I am starting to believe that the AI craze actually has, for once, created a genuinely useful way to test someone's intelligence: are they unquestionably on board with using corporate AI tools for everything, or are they going "whoa, hey, wait a second"?

ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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it's going to be like when we got rid of smoking in restaurants and on airplanes and within a matter of maybe a year everybody was like "we allowed WHAT?"

If we get it together, they are VERY vulnerable to organized resistance. And, the direct action folks are really holding it down out there already. It's time for the politicians to either catch up or cede their claim to opposition leadership.

To a great degree we’re dealing with the fallout from a generation of men who got lucky once during a specific moment in tech evolution, made to feel as gods, but are all now suffering their mid-life crises having accomplished nothing else of note. These men have made nothing other than money.

We start this week with some news: we are suing ICE for access to its $2 million contract with a company that sells powerful spyware. 🔗 www.404media.co/podcast-were...

The richest man in the world is a racist with the emotional development of a 12 year old, his friend who finances the right believes he’s fighting the Antichrist, and the President is a dimwitted sex criminal who thinks he’s a polymath. Curtailing their influence is literally the government’s job.

Sixty percent of the historical society archives are being trashed with no transparency barnraisingmedia.com/iowa-republi...

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

If you look at how China talks about their AI its as a normal technology that may improve efficiency in some areas but not others and that seems better than trying to build Robot Jesus

This is the technology RFK Jr has banned in the US

"A simple phrase like 'false claim' is more powerful and precise than 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' .... It names the problem plainly and directs attention to the content itself—without triggering partisan reflexes or rhetorical spin." phys.org/news/2025-09...

A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28

Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time, doctors tell BBC

People CAN make a difference. It's easy to miss, given the current climate. But it has to be front and center. We can make a difference.

"[Politician] doesn't owe you anything" excuse me but a politician who would like the job of representing me does, in fact, owe me something Campaigns are job interviews. Politicians work for us. We call elected officials public servants for a reason

Well, this wasn’t at all predictable… …except by every single privacy advocate when Google launched Google Glass. #Cassandra

half-remembering that thing about how most Roman citizens experienced the fall of Rome as simply one day their local bridge went out and nobody came around to repair it

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars." A reminder that the proper response to a bully is "Fuck you, no." Otherwise you're just offering a down payment on future bullying.

Having been fortunate enough to see a lot of renaissance / early modern religious art in various European museums and cathedrals, I don’t think your average American is prepared for how horny so much of it is.

Okay. The preface to this is that I don't believe in ghosts. At all. I don't really believe in an afterlife, but I hope if one exists I'd have better things to do than stay around here. That said...

Take a breather. Disconnect from social media for a bit. Recharge your soul.

Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality. www.wired.com/story/dhs-ha...

On the day these concentration camps are liberated, and the gestapo guards face justice I will listen to the cries of freedom Over the pleas for calm

One amazing thinks about @ichotiner.bsky.social is that he makes use of civility dynamics. People in power tend to think that their authority and the respect they command mean that as long as someone talks to them civilly, they can make an ass of themselves and their foibles will get cleaned up.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

here's the archived version: archive.ph/MKxJG

It's that time again. For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions below in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc September 2025 edition.

Weird how this keeps happening.

Universal childcare wouldn't just relieve working families of a massive cost burden. It improves the whole economy. "There are a lot of reasons building a child care system that works for everyone is important to our children, to parents, to employers and to economic growth."

Deutsche Bank: “growth is not coming from AI itself but from building the factories to generate AI capacity.” This is the same as saying: "Growth is not coming from the mines (which have nothing in them), but from selling the picks and shovels to the miners."

over the garden wall season is nearly here ✨🍂🎃 [ #otgw #overthegardenwall #art ]

Alaska’s Fat Bear Week kicks off with online voting to crown the most oversized ursine ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly popular ...

This seems like the perfect times to make the positive case for immigration! Like, God and Jesus (the real Biblical ones, not the ones Trumpists blasphemously made up in their heads) command us to care for them! They make us richer! They make our consumption cheaper! 1/

I wonder how many people are looking to use rapture day as cover for faking their deaths to avoid paying taxes...

*sigh* "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

I do think a lot of what we consider neurodivergence became much more apparent both with changes in societal attitudes around work and in leisure time become more about taking in media in various forms as opposed to doing things, having the time to get deeply into something

As I was just mentioning in another thread here: even in churches that believed in the rapture, the mechanics of how it worked and and when it would happen used to be debated much more and current opinions have solidified *in my lifetime*, largely due to the Left Behind novels

I wrote about Trump and the exploitation of Charlie Kirk's murder: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/tunnel-vis...

I fucking hate that this is necessary, but it is when the regime wants to erase all history they don't like.

.... What. The fuck. Is this landlord thinking?!

And I emphasize, squeaky wheel gets the grease. In a situation where a publisher’s cash flow is poor, they will be WAY more likely to pay the creators making a noise about it than the ones that play “good soldier” and just keep working without complaining about the lack of payment

This is absolutely the right thing to do. Payment late? Stop working until you’re paid. “Oh but the book will miss its deadlines—“ aw that’s too bad, but if the release date is such a priority I’m sure Accounts will have no problems wiring over my money this afternoon

I was touching grass all day yesterday and somehow missed this - but how was it even POSSIBLE to miss this? How is this not one of the biggest scandals of our lives? A top Trump guy taking huge bribes and then the corrupt DOJ shutting it down? The whole administration should collapse

One of my favorite fun facts is why the TMNT are named after artists (it’s because the type of turtle they are is a “painted turtle”). I told my nephew about this and he immediately replied that there should be a Bob Ross turtle. So rather than explain the renaissance movement to him, I-

It looks like WOI, the ABC affiliate where I grew up watching Love Boat and Happy Days and Mork and Mindy, is a Sinclair station now. Terrible to imagine.