I saw this yesterday and was just nodding along but today I took a double take: look at the author. *LOOK AT THE AUTHOR*

Literally fuck every government intelligence analyst who isn't picking up espionage act charges under Trump for leaking this crazy shit in advance

We’re entering a time when it’s harder to trust anything online: and surely more people will try to fool journalists with AI-generated “evidence.” In some cases, they will succeed, especially at publications chasing headlines and not doing proper investigation / reporting

We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse. This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares. Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…

So, that credit you're giving to Hilton? Don't. The decision not to accept ICE agents' reservations was a local one, not a company one. And corporate has already forced the location to walk it back.

The US has transformed from a (sorta) functioning democracy into a poster regime, a rogue troll state, fueled by internet clout. And the abduction of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is likely just the beginning. www.garbageday.email/p/the-rise-o...

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. It's been a life defining book for me so, so very long ago. (I haven't learned about his views for another twenty years.)

Why I Left Substack. A combination of “a good deal of gross misogyny, transphobia, and hard-right stuff” plus Substack “trying to deny this responsibility [as a publisher], to pretend that their decisions weren’t decisions at all”. [buttondown.com]

I opened X for, I dunno, morbid curiosity. I carefully curated whom I follow and many are now here or Mastodon. But those that primarily still post there, my gosh. Lost to LLMs. Praising Bari Weiss. It's really sobering.

The amount of money we're spending to terrorize neighborhoods and snatch tamale vendors should radicalize anyone.

Another post from a Venezuelan friend:

In the past week, the Trump-Vance admin: –Bombed Nigeria –Bombed Venezuela, abducted its leader –Bombed more ships in the middle of the ocean –Threatened military action in Iran, Colombia, and Cuba –Accepted the “Israel Prize” & hosted Netanyahu in Mar-a-Lago (despite his soldiers killing Americans)

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Huge day for sensibles to declare that actually international law does not apply if they think a guy has bad vibes on here for some reason.

How is this even more pathetic than I thought it would be???

if I hire an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he instead presents me with a list of reasons he is incapable of doing so while asking for more money so that he can maybe handle it later, I am not angrier at the roaches, I am in the market for a better exterminator

I expect evil people to do evil things I also expect people selling themselves as a bulwark against those evil people to fight tooth and nail against the evil things evil people do only one of these groups is currently performing according to expectations

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

I have finally found good, solid proof that LLMs can't actually be used to create apps easier than before. Check this graph from www.appbrain.com/stats/number... the number of new apps should have skyrocketed but they absolutely did not. cc @davidgerard.co.uk

Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

Forgive me senator, but I’m struggling to find the word “impeachment” in your statement. Did I miss it?

My reaction to the U.S. attack in Venezuela (2/2)

My reaction to the U.S. attack in Venezuela (1/2)

“You can tell we’re serious about challenging this unconstitutional violation of international law by the fact that we’re threading it in between these nonconsensual sexualized images of naked children.” You’ve got to be kidding me. Hold your press conference on Epstein’s jet, I guess!

ah yes. let's wait until dems sweep house and senate in midterms so we can have two more years of crippling constitutional crises before trump cedes power peacefully

with all of the stories about the rise of solar energy we’ve seen in the last few months it kind of feels like America is doing regime change in order to secure the rights to billions of dollars in blockbuster gift cards

1. Yes, Trump launching a new military operation overseas without Congress’ prior declaration of war or authorization of force is almost certainly unlawful. 2. No, there is no real chance the courts will stop it. Unfortunately our Constitution means little when the judiciary won’t enforce it.

I want to point out that Marcus Hutchins' case was pretty much the same: he committed a crime according to the laws of the United States while outside of the United States and instead of asking the UK to extradite him they secretly charged him and then arrested when he was in the US.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

I presume the EU will sanction the US first thing Monday morning and start the process of freezing US assets in the EU. Right? Right?

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago. And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

the New York Times is so very responsible for the state of trans rights in the US right now due to their concerted effort to promote and normalize anti-trans bigotry and propaganda it was INTENTIONAL, like we’ve been telling you all along

If you are visiting here from X because the CSAM thing was a bridge too far, welcome. I'd encourage you to carefully consider whether the things you heard about Bluesky on X are true or whether they were lies spread by the guy who owns X who controls what posts you see on his site.

“…the creators of these [nonconsensual, violent AI] images often seemed to be treating the action like a game or meme, with an air of laughter & detachment.”

He is also directly responsible for the deaths of at least hundreds of thousands of people due to his actions while serving in an unelected role in government, and likely committed numerous criminal acts while in the white house.

Just to clarify. Is drug addiction morally bad in and of itself? No. Is drug addiction a huge problem when the richest and most influential non-elected politician in the world is a drug addict? Yes. This is an easy distinction to grasp unless you're determined to score points off a stranger.

"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"

also treating water consumption for an industry in aggregate as if it's the same as co2 production is fucking idiotic if you have more than one brain cell. the former is a hyperspecific and localized issue and the other is a purely global one. they couldn't be more different

i know i'm beating a dead horse but it doesn't take an advanced degree in hydrogeolgy to understand that water usage for a data center in phoenix might be a slightly different issue in scale and impact than it is for one on the banks of lake michigan so perhaps pooh poohing the issue is dumb af

"Millions of people are using AI! It's the world's most popular technology. People clearly want it." Tech companies have been using every dark pattern available, every deal and agreement, every subsidy they could find to jazz up numbers, meaning none of them can actually be trusted.