Kevin

Meet the 24-year-old Ottawa software engineer who runs a MAGA bot The bots were created to flood X with pro-MAGA messages, attracting attention from Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

well he’s getting his money’s worth — apparently the bot was set up on spec in hopes of getting some funds from the campaign

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Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

"settler colonialism" is like "microaggressions" in that it's one of those things that obviously exists so critics just obsess over the fact that it sounds a little bit like something a sociologist would say

Cuomo’s campaign clanker endorsing Adams for some reason

it’s shorting out and endorsing Adams for some reason

Did everyone just fall out of a coconut tree?????

you know the world is ending when Summers is supporting a woman in STEM

This is what early bluesky was like, in many ways

Opinion | Donor Organs Are Too Rare. We Need a New Definition of Death.

These doctors want to harvest more organs by declaring the “irreversibly comatose” dead. An obviously monstrous proposall—yet identical in logic to “brain death”

Both see the undesirable as reservoirs of parts for the deserving

Brain death, too, was a mistake

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Booker opposing an effort to block Trump’s arms sales to Israel after delivering impassioned remarks on Democrats being “complicit” with Trump.

This man is the personal hero and sage of the most powerful Catholic in the American government.

Personal Superintelligence Over the last few months we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves. The improvement is slow for now, but undeniable. Developing superintelligence is now in sight. It seems clear that in the coming years, AI will improve all our existing systems and enable the creation and discovery of new things that aren't imaginable today. But it is an open question what we will direct superintelligence towards. In some ways this will be a new era for humanity, but in others it's just a continuation of historical trends. As recently as 200 years ago, 90% of people were farmers growing food to survive. Advances in technology have steadily freed much of humanity to focus less on subsistence and more on the pursuits we choose. At each step, people have used our newfound productivity to achieve more than was previously possible, pushing the frontiers of science and health, as well as spending more time on creativity, culture, relationships, and enjoying life.

What Jobs was not selling us was a new and foreign concept. We might have had to relearn how we did certain things, but we were not learning new things to do - we were making phone calls, listening to music, and browsing the web. These were all things we did before, done on a new device, in a new way, pitched to us by a charming sociopath. The “new” thing was the idea of a persistent, portable internet connection that was remotely affordable for consumers. While Jobs challenged us to think differently, he didn’t have to spend multiple interviews explaining what the hell an iPhone did. Another thing Jobs didn’t do was massively misrepresent what a product could do or promise impossible things. Zuckerberg, on the other hand, is a charlatan and a liar. He has used his vast wealth and influence to spread a non-specific metaverse gospel to distance himself from Facebook's damage to society. And his cronies are doing the same thing: In response to concerns about the metaverse, Facebook, which recently renamed itself Meta, pointed to a statement from a September blog post by Facebook executives Andrew Bosworth and Nick Clegg that reads, in part, “Meta is not going to build, own, or run the metaverse on its own. We are starting conversations about our vision for the metaverse early, before some of the technologies even exist. ... We’re discussing it now to help ensure that any terms of use, privacy controls or safety features are appropriate to the new technologies and effective in keeping people safe.” The utter vapidity of this paragraph fills me full of bile. In this scenario, what exactly is Meta creating? What is Meta’s product? What are you doing for money? If you were hoping that Zuckerberg himself would answer this, you would be wrong:

This is, by the way, one of the biggest bear signs you could ask for. Fantastical nonsense that Zuck would only put out knowing society would accept it blindly. Zuckerberg is a liar, as I said three years ago.

www.wheresyoured.at/mark-zuckerb...

CBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies A CBS News investigation found discrepancies between the government's description of the Jeffrey Epstein jail video and what the video shows.

Do y'all think they were holding this until after the merger got approved lol

www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...

"Venomous snake bite emergency treatment help hepl" refers to a method of treating snake bites — which can be venomous — in urgent circumstances, while also acknowledging the work of Help Hepl, a Finnish comedian of the late 1970s.

The Two-Pronged Attack on a Muslim Judicial Nominee How the smearing of Adeel Mangi became a bipartisan exercise.

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

he’d get more credit for that if he had appointed someone other than Garland who might have been willing to use the courts

The Cowardice of Senate Democrats Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.

Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.

at least we no longer have to wonder about whether it could happen here

this is the belief of most American Catholics who think about this stuff at all unfortunately

I don’t mean to be rude but given that university boards are now full of successful people from the world of business why are they taking such bad deals

how is he already one!

watching torres' atempt at damage control in real time is CRAZY when he's been one of the most fervent supporters of israel from either party

Andreessen made some statement about how early-stage VC is the only job language models won’t be able to replace

it’s not comparable; random citizens get denounced as antisemites for saying the IDF is guilty of war crimes, whereas Rep Fine can spout off disgusting racism and the political establishment just looks the other way.

one of these hatreds is embedded in our institutions in a way the other isn’t.

This stuff is really psychotic when you stop and think about it, it’s like if the Democrats went around putting out statements condemning Trump because being racist didn’t reflect the true spirit of Plessy v. Ferguson.

the big shift is that younger Americans (at least in the cities) are used to having Arab and Muslim classmates or coworkers or neighbors, whereas boomers mostly did not.

dehumanization is always possible, but the assumption that Muslims are “pre-dehumanized” is no longer valid

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

Anyway Tom Lehrer said he invented Jell-O shots in order to sneak vodka into the Manhattan Project compounds he and the other math nerds where sequestered in www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3...

maybe Adam Tooze’s blog, maybe Techdirt — but everything is partial and conjectural, at best tracing the outlines of a plot, with big chunks of the story missing

there may be good reason for this — the Reich Chancellery and the industrial trusts were visible to journalists and scholars, even if much of their internal planning was hidden, but an oligarchy of group chats is almost completely opaque to outside observers.

we have plenty of books on Germany from the early ’40s that may not get every detail right, but are still extremely useful in retrospect. I don’t think anyone is making that kind of analysis of our society.