Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

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The tide is turning….

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

if you haven’t seen it theonion.com/i-am-the-god...

Whitecaps to the Vegas? Yeah, sure, maybe. But let's talk pressure points. theprovince.com/sports/socce...

Wait what

Can’t wait for like, 500 articles that are like “as I dived under a table to hide from the shooter I realized I had to be even more sycophantic to the White House”

New playlist BELIEVE IN ANYTHING: CANADIAN INDIE ROCK IN THE 2000s 🇨🇦Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/2xk... 🇨🇦Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 🇨🇦YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

COURAGE UNDER FIRE: Journalists are responding to Trump's intimidation tactics in the most forceful way possible

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

“sadness this decade has been forged by the fact of, and the feeling of, a permanent unrelenting economic crisis, amplified by a uniquely negative news & media environment, and exacerbated by the rise of solitude & the declining of trusted institutions.” www.derekthompson.org/p/if-america...

e42 of 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90S: THE 2000S is on wolf parade's "I'LL BELIEVE IN ANYTHING," because all the truly great love songs should be fueled by panic, terror, chaos, and fundamental uncertainty open.spotify.com/episode/1Lkw...

Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.” America’s Mayor can’t miss.

We Gen Xers swing right harder than our parents. Why? We grew up with Reagan's vapid certainties, still bullied kids or endured bullying, accepted gender stereotypes handed down to us, and had jobs offering the last gasp of New Deal protections. I talk about it here. wp.me/pzXeC-le5

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

This is real

This is incredible from Sebastian Berhalter. Deep in second-half stoppage time, makes a crunching tackle to end a dangerous Portland counter and win back possession. 25 seconds later he finishes it off at the other end with a banger of a game-winner.

Whether or not the war resumes by Friday — or sooner, since Israel is still bombing Iran — it’s time to talk about humiliation: What kind of military humiliation we are experiencing; and what, productively, can emerge from that humiliation.

“GOD IS A COMEDIAN… This is a clusterfuck of historic proportions and everyone who's ever held a rank knows it.” Do yourself a favor and read this piece on the absurdity that is Trump’s Iran War and the ever-shifting justifications. open.substack.com/pub/no01/p/m... A taste:

OH. MY. GAWD.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

During a White House event on college football, Trump mocked and shut down a question about Russia allegedly helping Iran target U.S. assets. “What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We’re talking about something else,” said Trump.

SCTV’s punk rock parody on Mel’s Rock Pile which is legit good and with actual eighties punk energy, not corny, huge huge laugh at the look on Candy’s face as the drummer when they cut back to him. youtu.be/ThrkJKxRNXo

The mix is a bit muddy—bass and drums overwhelm the rest. Sounds ferocious though.

"Instead of respecting my inalienable right to be debated, they just… blocked me. Like I’m some kind of annoyance, rather than the iconoclastic and fascinating truth-teller which I know myself to be."

YOU ASKED FOR THIS! Downfall. Kristi Noem Edition:

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Right after her questions about Pizzagate, Rep. Lauren Boebert during Hillary Clinton's House deposition on Jeffrey Epstein asked Clinton about the false Frazzledrip conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right over the years. www.mediamatters.org/facebook/mar...

Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesn’t like who ends up in charge we’ll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.

Trump would never pick on anyone who could reasonably resist or fight back. It’s his (rapist) nature. It’s been clear for a while that Iran can’t do much to stop being bombed.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

keystone cops-ass technology

1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first. 2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts. 3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger. 4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover. 5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.

Wilson may be gone for the tournament for that. IIHF don’t play.

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

This is so much worse than what took down Nixon, difference was that then the media did not like Nixon and wasn't trying to help him and today the media is controlled by the Epstein-Oligarch class and so is part of the same conspiracy that Trump is and buries it

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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

That raccoon’s name? John McClane.

Per @pabloreports.bsky.social: Bondi has a “burn book” organized by the names of Democratic lawmakers so she can attack them when they ask her questions.

wow -- Bondi throws a fit in response to Nadler's question about how many of Epstein's co-conspirators, if any, she's investigating, aggressively pointing at him and yelling. The hearing then devolves into chaos and Raskin and Bondi start yelling at each other.

damn it this is good, Martin Short impersonating Robin Williams

NEW: The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today. "I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..." Law Dork:

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Jeffrey Epstein did not stop raping children after his 2008 conviction. Jeffrey Epstein did not stop facilitating the rape of children after his 2008 conviction. He kept doing it. That is the context of people treating him as a normal person after his conviction. /1 www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/u...