I would add to this (obviously correct) thread that this jurisdiction successfully prosecuted this century’s most famous police homicide, they’re entitled to a presumption that they know what they’re doing

Yes! Yes!! My party is in power!! Time to hit the streets and do violence to my neighbors!! I'm assuming of course that no social, cultural, or political forces, let alone those caused by my own gleeful actions, will ever tip the balance of power away from us

Emotional modulation of visual cortical reactivation during true and false memories https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.08.694977v1

seems pretty obvious after today that if CBP had body cam footage of these people trying to run them over, they already would’ve leaked it

Everyone thinks they’re immune to simmering in X but they’re thinking about the wrong risk. It’s not radicalization. It’s conflating the public with a feed of mutual, arms-length contempt. It’s becoming intolerable even to yourself, simultaneously tetchier and stupider. It’s Vancification! It’s sad!

100 years ago this month an on-duty police officer whipped out his gun in a rage and killed an unarmed man. Not only was he prosecuted for murder, he was convicted and executed bsky.app/profile/100y...

If they truly think the video makes the shooting seem justified, it’s because they believe summary execution is an appropriate punishment for “being a bitch” and they feel confident that many other men believe the same thing

3 Dem Senators urge Google, Apple to suspend X and Grok from their app stores until Musk gets the AI-generated images under control instead of letting users rampantly create & share CSAM, NCII etc. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/g...

These people think a single election their champion won with 49.8% of the vote gives them the power to say who among us lives or perishes. What cancerous, venomous arrogance.

I've offered to Zoom with Aaron's class anytime he wants, and that offer goes for any other teacher or professor whose administration has banned WHITE FLIGHT from their classroom.

Oh my God they really are justifying a murder on a woman being Mean.

I think @golikehellmachine.com is right that it doesn't matter why they leaked the video but I keep thinking about vance hyping it, and how he's doing that because he spends all day marinating in the twitter incel manosphere and for those turds it's a wish fulfillment fantasy

oooh this is exciting. Joybubbles' story is absolutely wild. Featured in BOTH the esquire article that introduced the term "phreaker" AND in the Tom Junod esquire article "Can You Say... Hero?" about Mr. Rogers AND the basis for maybe the best character in _Sneakers_

human behavior metaphors about 'AI' are tricky and often misleading but this one feels useful plausibly because it's funny

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he talks about how he is going to take over voting processes he doesn’t control whenever he’s worried he’s going to lose. it’s not subtle. we have been watching him do this since at least 2018.

They tell you conflicting things so they can say you’re not listening to them and kill you either way.

It is truly an odd thing to have spent almost twenty years studying the thing that everyone talks out of their ass about now.

ok let him cook

This is going to sound conspiratorial but the collective response by established institutions, from news media, to tech company app stores, to regulators, sure feels like they are coordinating to allow and normalize the child sexual abuse image generator in society, and that would be real weird.

Gonna be wicked pissed off if the site of the "you will not replace us" tiki-torch march cops to the cockamamie idea that the "you" who gave the Nazis offense included me, specifically, and other Black alums like me.

Do not buy copper from that crowd of absolute crooks in Ur.

Having spent many, many Xmases in Minnesota, I can confirm for my British followers that this is behaviour roughly equivalent to throwing shit-covered Molotov cocktails when compared to normal Minnesota behaviour.

I did flipbooks for all of the Animorphs covers I did, but they appeared in black and white and very small, so I am posting them here so you can see them large and in color. No AI here--just Elastic Reality and painting. You can buy a signed print of this cover here: www.etsy.com/listing/798775628

i'll find a way to reach you, sidebar button. just wait for me...

you know how if you try and make LLMs more racist, they also end up more sexist and pro-genocide? this is the human example of that. evil isn't a single thing, if you start down one path you keep ending up at the same destination.

It's just the shock of being confronted with the fact that the president has the brain of a small and extremely evil child

it has to be possible that if you put a fleet of self-driving cars on the road in our cities, or if you litter the sidewalks with roving bots and scooters, you forfeit all of that stuff. it has to be possible that if you deploy a system that people use to generate CSAM, you face social repercussions

Until that guy is in handcuffs and facing a judge, ICE CBP DHS whatever is gonna be pointing guns at people whenever they want, however they want. Trump is gonna have these people at polling places pointing guns at people. Unless someone does something about it. Haven't seen that yet.

a government agent, who murdered a civilian for peacefully protesting, flying a dont-tread-on-me flag is such a perfect distillation of the maga ethos it almost feels fake

because I can freely download two different child pornography generating apps on Apple's App Store and the Google Play store, both very popular and highly ranked, I must conclude that Apple and Google endorse that activity

i don't consider myself a great critic of poetry or anything but have genuinely loved reading Renee Good's poems since her death. She had a beautiful gift.

I just opened a package that was packed with those starch based packing peanuts that stick together if you get them wet, and I was having fun until I looked up and realized my wife was on a work conference call and I was in the background licking packaging material and giggling like a goblin

There is a live cam at Corbet’s Couloir now www.youtube.com/live/9_YBc3Y...

"Elon Musk limits the generation of child sexual abuse material to paying customers"

“Even the Gestapo didn’t wear masks” is my next protest sign. Thank you.

Leaving my house with the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag on it, putting on my mask and tactical gear, strapping on my weapon, and roaming the cities and towns that didn’t vote for my favorite candidate as an armed anonymous agent of the state kidnapping and shooting people who I don’t like the look of.

Dangerous, reckless behavior. He should have been fired after this incident.

Paper? hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/8dqgwqiu...

this PR was created by Claude and got merged into open-slopware, making open-slopware eligible to be on its own list

a remarkable amount of ML--especially, but not solely, explainability--is "look at a thing and decide if it seems good" and it'd be very interesting if the field sort of took that seriously

no it's really good though, go look outside, the internet will still be here when you get back

sweet mother of god

the replies are amazing. this is a goddamned laser.

It’s nice to be seen

Hardcore tennis fans furious that kickers don't apologize to their opponents after a successful doink

40% of Bluesky have been contestants on Jeopardy making us a very smart website but all of them came in third so its not like that impressive