A personified AI agent submitted a github PR to matplotlib. The project maintainers closed the issue, then the AI (really, the developer controlling it) published a blog post on "its" blog accusing the project maintainers of discrimination, then the LLM (again, the developer) had to issue an apology

Trump was barred from holding office by the provision of the 14th Amendnent drafted to bar a Confederate from taking office and invading Northern cities. Maybe we should have, you know, respected the constitution on that?

It *is* a fucking scandal, and reason alone to remove her, let alone her perjury and consistent lawbreaking wrt the Epstein files.

I am a now two-issue voter: 1) prosecute every last one if these fuckers 2) abolish ICE

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

All Bondi accomplished today was to convince everyone that she personally is more implicated in the Epstein coverup than we might have initially thought. She’ll never be prosecuted because she’ll get a pardon, but yeah she needs to be removed and disbarred at least.

Pam Bondi needs to be reminded that Nixon didn’t go to prison, but his Attorney General did.

This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us. Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.

Why, given the reality of the role, should ICE officers be armed at all? If you truly want to re-imagine ICE, it’s not entirely clear why what is actually a civil matter — immigration enforcement — should be considered armed federal law enforcement at all? — @vermontgmg.bsky.social

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

Other countries have to be insane to send their teams here right now.

It’s been over a year of this. That’s definitely enough for judges to start cracking down.

More of this. Every single Dem senator needs a challenger to the left.

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

More and more I worry about how hard they’re trying to make it for legislators to do site visits. If they go from concentration camps to death camps, will we even know?

Like Lucy with the football but instead of taking the football away, she’s shooting an innocent person on the street.

JFC this is hard to read

What about the % that think he acts unethically and enthusiastically support it?

this may be a radical take BUT I think we should proceed cautiously with the rushed integration of half-cooked automation into problematic business sectors in a broadly-corrupt country without functional regulatory oversight

I worked on the emergency teams preparing for 2 Super Bowls in previous decades. We were focused on international terrorist threats, not threats from our own federal government. Maybe Dems in Congress should consider doing something about that.

The Trump administration is pushing the Federal Trade Commission to override state AI consumer protection laws, but the agency’s power is constrained by federalism, says TechFreedom’s Andy Jung. And any preemption effort must clear several hurdles, including a lengthy rulemaking process.

Don't let up on this story. ICE thugs are still there, terrorizing the community. The institution needs to be abolished, and everyone working there needs to be made permanently unemployable.

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

I think this intuition is flipped in the Supreme Court/FedSoc understanding of the world. Right are important—if ever—only to the extent they don’t get in the way of the executive doing what it wants. That flip is fundamental to a lot that’s messed up right now.

To be fair, he’s probably got the right invitation legally speaking. Both are just murder.

STOP talking shit about 2028 Democratic presidential primary candidates: Walz is PERSONABLE Shapiro is RHETORICALLY GIFTED AOC is CHARISMATIC Pritzker is SUCCESSFUL Newsom Buttigieg has EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE

Billionaires shouldn’t exist, exhibit #45286

the defund police movement was pilloried as unpopular and an electoral loser. but it wasn't about winning elections; it was about building antifascist power. now even centrist dems are (veeeery tentatively) using those ideas as we face a fascist crisis. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/now-is-def...

If the product were that good you wouldn’t have to force people to use it. This is insane.

If you missed it last night, please please please read Gwen’s great thread about why snitching is bad, even when you disagree with a tactic someone is using

A national conversation that Schumer is only half listening to, in between daydreaming about governing like the old days

Don’t Stop Believing And someone puts it on every damn time I’m at karaoke.

The amount of glazing these tech bro fascists got from the press is just staggering. Their big bold ideas turned out to be eugenics and social Darwinism with a more than a dash of Ayn Rand bullshit.

We have to put a tiny amount of fear of consequences into these criminals. And then, if we get the chance, we have to actually pursue them. Sure, they can spend the rest of their lives in non-extradition countries, but never come back to the US.

So the next step from democrats is: “it is illegal to do this without approvals and in 2029 we will hold all companies that take part criminally liable and seize all their assets to pay for restoration.”

I was just explaining Led Zepplin to my two year old and said well they’re a band that was really big 50 years ago… 😬

The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

This is predictable enough that if you are in charge of ICE you probably plan for it.

Making employment by this administration a huge black mark is something we can—and must—all do.

reminder that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could end this madness today

i would say "can you think of any other issue that 80% of the party base supports but just about every party grandee dismisses out of hand" but yeah at this point there are some half dozen

In recent DOJ attempt to lump journalists (Don Lemon and his producer) into charges against church protestors, the judge wrote: “Two of the five protestors were not protestors at all ... There is no evidence that those two engaged in any criminal behavior or conspired to do so.”

My guess is that Deb went from “I wonder” to “yeah obviously I know the answer” in a couple short milliseconds.

It made me wonder: why are the real world harms perpetrated by AI today not enough for some people to feel urgency? to take action? to care? What he was hearing from corporate execs & "doomers" was scaring him but the real world issues me & Karen brought up didn't seem to have the same effect..

This is gonna be the easiest civil rights suit ever.

Facial recognition should be banned.

Back on my bullshit--talking about how originalism is bullshit--because why, as an "originalist" are you filing Supreme Court briefs supporting Trump's attempt to revoke the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship? (I know why) ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!

It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.