Guys, there's no evidence ICE is buying guided warheads. The contract in question is for normal distraction devices, the kind they've been using for years.

Remember, the New York Times wrote that the AI video of Trump dumping shit on Americans was “apparently” AI generated. As if they had some difficulty confirming President Trump flew a plane to dump shit on people. The press cannot call a spade a spade because of this phenomenon.

Boiler the fuck up

I (and perhaps you) get confused because we think intellect has to be connected with wisdom or thoughtfulness, but it just doesn’t. Intelligence is values-neutral and amplifies whatever it is pointed at.

Trump and Musk share a commonality of somehow being both quite clever and extremely dumb which I (and others) have found confusing. I have a model that has been working. I think they’re both clever guys with extremely narrow worldviews.

Note that Vance is also a giant coward, so he puts this on bluesky to do some juvenile trolling that is also a betrayal of his oath but doesn't dare put it on Twitter, where it might make some of his supporters do the 'are we the baddies' routine.

Yes, part of the implication of No Kings, especially repeating it, is to communicate both to wavering elites and to MAGA that the will and numbers exist to color revolution the administration if elections are subverted or cancelled.

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

I support everyone giving vast sums of money to Andrew Cuomo. It’s the “lighting a million quid on fire” art piece but this time performed by the worst people in the world.

War is hell, Portland style

This is the way www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

here is my first rendering of the bread scale of triviality (any suggestions welcome; I love thinking about bread)

This level of dedication deserves some kind of award. Possibly a Nobel Prize

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Many people and institutions that fight back are winning. This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.

Finally my preferred form of socialism in which taxes are redistributed from importers to farmers, for the purpose of building mountains of rotten soybeans. fortune.com/2025/09/25/t...

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

Speaking officially as the host of Jeopardy!, Cal Raleigh is the correct MVP vote.

The only way these fascist chucklefucks make this work is by succeeding in manufacturing the *appearance* of inevitability, because they *do not* have the force or skill to win a straight fight. In short, the only weapon that can deliver them victory is you: the fool doomer whose nihilism is poison

I changed up some Charlie Kirk quotes and substituted 'MAGA' in various places. Republicans shouldn't be offended because I'm just sharing an opinion. It's totally harmless. Just call it free speech on the flip side. I'm ready for my podcast now. Just JOKING. #RepublicanHypocrisy #FreeSpeech

can’t emphasize enough how funny the video is

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Awesome, great can’t imagine this having any negative epistemological effects. Like you would always get what you searched for but now they’ve fully automated the confirmation bias machine.

horrified they weren’t quick enough to keep her from spreading this kind of vile hate speech on TV. for those who don’t know, “go birds” is a coded expression of support for the Philadelphia Eagles

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

2015: “oh no, it’s the dystopian future where everyone is playing dumb hypnotic games on their little screen.” 2025: “The dumb hypnotic games are actually best-case scenario; everything else your little screen can do to you is worse.”

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

they didn't do this when democratic lawmakers were targeted by a gunman. the mainstream media barely peeped when a Kyle Rittenhouse fan did a mass shooting at a Portland protest. Democrats and the mainstream media are just terrified of conservatives to the point where no one else's lives matter

@govpritzker.illinois.gov's take on Kirk is the correct one: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it." On point. So glad Democrats are saying this.

My entire life the pattern has been 1. Republican president ruins economy. 2. We elect Dems to fix it. 3. Republicans obstruct pace of progress and people get frustrated with Dems. 4. We elect a Republican president 5. Go back to step 1.

Oof, the sycophancy problem in LLM's + triggering on any irrelevant details you feed them, recently led a P2 problem call down the wrong pathing for hours. The chatbot is never going to TELL you to step back and ask if this entire inquiry is irrelevant to larger goal. This is your moat. It's mine.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

A water shortage in the UK has led its National Drought Group (NDG) to encourage people to “delete old emails and pictures as data centers require vast amounts of water to cool their systems." That’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works.

i don't like admitting this about myself but i would forgive all of a tech oligarchs sins if they delivered me a triceratops

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

the ending of this explainer might surprise you

"Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off USAID. It wasn't something Trump ran on. It wasn't envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party."

My favorite conspiracy theory is that “Genocide Joe” and “Kamala supports genocide” is a Russian psyop campaign similar to the “Hillary is so racist she called black teens super predators” during the 2016 election. They have a similar vibe of completely ignoring Trump once he was elected yet worse.

Bluesky users being very honest about their battery licking history. When they say this place has juice, they're not kidding.

Silicon Valley is lighting hundreds of billions of dollars on fire to generate this slop.

new effective altruism theorycraft just dropped

I once had a friend suggest the idea of making the justice system more fair by replacing judges with AI and training it on past case data so it would be unbiased. I just burst out laughing at the thought of researchers trying to figure out why Jamal keeps getting sentenced to death for loitering.