The credulity that some MPs - and some journalists - display in engaging on X is most worrying Most think they’re ‘not vacating the public square’ In reality their brains are being fired and their idea of what ‘the public thinks’ completely manipulated - which has massive potential consequences

In short - Section 230 as it stands is absolutely core to how the internet functions today, and removing it would generate absolute legal chaos and probably result in the end of all social media, all comment sections and lots of basic internet hosting services. The liability would be insane.

It’s very simple. Genuinely very simple. Until Section 230, it was the case that any website that allowed a user to publish any content of any kind could be sued if they said *anything* libelous or bad. That includes web hosts, blogging platforms, social media etc.

Bluntly, Section 230 is almost literally the law that the entire internet rests upon, it makes it possible for user generated content to exist on the internet, it’s incredibly important, and genuinely we must defend it at all costs. This place literally would not exist without it.

We live in the stupidest possible timeline. www.404media.co/unauthorized...

i often see things that make me say "this is the most Boston thing I have ever seen in my life" but i think this one might have swept them all

Construction has begun on AI data centers in Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook.

bsky.app/profile/pook... Hell, the last Dem in power bragged on video that he was the one to draft the Patriot Act, which was passed with overwhelming bipartisan agreement. And *then* bragged about deporting more people faster than Trump did in his first term.

People are showing more grace to the white guy who took 18 years to cover up racist tattoos than a Black woman who has been using her platform to fight inequality since she got here. This is #TheDoubleTax.

the way the 1980 US hockey team is fellating trump. mortifying.

what in the fuck

SHUT THE FUCK UP

SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

our pig overlords absolutely going nuts stroking their shit when they find a new way to make people subscribe to something that used to be free

🧵 I've been a writer for my entire life, and worked very hard to get where I got by 2022. I was making a 100k a year, though I live in an expensive city. Suddenly it was just gone. I had three careers, really, and they all vanished because of AI, and suddenly I was struggling each month to pay rent.

okay, we can shut it down for the day—I don't think anyone will top this

The end of Section 230 would mean the end of all but the largest websites that allow user-generated content at all - and even the largest would be radically changed and locked down It would probably mean the end of your fav streamers' careers Call your senators and your representatives about this

The most important thing to oligarchs is that people come to accept chatbots as a source of truth. It’s the fascist imperative. This is the only way it makes sense to install these systems in spaces where they routinely fail at the ostensible task.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Trying to replace workers with A.I. is a grave mistake, Joshua Rothman writes—“not only because A.I. cannot replace those workers, but because it actually makes them more valuable. The businesses that figure this out first will be the ones to thrive.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/OlFB-m

much better

Fascist activist Bari Weiss is doing what her billionaire benefactors recruited her for: to turn CBS News into an ongoing infomercial for Hitler Youth.

This story is the place where two of the worst trends in journalism--"My job is to police anything that I can pretend is an excess of the left" and "Contrarianism is the greatest of all virtues"--meet, have sex on top of a rusty alley dumpster, and pass out in each other's arms.

BREAKING: Palantir Elf on the Shelf acquisition in doubt as Andreessen-Horowitz presents $638T bid to shareholders in hostile offer

Good point

could AI do this

Vomit inducing: House Oversight Committee have released photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate Friday including a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face. Each condom bears Trump’s face with the text, “I’m HUUUUGE!” Did Epstein hand these out to men having sex with children?!

i'm glad he's out, but i am extremely worried for this man's safety

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country. like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*

They didn’t even try to ease into it. Just straight to rag.

Went to a Christmas party this evening for Dallas District 14 commissioners and board members. Mostly older folks, probably all Democrats. Every time I attend an event like this now, I come away with one certainty: If you're a centrist Dem, you have totally lost the plot. Normies are radicalized.

NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Colorado will not release Tina Peters after President Trump announced he is pardoning her state-level convictions. "This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."

As of today, the only person in this Daily Penn visual that hasn't been fined millions of dollars or convicted of a felony is Luigi Mangione, believe it or not

This is the stupid crap that rich people who never worried about paying for healthcare would think the poor rubes would go for

what #theexpanse AND read the books!

The dedication C.S. Lewis placed at the start of 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' is something rather wonderful.

hey there blimpy boy flying through the sky so fancy free

these guys don't have the juice. they're gonna lose. believe your eyes

New: WaPo staff are fuming about the new AI personalized pods, noting they have errors like misattributing/inventing quotes, inserting commentary. WaPo's standards editor privately called the mistakes "frustrating," another editor said "if we were serious we would pull this tool immediately."

It has been 92 days since Charlie Kirk said anything racist.

Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

It's actually incredible how much the average person despises AI and how divorced from reality these CEOs are about their role that they think they can just force it down everyone's throat irrespective