Good morning. You are waking up to the irony of a convicted felon president, who spent years avoiding his own criminal trials, capturing the president of a sovereign nation and holding him captive for criminal trials.

There was a leak but not to the media

welp.

You know, it’s plausible that this was done without a plan for what comes after because the only real goal was to get video of US troops looking cool arresting Marudo so it can be posted Online. It seems to be the only thing that matters to this administration.

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

On the nose

Good for Reuters for changing their headline. Pressure works. Grok did not do this. Elon Musk did.

Again, please explain why regular product liability law doesn’t apply to this software

Every new network executive: What if we hired a new person to move the network to the right. Then we might get some Trump supporters watching

The fact that someone calculated that a $25,000,000 political donation in a six month period was a rational business decision says a lot about how precarious the people pushing AI think the fate of the technology is.

UPDATE: “The hybrid, or Canis latrans var., is about 55 pounds heavier than pure coyotes, with longer legs, a larger jaw, smaller ears and a bushier tail. It is part eastern wolf, part wester wolf, western coyote and with some dog.” And it was all triggered by deforestation. WHEWWWWW!!!!!

“You don’t say….” she mutters under her breath, knowing a significant number of highly intelligent privacy and technology ethics professionals have been sounding alarms over this *exact* thing for years now.

Well, so much for that. Trump gave them a time frame to lower prices and they jacked up prices instead.

Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."

When I've talked to deepfake victims, both public figures and everyday people, I've heard horror stories about police laughing them out the door, girls getting expelled for reporting their classmates, and lawyers advising them that suing would just make it worse. This is abuse culture in action.

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Now everyone is (rightly) all aerated about the nudity AI shit on X, can we please do something to stop the Pervert Glasses that will soon be in wide circulation?

every time i read about the insane perverts attempting to gain access to daycare centers by force I think about this review for a dojo that I read ages ago. no, you are not entitled to places just because you want to go there. grow up

When you see headlines that read [city/state] cancels [$XXXM] of medical debt for [XX,XXX] residents, ask yourself why we have a system in which tens of thousands of people can collectively accrue hundreds of millions of dollars in medical debt to begin with.

just as a note for folks who might be reading this who want to remove the AI overview from their Google results: At the end of your Google query, place "-ai" without the quotation marks and AI results will not be included in your search.

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

grok didn't say shit. Grok is not sentient. This is you helping musk escape accountability for this shit. Journalism fail.

RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to terminate their flu vaccination ad campaign immediately after taking office. Just in case anyone was curious about his silence in the face of what is emerging as an unusually severe flu season and why he’s not out encouraging vaccines.

"My integrity as a scientist cannot allow me to do this" == "I can excuse manipulation, misinformation, and contributing to a genocide, but I draw the line at promoting the wrong flavor of magic beans"

I feel in my bones that the wave has started to crash back in and Certain People/Companies who thought they were safe to abandon everyone they’d been pretending to care about will suddenly realize that those people have money/power and I, for one, will be holding a grudge until the end of time 💜

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

From @csmfht.bsky.social ‘s Facebook page. 😂

This Upton Sinclair quote never misses “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

Should Erika Kirk be reported to her employer for insufficiently mourning Charlie Kirk?

Triple dog dare you, Ireland.

>>I’m just going to have to get comfortable with the fact that people on the internet do not understand what being lent a SAMPLE that has been borrowed before and will be borrowed again means but, you know what, that’s okay.<<

Imagine if France (and the EU) had a simple portal where anyone could demand that data brokers delete all their personal data, like in California. #CNIL #EDPS @ec.europa.eu @europol.europa.eu #GDPR

So much truth. And controversial view: for me one of the key differences between radio programmes and podcasts is that radio programmes rarely make me shout GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU SAID EARLIER IN THE PUB I WASN’T THERE

Think about this a lot. Editing takes time. Costs money. Most podcasts don’t earn any money. So most podcasts don’t edit. And so leaving all the irrelevant stuff in has been normalised in a way it never has been on radio, which is funded and for that money expects concision in return.

Art Herstory has begun the 2026 edition of our annual post about exhibitions of art by women of the 16th to c. mid-20th centuries! Museum Exhibitions about Historic Women Artists: 2026 artherstory.net/museum-exhib... We'll continue to add entries to this list as art museums announce new shows.

Under the discursive alibi of "technology" or even "knowledge," the worst edtech scam of our lifetime is being granted global reach, to the pleasure of ideological grifters and authoritarian governments everywhere.

Whether it’s Barack Obama being the editor of Harvard Law Review or Donald Trump narrowly passing a cognitive test used to detect dementia, there’s plenty of serious intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.

😒 this article is trying to frame the dislike for AI as irrational rather than telling the truth that people hate AI because its obvious that companies would rather burn trillions of dollars on a solution looking for a problem than pay people better wages all while selling bullshit.

It sounds like comically specific hyperbole but it is verifiably true that in the same year Elon Musk predicted fully autonomous taxis serving half the nation, what actually happened was his chatbot became a pedophile

Who is his speech writer? Sam Seaborn?

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

A Roman terracotta lamp with Victory holding a shield inscribed with a wish for a happy and prosperous new year. Around her are representations of things that were usually given as gifts to celebrate the New Year: money (here three coins), and dried fruit (dates and figs). 🥳 🏺 1/ #MetMuseum 📸 me

This man's media team is a bunch of goddamned geniuses, someone scouted for locations and figured out they could set up this very shot. Look at it, it's incredible. Look up pics of Adams being sworn in at the ball drop, which look chaotic, cheap, and undignified in comparison.

National park passes to feature Trump's face. Nature group sues. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

AI CEOs: why aren't people more pro-AI?! also AI CEOs: we have invented the automated revenge porn machine