He got away with being a war criminal

Thanks to the #Tolkien community, we’ve reached our goal within just 10 hours of announcing it! We will continue to accept donations to help provide further assistance to Palestinians in Gaza; our new goal is $1000. Due to everyone’s incredible generosity, (1/2)

pretty good article covering the latest scoops from FoF in detail.

youtu.be/uHWpVW3uhP0?... @fellowshipoffans.com is dropping a new episode of The Second Age Show later today, in just under two hours! Tune in to catch the latest production updates on Season 3 of #TheRingsofPower!!

Finally got around to resetting my Bluesky password.

as a moderator on the discord channel for TORn, I'm very much looking forward to doing a series rewatch of The Rings of Power with trop community; feel free to join us this summer!

Having finally watched #Sinners, I see in it an indictment of liberalism. Remmick is not racist, his promise via vampirism is one of unity. And yet, joining him still centers and magnifies his voice; he wants Sammie's music for his needs. Like how immigration is reduced to labor and "taco trucks".

For 1.5 years, war has left my family in Gaza homeless. We live in a fragile tent, with no food, medicine, or safety. This campaign is our only chance to survive. Please donate and share. chuffed.org/project/help...

Israel and Gaza today. #Eurovision supporting genocide. Fuck them

Trump is attempting to ethnically cleanse Gaza www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Great example of the craziness in Ontario: Liberals somehow win Kitchener Conestoga, a rural Conservative stronghold. But Conservatives win Kitchener Centre, the urban riding previously held by the Greens, because of this split: CPC 34.3% GRN 33.6% LPC 29.2%

CBC finally calls Carleton - the Canadian Tory leader Pierre Poilievre has lost his own seat

Canadian Election thoughts: Liberals with a very tenuous minority government means we could see another election within the next 2 years. Even more shaky because NDP barely got 7 seats (still being tallied). It will be hard to pass legislation with BQ; worst case scenario we get a hung parliament.

The first seat of the night to be called is Labrador! Liberal Hold

we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time

gonna be re-organizing my followings and followers, if I unfollow you it's not personal or ideological, I'm just trying optimize my feed for news/info because that whole ecosystem on other apps is completely deteriorated.

Honestly think Trudeau could run again after a speech like this. And I don't even like him that much.

Dawg do you know how bad you have to fuck up to get me to root for Doug Ford

CONNOR MCDAVID 🚨 THE NEW AGE GOLDEN GOAL! CANADA WINS!

Canada annexes 4 Nations Championship

Here's a stunner. It's outrage after outrage, and the only real check is public opinion. The idea that this guy is making government his private sandbox and profiting from it in ways we don't know is abominable. Elon Musk’s Financial Disclosure Will Not Be Made Public www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

Folks have been writing about how the rollback of DEI is segregationist which is absolutely true, but to add, so too are the deportations. Immigration policy in the US has a long history of servicing white supremacy — and it literally denies the co presence of people of color.

One reason Donald Trump is going after USAID: Polls show Americans think foreign aid is about a quarter of the US budget. It's actually ~1%. Across the board there's a disconnect between actual gov't spending and perceptions of gov't spending. From the Brookings Institution:

Several businesses close in protest against US President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. — in pictures aje.io/pojyqb

Please read this and pass it on: Aaron is a Harvard educated lawyer, community organizer and bookstore owner in Buffalo.

Every year on February 1st when I start my little thread, I run across at least a few fully educated white folk in the US, that have never even heard of the "Declaration of Causes for Seceding states." By "fully educated," I mean "straight-A high student, then top university, then grad school."

I don’t think that’s very clear at all. Trump and his Nazi billionaire friend are trying to destroy government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Anyone still on their side doesn’t want to work with you ever again. And the people who are on your side want you to stand in their way.

the problem with not politicizing this tragedy is that Trump will do it for you regardless of the root cause of this accident, it’s inarguable that his air safety policies will make this sort of thing dramatically more likely - starting with this irresponsible bigotry focus on that

couple months ago, i & a few others were asked about the resurgence of the r-slur. i looked at some recent examples & saw that it is related to the wave of eugenics and race science that has coincided with our descent into fascism. not a trend I’d want to hop on! www.vox.com/culture/3764...

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

This Deepseek thing is like when Godzilla show up to defeat a more evil kaiju

China’s DeepSeek AI is hitting Nvidia where it hurts

"Deepseek will scare the American government into investing more in AI" invest in what? To what end? Deepseek is open source, and I guarantee you there are already American and European companies planning their own version as Deepseek explained their entire process. This is the race to the bottom!

I think people are having a hard time understanding the vast majority of folks who were protesting Gaza weren’t saying that Trump is preferable or would avoid ethnic cleansing, they were saying “stop the ethnic cleansing now” so that hopefully there wouldn’t be one regardless of the election results

The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex

It’s worth emphasizing that the Colombia fight was not about accepting deportations. It was that the Colombian president demanded deportees be treated humanely, and not as props for Trump’s performative cruelty. That simple request for decency was enough for Trump to instigate a trade war.

Deepseek is hilarious because the entire story of AI research since the 50s has been "I need a bigger mainframe to invert this huge matrix which is mostly zeros" versus "hahaha git good at math"

“Rather than weakening China’s AI capabilities, [US] sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate in ways that prioritize efficiency, resource-pooling, and collaboration.” www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/24/1...

it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.