This administration has a distinct subgroup of members, perhaps even a majority, who are basically the European far right. The vocabulary they use and the ideas/lies underlying it are a dead giveaway.

I’m not saying anything particularly smart or new here: A press that runs on sensationalism is just a rolled out red carpet waiting for any fascist weirdo who prints money for “both sides” by saying and doing crazy things all day.

If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:

Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Now that we’re past Thanksgiving (dinner), here’s a Christmas meme:

Next week the House E&C Committee is looking to run something of a shock and awe campaign, debating at least 19 bills that they say are related to "protecting kids online." Most of which are actually about censorship and control. Don't buy the framing. It's always the same damn thing.

This company designs its products to sycophantic. It knows it is doing this. It knows why it is doing this. The design principles involved are well-known in HCI. OpenAI, quite literally, is a monstrosity.

I was chatting to a collaborator about this only last week. We think you need to have a chat with every collaborator and coauthor at the beginning of a research project about whether or not they use LLMs, how (if so) and to be clear if any words have been prepared by LLM.

95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.

you can report on these people without sitting down with them and having weird glamour portraits of them snapped. the only people that should be talking directly to these freaks are congresspeople asking tough questions in oversight hearings. you dont have to do this

Seeing an animated bear juggling a roll of toilet paper like a soccer ball directly behind the Minnesota player taking a throw in is more than a little surreal. #MLS #SDvMin

They're offloading all the debt onto special purpose vehicles (SPV) that are legally distinct entities propped up by promises from meta for decades of demand in compute. The banks take all the risk, Nvidia gets the equity and revenue, Meta gets the stock bump without the downside.

Popular D.C. bagel chain Call Your Mother says this Long Branch, N.J. cafe's similar name and logo are trademark infringement. Now they're suing. Here's the schmear and skinny: share.inquirer.com/hWgorB

I can’t believe Judge Smith put internal emails in his opinion. I dont think I’ve ever seen this before. It’s such a massive breach of decorum that it leaves Roberts/Elrod little choice but to discipline him ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html 🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky

Which in turn creates an incentive for people to become those cranks and creates a crank arms race, wherein each crank tries to out-crank the other cranks.

It’s not a free speech question. It’s about an authoritarian calling for his political opposition in an elected branch of government to be prosecuted for opposing him. It’s a constitutional crisis.

Respectfully, what’s the debate? The president of the United States has called for the trial and execution of members of Congress in a manner that would make Charles I blush. As a constitutional matter, I fail to see where there is room for reasonable disagreement about what happened yesterday.

Everyday, the DOJ looks at what it did yesterday and says to itself, “hold my beer.”

Because you know I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks, no substance I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks, no substance I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks, no substance I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks (With apologies to Meghan Trainor)

The inevitable result of relying on for-profit media and journalism:

America 2025.

you would think europe would be setting up its own parallel shit in anticipation of whatever crash is coming for us instead of this

That we are currently being governed by a particularly bad game of telephone strikes me as both incredibly accurate and disheartening.

Of course it did.

Oof, indeed.

Must-read piece about what is so fundamentally rotten about American "journalism" today..

Still time to book for 1.5 days of legal moments that (didn't) change everything. From property law to criminal, interregnum Scotland to Canadian land rights. Freee, online - full programme at the link below.

According to leaked internal documents, in 2024, Meta made 10% of its revenue, around $16 billion, from scam ads, illegal gambling, and fake medical product promotions. www.reuters.com/investigatio...?

Does anyone know what he is on about? Is this about those dams where he sent in the troops and they wasted a crap ton of water? To fight fires?

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science. The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.

Can someone please delete “Clear and Present Danger” from his DVR? Thanks.

Tesla employees passed around photos of the insides of customers' garages, footage of what they were doing inside/near their cars. The cars were OFF at the time, a nude Tesla driver walking past their car in the privacy of their own garage became a Tesla office meme Stop embracing surveillance tech

IP profs: Cool video showing a craftsman trying to make titanium damascus. The first five minutes show him interacting with a patent, including a few potential jumping off points for discussion. youtu.be/8hnu5DspBso?...

Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...

Why do I find the camera man so funny, even though he kind of ruins this shot?

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

This accurately sums up the state of what this administration views as discriminatory.

The new Bari Weiss CBS, ladies and gents.

tucker: WHAT IS PAWTITION

If you’re in academia, you should read this while thing drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

Let's not forget, AI does not create. Copyright enables and remunerates, laying the conditions for growth. www.netopia.eu/digital-myth... #AiBubble #AI #Copyright

The reporting is a little sparse here, but it suggests the lecturer was removed because a student complained to one of her US Senators, who then leaned on IU.

I hate what the new ownership has done to Asimov's, Analog, and F&SF. Important venues and parts of SFF history strangled by greed. Please read Scott's missive here.

Today’s reminder: Conservative attempts to ban “something” are very often just propaganda to fool people into believing that that “something” is happening.