The Guardian, The Atlantic, Vox, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, New Yorker, & Wired are just a few of the media outlets that have struck deals with OpenAI—in some cases, for OpenAI to train AI on their articles. I write about this deplorable situation here:

in terms of music, i think i'm one of the most spoiled human beings alive. the other day i told my friend "i need to listen these 500 albums more or less back to back, because they are all very, very close to my taste, and then i can move on again to other music"

Holy... i *really* need to have Platanito / Guacuco on vinyl..

#LONGREAD | Modern famine is man-made. It is political and used as a tool of violence. In this longread, @annevanmourik.bsky.social, @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social and Solange Fontana explore how hunger and mass violence are connected, how we can recognize it, and hold those responsible to account.

In a new podcast episode with the @niodamsterdam.bsky.social, my friend @annevanmourik.bsky.social and I discuss the #TigrayGenocide and the systematic assault on the Tigrayan womb — both metaphorically and literally —through rape and,

Lees meer over het fenomeen 𝐆𝐢𝐝𝐢 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐮𝐬𝐳𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐝. Van de Kerkeraad van de Nederlands-Israëlitische Hoofdsynagoge in Amsterdam tot het neerschieten van Palestijnse vluchtelingen.

De oorverdovende stilte van onze premier laat wat mij betreft zien dat hij gezakt is voor zijn examen leiderschap. Deze situatie vraagt om een leider die gaat staan voor de morele grenzen van de samenleving en de neofascisten keihard afstraft en neerslaat. Niets van dat alles. Zéér zorgwekkend!

All these tyrants are on board with literal torture. Opposing torture should be a very low moral bar to clear for anyone in power. These tyrants are a disease. They do not have any moral legitimacy to rule whatsoever.

The 20th century had Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. The 21st century has Trump, Putin, and Xi. And Netanyahu.

Free Cuba

Accidentally mouse slipped a move I didn’t want to play. Turned out to be the winning move and the move i had in mind was an obvious blunder 🙈

Keir Starmer is a génocidaire. His cabinet is complicit in genocide. This should always be front and center of any evaluation of his political project.

Anti-Palestinianism and Anti-Black racism are two core issue of our age.

"De Nederlandse Alliantie" moet door de rechter verboden worden als terroristische organisatie.

are we ready for the super el niño?

My entire Spotify Discover Weekly playlist for this week is Russian language 😂

I cannot anymore with Israel. I think I reached a breaking point. Anyone who has supported this genocidal regime is not a person I want to have in my life in any way or form. I will forever resist the kind of depravity that Israel has committed and is committing.

Israel is using dogs to rape Palestinians. There's multiple testimonies. When I first reported on this obscenity, it triggered a firestorm. The New York Times has now, finally, reported on it - and Israel's systematic use of sexual violence. New post: www.owenjones.news/p/new-york-t...

Here's who Bernie seems to be taking "AI Safety" advice from, having become fully captured by the TESCREAL bundle and going full on doomer. Do you recognize the dudes that Max Tegmark is with in this so-called "AI Safety" summit? I'll help, it's Muskrat and Netanyahu.

wow is starmer cooked?!

I would like to see a Magnus Carlsen speedrun on chessdotcom from a 100 blitz rating to 3500

It's always nice to mate with six knights

Any political organisation that says it is "fighting" is immediately suspect

I want a massive international movement against concentration camps. in xinjiang, in russia, in the us, everywhere

i can confirm now: it is hard to play blitz against 2700+. came good out of the opening. twice missed an opportunity to win a piece. finally the pressure in the end was too much and i lost a knight due to a pin.

This is worth reading on the importance of journalism

What about, instead of having all of these elections such as bastards vs less evil bastards bastards vs bastards bastards vs assholes assholes vs fascists fascists vs fascists we actually build up democracy in such a way that we only ever have decent people vs decent people how about that?!

woah the dubov gambit in the giuoco piano is sooo toxic

It's time to self-educate a bit on music. I will be commencing with listening to the Density 2036 cycle shortly.

New post dropped! 2025 & 2026 Musica In Focus My taste in music is far, far out. So please be warned!! (If you are obsessed about post-2021 fusion jazz, world/indigenous/experimental/shamanic/avant-garde music, then *maybe* this post is for you...) cuboids.substack.com/p/2025-and-2...

New blog post dropped! In which I introduce a deterministic new chess variant of which normal chess and chess960 are subgames. If you love chess variants and are a nerd, this post may be for you! cuboids.substack.com/p/introducin...

i love pluralism

so, the French police just banned the antifascist rally planned for 8/9 May (citing fear of 'clashes' with the fash rally set to happen on the 9th). This is yet another instance of dangerous equivocation that leads to criminalisation of antifascist resistance. www.franceinfo.fr/politique/la...

today we'll have a sneak preview of the upcoming world chess championship. exciting!

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

for my level, 94% accuracy in an aggressive 3+2 game is pretty good :) Checkmate in 26 moves

canada should join the EU

pretty sure i would have done at least as well as Grandelius in the first four rounds of TePe if they’d have invited me 😬

This is grim arxiv.org/html/2604.22...

There is a pattern that recurs whenever a ruling class decides that their worldview should override evidence. Historically, it has killed millions. In its updated form, it is receiving billions in venture funding. open.substack.com/pub/monikabi...

You can apply lots of normalizing frameworks or you can just make a timeline of his calls with Putin. We don’t have a sovereign foreign policy. We have superpower suicide.

Might call it the Divided States going forward

"Some pro-Palestinian protests could be banned amid attacks on British Jews" What connection is there between protests against genocide in Gaza, and anti-Semitism? Only racists who hate all Palestinians see a connection, and one of those racists is Starmer. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 1/3

Keir Starmer supports terrorism and racism. www.instagram.com/reel/DX1r72Z...

I think about this all the time.

A retweet by Zack Polanski is now the main story across every single media outlet. Two days ago, it was revealed that Nigel Farage failed to disclose a £5 million gift from a crypto-billionaire. It gets nowhere near the media attention, for straightforward political reasons.

novaramedia.com/2021/03/02/k... Woah. Truly an agent of Satan, this man