Allegedly. Jeez...

federal agents have targeted the rideshare driver waiting area at the o'hare airport on 3 separate occasions over the last 10 days, including twice since saturday. today, at least 20 agents blocked the exits and demanded drivers show ids. dozens of people have been abducted—11 on saturday alone.

There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers. In studies, cancer survivors who contracted Covid had a statistically significant higher risk of cancer-related deaths buds.org.uk/covid-and-ca...

But there is money to redecorate the White House

here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update

I didn't have the means to get a higher education, and I've never been happy about it. The fact that someone who had the privilege of going to law school is doing this shit, instead of actually using the education I couldn't access, really burns me up.

If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

"What if, in the process of trying to ban AI products that quite actually encourage children to kill themselves, we wind up banning chatbots that help children cheat on their homework, diminish their propensity for critical thought, and lead to the development of other forms of AI psychosis?"

If only OpenAI could have foreseen the entirely predictable hazards of irresponsibly releasing this tech. I guess the estate of every dead person will have to individually request a special dispensation to no longer have disgusting videos made by OpenAI’s tools.

Now's the time to call up Visa/MC to ask 'hey, how come you guys will pay for ChatGPT and Twitter subs but I can't buy certain games off of Steam?' Because I frankly would LOVE an answer to that...

It was never a Gaza 'war'. The 'ceasefire' is a lie cut from the same cloth - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/it-was-never-gaza-war-ceasefire-lie-cut-same-clot

The federal government is still shut down.

There are lessons here (if anyone is paying attention)

The genocide case against Israel is proceeding, as it should. War crimes don't vanish after the conclusion of war.

So they don't like anti-fascists, and they don't like people who say no kings... I feel like the shape of what they hate is revealing the shape of what they are.

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Never forget the core thing funding the sheer scale of the spending spree of AI investments is primarily due to the turborich wanting to solve the “problem” of having to pay wages.

Can we just marvel at how fucked up a country has to be to need "sanctuary cities" for its own citizens?

People will die if this is implemented. Frequently.

You don’t need AI; AI is not “inevitable.” That’s a lie being fed to you by companies who are going to lose a fuckton of money if they don’t convince you that AI is something you can’t live without.

“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross." www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Jewish deaths are weaponized to enable genocide.

"Sorry, there's just no money for new projects" "we have to lay off hundreds of people to cut costs" "that show/game/studio has been canceled and closed due to lack of profits"

Just two years ago, DHS' own watchdog found CBP & ICE were violating privacy policies & breaking the law in how it handled location data. Now this. These tools are dangerous in any government's hands.

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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Last night, in response to the Israeli military attacking the Sumud flotilla attempting to deliver aid to starving people in Gaza, 10,000 protesters marched in Rome. Another solidarity flotilla is on the way to Gaza right now. A general strike will take place in Italy tomorrow. Free Palestine.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Goddamnit.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

If you want to call your senator or representative, you can do so here. Tell them that anti-LGBTQ+ provisions are a red line for the final negotiated budget bill and for any compromises around it. www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Is this not straight-forwardly a declaration of civil war?

This is honestly chilling. Here's a piece of crap plagiarism defender who claims to have used historically hallucination-prone AI both for scientific analysis at CERN, and for, get this, FOOD SAFETY ANALYSIS.

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“To be clear, ‘Tilly Norwood’ is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation.” @sagaftra.org @humanartistry.bsky.social

I'll be going live in a few minutes on Twitch but I wanted to say that instead of Bits and Subs, could you give to St Jude's Hospital instead? tilt.fyi/EgIVYSdP1k I'm not looking to make anything for my self right now and would much rather see that money go to this worthy cause.

Olive branch

Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity" Gift link from @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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NSFW music, but accurate.

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

Things I had not expected to see today: Deutsche Bank making a numbers based argument that "AI" is a bubble and won't last https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry

Cornell's president, who has precisely zero scholarly expertise in the area, has previously remarked that the course takes "a radical, factually inaccurate, and biased view of the formation of the state of Israel and the ongoing conflict." www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

"What's the worst that could happen if we keep investing fake money unto AI? Even if it is a bubble and ROI never happens, the poor will be the ones suffering due to job loss and we will be rescued by the govt. So what's the issue? Bubbles are cool actually." —Them investors.

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this: “These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

Casting constitutionally protected speech as "domestic terrorism" is flat-out dangerous. It's hard to see this being a tool for anything but targeting people and organizations that criticize the administration's policies.

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