Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

Hell yeah. Don't let bosses convince you that you don't deserve more. Don't let someone who hoards $100 million tell you that working people don't deserve $100,000. Instead organize and get yours.

I keep saying this and it makes me feel like I'm from a different dimension via Mandela effect or something but didn't yahoo used to have a part of their site that was basically a searchable list of user submitted websites and you had to fill out a form to even be indexed? We need that again(?).

Holy Shit.

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

if there's no value to publishers in letting Google reference them, they should not let Google access their content.

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

Jake Lang, one of the 1,600 or so January 6ers pardoned by Trump, unfurled a white nationalist banner at yesterday’s Washington Nationals game. It refers to the racist great replacement theory and calls for deporting 100+ million (non-white) people. He’s now banned from Nationals games.

Israel bombed a kitchen that provided meals to the forcibly displaced Palestinians in Gaza, killing three and injuring others. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said Israel has killed at least 871 people since the so-called ceasefire began last October.

when I say things like “this is downstream of Dems not believing in anything” people jump into my replies and say Dems believe in abortion, fighting racism, and LGBT rights, and the answer to that is: not according to the scoreboard

a hater (derogatory) hates something without engaging with it at all, reflexively, surface level; their hatred tells us about *them* a hater (complimentary) hates something *because they have engaged with it deeply* and is a kind of truth-telling

ATTN: Third Way

Academia relies on good faith. It cannot be done otherwise. This is precisely why plagiarists, people who fake data, people who deliberately ignore counter-evidence, and fascists need to be driven out. Full cordon sanitaire against this crap.

Just thought of a great idea for... uh... a science fiction story. Our hero hacks into CEOs' LLMs to give them great advice like paying their workers more and/or transferring large amounts of money into untraceable accounts for... reasons.

Zohran Mandani is consistently proving that if your politicians wanted to help you, they absolutely could.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Don’t ask AI chatbots about how they function and treat the output— or, worse, share it with readers — as fact; pose these questions to people with expertise and knowledge. Chatbots do not have self-awareness, and their output can be wrong. (4/x)

I would love it if we had a major political party that is against defunding the public sector.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

“What if we crammed all the world’s religions together as undifferentiated training material for a statistical text model and called it the perfection of human morality”—my brother in cyber you are reinventing esoteric fascism from first principles

It is wild to me that there is such pressure to use a tool that has like a 40-50% error rate! What other tool would that be acceptable in?

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

A.I. doth make you a wryter lyke a plane doth make you a birde

People are mad. The GOP is gerrymandering close to the sun. Every person we can get to the polls in November will test their newly purple districts. We should not have to do this. But it's one of the fights ahead of me & I already learned too much about voter ID laws so we're going to do it.

I really wonder what the fallout is going to be because the sanitized version of history they’ve sold for a long time is “Jim Crow was a shameful moment in history but we defeated it and came out the other side a better country” and now it’s just… back it’s the end of a myth in the starkest terms

The global far right: complaining that they're being silenced from every other pulpit, lectern, video, broadcast, newspaper column, social media site, blog and fucking podcast in the world.

A sizeable group of voters simply want an asshole as President. There is no point in trying to cater to them, you can either ignore them or discourage them from voting. Every effort to get their vote by adopting asshole-ish policies is a waste, they want the real thing.

It frustrates me on a regular basis that the public conversation about RFK Jr. running HHS fails to acknowledge that the man's personal vanity about his utterly evidence-refuted beliefs is driving decision-making about all of our health.

it’s legitimately disgusting how genAI hype has normalized climate denial in higher ed

There was once an idea that it was a good thing for people, regardless of social background, to study the arts and humanities because those fields address what it is to be human. That idea was always under pressure, but to see its near destruction in recent years has been depressing.

Worked in Hungary.

Many cis women don’t want a possible ban of trans women from single-sex spaces, and fear wider consequences of judging on appearance | Sophie Molly

“We’re going to flood the zone. You’re going to see more ICE agents [than] you ever seen before.” The time to get whistles into the hands of your community is right now. We will send you whistles, for free, in quantities of 100-thousands. We do it every day. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Above canals sounds great, but what i want to know is why isn't everyone doing solar covered parking lots? Power to sell to the grid, shade and shelter for people and their cars, maybe offset some of the car-ness of it all and/or free power for EVs.

Democratic Abundance people — scientists too — will deflect from this fact by saying “oh temperature targets are politically constructed.” This is a feint. Are they saying that it’s ok to heat up beyond 2C? Yes? Then don’t trust them. No? Then why aren’t they calling for phase out? 6/C

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

Yeah, I already blocked one account this morning that was 100% trolling, mostly about data centers. Seems like the latest failure to read the room by AI boosters. Really winning hearts and minds guys.

Just got an ad for this ratfucking effort. It claims to be about both parties going too extreme.... But every single example is someone who claims to be a former Democrat. There's no about page with names or funders, naturally. www.politicallyhomelessnomore.com

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB Gemini Nano AI model on your device ❌ No consent ❌ No opt-in ❌ No real opt-out for regular users This isn’t a small experiment & it’s on billions of devices. ➡️ Read more: www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

new plan to save the world: fake an apocalypse and get all the billionaires to retreat into their bunkers and then we just kinda leave them there and/or shuffle around the front door every once in a while and pretend to be zombies while we actually build a better world

Ok, we're at the "can't sleep because if I lie down I can't get enough air" stage of sick. I will relent and see a doctor tomorrow.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

Not that anyone needs yet another reason to steer clear of Microsoft, but VSCode now adds Copilot as a co-author of all your commits, regardless if you used Copilot. This was added silently as a default. This is some next level insanity.

swear to god nothing has radicalized like me like watching rich men burn our planet, dry up our freshwater and poison our kids to invent the world’s most powerful technology — a robot chick who laughs at all their jokes