Freddy Bowen

Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality' In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.

I like how these guys get to have it both ways

they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math

then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it

They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm.

how it feels to do physical activity after the age of 35

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?

Poppop drive his cross-country. But the Dustbuster was not well designed to cruise the moon-like surface of the American interstate. He slowed down, traded for a Geo Tracker.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

my grandfather drove one for a spell, 80's blue interior, heavy brown frames low in his nose, cloud of Borkum Riff wafting lightly through sunbeams

The CSIS report declares, “Radicals will argue that peaceful politics will inevitably fail and that only violence will make a difference,” but I have no idea who these radicals are because in my 40 years around direct action organizing, I’ve only encountered theoretical enthusiasm for violence from the sidelines and the occasional young hothead (almost always white and male) in movements whose vast majority and leadership are committed to nonviolence. I do know someone who was part of a violent group in the early ’70s and then became wanted fugitive; he’s since become an ardent advocate of nonviolence. What too often gets described as left-wing violence at protests is property destruction, which can be dangerous and intimidating and is usually opposed by protest organizers, but should be regarded as distinct from harming human life. For example, at the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, the Black Bloc, a small cadre among the 50,000 protesters smashed a lot of shop windows quite spectacularly. But there are no reports of activists harming human beings. Police, on the other hand, used tear gas; pepper spray; rubber, plastic, and wooden bullets; concussion grenades; and armored vehicles against protesters bystanders resulting in many injuries. Nonetheless, for years afterward, mainstream media outlets portrayed this event as an occasion of shocking activist violence.

Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

You have to understand that there is NO accountability for ICE even in theory. You can't sue an ICE agent. They won't be criminally prosecuted for violating your rights. They won't be fired. THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ICE IS TO RUN FROM ICE.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Brett Kavanaugh is basically arguing tha there have been "sufficient remedies" for racism.

This seems like a good time to bring up the @politico.com about how young Republicans have *remedied* racism.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers. Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

@evanhill · 11m Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Imagine if Biden had tried to federalize the Texas National Guard to halt Operation Lone Star, perhaps by claiming Texas was engaged in "rebellion."

Would a single legal commentator on the right have claimed that decision was unreviewable? I just fundamentally do not believe they would.

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

In Portland, Oregon,(DHS) and (ICE) used pepper spray on the breathing hole of a peaceful protester who was wearing a blow-up frog costume.

I said "This website is for Democrats and Republicans but the latter feel so self-important and empowered by their fascist fantasies they think it's fine to slap red blame banners on things instead of actually engaging with the work of governing a diverse country and people who disagree with them."

I'm really hoping the new Taylor Swift pushes KPOP Demon Hunters off the family playlist.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

For real tho. I started making sourdoughs and now I am also straining and salting yogurt at home to spread on my bread with za'atar and olive oil.

this bitch

Dutch late night TV has its take

More of a think tub? A mull vat? A ponder pool?

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder quits, says Unilever ‘silenced’ activism - The Boston Globe “I can no longer, in good conscience, and after 47 years, remain an employee of Ben & Jerry’s,” co-founder Jerry Greenfield said.

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield is resigning from the ice cream company, saying the brand’s freedom to speak out on social issues has been stifled by parent company Unilever.

The Bluesky profile of Islamophobic AIPAC rental, general coward, person-shaped paperweight as useless as tits on a boar hog, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, reading: "Work hard. Stay focused. Deliver results." Well, that's 0 for 3, but tomorrow's another day!

Working hard, staying focused. Sixteen total posts between Twitter and Bluesky over one week. (Why, that's a little over two per day!) Not a word about the GOP declaring war on Democrats, not a word defending transgender Americans, not a word endorsing NYC's mayoral candidate. Delivering results.

CISA work not ‘degraded’ by Trump administration cuts, top agency official says Nick Andersen, CISA’s new cybersecurity director, reassures that the agency remains highly effective and resilient, maintaining strong partnerships and focusing on core cybersecurity missions despite ...

CISA work not ‘degraded’ by Trump administration cuts, top agency official says cyberscoop.com/cisa-operati...

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.