it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

We all need a little validation sometimes, but.... Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment—yes, even yours. Subjects who interacted with AI tools were more likely to think they were right, less likely to try to resolve conflicts. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

To claim that things are chaotic at airports "despite" completely useless ICE agents getting in the way is so disingenuous of CNN.

Dreams DO come true: my photo of the ICE teens spread so far divorced of context or credit that Snopes dot com had to write a whole story confirming that I didn't make it with AI. 🥲

Elizabeth Banks

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

This is worth reading. Lots of insightful bits, I think this is the elevator pitch:

"If you do a war where thousands of people die and billions of dollars are spent only to end up back where you started that is losing; if you end up worse than where you started, well, that is worse"

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

this is like, literally the exact kind of thing that kicked off the revolutionary war. i'm trying to find a way to be goofy and say i'm exaggerating but taxing shipments in order to pay for expensive foreign wars was literally the flashpoint lol

yes this has a lot to do with me finally transitioning, but i notice that transphobia seems to often be the hinge that turns people from relatively normal into frothing would-be genocidaires

The most depressing thing about this article, which confirms that denying airborne spread of covid was completely wrong, is that this article is 5 YEARS old. And yet doctors *still* won't wear respirators. It also must be acknowledged that more than 400,000 people had died by then, just in America.

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet. This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

While we're rightfully talking about how awful HP and its author is, i can never forget that she introduced the "hook nosed banking goblins" in BOOK ONE. She's always been bigoted trash.

some of us just aren't built for it ok #comic

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

After missing its recruitment goals, the U.S. Army is now raising its max enlistment age to 42 and removing its waiver requirement for a single marijuana possession. Gosh... if only thousands of highly qualified trans soldiers hadn't been kicked out last year for no good reason.

The mask is completely off. You can’t meet these people in the middle. We’re not working toward the same goals. They hate America. They hate democracy. They hate freedom. And they hate you.

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

when i say the NYTimes deserves neither your money nor your respect, i also mean NYTimes cooking, NYTimes puzzles, crosswords, connections, and wordle, the wirecutter, the athletic, and all their podcasts. the nytimes is institutionally anti-trans.

JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida. And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024). That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.

This is going to surprise, well, no one who has been paying attention, but Trump's birthright citizenship legal arguments are based on the theories of a former Confederate officer, white supremacist, who went on to argue the segregationists case in Plessy v. Fergueson. www.vox.com/politics/483...

"We have 241GW of 'planned' capacity in America, of which only 79.5GW of which is 'under active development,' but when you dig deeper, only 5GW of capacity is actually under construction?" "The entire AI bubble is a god damn mirage." Turns out my 401k index funds are really just Dutch tulips. 🌷🤷

Free newsletter: The AI industry is lying to you about progress. Only 5GW of data centers are under construction, it takes 6 months to bring online a single quarter's worth of NVIDIA GPU sales, and LLM code is actively breaking big tech. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/

Being a powerful, wealthy person "unwilling" to speak the truth publicly and going further to actively lie is pretty much the definition of "not a good person."

What the hell are we doing here. If you believe horrible things, support cruel policies, and won't do anything to stop a fascist you are by definition not a "good" person, no matter how friendly you may be to other powerful people.

if giving up and letting AI corpo slop infest an entire creative medium is to "man up" then ig I'll continue to woman down this is a choice, just don't use it, it's literally that easy www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

Reminder that the Butlerian Jihad was not just “AI bad” but also “the people who built and own the machines meant to control and replace us must burn for humanity to survive.” Anyway some dune lore apropos of nothing

Any Democrat who votes for the first part after they've announced the plan for the second part needs to be tarred and feathered.

Keep an eye out for the Cava bags those money smugglers use

"I'm doing my part!"

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

Much of reactionary politics today is best understood as a Confederate restoration project.

Zooming out, it’s clear that Epstein was the head of a major criminal enterprise. Sex trafficking, money laundering, probably drugs. Trump, Bondi and Blanche want to shut down all investigation and keep it quiet.

my working assumption is that Trump is mad at Reuters

Your regular reminder: It’s not vaccines vs masks It’s vaccines AND masks AND clean air AND tests AND more

"It's none of my business," the woman said, "but..." The witch did not roll her eyes. "...I heard you gave the baker's gal fangs, and claws." "She asked." "You've made her a monster!" "Adding doesn't make you a monster. Removing does." "Removing what?" "Someone's right to be who they are."

It took four years of hate-filled propaganda for Slobodon Milosevic to convince people of committing atrocities. It took less time in Rwanda. Steady messaging that designates internal enemies should never be taken lightly.

NEW ORLEANS: "[ICE agents] literally just walking around in groups of three and four, seemingly without any true purpose...They’re wearing tan vests that say either 'ICE' or 'federal agent.' They are carrying sidearms. But they’re just casually walking around carrying bottles of water and Gatorade."

"The panic now visible in British Columbia is not evidence that reconciliation has gone too far. It is evidence that reconciliation has begun to have material consequences." @khelsilem.bsky.social in @macleans.bsky.social: macleans.ca/politics/can...

🤣 Mission Impossible music, playing in my head 🤣🙃🤭

ICE at airports is not about helping TSA make travel easier or faster. It's about normalizing the police state, supercharging military everywhere all the time, intimidating people and esp BIPOC folks. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/t...

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

picture, thousan words, etc etc

Started/going

It's just struck me that in a situation where the US government and the Iran government have made contradictory statements, as they have today, I'm now inclined to think the Iranians are telling the truth than the Americans. This is Not Good.