Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

We were coming up with perfectly good conspiracy theories why they shut down an airport for *10 days.* Then we all agreed it was probably going to be something stupid. We didn't know it was going to be "we popped a balloon with a giant laser so the furious FAA shut down air traffic" stupid. Wow.

No wonder Bitcoin tanked: apparently it's possible to just accidentally create Bitcoins out of thin air. SEEMS BAD.

what is with these people and dogs?

Imagine being this sane

sigh

the sort of information environment where you wish the FAA was not run by a contestant on the Real World, the Department of Defense by a Fox and Friends drunk, and DHS by Corey Lewandowski

The AI revolution is being led by OpenAi, we're told, so this firing of a top OpenAI exec who objected to its shift toward AI-generated adult content should be a wakeup call. Sam Altman clearly shares Elon's view that the path to AI profitability is flooding the internet with misogyny & CSAM. [gift]

It was a bad move to ever go from college being about expanding your brain and ability to use it to getting a degree to get a job.

Do ghouls understand logical operators? Ya know, ghouleans

an easily preventable illness has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

Quite possibly the most substantial scientific breakthrough of my lifetime, developed in my country, and the government is deliberately throttling it in the cradle in an effort to curry favor with the dumbest people alive

These bitches eating CHICKEN

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

NEW: Trump DOJ tries, fails to secure indictment over Democratic lawmakers' social media video on unlawful orders. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️<—me redacting my swear words at the latest Botstein email from the files www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Watters: I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, “F U fascist.” He doesn’t know I’m a fascist! Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV.

🚨BREAKING🚨 KATHY HOCHUL AND ZOHRAN MAMDANI ANNOUNCE PUSH TO REFORM OUTDATED “ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW” LAWS THAT BLOCK HOUSING NIMBYS OFFICIALLY FRAMEMOGGED BY HOUSINGMAXXING GOVERNOR AND MAYOR

Bottomless clownery.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

If releasing the names in the Epstein files causes the system to collapse, then the system needs to collapse.

They cancelled the Governors meeting after Trump only invited Republican governors.

Tariff relief delay dealt an unexpected blow. Ford discloses additional $900 Mln tariff hit — WSJ. $F

"okay, just don't mess up referencing the Armenian Genocide" challenge: impossible www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson announces that he is suspending his campaign after his daughter was found fatally stabbed.

'he is now a market maker' my brother in christ you are a 25 year old

House Oversight hearing on ICE opens with the rules: "It is also a clear violation of the rules of the House to make statements that might personally be offensive to the President or the Vice President of the United States."

She's right. The gradual closing of the internet with "save the children" as a wedge issue is progressing and will only serve authoritarians. We need more political organization around these issues - not just targeting Discord, but targeting the governments that encourage and enable this behaviour.

*my biggest and most exhausted sigh* "As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Post a banger that isn’t in english

This 10/10 Hard Sci-Fi Masterpiece Remains One of the Best TV Shows of the 21st Century share.google/CWQt04eWicL8... #TheExpanse

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

My "Don't Panic" press release has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my press release.

When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts

It's so cool how a bunch of kids realized there was a genocide in the middle east in 2023 and now suddenly every major company and government is tripping over their own dicks to turn the world into an Orwllian surveillance state so that never happens again.

Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

Wow, someone really did not think this through. "I can 'exonerate' you for a price"—made as a public offer—is essentially an acknowledgment that the person being offered the bribe is in fact... ...a criminal who did exactly what they have been accused of.

An incredible turn of events here. 10/10, no notes. 😂

Okay, the New York Times has a very dumb op-ed about the US’s “marijuana problem”. You are completely valid in just dismissing it as fear shit, but I will make a Lil’ Thread of some of the dumb stuff in particular, for the Sickos and Curious. Keep your cool, remember: it’s bad on purpose. Andiamo:

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Time to speak out and bully Discord about this until they cancel the idea and pretend they weren't actually thinking of doing it.

The fact that Bad Bunny's halftime show made white bigots angry and feel excluded is A GOOD THING. It's one of the best things about it. It's not a problem to solve. It's a solution to pursue. Bigots *should* feel excluded. We should find *more* ways to celebrate the reality of USian diversity.

My favorite Super Bowl memory is still when Elon Musk was at the 2023 game in Arizona and panicked about his Eagles tweet getting less engagement than Joe Biden's. He then flew immediately to Twitter's San Francisco office to start emergency meetings to fix the site's algorithm.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want

america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be