Almost any hobby code I post on GitHub is GPL-3 which I personally think AI violates the license of. And that’s true of a ton of code out there.

“Eddie” catches his breath before resuming leek harvesting with December temperatures still reaching into the 80s in the Central Coast. #WeFeedYou

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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

Spending the holidays processing just how betrayed I feel by the software and web industry My career has been fifteen years of hope and promise—some fulfilled, some not—followed by a decade where the industry stopped pretending and just looted society Being a bit angry about it is quite reasonable

This work has come with broader lessons: 1. Action is the antidote to despair & 2. Collective action is a force multiplier. We simply could not have done the work as individuals.

The #SCIMaP effort is made possible via the combined talents and commitment of @malar0ne.bsky.social, @falklab.bsky.social, @ellenpeters.bsky.social, @angiefagerlin.bsky.social, @cl10.bsky.social, @dcosme.bsky.social, C Cooke, A. Chande + more. bsky.app/profile/josh...

Knowing that so many other groups have stepped up to meet the moment gives me hope that we can continue to break through... ... and engage with communities throughout the US to share what will happen if America steps away from our investments in science and medical research. scienceimpacts.org /🧵

I wanted to give an end-of-year shout out to @ourworldindata.org, who we recently gave a three-year, $3m general support grant (short 🧵)

Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email. It must be read:

In sealed order issued 12/3, Judge Crenshaw found that @DAGToddBlanche's deputy, Aakash Singh, played a “leading role in the govt’s decision to prosecute” Abrego Garcia. Abrego’s attys’ failed to redact that language in a brief, correcting the error shortly thereafter... 1/2

A anthropologist colleague ran their new paper through an AI summarizer. The point of the paper was, ‘contrary to expectation, this is what we found when we studied x.’ The summary was that they found the same thing as previous research because that’s *statistically likely based on the literature*.

I am pleased to announce that next year we are launching Woke 2.0. This is built on our proprietary Woke 1.69 framework but now without the ability to throw trans people under the bus!

Just a few months ago the entire administration was gleefully posting AI Ghiblislop bragging about how cruel and inhumane the camp would be, explicitly referencing racist memes of alligator babies, etc. And *now* they're suddenly worried about looking cruel and inhumane

NIGEL FARAGE STOLE MY SATSUMAS

It is very misogynistic to criticize an extremely talented young woman journalist - gross new york times guys for years, about a woman who never worked as a journalist

yes of all the horror stories of AI, I think the use of "synthetic publics" to do research on might be - in a very crowded field - the worst one? *as a novelist* - I can write you fake characters who believe whatever you like. it is just stories. this is a whole culture developing AI psychosis.

"I hate Jews, the anabaptists, the Mohammedans, the Turk, and the perfidious Boer" you are a 19th century British military officer named Colonel Wilburton J. Fairfax III. Get off the internet and go back to the Northwest Military Frontier.

this is how you know bari is incapable of operating at this level. pulling rank on some desperate lackey at the free press does not equip one with the requisite skills to try and fuck over a veteran correspondent who’s been on her network’s flagship program for more than a decade.

it has just occurred to me for the first time that maybe the difference between storytelling and research isn't obvious if you're not a novelist who likes to do a lot of research?!?!?!? research is when you find out true things. storytelling is when you make them up.

Today in the inexplicable & inexcusable casual media normalization of things that totally violate our international treaty commitments with our closest allies & should have immediately ended his presidency. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Man, the POST is carpetbombing her? The POST?!?

Not sure why the author minced words: CBS is functioning as state propaganda machine.

If the Europeans wanted to sell Ukraine out they would have not agreed to fund it last week. Instead they opted to keep Ukraine in play through another incremental step to Eurobonds.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

The entire american "free speech" panic was about elites being criticized, which is why anyone who ever took it seriously should be ignored forever

I like that mistletoe increases the odds of being kissed. More plants should offer temporary environmental status. Brawling under lingonberries. The soft yearning of a love that dare not speak its name beneath the nightshade.

"average person knows 3 sex offenders" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person knows 0 sex offenders. Journalism Georg, who lives in cave & is pals with 10,000 sex offenders and enjoys their dinner parties and their funny anecdotes, is an outlier adn should not have been counted"

IDK man a lot of you are fucking cowards but don't realize it.

This is important because Abrego prosecutor, US Atty McGuire, has been arguing that any vindictiveness by Trump or his political apptees, like DAG Blanche, doesn't matter, because McGuire alone made the decision to prosecute & McGuire was not vindictive. Judge Crenshaw doesn't seem to be buying it.

This is an excellent piece on the ecological catastrophe associated with El Salvador's obsession with Bitcoin -->> www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Two things to notice: 1) Then as now, the Nazis make headlines, but the much larger number of NON-Nazis don't. (Media bias!) 2) Then as now, the fascists use the founding fathers as props for their fascist agenda. (Note huge picture of George Washington). bsky.app/profile/luca...

"If the standard for airing a story becomes 'the government must agree to be interviewed,' then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state."

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Bari Weiss & CBS pulled the plug on 60 Minutes CECOT special just hours before it was scheduled to air. Men who had been sent there risked their lives to tell their stories, and they’ve been silenced by the regime. This article by The Guardian shines light on the torture & abuse they suffered:

The “AI” has not read the book. Even if the book was in its training data, it has just absorbed it as a set of statistics. It will juggle you a “summary” that might or might not relate to the conclusions of the actual text. The only way you’ll know is to read it yourself.

He billed himself as some Renaissance man intellectual with dark, perverse passions and a transgressive aesthetic. And no, he was a tacky grifter who probably never even cracked that copy of Lolita, he likely just carried it around to make sure people remembered he had an 8th grader sex business

'Listen to me as I come to your neighbourhood and tell your trans siblings they are subhuman or I will use the wealth of billionaires to sue you into oblivion,' is a very late-capitalism form of free speech right.

Discuss: "The segment was pulled three hours before the broadcast, a highly unusual last-minute change. The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Anybody got a torrent. Apparently the only way to get journalism now is to pirate it

Signal: hunter.07

They literally handing $40,000,000,000 to Argentina just because

the blackout waymo failure is actually pretty diagnostic: what happens in a blackout is that you can't rely on lights at intersections and so you need to enter into a mutual social negotiation with the other drivers. AVs are awful at that with no clear path to improve.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

So I know it’s sometimes difficult to understand why knowledgeable people in the defense world think Anduril is full of shit. But I now have a great way to explain how you should view their pitches. This was a recent… idea(*) of Palmer Luckey’s. Basically leverage American soft power and immigration

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

There’s a difficult irony that many people would really rather not have to think about this (ie what started in 2020 that’s clearly still happening)… but willingness to confront it is also the best way to reduce your odds of ending up on this chart + having to think about it all the fucking time.