Wayback Machine grabbed the original Epstein files dump before that photo of Trump got pulled. You can't get to the individual PDF page for the missing image, but if you click "download all files" and download it locally you can find the now-deleted file in: IMAGES / 0001 / EFTA00000468.pdf

He has always been self-serving. This is a man who allegedly refused to wash his own plate when he worked at Vox because his salary was higher than that of the sanitation employees. I need people to recognize that he's a POS.

It’s a misunderstanding of the technology, and laziness. You could give a chatbot a bibliography of papers you’ve read and tell it to write a paper using them as sources. There’s a good chance it’ll fabricate sources anyway because it’s simulating text, not evaluating task-specific logic.

because you made it with wires and metal and foam. and wow what a good job. but it isn't a horse, it bears almost nothing in common with a horse and it can never become a horse. a mimic by definition can not be what it mimics. the ability to make a card ACTUALLY vanish requires no sleight of hand

Around half of San Francisco is without power right now and something like 1/3rd of intersections I drove through had waymos stopped in the middle of them making a dangerous situation even worse. Do not let Waymo into your city.

Good lord this is bleak

At least five FUBARed Waymo robots: Market & Guerrero, SF One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how. Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO. OP: tiktok.brahmsstan

this is, quite genuinely and documentably, an agitprop operation funded by white supremacist billionaire men with the singular aim of sowing division in the electorate you would just have zero understanding of that reading 95% of journalism it genuinely feels surreal to me

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

A few days before Christmas and near record high temperatures are occurring around the North Pole in the #Arctic 🎅🥵 Download at zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

I do want to clarify that, while there is absolutely no question that this change is catastrophic, immunization requirements are set by states and AHIP has previously committed to covering vaccines recommended until the current ACIP recommendations through the end of 2026.

Hype. No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

they've all bought 10,000 shares of baby coffin stock

21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!

Sean Casten: -Won his first primary by 2000 votes -Won the general by 53-46 -Demolished progressive Marie Newman in a primary after redistricting He should be Yglesias' core supporter, instead he just called Matt a toddler when it comes to politics.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Media lying is now utterly commonplace.

"In other words, once the four AI tools locked onto a person’s age, race, or gender, those factors would form the backbone of the tissue analysis. In effect, AI would go on to replicate bias resulting from gaps in AI training data."

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Makes me proud every time! Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!

guy on the left can barely stand upright at the start of the clip but is still thinking clearly enough to denounce "fucking holocaust shit" cc: @democrats.senate.gov

Oversight Dems should just keep releasing the most damning evidence--unredacted--until the files are released. What is anyone going to do to them if they do this? And who?

I somehow missed that Dan Savage was on Bluesky now. If you missed the memo, consider this your reminder that Dan Savage is a racist transphobe who has allied himself with Jesse Singal (!) and written racist screeds attacking Black people while dismissing the racism of white gays.

Yglesias referring to Senator Van Hollen as a "safe seat clout-chaser" is so despicable. VH took a stand to prevent Abrego García - an innocent man - from being disappeared into CECOT for life.

I don't feel compelled to prove it's bullshit because it's hilariously stupid bullshit... but every Ivy League's faculty CV is on the web and if you can find me someone whose hire date precedes their first pub I will buy you coffee.

Biggest technological revolution in our lifetime and it's not AI:

It's very easy to laugh at the Trump regime's frequent legal incompetence but their hit rate doesn't need to be very high in order to successfully intimidate people. Even an absurd prosecution like this has a chance to succeed.

The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors. Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

On top of unethical this smells like money laundering

🤏🏾🤏🏾 reason 1,440,986 why the arts matter

something i’ve learned from commissioners of pro sports leagues (rob manfred) to assume their job is to make normal people enjoy their product is incorrect! their job is to keep a dozen rich people with more money than should be allowed happy and making more money

he was good at his job, his job was explicitly to destroy things so they'd be acquired and shareholders would make a bunch of money this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut

yall dont value your admin people because its primarily been women and disproportionately minority women putting powerpoints together, writing comms templates and shit like

the tl;dr of larian isnt that they dont wanna pay writers. maybe they dont wanna pay writers, idk, but its more they dont wanna pay office staff

You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...

overall, in 2017, just over 11 percent of journalists across newsrooms of all sizes were people of color. americanpressinstitute.org/survey/avera...

This really is, as Sara says, INSANE memory-holing: Minutes after FCC Chairman Carr told Congress that the FCC "is not" an independent agency (see video below via @atrupar.com), the FCC website started getting scrubbed to remove that description.

have you considered that for some people this specific fire is the one burning down their livelihood and a lot of those people are on this app

I could not give a single shit about him complaining about refs. This image is *very literally* an IRL representation of the ALT right Jew cartoon meme and it is making my SICK TO MY STOMACH to look at it. This man needs to face immediate consequences.

At this point, I think it's maybe even odds if they can get a conviction.

It is kind of wild that the future trajectory for Luigi Mangione ranges from "federal death penalty" to "51st president of the USA."

A thing to remember is that this happens a lot and the reason cops aren't better at this is that they very rarely have to be.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal. Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Reagan.

Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games

I think that very few people in academia have come to terms with what it means that most schools depend on grad student labor but prepare grad students for a job market that doesn't exist.

I was going to joke that "I would just ship my drugs along with Elon's," but then I realized that Musk could very well use the US military to terrorize his supplier's competition if he wanted and no one would do anything to stop him.