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I think growing up in the specific time we did has a lot of us taking "they'll just jailbreak it" for granted. There still isn't a working root for Amazon tablets made after 2019. The Xbox360 is 20 years old and we're only just now seeing a softmod on the horizon.

They can lock stuff down now.

"No break greater than 4 hrs yesterday"

"Posted same url 10+ times yesterday"

"Posts a lot: more than 100 times yesterday"

had considered, with my producer, asking about the FT's reporting on Epstein. In the end, I did not. Not because we were friends - I don't really make friends with politicians, and I'd met Mandelson only a handful of times, always professionally — but because of a familiar set of calculations. I thought he would refuse to engage or walk out, and the interview/episode lost; that he might threaten legal action we could not substantiate with the same effect; that he was likely to become ambassador and would be more journalistically valuable to interview later; that the very certainty of that appointment made the allegations seem more outlandish; and, bluntly, that these stories were low on the news agenda.

Good to see Lewis Goodall at least addressing this, a thing nobody else I’ve seen has had a go at.

This popped up in my memories from 2022...

Everything about it is magnificent;

- Inexplicable The xx playing in the background
- The debate lord tactics on such a mundane topic
- The blank stare from the wife the whole time
- Capped off w/ a premonition of the impending divorce

"I'M IN A POLYCULE WITH AELLA"?

Unreal. Hours after Ryan Grim, co-founder of @dropsitenews.com, complained about students protesting Ezra Klein as "deplatforming" and "censoring", DropSite deplatformed its writer Alex Colston.

She Was Honored With A Human Rights Award. Then She Says ICE Tricked And Arrested Her. A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect.

I feel so sick reading this. She dedicated her life to helping her immigrant trans siblings, finally got the medical care she sought her whole life, and then a year later ICE tricked her, kidnapped her and used her postoperative status as a weapon to destroy her health.

CW for basically everything

2026 Japanese general election - Wikipedia

Japan just had its 3rd general election in 5 years, and...the LDP blew out the opposition. Ehn. I see why people pay more attention to the Super Bowl and the Olympics.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Ja...

Mehdi Hasan calls Gaza "the single biggest progressive issue of our time." And yet, as soon as Trump won the 2024 election him and most of the other big leftist social media accounts moved on to other things.

OK these complaints are getting a little silly— the guy who founded a news company that focuses on Gaza basically every day stopped talking about it in Nov 2024?

My latest column on Epstein - conveniently becoming a scandal about something other than abuse and debasement of women and girls

Okay, but I can certainly see why it’s highly inconvenient for some people that the focus is on political corruption

Stark difference between Peter Mandelson and Nicola Sturgeon police home searches Officers erected a forensic tent outside of the former first minister's home, did Peter Mandelson get the same treatment?

Stark difference between Peter Mandelson and Nicola Sturgeon police home searches

Not a surprise though. 😉

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Murdoch rag publishes Mandelson puff piece despite Epstein scandal The Times may be part of the Murdoch press, but you'd think they have the sense not to publish a Mandelson puff piece at this moment in time

'The [utterly despicable paedo-]Times just conducted a "friendly" interview with Peter Mandelson (pictured half naked with young girls) that says he was “manipulated” by Jeffery Epstein'

Murdoch rag publishes Mandelson puff piece despite Epstein scandal www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

"Why is it there was one set of rules for Mandelson & a different set of rules for people like myself"

Labour MP Apsana Begum has consistently spoken out against the factionalism of those in control of Labour (& Apsana knows from personal experience how disgusting their actions can be

Haiti's Winter Olympics team shines a positive light even as IOC removes patriot from uniforms Haiti is making a statement at the Milan Cortina Winter Games with two athletes proudly representing the nation.

The International Olympic Committee ruled that an image of Toussaint Louverture, born into slavery and and leader of the Haitian Revolution, on Haiti’s uniforms violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism

Arctic sea ice volume has been, if I'm reading this chart correctly, at a perpetual seasonally adjusted low, to within statistical error, every day from the start of 2023 (maybe even 2022).

Shannon Airport being used to deport Palestinians from US | BreakingNews The first of the two flights passed through Shannon Airport on the night of January 20th/21st with eight Palestinian men on board, reportedly with their wrists and ankles shackled.

"The use of Shannon Airport for flights carrying Palestinians being deported from the United States has been described as “reprehensible”, “deeply disturbing,” and “outrageous” by Opposition politicians." #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

A masked federal agent in a convenience store parking lot in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids told legal observers that Minnesota’s status as a blue state is linked with the removal of residents, on a video provided to Unicorn Riot.

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

Screenshot of @handgunyoga.bsky.social's blueskeet "“Females never — I've never heard an example of a female making an error. So here's a male making a clear mating error and the theory behind it is that sperm's cheap.” Julodimorpha bakewelli is a species of Australian beetle. Males prefer mating beer bottles over actual female beetles because shiny" including the top of an embedded screenshot of a candy.ai "I can fix that" AI-girlfriend-advertising video.

I stumbled on this post implicitly comparing candy.ai users (assumed male) to stubbie-humping beetles. I found it funny & cutting, but cutting partly because of the nastiness of the comparison.

Plausible. I suspect mainstream critiques/complaints re

• 19th-century lady novel-readers;
• teenage girls & women recommending "smut" to each other on BookTok;
• "gooner" "subculture" (maybe just a male-coded version of "bimbofication" fantasies?); and
• gen.-AI pornbots

tap similar tropes/fears.

Oh, wow.

Why does this look like a Symbolics demo from 1988?

Reddit as most anti-Trump of these platforms interesting in light of the controversies years ago about misogyny and /r/The_Donald/. (And given how much LLMs have been trained on Reddit posts, might help explain US LLMs' liberal-ish-by-default lean.)

Do you think this is the first time Bartolome de las Casas has been labeled part of the "woke mob"?

I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing.

metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...

Like when you smoke-bombed your way out of the argument you picked with me about real personal income per capita correlating with voting swings?

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.

Another @nafeez.bsky.social banger. "Thiel personally solicited and maintained a business partnership with Epstein that stretched from 2014 [...] all the way up to Epstein’s final arrest."