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Congrats to the editors at the Irish Times for their timing in publishing two news pieces this morning: Shannon Airport has been used for ICE deportation flight refuelling; an Irish man with no criminal record and a valid work permit has been held at an ICE centre in Texas ***since September 2025***

Recommended for anyone trying to wrap their heads around what just happed in Japan.

generally speaking any publicly voiced preference to accept self-induced austerity is an outright lie

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

in conclusion, statehood for dc and pr

this is exactly why i’ve started calling myself a “public school democrat.” they took me to independence hall on a field trip in elementary school, and i latched on to the soaring, righteous propaganda, hook, line, and sinker. i bought the hype, and the imperative to make it real

both the president and literally everyone else understand any statement of a moral principle -- any moral principal -- as a denunciation

Yes, Mister Bunny’s performance was obviously political. But I think everything short of gargling a meth addicted klansman’s truck nuts comes across as an implicit denunciation of the president nowadays.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

recutting the end of FARGO so that Margie and Norm turn to the camera together and say "Fuck ICE"

The NYT fired everyone who knew that sugar cane is kinda important to Puerto Rico.

They're dumber than dogshit over there. This is so fucking embarrassing.

I doubt this has happened before: 11 of this weekend's top 15 movies were made independently, inc. 4 of the top 5. There is nothing holding down overall grosses and attendance more than the fact that studios have forgotten how to do what they used to do, which is to fill the pipeline with movies.

Just now catching up to this episode. Really excellent interview between @anneapplebaum.bsky.social and @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social. As a scientist who knew someone purged during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the parallels in intent if not (yet) in scope here/now are deeply unsettling.

one of the meanest things i've ever said, undeniably true tho

No Kings includes Draft Kings

RULING: PM Takaichi vows to secure "understanding" if she visits war-linked Yasukuni

Post election pragmatism from Takaichi -- so far.
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One month into 2026 and Republicans are losing their minds If Democrats win the majority, Trump’s authoritarian plan will be foiled — and he knows that.

To understand the GOP’s 2026 strategy, look at Steve Bannon. As Marc Elias writes, Bannon remains the most influential voice in the MAGA movement.

What Steve Bannon says goes.

YouTube video by Technology Connextras This defunct EPCOT attraction is why I'm like this

Here, you can have the link while I consider putting some effort into a thumbnail.

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Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.

The changes of our times go beyond Trump or Brexit or any particular figure or national event. Nor is ours a time of reduced support for liberalism. Instead, writes @polphilpod.bsky.social, the center-right worldwide is collapsing into fascism, while liberals consolidate the opposing political bloc.

If you're a person who thinks "billionaires are evil -> billionaires own big tech -> frontier labs dominate the LLM space and are owned by billionaires -> LLMs is evil" then I am sympathetic to it. However the correct prescription is not to destroy LLM technology but to expropriate it.

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

From the ICE_Watch community on Reddit: Healthcare workers confirm that ICE is abandoning half-naked kidnapping victims in the woods of Minnesota to die. "Individuals have shown up in emergency rooms ... Explore this post and more from the ICE_Watch community

"Healthcare workers confirm that ICE is abandoning half-naked kidnapping victims in the woods of Minnesota to die. "Individuals have shown up in emergency rooms who require amputations—some with cracked skulls." (1/29/26)"

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it's a very funny example of historical contingency that people demanding ever more pixels in video games is lowkey responsible for front-loading the cost of decades of computing hardware R&D before the onset of LLMs

A post on threads from user stephens_bens. It reads 'I'll always remember an interview with Steve Buscemi on Bulleye, Jesse Thorn asked him "As an actor with many decades of varied and outstanding roles across your career, does it ever bother you that one of the things you will most be remembered for is a 3-second gif in which you're wearing a backwards baseball cap and carrying a skateboard?" And without missing a beat, Buscemi replied "I'm carrying *two* skateboards." And you know what? He is.' Below that is a screen cap of Buscemi's famous "fellow kids" moment.

I never noticed this either.

I can understand why many politicians are hesitant to advocate for abolishing ICE, because doing so comes with significant risks like being remembered fondly by history and being beloved by your constituents

Stupid question:

Why do people favor universal basic income over a generous negative income tax? Seems silly not to means test, if the goal is to provide a basic living and a backstop against calamity.

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

Helped out inadvertently by China here too - Sino-Japanese relations have been spiraling for months after Beijing went on its usual spitting fit over her comments on Taiwan and it seems only to have pushed her numbers up.

the california wealth tax is stupid because the people meant to pay it can probably just leave and go back to california at will. a national wealth tax is a whole other beast - yeah i'm sure jeff bezos is going to go live in mexico to not pay his tax bill

We are in a small community outside Minneapolis and a child arrived to an empty house on Friday. No parents, ice kidnapped them and just leave children to wander alone after school