Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.

This isn't a left-right ideological issue. But it blows me away that anyone who is actually anti-Trump would think running back Joe Biden/Merrick Garland 2.0 will work the second time. No political party can tolerate a very large, armed secret police force committed to murdering its voters.

there’s no reforming or redeeming any of them.

Insane that we’re all in on this eccentric janky tech instead of the green energy transition.

If these monsters were trained, being outnumbered by crowds would be less effective. As it is, they have absolutely no fucking clue what to do and they are getting run out of every situation they force themselves into. Dems calling for training are just pushing more, worse violence.

this, driving a person to suicide because they had the temerity to want to work in public service, is what russ vought hoped to accomplish

This would be ominous no matter what the circumstances, but it’s not like she was working on national security or classified military information. She’s been reporting about federal workforce issues.

one of the weirdest things about the current moment is how the national media have to pretend like they don't know what this is about. official government social media accounts are posting about racially cleansing America and they have to pretend like it's not clear who the bad guy is.

You have to take their money. Period.

If you saw Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in theaters or played Ocarina of Time on release, you were alive for an America without ICE. We didn't need it then, we don't need it now, and you already know what a world without them looked like.

First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc? He had no idea.

people can of course do what they want but the consequences of "the news" being on twitter is dire. it's making them suck shit at their jobs, it's making them think insane reactionary slop is a normal part of discourse, and it's encouraging double digit IQ government nazis to show off for them

There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors www.politico.com/news/magazin...

That billionaires tax is for democracy not primarily for revenue.

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IMO Trump should make our assessments of GWB and Reagan much worse, not better. Trump’s militarism shouldn’t make the gwot seem more rational by comparison, it should look much worse from today’s vantage. Idk why so many get this backwards.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

It’s really atrocious how they threw the full force of the federal government at this one guy because he embarrassed them by being innocent of everything except trying to live his life. Only one of many, unfortunately. But he got publicity so he had to be destroyed.

AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.

the court is going to be reformed one way or another, conservatives on the court are making a very strong argument that they should not be consulted about those reforms

This is bigger than "AI companies are buying all the RAM." This is "AI companies are ruining the larger market because they're bribing RAM manufacturers and no regulators anywhere in the entire world are moving to stop them." Capitalism is incompatible with society.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.

New research supporting the radical proposition that trying to learn something works better than not trying. theconversation.com/learning-wit...

In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

If we could briefly get this to a new record high and then zero it out for the rest of time I'd be very pleased.

when I was at google, their class on licenses basically said "we can't use any license that's funny" so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

they see political talent and are scared and really, really want to pre-emptively snuff it out. they are extremely aggressive about that these days.

I want “we can engineer the best processor in the world” to be a motivation and for “we’re gonna make an immortal Machine God that will suck you off” to be stigmatized

It's going to be so amazing being alive in 2026 because the front page will say "BREAKING Mamdani Received Free Cheese Pizza From a Local Vendor, Calls to Resign Mount" and then on page 3 you'll see "Hegseth's Pentagon Rape Dungeon Raises Legal Questions."

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Also someone needs to explain to, not just Rappoport (who is an idiot), but a lot of other people too, that the premise of democratic socialism is not that everyone is poor but that everyone can have nice things and afford an occasional date night out

On the same wavelength: open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...

Everyone needs to see AI for what it is—a project that undermines truth & agency while transferring wealth from individual creators to Silicon Valley companies & VC’s. Rooted in exploitation of humanity & the planet, it’s a tool for the radical right to claim dominion & end representative democracy.

I mean, obviously. The correct thing to do when DHS or ICE or any of these thugs makes a claim like this one -- the only thing to do, really -- is presume they are lying. Because they always are. They are state-sponsored Klan members, and should be treated accordingly.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

When I saw an article about her providing hate speech scripts for Trump and RFK Jr on a substack article I felt the need to share what I remember about her—having avoided her awful writing for many years.

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American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

It’s funny because it isn’t 😕 🇺🇸