This is exactly what corruption looks like: power used as a commodity, war treated as a profit center, and human lives reduced to line items. This isn't leadership or strategy-it' pay-to-play imperialism, and it's indefensible.

Democrats need to strongly and uncompromisingly demand that Trump is removed from office for illegally starting a war for oil that benefits no one.

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

this is irresponsible reporting. a neural network can't comment on why it produced CSAM. a neural network can't be held answerable for generating CSAM. accountability lies within the fascist ceo and the team willing to work for him www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Nicolas Gourault's fantastic short experimental documentary film «Their Eyes» about the invisible human labor behind AI, which we showed and discussed at our «React & Respond» conference in Zurich last year, is now streaming on the NYT website www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...

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.

This is why they want us talking about day care centers and $500 boots.

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

Gender nonconforming gay guy uses the men's bathroom and it's confronted and threatened. It was never about the bathrooms, privacy, or safety, they simply don't want queer people to exist.

"AI" is and for a very long time has been a term used for obfuscation, occultation, and sleight of hand; but any sufficiently transparent magic is indistinguishable from technology. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

Mamdani’s speech was dogma shattering. We should appreciate just how audacious decrying rugged individualism and extolling government/collectivism is. He has a *moral* vision to sell along with his policies, and it’s precisely what the left/liberals need.

Reagan, 1981: “In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Clinton, 1996: “I say again, the era of big government is over. But we cannot go back to the era of fending for yourself.” Mamdani, 2026:

this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

It's worth reading the whole interview in full. It basically verifies that the NYT has spent the past decade-plus doubling down on top-down narratives for coverage, getting more intense over time. Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.

Trust me, there's no such thing as a rough draft or a final draft. It's just you writing forever.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

mamdani spending literally the first minutes of his mayoralty announcing mike flynn as dot commish, and talking abt the importance of public transit and streetscapes. smiling through it all like i cant believe this is my life

If you can’t be kind, at least be vague. Happy 2026!

My teen chugged a sparkly juice then sped to bathroom when the ball dropped — waiting for that “new years’ piss.” I respect it.

It’s like a cross between a casino and a fireworks store.

Sigh. Not a huge surprise, but also people should understand that American science is struggling on huge scales, even though it's happening in these "nickel and dime" ways. (a lot of disappearing opportunities, not renewed grants, etc. etc.)

This is a fundamentally Crip perspective in my view. Ableist systems require and perform ranking, prioritisation and notification of sentient life. Ability, completeness, enclosure and distinction -- not to mention the fetishization of the impossibility which is 'independence'

Simple: start with embodimindedness. That which incontrovertibly is yours Then, realise you are not in control of that. So you may not be what "you" think "you" are after all. Because there are other agencies involved in "you", and everything else. So it goes. Be seeing you.

So much scholarship written on the latter "masculinisations" of technology which I cannot summarise. Suffice to say, Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace understood those issues centuries ago, and Byron, for all his flaws and complicities was Queer As Folk. And Percy wrote Ozymandias.

And here ironically, I invoke the sainted Philip Kindred Dick: "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Because belief is not intellectual. It is material. And it is not inside our heads, but is what we do, and participate in, consciously and unconsciously.

tekhnē, text, textile. All the art, the PROCESS. Binary. 0/1. Knit/purl. Because making, isn't, CAN'T be done in isolation. If you end up understanding the world as worlding, as weirding/wyrding, endlessly enpatterned & enpatterning processurally?

Technology is not neutral. Your bricks are not neutral. The way you stand, if you can stand. The posture you use when you take a shit is not neutral (Do you sit, or squat? Do you wash or wipe? Do you use your dominant hand?) Biases and values. Same with what you eat and drink, and how it's made.

She's right, RTs are free. Help if you can, for the sake of the son.

The mail is a public mass communication service ie essential to democracy

The richest man on earth, the richest man in human history, personally obliterated the US agency that had been preventing these horrors. He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on. Inhuman.

This bill passed unanimously. Let's see if they override his veto. Bet they won't.

“the USPS must turn a profit” makes me want to set things on fire they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”

This woman has been locked up for 10 months while suffering from leukaemia Just another example of how ICE is a disability justice issue She’s being denied medical care. She’s lost 70lbs. She’s coughing up blood It’s cruel & inhumane They are choosing to let this woman suffer. Never forget it.

“Self-deport” is a whitewashed way to describe “fleeing the country under the threat of state violence.” I agree with Maria here — it’s important to call that exactly what it is.

All based on a “gotcha” video claiming that 3 daycares had no kids. One hadn’t opened yet for the day; one is actually closed. Dude arrived with no I.D. No call ahead. They DIDN’T LET HIM IN! The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

If we lived in a just media landscape, this would now be a trilogy.

Do you actually know what Disability Justice means, or are you putting together "Disability" & "Justice," 2 words you know the meaning of separately, & assuming its meaning? 👀 If so, PLEASE take a few moments to educate yourself about the 10 Disability Justice principles Alice Wong championed! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

The Nick Shirley Somali Minnesota hoax will be remembered as the most racist influencer hoax of the year. He didn't actually uncover any fraud. He just went to people's businesses while they were on vacation. It shows you what a cult MAGA is.

“PhD-level intelligence” they said

This is the new pizzagate, caravans, eating the dogs and cats. Buckle up.

I was wondering the same. I've seen posts say ICE will pay a $50K signing bonus + $100K a year, which is very roughly $400 a day. If there are 50 hired goons in that library, that's a $20,000 operation just to harass ONE person. Or roughly 1/3 of a librarian's annual salary. A disgusting waste.

Antiblackness is universal but the way my passport gives me some power over other parts of the diaspora has been eye opening. At home I can get shot for existing, anywhere else the treatment is way different.

The Handmaid's Tale is nonfiction fiction. "She lost her baby, then her freedom. ‘When the judge said 18 years, I couldn’t believe it.’" Women in the US are now being imprisoned for suffering miscarriage or stillbirth. www.al.com/news/2022/09...

This Wikipedia article describes 4 of 11 of some of the earliest Autistic people studied (1920s) to assess the nature of Autism. It’s fascinating to me that some of the earliest explorations of Autism included elements of Plurality but that it’s so rarely discussed 100 years later.

I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class

So hey new virus mutation just dropped. If you have a horrible sore throat, fever that won't go down with NSAIDs, bad headaches, PLUS all the other symptoms of the flu, but are testing negative for COVID and Flu A&B on home tests? You have Subclade K/H3N2. You have the flu and it will suck.

“There is an ascendant and erroneous idea that [sovereignty] means funding the Canadian tech sector. … There is scant time allotted to questioning the foundational assumption that more technology, or Canadian copies of it, are beneficial for sovereignty, or beneficial at all.” — @biancawylie.com

Joseph Weizenbaum built a much cruder therapy chatbot 60 years ago and was troubled by how many people imputed genuine emotional understanding to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_e...