Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "I just left a classified briefing on Iran, and here's what I can say: it is so much worse than you thought. You are right to be worried. The Trump administration has no plan in Iran. This illegal war is based on lies and it was launched without any imminent threat to our […]

"A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley […]

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Californians need to know that a "Democrat" running for governor is basically a tool of the worst tech barons. Gil Duran explains. https://www.thenerdreich.com/palantir-for-governor/?ref=the-nerd-reich-newsletter

RE: https://mstdn.social/@990000/115993630141888644 How we did end up in the timeline where instead of writing a note on a post-it and sticking it to the door one needs A HUNDRED THOUSAND GPUS WHICH COST A TRILLION DOLLARS AND BURN A TERAWATT OF POWER WHILE GIVING ZERO FUCKS ABOUT COPYRIGHT OR […]

How boomers remember normal #winter days. 🖼️ ©Justin Locke, 1956 in the Pyrenees

#boston Tonight, at Boston Common, a large crowd gathered. Pictured below. 3/

You will be visited by three spirits

I am brimming with holiday spirit

#uspol #ice #iran #refuge #refugee

"#siliconvalley isn’t building apps anymore. It’s building empires." "Under the banner of "patriotic tech", this new bloc is building the infrastructure of control—clouds, #AI, #finance, #drones, #satellites—an integrated system we call the #authoritarianstack. It is faster, ideological, and […]

## Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/improving-pixelmelts-kindle-web-deobfuscator/ A few days ago, someone called PixelMelt published a way for Amazon's customers to download their purchased books without DRM. Well… […] [Original post on shkspr.mobi]

(18 Oct) How I Reversed Amazon’s Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this ❲and have some interesting ways to stop you❳ https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/ Archive: ia […] [Original post on faithcollapsing.com]

I made this for my sister c. 1990. And yes, this is the extent of my artistic abilities. I'm not entirely sure what possessed me to portray Trump as a globe-consuming kaiju, but since it appears that Santa has not actually saved the world from him, it's up to us to go out tomorrow. #nokings

Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security. https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

The Tech - MIT’s president has formally rejected the Trump administration's proposed compact. https://thetech.com/2025/10/10/mit-rejects-compact

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

Breaking: President Trump plans to recognize the anniversary of 9/11 by launching a surprise attack on an American city.

So help me, I laughed #shitpost #meme #distractedboyfriend

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Harvard Crimson - A federal judge rules that the Trump administration violated the Constitution when it froze more than $2.7 billion in research funding to Harvard, striking down the freeze in its entirety. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/9/4/harvard-funding-order/

Margaret Atwood claps back to having The Handmaid’s Tale banned from Alberta schools by the UCP. It’s so good. #ableg #abpoli #abed

So just for my amusement I asked chatgpt "why does the porridge bird lay its eggs in the air" and got this response, which is not, quite, right. #chatgpt

“There is no excuse for the world to stand by and watch two million human beings suffer on the brink of full-blown famine.“

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MELTDOWN

Fuck you all, I'm going to the moooon. #apollo11 https://electricliterature.com/nixon-in-space-rob-mccleary/

“This is how media freedom dies. Not with dramatic raids on newsrooms or journalists thrown in jail (though who knows what the rest of Trump’s second term will bring). It dies with mergers and acquisitions, with regulatory pressure and financial settlements, with billionaires who see news […]

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

Bulwark unpacking the credulity of reporting about the Epstein memo. I keep pointing out there are two credible sections (40% each) sandwiching bullshit that should be obvious bullshit to journalists. www.thebulwark.com/p/case-close...

"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by @eevee: "But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and […]

Call Blackburn & Hagerty and make them know you know

😡 #uspol

#gretathunberg #israel #GazaFlotilla #gaza #palestine #FreedomFlotilla #madleen

I’m unreasonably fucking pissed. An r/me_irlgbt moderator banned me, and is now accusing me of being an A.I. … … … because I use fucking emdashes and ellipses. #typography #ai #nightmaretimeline

Now I'm imagining installing a retractable white sheet that coudl be rolled out over the my existing roof in the summer, then rolled up in the winter.

Harvard Crimson- A federal judge ordered the release of Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher who has been fighting deportation proceedings for nearly three months, from ICE custody. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/29/judge-petrova-ice-release/

In her last week as Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden worried about America losing access to its history. In an interview with GBH News, Hayden spoke about the country and the library's future. Hayden was fired by Trump last night. https://bit.ly/4k9ak5d #libraries #librarians