction officers union and its prez. www.nydailynews.com/2026/06/11/n...

Trump tried to tank the global economy with tariffs. He failed because China and then the Supreme Court made him back down. But now he’s trying again with the Iran war. What did voters think would happen when they gave the worst president in history a second chance at the job?

#Mpls2040 mistake: failure to make small-scale multifamily feasible. But, St. Paul figured it out and Mpls could adopt their model. Check out the results! ~15% of permitted units in St. Paul are small buildings, while in Mpls "triplexes everywhere" is merely 2% of new builds. (source in alt txt)

New Yorkers need affordable homes. New Yorkers need great public libraries. So we're building both. Today, we took the next step toward creating a brand-new library and more than 200 affordable homes at the New Utrecht Library site in Brooklyn. Because public land should serve the public.

Corporation: We made $5 billion but spent $4.9 billion to keep going, so our net taxable income is $100 million. Gov’t: That’s right. Worker: I made $50,000 but spent $45,000 to keep going, so my net taxable income is $5,000. Gov’t: That’s wrong.

I'm far more terrified of gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets kicking in doors, checking cars, attacking anyone they want with apparent impunity than I am of being stabbed by someone with a different religion or country of origin.

Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸

BIG GRETCH

The Washington Post is not a credible publication

Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

Do you not understand that if you allow trans people to be oppressed and hurt and destroyed that the fascists will move on from them to the next group and then the next group until you're reading dipshits on social media saying your life is worth sacrificing to win elections? Do you not?

To chime in as a Minneapolitan: whistles made a huge difference (and still do, ICE is still kidnapping people here, just at a slower pace). But what really helped was the pre-existing neighborhood groups from the summer of 2020, so get yourself whistle kits and start talking to your neighbors *now*

Heather Long: US inflation jumped to 4.2% (y/y) in May→the highest in 3 yrs and up from 2.4% in Feb before the war in Iran. Higher gas and energy prices drove 60% of gain. Shelter and food (especially restaurants) also contributed. The monthly increase was 0.5%. Core inflation 2.9%→highest since Sep

Trump's war has wiped out an entire year and a half of wage growth

EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people? theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...

I was just thinking of the way that Facebook allowed genocidal incitement and coordination on their platform, which was evil, but Musk is using his platform to personally incite pogroms, which is worse.

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Elon is an existential threat to democracy around the world. He is set to become a trillionaire this week and can use that money to prop up far right fascist movements across the world. Governments need to treat him as the threat that he is. Sanction and divest him of his property.

the second a democrat is elected president the national media will become extremely concerned with the deficit I have a suggestion for where to start

The entire problem is that children are treated as parental property believed to owe their parents a lineage, a reproductive future. The existence of the queer or trans child is in and of itself considered untenable---what if it's a phase? It's too early to tell! They could well turn out normal.

British beavers stop underground station flooding. West London’s Greenford Tube station used to flood whenever it rained heavily. The Ealing Beaver Project got a licence to resettle a family of beavers. The beavers built a dam & the flooding stopped at the station. buff.ly/2qrgh1Z #ShareGoodNewsToo

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

I went to Utah to see what life is like in America's new reality, where vaccine-preventable diseases are common again. Utah's measles outbreak has lasted 10 months. Pediatricians teared up in interviews. Mothers were stressed. 🧵My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/anguis...

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has threatened to sue a publication after it revealed details of his tax returns, which he had sent to them by mistake.