The Groundhog Day War

So now the most careless people in history will have fully autonomous weapons that use janky AI to pick targets: Altman joining Hegseth to commit war crimes.

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet. OpenAI: We'll do it

UK Labour has destroyed itself by smugly assuming that its natural base had nowhere else to go and so it could bash them and court social conservatives, but I can’t help laughing about the utter eclipse of the Conservative ‘natural party of government’ which seems to have nothing left at all

This week's cover @thelancet.com

My latest: More election deniers may be involved with this proposed "national emergency" elections executive order. QAnon figure Juan O. Savin has said his “team … wrote up” a “17-page document” which it “provided to the president last spring” & that Trump is “going to use … 80, 85, 90%” of it.

The Guardian has identified the Columbia student abducted by DHS as Ellie Aghayeva. She posted the IG story below: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

$200m doesn’t buy as much immunity as it did in the old days

tfw you’re trying to stop children in your prison camp expressing their feelings about what you’ve done to them

Details on the disturbing revocation of all trans people’s licenses by the state of Kansas. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

NYPD smol beans with their chokeholds and zip ties and pepper spray and guns

Eating cold fast food in a conference room. What an honor.

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Kushner’s US embassy account RT’s some State Department propaganda slop about ‘rising violence on the left’ after the murder of a French far right activist. Paris says it doesn’t appreciate the situation being ‘exploited’, summons him, he doesn’t bother to go and now they have revoked his access …

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

BREAKING Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.

Kash Patel out here posting himself getting brutally framemogged by the entire USA men’s hockey team

It’s ok, the professors have their own agent to set homework and give lectures now everyone can stay home and see how may calories they can ingest while trying to beat their high score on Tactical Waifu 4 there will be no social consequences for this

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

$75m bribe to Melania for a $7.8bn return seems like good business to me

This one hits hard.

As someone cooking in a south Asian / Japanese household today’s rice cooker discourse is much the best thing on Bluesky

It’s a mixture of fashwave visuals c.2016 and 70’s British tv nostalgia. Very Jimmy Savile coded

2026. The Singularity is a dating site. Accelerationism is now just another failure mode of Tesla full self drive. AI is ascending the earth to a Kardashian I civilization

Bessent, on the other hand, knows the account number

Some days the jokes just write themselves.

GORSUCH: “.. permanent accretion of power in the hands of one man. That is no recipe for a republic.” 👀

100% tariffs on everyone because I say so you get a tariff and you get a tariff and you

And with Nick Land and Grimes and some VC’s holding hands and looking out over the Pacific, the period future historians will call the ‘Long Nineties’ comes to an end www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

About as legitimate as the Christmas Adventurers Club

Old cold class-ridden Blighty doing rather better on elite impunity than the US these days www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

Justin Joque offers a more radical critique of AI in this review, questioning both the intentional model of language and the liberal politics of Bender and Hanna's the AI Con: olrsupplement.com/2026/02/17/t...

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

An example of the rapid degradation of the information environment (and the problems young people are having with basic critical thinking) : spate of videos claiming Harriet Tubman was fictional www.theroot.com/foolish-blac...

We are paying for Kristi and Corey to operate a 737 flying fuckpad

Watching a yacht rock documentary on a flight and wondering once again that Chris Cross won five grammies in 1981 when at the same time, in another cultural universe, music like Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart was being made.

“The engineers of the City of London seem to have been engaged in a collective hallucination, bringing the capitalist future into being out of the ether.” @harikunzru.bsky.social on excavating the disenchanted city.

The ‘Arc de Trump’ has yet to be built but already Americans are looking forward to its demolition before a wildly-cheering crowd

2/12/2026 - Lindenwold, NJ ICE agents chase children who were waiting at a bus stop for an elementary school These are elementary school-age children running from adult federal agents attempting to kidnap them

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

My most conservative-coded opinion is that we should bring back dignity and honor as social sorting mechanisms* *thus annihilating most actually-existing ‘conservatism’

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“I have come back to London to lose my bearings, to lose myself, but all I can make out in its depths is my own reflection.” Hari Kunzru on excavating the disenchanted city. harpers.org/archive/2026...

A Valentine’s party, you say? *chefs kiss*

Could we please stop reporting Elon’s SF scenario ideas as if any of them are going to happen.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.