Mike Follert

Human Authored Usage Guidelines - The Authors Guild Human Authored is a certification mark owned by the Authors Guild that may be used to indicate that a book was written by a human and not generated by AI. The mark, illustrated below, consists of the ...

The Authors Guild is now offering "Human Authored" certification marks for literary works in which "the text itself was fully authored by one or more human beings and not generated by AI." What a time to be alive!

To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country.

In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits.

This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵

Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic’s Claude AI tool, people familiar with the matter confirmed. Centcom declined to comment about specific systems being used in its ongoing operation against Iran. The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire.

That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

treedt toe tot = three-toed...sloth?

Ford government stops reports summarizing child welfare network deaths | Globalnews.ca The government said the 'information continues to be tracked in real time,' but appears to have ended reports summarizing trends and broader patterns.

In response to reporting about deaths, province has decided to no longer produce data related to deaths

globalnews.ca/news/1169038...

Tommy Douglas, Canada’s venerable socialist leader and the father of its single-payer health care system, died on this day in 1986.

He is now revered as the “greatest Canadian.” But in his time, he was a radical and an enemy of the establishment.

As someone who grew up on (white) teen movies, I was struck by how much that Patel scene looked like something straight out of a spec script in the 1980s. The racialized minority over performing nationalism as white frat boys clearly broadcast to everyone but him that he is not really one of them.

W. E. B. Du Bois was born on this day in 1868.

“Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.”

I always find the hallucinations very "creative"..."inventive", even

This is unacceptable.

Ontario government recycles oil sands propaganda for Ring of Fire mining development Discover how the Ontario government recycles oil sands propaganda for Ring of Fire mining development and its implications.

Funny/not funny. Ontario government calls Ring of Fire minerals ‘the most ethical on Earth,’ while passing legislation that suspends treaty rights, species protections, and human rights — to benefit extractive industries.
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happy to see this news.. still mad that UCLA’s workers had to sue to stop this because our well-paid administrators were too spineless to fight for us

Eugenics. Disabled people have been saying this. It’s intentional.

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

trans women playing women’s sports

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

...like I said when they first cloned those dinosaurs!

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports.

www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Kansas Bill Will Strip Driver’s Licenses from Every Trans Resident Who Changed Gender — Assigned As Kansas passes a bathroom bill, another bill that will invalidate the driver’s license of every trans resident has been deemphasized in the coverage. Also, Trump’s Department of Education says San J...

An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.

Also very Japanese American internment. So many family homes and farms seized for pennies on the dollar by white neighbors

Opinion | ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters.

Well, that’ll wreck you. Gift link.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

about as meaningless as the words "Nobel Peace Prize" now

It’s the latter. And it answers a question I kept posing: how do you punish people with complex bureaucracy if you dismantle…the complex bureaucracy that can punish?

You can’t.

Potato Salad, Probably
Megan LeForte
2023