MyPowerGrows

wtf????

The AI is a feckless European

Relatable

working on a new prediction market where users bet on what this week’s lottery numbers will be

Poster in Profile: Mephit Unfiltered This Discord Has a Podcast?!

I wrote about a less infamous member of the Odd Lots Discord milespergallon.substack.com/p/poster-in-...

This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts EpsteIN—as in, Epstein and LinkedIn—searches your connections on the social network for names that match those in the released files.

NEW: A new tool searches your LinkedIn connections for people who are mentioned in the Epstein files.

404 Media tested the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn—and it appears to work.

Epstein Helped Woody Allen’s Daughter Get Into College, Emails Show

well here's one news story about the thing I've been obsessively tweeting about for days (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

finally doing a little of my own perusing of the Epstein Files, and I'll be darned if Elon Musk's personal elite influence monger Juleana Glover wasn't keeping ol' Jeff E apprised of all the latest developments in Tesla's stock pump narrative

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Senator Chuck Schumer conducts a news conference in the U.S. Capitol in May 2025. Image: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images FORUM How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated. Adam Bonica, Jake Grumbach With responses from → Cori Bush, Amanda Litman, Matthew Yglesias, G. Elliott Morris, Julia Serano, Eric Rauchway, Suzanne Mettler & Trevor E. Brown, Thomas Ferguson, Timothy Shenk, Jared Abbott & Milan Loewer, Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, Lily Geismer, Danielle Wiggins, William A. Galston, and Henry Burke

We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

nailed it

Goodbye, ‘Resistance.’ The Era of Hyperpolitics Is Over. (Published 2025)

Was this take by Ross Barkan the worst of 2025? Sad I missed the one year anniversary. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/m...

NYT visual investigations team continues to be top notch. I hadn’t clocked it the first time I saw Ross’ video, but I am more convinced now that he knew he was going to shoot her when he switched his phone in to his left hand, fairly early on

Decided to come see the fleet of new ICE vehicles for myself, and found a robust protest at the ICE field office in Burlington.

I just learned that this incredibly flawed story was put on the front page of the newspaper, and that certainly seems like an editorial choice

I'm dreading this

I think it's notable that Rufo published his article about it on substack about a week before the NYT article.

Lo and behold, the productivity boom ushered in by AI. No one can make up bullshit faster

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said at a border security conference in April, according to the Arizona Mirror. The administration’s goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”

“Like Prime, but with human beings.”

Part 8: Bamboo If you are new to this series, start here with Part 1.

Part 8: Bamboo
You'll want to read this one all the way to the end.
telos.news/p/part-8-bamboo

Jeopardy answer: "A literate spider on a farm sends messages to her non-Japanese friend who is obsessed with Japanese culture"

Jeopardy contestant gets the right question, which is "What is 'Charlotte's Weeb?'"

oh my god

The Democratic candidate in 2028 will be some dipshit you haven't thought of yet, and they'll win the primary because of some stupid bullshit. They'll be fine. Make your peace with that now.

not me, I have a list of 37 candidates. all i have to do now is rank them

screenshot of ideltavelocity's derpibooru profile

screenshot of a list of his faves, which include over 300 pictures of the nazi horse aryanne

the January 6th pipe bomb guy was a brony who faved over 300 pictures of a nazi my little pony character on Derpibooru, the fandom's largest image site.

@derpibooru.bsky.social

a month ago we found this eastern red bat in central park. he was cold-stunned but after warming up for a little bit in our car, we released him back into the park.

This is the future the Mattys want for us

More robots.

China hosted world games.. for robots. Enjoy.