I'm sorry, "carries a custom pager gifted to him by Netanyahu and senior Mossad officials"? Does the Special Envoy to the Middle East not even read headlines relevant to his ostensible job?

Fascinating Bloomberg piece about how AI is used as an excuse for downsizing, but isn't usually the real reason: > “We’re restructuring around AI” is a growth signal. “We over-hired during the pandemic and revenue softened” is an accountability signal. /1

Just leaving this here (again)

shout out whatever brave soul keeps updating the construction info sign next to piedmont park meadow

BROKERING THE DEAL is when my brain melted, if you want to know.

The Trump Administration is betraying every American who relies on the Great Lakes. The President must uphold his stated commitment and deliver the federal funds for the Brandon Road Interbasin Project. Illinois has done its part — it’s past time he does his.

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

Got to keep bringing this up: imagine the reaction of the media (and Republicans) if a Democratic president casually talked about a Russian leader helping an American adversary targeting American troops as if he were subservient to Russia.

reminder that the OpenAI's own internal research shows the models are making shit up 40%+ of the time and getting worse and can never be fixed because it's inherent to how LLMs work :)

yet another thing to put in our back pocket. "ship em to the Hague" is a completely valid option for a long and growing list of people who need to be dealt with

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Shouldn't be rare to see this said by a US senator

A surprising number of Israelis seem to have already forgotten that they're the ones who started the war.

This is heartbreaking and infuriating. Ms Rachel makes every celeb who mumbles "I don't want to get political" when confronted about the horrors being committed in our names look like the absolute cowardly enablers that they are.

This reminds me of Palantir's co-founder's statement that the company was created to 'kill communists'. He doesn't mean literal communists, he means people who make him feel how communists feel, and that includes HR Managers with Coexist bumper stickers. It's all the Red Flood.

To summarize, Trump has offered asylum to Iran’s women’s soccer team and death to its men’s.

A day after Frey vetoed pre-eviction notice, two ICE vehicles are parked in MPD parking outside City Hall. My assumption would be that they’re here to meet with the mayor’s administration. We’re still under occupation.

While the Iran War serves as cover, Israel is carpet bombing entire neighborhoods in Beirut, a 5,000 year old city of 2.4 million people. Israel’s bombing campaigns have already displaced close to a million people in Lebanon.

Far-right figure Tommy Robinson posted online a few days ago an interview with Texas Railroad Commission GOP candidate Bo French, where French told Robinson that Muslims are on a "civilizational jihad" & thus "we have to ban Islam." Robinson in turn lauded French for his "bravery."

I may be wrong, but it feels to me like reporters are giving Trump a lot more "Yeah, no, that's bullshit" responses now than they did just a few months ago.

"There is no data showing this is true" is just... false? We did a study less than two years ago showing a pre-eviction notice CAN help! If you want to say you disagree with the study that's one thing, but it's another to deny that any data exists.

fuck the ADL

They're going to stand behind the backs of ill-advised charities in the nonprofit industrial complex & claim legitimacy for their commodified-property-first actions & principles while the PEOPLE of the city of Minneapolis experience further humanitarian crisis. & they'll claim that BS Nobel Prize.

In movements like this, which have no need for authority or even leadership, I would be extremely wary of anyone who calls themselves a leader and then ends the movement.

This email from Elliott Payne sounds like he is fuming with rage

Obviously no congressional authorization was required for Operation Epic Fury, because Article I of the US Constitution gives Congress the power to declare War, not the power to declare Excursion.

Drone strikes in Haiti. Drone strikes. In Haiti. By private contractors. They’re killing Haitians for private profit & the world barely pays attention. The story of Haiti is the story America likes to tell about itself. Except there, it’s true. And the west has never stopped punishing Haiti for it

tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

Q: A new report says that a military investigation has found that the US struck the school in Iran. As commander in chief, do you take responsibility? TRUMP: For what? Q: A strike on the school in Iran TRUMP: I don't know about it

Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.

Minesweeping is woke.

Idiot plot

Clearing the strait of Hormuz via posting

I didn’t have to use ChatGPT to know it tells you that you’re right even when you’re wrong. I’ve talked to people about their LLM usage, read reporting and studies about it, and seen what people have shared online. The idea that you HAVE to use something yourself to critique it is not always true

Truly a perfect news alert

Marching orders are given. "That school had it coming." See it parroted by influencers and media outlets.

It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.

compare how foreign elites took electiion interference (bolsonaro and yoon will die in prison) versus how american elites take it: a man who will sufffer *enormous* political losses is about to pardon what basically amounts to a coup attempt for inscrutable reasons

It's crazy that just repeatedly saying to the world that you're *about* to do something good even though you have a terrible track record is like... a viable economic strategy. Hell, Elon's been right-around-the-corner lying to ppl for like 15 years and it's cost him nothing.

Dare I say, is it over?

Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.

every rich person's fortune was built on blood. those that proclaim their fortune 'ethical' are only bureaucratically and physically distant from blood, but the suffering remains just as real as the CEOs like steve jobs that step over allies to further their own wealth

America's fascist right has pulled a 180 and is selling the idea that expensive gasoline is a good thing. Americans have failed a lot of intelligence tests in the last decade. This is another one.

This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...