The split-screen here is unbelievable - first from yesterday, the others from 2017. Musk’s Twitter has truly driven us mad. People absorb far more of their beliefs from their social environment than they realize, and we’ve created an environment where being a gutter bigot is the baseline expectation

some people say that you shouldn’t post on the CSAM-friendly site run by a billionaire white nationalist who allowed rightwing propagandists to troll through internal documents to publish misleading narratives about its staff and users but where else could you get reporting like this

A not-insignificant point is that they can do this to anyone, for any reason, any time, and you will be stuffed, with no comeback.

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

Trump’s went up to eleven, people are saying.

I just want to note, to be clear, this is *the actual comment xAI gave* in response to accusations that the company is intentionally allowing the generation of pornography of minors, a total refusal of responsibility: "Legacy media lies"

LLM's do not apologize, they can't. They don't fucking know what words mean. They don't know anything. They produce apology-shaped objects statistically similar to the texts of the apologies stolen to train them. And they stole *every* apology.

You can make LLMs say almost anything. A news organization reporting "what grok said" is engaging in journalistic malpractice. It doesn't know. It just creates plausible sounding words in response to a prompt.

Can anyone explain why a man who was sacked, just a few months ago, for sending messages like these, is now being treated as some kind of all-seeing political sage?

uh holy SHIT?

You gotta check out this guys replies on his account page he is desperately trying to say this couldnt possibly be about the likes of him its incredible

Pretending you don’t understand *and* falling over and pretending to be injured? And it’s only the second day of the year. Start as you mean to continue, if guess.

Mayor Mamdani already delivering results to his city

I'm intrigued by MTG's pivot to a more gentle tone. I'm not fooled by her act, unlike some pundits. But it suggests she has a theory that voters are done with MAGA trolls. And she wants to meet that moment. I think she'll fail. My analysis. www.salon.com/2026/01/02/m...

Lovely piece on the hatefulness of all this. Worth it for many little highlights, but I enjoyed the riff on a calculator that aggressively suggests sums you might want to do today.

TFW someone makes a comment on the essential bubbliness of "AI", and uses figures "from Gemini" to do it...

Every single one of these rich fucks could have just fucked off to their private lairs and lived the rest of their lives in complete luxury. Instead, they have chosen to tear it all down - not because they weren't making enough coin, but because they want you to suffer. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.

This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!

something like this?

Only a fascist society could make abuser-to-columnist a lucrative career option.

That’s really the theme of our age isn’t it - editors simply don’t seem to care about the story of the century when it isn’t a scoop. They seem actively bored by it.

France's wonderful laic tradition strikes again...

It's almost as if it's a complex equilibrium, which works best when it's rolling steadily forward into "growth", but is horribly vulnerable to tipping over sideways when it isn't... An elephant on a unicycle in the room, one might say...

Nigel Farage & compliant right wing media are directly responsible for this surge in crime. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I'm so old...

Well, this explains a lot about Labour's travails if little else. Verging on conspiracism. Hate to break it to politicians of this and all future generations, you will be governing in a complex society. You need to factor that into your operating model. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Housebuilders have been lobbying against the inclusion of batteries which would cost an estimated £2,000-5,000 for each new home but... savings on an average 3-bed, semi-detached home from a heat pump, solar panels and batteries would be roughly £1,350 a year. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Is this headline from 2005? Gen X is entering retirement now, dudes.

Right-wing grifters: 'slavery was only a marginal part of English history, stop making such a big deal out of it!' John Hawkins in 1565 after his first slave voyage: add an enslaved African man to my coat of arms please. Stick him at the top. Make it really big and obvious. I love slavery.

I’m in the UK and I cited a UK publication and a high % of my followers are in the UK and I’m posting about a UK political figure, Lona. And Farage is not in the Conservative Party

how can we exist in a world ran by people who don’t think this shit is a problem

You'd think the British government (and everyone else still using X for 'reach') would not want to be known to be frequenting a platform that carries and actually generates child porn. And yet they keep posting there.

This is just such a damned disgrace. A crime against knowledge and humanity itself.

This is now my favorite movie tagline of all time

day one in mamdani’s new york

History is a constructed narrative, not an objective truth, and with that in mind, I cannot wait to read Lee Anderson's first textbook.

If you haven't read this @dirkmoses.bsky.social piece on the Holocaust, Gaza, and memory... you really should thediasporist.de/is-holocaust...

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Something to think on today for progressive/leftist causes: The legacy media is never going to like you, so what do you need to do to make them irrelevant?

The tl;dr for writers is — we are human, we write the books, and we are going to fucking win.

2025 was the warmest year on record for Central England in a dataset that starts in 1659. (Daily data available since 1772.) www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadce...

At Sarah Lawrence College, where Campbell taught, we had many protests against honoring his "legacy" of racism and antisemitism in the late 1980s. My mom was so sad when I filled her in on it, because she just ate up his bullshit via PBS.

Much of the antisemitic, Hitler-loving shit we’re seeing metastasize on the MAGA right was promoted at some point by non-white or non-Christian grifters who (perhaps wrongly) assumed this would never boomerang back to harm them. bsky.app/profile/seth...