help me understand some things - AI company hires psycholinguists and computational linguists as consultants - AI company employs humans to code in the behaviors seen in psycholinguistic theory - analyses conducted on data produced by AI company Product show similar behaviors to humans - profit?

Spot on: "Adopting nativist discourse and policies does not win back far-right voters. It leads to losses for centrist and leftwing parties. Moreover, it raises the salience of the topic and the expectations of the government, which will always fall short" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Expanding the tent never includes leftists

The amazing thing to me is that the markets are blissfully ignoring the destruction to the foundations of the economy. I get that they like deregulation and tax cuts, but this episode is not good for Disney's shareholders.

Narrative über alles

Holy 💩 you guys. I'm doing a deep dive into Transmaxxing and Looksmaxxing and Fem Boys and Groypers and fascism ties, but it's not necessarily a left vs right thing. It's a whole nutha thing, to say the least.

Don't give your viewing time or your money to Authoritarian FascistVision.

So much for freedom of speech.

Sometimes, you have to look squarely at the guy punching himself in the balls over and over again and ask, "Do you think that he's doing that on purpose?"

Caltech has recommended that international scholars on H-1B visas (like myself) not leave the US.

One of my best friends has severe endometriosis, bad period pain is associated with endometriosis (period pain can have other causes but endometriosis without severe period pain is basically nonexistent) and I’m JUST NOW LEARNING that no one bothered to study a possible noninvasive treatment

FOR FUCKING DECADES because it’s boner pills.

Also this suggests that bad period cramping has a circulatory-related cause AND NO ONE THOUGHT TO STUDY THAT AT ALL

Damn near two decades of spending a few days per month in too much pain to walk fully upright before I shut that shit down with an IUD and NOW I learn that there’s a pill that can treat that and it’s not marketed AT ALL bc lol who cares about period pain, cis men need their boners???

Just to be abundantly clear, Meta had a Market capitalization below $400 billion in 2022 when user growth plateaued, today is upwards of $2.5 trillion under the Trump regime amid AI craziness. Makes sense that they would give away all pretense of not being sleazy and corrupt.

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

This is true, my young men are into video games like many of their peers - and the amount of right-wing programming like PraegerU and similar stuff that gets shoved at them based on LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE has become a morbid joke here. Quite possibly Meta just knows his age from his profile 💀

Also, viagra can be used off label for severe period cramps It was originally heart medication. During clinical trials, side effects reported were (1) among men, um, yeah; (2) among women, relief from severe period pain. Guess which one pharma thought was worth developing

WHAT

US media will continue to be in the main stupid, feckless, and spineless until the case is made to them,clearly and in a language they can easily understand, that spreadsheets go way way negative in a fascist America.

The thing that maybe we aren't seeing is that for the owners of US media, their policy stance vis-à-vis the incoming régime didn't shift suddenly on January 20, 2025. They were pro-Trump all the way through 2024, and got moreso when the autocoup details came in.

Alejandro Brito, responsible for the now thrown out Trump NYT lawsuit, also filed the WSJ lawsuit over the Epstein letter with some questionable interpretations of the WSJ article, and also did this:

The real hares of southern california, aka bunny of the day: This is LuAnn. LuAnn likes pickle sandwiches for lunch. Don't doubt the magic of thick sliced pickles, thin sliced cheese, and a lil hot mustard.

The real hares of southern california, aka bunny of the day: This is Cordilla.  Cordilla misses winter. It's simply too hot, even today.

This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters. www.wsj.com/articles/sto...

"why would I put my entire accounting process on a blockchain? That just seems to add another layer of control issues for no discernible benefit?" "Trust me."

Hahaha. "It's not measurable! Just take our word for it!" If you've sold a real product to actual customers who know what they're buying, you understand the absurdity here.

Oh yeah, by the way, China and India are gonna save the planet.

To add to @wikisteff.bsky.social 's great phrase "norm-calibration by news clip": A baseline informational pathology is that editorial choices and platform algorithms determine these assumptions and are largely arbitrary and under the explicit control/influence of fascists. That said...

... most fascist policies are still unpopular, which is a good thing long-term but isn't stopping -at best delaying- the authoritarian takeover. Short term the biggest impact is mediated thru *elite* disinformation and their self-imposed limits on "off-norm" messaging. 2/2

Dutch late night TV has its take

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Let him tell you.

Boss: we’re gonna be doing random drug testing Me: okay but I won’t try crack

"Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers. LLM "tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity" when writing news briefs." arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

NEW: ESTONIA INVOKES ARTICLE 4

Goodbye, Disney+!

I really needed a sign today that what I do as a historian matters. I did not expect to literally see a sign. On the sidewalk. And in the window. Hooray for local bookstores! Water Street Bookstore totally made my day! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

I agree that this feels like a Good Deal.

Shapiro: There’s a lot to be critical of: things cost a whole lot more after they promised costs would go down. We’ve got a healthcare system that’s being disrupted by an absolute quack That shouldn’t be censored. Because censorship erodes our fundamental freedoms.

Well it’s a first when Russian war planes have been a threat not only for my country and my home city but also for 2 NATO countries on the same day too I mean at least we’re in a good company

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. This is a must-watch. 🔥 #cdnpoli

Someone else suggested calling advertisers of the location stations hosted by those companies. They care about those ad dollars going away.

Tired: Cancelling Disney+ Wired: Cancelling Disney cruises

Got it. Here are the phone #s to cancel Disney.

This in and of itself is a great weak signal of change.