Just a reminder that for some reason no one talks about Christians United For Israel, which is 10x the size of AIPAC

Code is still poetry. System design and implementation is still engineering. The work we do will always be a craft which no machine can reproduce. Model collapse is real. Language models can’t produce anything new. I am irreplaceable, no matter any delusions suffering a person with AI psychosis.

The first legit holy shit celebrity I ever met, and to this day one of the kindest. Classy, hilarious and uniquely talented. I don’t have anything else to say. I just love this man.

Code is still poetry. System design and implementation is still engineering. The work we do will always be a craft which no machine can reproduce. Model collapse is real. Language models can’t produce anything new. I am irreplaceable, no matter any delusions suffering a person with AI psychosis.

Here's a really excellent podcast from @kavehmd.bsky.social with guest Dr. Arghavan Salles discussing the conflict in Iran from a Persian diaspora perspective. It's a good reminder that Iranian people are not a monolith, just like any other group of people. open.spotify.com/episode/7CPV...

Good example of the way anti-trans hate and antisemitism continue to be intertwined in American discourse. Once more subtly, now far more overtly.

Something that is REALLY HARD to accept: repentance requires repair. I’ve had to work hard to make right and whole the people I’ve harmed. There’s no easy out. Only the good work of undoing wrongs, unlearning systems, lifting up the harmed, and reconstruction. Thanks, @theradr.bsky.social.

Put differently, even “moral” Anthropic doesn’t seem to care much about who AI is used to hurt beyond the CEO’s personal sense of attachment and comfort. There’s no principle at work still, only ego and desperation for legitimacy.

I would very much like the normalization on this site and within Democratic Party affiliated chattering classes of the most red flag laden white man behavior to stop.

I will be asking my employers to immediately discontinue use of all OpenAI products and terminate our subscriptions to their services. I can’t control them. But I can add my voice to any good influences on them.

saw someone on here post something like "and before you ask, yes they are" which was meant to imply jewish. just...don't do that shit.

HOW DID NO ONE GO CHECK ON MICHAEL B JORDAN && DELROY LINDO IS THAT A JOKE

I don't have anything new but HAPPY ZELDA 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Doctor Who The Movie in glorious 4K is available to preorder! Just look at this beautiful steelbook! The link to Rarewaves is the one you want to use. They ship to the US. If you don’t have a region-unlocked blu-ray player, you can find one in the replies www.rarewaves.com/products/505...

A 4K release of the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie? Take my money! *tries to give them my money* *no page found* *video says available for pre-order today* Well, I don’t know who screwed up but it wasn’t me this time.

“Controversial” is doing a lot of heavy lifting for Confederate apologist Doug Wilson.

I find myself morging bugfixes pretty much every day. Not sure if I’m all that continvouc about it.

look all I’m saying is that maybe we shouldn’t be generating educational infographics using AI and shipping them like this what a disservice to students

The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.

…what he needed was a system that gave him health insurance and royalties on all the work he’d done in his prime. His work was loved, and it’s a hellish shame that in this industry, at that time (and for all the decades before it), love didn’t translate into actual support.

There is obviously a pretty strong cultural push from the right to normalize sexualization if, sex with, & marriage of female children and I think the term “pedophilia” is actually covering for them. The perpetrators in the Epstein files, by and large, are predators, probably not pedophiles. (1/x)

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Is anyone else out there thinking about how white supremacists WANT us to be in 24/7 anxiety like those of us felt who lived through the Cold War?

For real, I am so tired of explaining to colleagues that all it does is pattern-match. That Apple paper showing its reasoning conks out after about 37000k tokens? Is because humans *rarely write out every detail of long-form reasoning* because we don't have to and it's boring. No examples.

Elmo and Good Bunny are both American citizens.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” MAGA wanted you to boycott this.

For your consideration

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Last week, MAGA was claiming they're the *real* victims because some protesters called out a church who has an ICE agent pastor. They're both babies and liars. But I also dug into the church. It's the church that declared empathy is a "sin." Analysis. www.salon.com/2026/01/26/p...

Seth, I was born into this crowd. My parents were activists involved in ushering in this era. It is not speculation to say their accusations and fears were projection. They were only against it for themselves. They wanted surveillance of and protection from others. It was always the plan.

As someone born and raised in Minnesota, in the Cities, and now living at a distance in Wisconsin… I have never been prouder of my fellow Minnesotans than in the last two weeks. Solidarity. 🫶 To anyone asking if they’ve got this? You betcha.

Congress is not powerless. Democrats must unify around an actual agenda. 1. Vote no on DHS funding bill. 2. Repeal the multi-year $75 billion funding for ICE. 3. End qualified immunity for ICE agents. 4. Investigate and prosecute every single ICE agent who broke the law.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

lots of good info here!

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no matter how hard Greg Bovino tries to exude rugged masculinity he always comes off like Don Knotts in a Portlandia sketch

how (if at all) can we support the minnesota general strike on friday from afar?

every democrat should be talking like this. all of them.

This is what fascism looks like. Use the word. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/immigration-officers-claim-sweeping-power-to-enter-homes-without-a-judges-warrant-memo-says

WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city. www.wired.com/story/how-ic...

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imagine if it happens on tv

"If you’re an educationally neglected former homeschooler and you feel like you’re ready to attempt college but feel so lost (it’s so daunting!), see if your community college has ABE classes."

Hildegard von Blingin is back!

Conservatives Say Renée Good Was Brainwashed By Bible Into Loving Thy Neighbor https://theonion.com/conservatives-say-renee-good-was-brainwashed-by-bible-into-loving-thy-neighbor/

And right on cue, Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act. Trump and Stephen Miller are deliberately trying to cause the rule of law and civil order to collapse in Minnesota for a reason. This is that reason.