Law enforcement will say that they don't go after people like Bundy because he is "heavily armed" and it is "dangerous." Funny how they only say this about white guys.

ok but when Andy Warhol tried this, SCOTUS said it was a copyright violation

imagining thinking this administration's CIA could stage a coup without fucking it up and/or leaking it to like five journalists and ken klippenstein

Like, the more historically accurate comparison here is “should a random person be able to call into battle an entire company if their feelings get hurt,” and I struggle to see anyone from the founding of this country answering that with anything other than “are you INSANE?!”

The best thing about having been born in the 80s is that you got to see the rise of this techno dystopian supremacist hellscape which will define the rest of our lives AND are old enough to remember duck and cover exercises in elementary school

It's wild that the 9th Circuit is now sometimes further to the right on guns than SCOTUS The open carry ban should be constitutional under Bruen because California allows concealed carry with a permit

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

the Station fire happened in 2003 and nobody has managed to learn a single thing in all this time. don't work at clubs with acoustic foam on the ceilings and a bunch of candles everywhere. don't go to these clubs. the people who own them do not give a shit if you live or die

It's literally always acoustic foam + pyrotechnics in a single exit basement club, I don't even need to read the articles. Dipshit owners killing people with their own idiot negligence

Why solidified petroleum foam is the worst thing humans have done with the idea of making petroleum into foam and fiber, example several million. A 1910 house fire had between 7 and 15 minutes of escape time without severe smoke inhalation or injury. A 2025 one? Under 4 minutes. Often 2-3.

Indeed, proper interior door handles are a HARD REQUIREMENT for the next car I buy. Even the iX style (push-button but a latch underneath the door rest) is not sufficient.

Even outside of Fox, most regular media outlets completely ignored the story. It's like it's just not imaginable that business and political elites would go out of their way to befriend a conspiracy theorist who possesses and posts kiddie snuff films, so therefore we'll pretend it didn't happen

Yes please! (says the dude who did outrageously well that day)... Should I tell CMU and Sonoma State on my faculty applications?

Donald J. Trump is, undoubtedly, the stupidest, most needy person to ever become president, but the case can be made that he is the stupidest, most needy person to ever become famous.

guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story

If you've missed the story, we've started to use the individual total-blacklist financial sanctions designed to go after terrorists against ICC staff, and are threatening same against EU bureaucrats. Blocked from bank accounts, credit cards, online shopping, air travel, major email providers, etc

just gonna drop some links to a few papers of mine about AI-CSAM and the law here, for no particular reason cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/news/ai-csam... (May 2025) partnershiponai.org/hai-research... (November 2024) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/addr... (February 2024)

LLMs really are an (almost) dead end technology. They can never be used when it has to be correct, and they can never receive untrusted input & do bad things. I can see why an older ML focused person might get frustrated and leave, even one focused on 'superintelligence'

@kenwhite.bsky.social how would you feel having to explain to a jury why your client decided to disable easy searchability by third parties of outputs from your revenge porn generator while not actually turning off the revenge porn generator, whose replies are still being publicly churned out?

At the gpg.fail talk and omg #39c3 You can just put a \0 in the Hash: header and then newlines and inject text in a cleartext message. Won’t even blame PGP here. C is unsafe at any speed. gpg has not fixed it yet.

There's a book about the UNC-Duke rivalry called To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever, and how Kevin treats Rob Schneider in this still-growing thread feels like that.

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Not only Europe, but everyone who tries to impose such a coherence. There are far too many writing in influential places.

This is a the opening of the pulp wave hitting public domain, the bedrock that things we more readily recognize are built on is here. If you’ve spent any time reading Campbell’s work and those he curated, you know what you’re in for. Indiana Jones is clean and very unproblematic by comparison.

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

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"The president of the United States is a pedophile who can't stop bleeding" sounds like something you'd tell your kid to keep them away if you lived on the border

Ha!

The answer of course is to just get a cat. Or better yet befriend a neighbour’s cat (with consent of course).

Every time someone says "I can't write X, editors will never buy it" an angel loses its wings Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades. So maybe reconsider

I choose to take this as a positive omen. (As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

In sum, despite all the obvious lying, if this piece is meant to dispel concerns about Trump's health, it actually does the opposite. This is not a guy who is taking care of himself at 79 years old. (6/6)

"we're here to inspect your daycare center"

This Iranian uprising is different to previous ones. It’s underpinned by a catastrophic economic situation that the government is incapable of solving. Food prices have risen by 70% in a year. Inflation is at 40% and rising. The currency is at its lowest level. People are finding it hard to live.

Article reveals a cursed further detail: Vanilla Ice was performing live at Mar-a-Lago for this party. It wasn't that an intern threw this song on as a joke; someone went through the trouble of tracking down and hiring Mr. Ice to create this exact spasm of cruelty.

sorry to grimpost so soon into the year but we truly gotta fight back against the people who are proudly encouraging use of the mistake generator and that's going to mean criticising some people we formerly respected as people who like the idea of science or truth or evidence

Deep fryers, labelers, and 3d printers are inventions that beg people to try using them on all the things, without needing a single person to declare them inevitable. No one needs to be told to adapt or die to instinctively go "ooh I wonder if I can ___" about em

Excellent "Notes for LLMs" section. That's the sort of well thought-out, reasoned data that can make our AI colleagues really thrive

Stupid question: why would it matter if Ukraine did this however? How many Russian strikes have specifically targeted Zelensky over the years? Plus Putin is a major obstacle to peace, I doubt there can be peace while Putin walks the Earth a free man.

Hollywood pitch: "The Accountant" Rainman, but more murdury.

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

The cool thing is that you can FOIA the names of the Nazi pricks who are running the DHS Twitter account, and then from there it's pretty trivial to find out every single thing about him, including where he lives

The idea that we need to deport 100 million people - almost one out of every three Americans! - was, a year ago, a deranged claim you’d hear from neo-Nazis to give themselves permission for limitless mass violence. Now it’s coming directly from this horrific agency’s horrific press office

hey america, get ready for the guy who brought you "mechahitler" and "full self-driving that you get blamed for when it crashes" to drill baby drill right into your mindpalace so he can solve aaaalll your problems!

NEW: The runaway tanker BELLA 1 has officially rebranded as MARINERA in Russia’s shipping registry. By adopting the vessel under its national flag, Moscow has potentially created a major legal hurdle for U.S. forces currently in pursuit. nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...

anyone is welcome to pay just $1.99 for the ebook and send the rest to me in the form of a bottle of good bourbon.

The correlation between companies named after the Tolkien legendarium and their CEO/Founder being a chittering skinwalker fingering his own taint at the idea of draining the planet of all its resources and then fucking off to a sealed dome in New Zealand while everyone else suffers is extremely high

In all this data center spending, I think it is remarkable that Apple is staying out of the game. If they thought there was a real market in inference (running models, not training models), they would already be shipping systems: Take 8 M4 Pro chips w 64 GB ram each in a single 1U form factor...