J Ritchey

Please my beloveds. Dose yourselves with jazz & stews. Fight the gloom.

One of the undersung benefits of heavily moderated online spaces is the ability to have good faith discussions in a general channel, even in a gaming discord server with 57k members

Truly remarkable how much more pleasant the space becomes for everyone when you proactively kick out the chuds

Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI

Meta estimates that users across its apps in total encounter 15 billion “high risk” scam ads a day. That’s on top of 22 billion organic scam attempts that Meta users are exposed to daily.

Does anyone else wonder if someone at the top somehow already stole/grifted awaythe SNAP money? Would explain why they are refusing a judge's order, refusing to reimburse states who stepped into the gap (not TN!) and fighting so hard to avoid paying out?

Musk keeps casually talking about "solar powered AI satellites" and "moving AI to orbit" and it is killing me that he is so bad at understanding popular culture that he hasn't realized he's describing SKYNET

The DOJ has been firing judges with immigrant defense backgrounds NPR's data analysis shows that the DOJ has tended to fire judges with immigrant defense backgrounds in its recent rounds

The Trump regime has fired an estimated 70 immigration judges since February. Nearly half previously defended immigrants in court.

Remember: it was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/g-s1-96437/trump-immigration-judges-fired

A very good point about the GTA VI fired workers stuff, that maybe doesn't even need to be said - if the workers were actually leaking information that wasn't just working conditions, it's GTA VI. We would've heard about a massive wave of information, the fact that there's nothing is telling.

Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.

Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It

A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.

The LLM thing is remarkable because if anyone was like "I never went to medical school anyway here's my magic anti disease device pls give 100 billion" they'd be laughed out the room or beaten with sticks but we're supposed to let guys who never read a book hand us an app claiming it'll write them

Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”.

We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.

Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”

Happy #pubday to "Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice" by Gregory S. Gordon!

The remarkable life of one of the twentieth century’s great warriors for justice.

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10088/

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

What a banger

Are y’all tired of me talking about dinosaurs?

Doesn’t matter, I’m talking about dinosaurs again.

Did dinosaurs fart? A question recently asked by my nephew.

Yes? No? Maybe?

If we look at modern dinos (birds) they don’t fart. They lack the gut bacteria that mammals have to pass gas.

👇👇

Are they finally catching on to his eternal grifting and gaslighting?

70.5% OF NEW TARIFFS WERE PASSED ONTO CONSUMERS — PER LENDINGTREE LENDINGTREE DATA SHOW THAT OVER TWO-THIRDS OF NEW TARIFF COSTS WERE DIRECTLY BORNE BY CONSUMERS, HIGHLIGHTING HOW TRADE BARRIERS ARE DRIVING UP RETAIL PRICES AND ADDING TO INFLATIONARY PRESSURES.

Stock of Spotify over last month showing sharp decline, from near $700 in value to $615.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

Elon Musk’s $1T pay package is a corporate governance disgrace!

Investors ought to vote to displace the entire board!

Consumers should rebel by not buying any of Tesla’s products or the products of any of his other companies.

I hope some investors sue Tesla and Musk over his pay!

#BlueCrew

A cartoon illustration of two men on a wooden dock by the bay. One man, wearing glasses and a plaid shirt, stands behind the other who is sitting on the edge of the dock with legs dangling. The seated man, wearing a striped shirt, has a speech bubble saying: "I'M SUPPOSED TO BE WRITING A HIT SINGLE, BUT I'VE JUST BEEN SITTIN' ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY WATCHIN' THE TIDE ROLL AWAY... YEP, JUST SITTIN' ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY... WASTIN' TIME..." A seagull stands on a post nearby, and a small turtle is in the water below. A sailboat is visible in the distance on the calm bay under a partly cloudy sky.

Sociable: Documents show Meta earns billions from scam ads, Reuters reports Meta is aware of the situation and penalizes some scammers with higher ad rates, according to internal documents reviewed by Reuters.

DELETE FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM.

“On average, one December 2024 document notes, the company shows its platforms’ users an estimated 15 billion ‘higher risk’ scam advertisements – those that show clear signs of being fraudulent – every day.”

#NoKings

www.marketingdive.com/news/report-...

There is such a clear line from hunger to rioting all throughout history that it must be deliberate. They want an excuse for military occupation and if we won’t provide one, they will create one.

"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't pulled the knife out; they won't even admit that it's there." — Malcolm X

In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄

Fired CBS producer claims only 'people of color' were booted The producer made the claim in a viral video posted to his TikTok account that recounted his discussions with management.

Every black personnel at CBS got played off or fired. White personnel got reasigned. Fired CBS producer claims only 'people of color' were booted.

I'm losing my mind over how many reviewers are like "GDT's Frankenstein makes you wonder who the real monster is." THAT'S THE STORY! That's the story Shelley wrote!

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Dear Walmart,

Consideeing you have more employees on SNAP than any other company — instead of simply having a ‘cheaper’ Thanksgiving bundle, how about giving your underpaid employees who must rely on SNAP for survival, one for free? It’s the least you can do. And I stress, the LEAST…

— America

I see James Watson has died.

What did Watson discover?

Rosalind Franklin's lab notes.

Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.