"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

Aspirational fascism.

The elimination of exact text search from a growing number of services is a form of enshittification that I keep getting surprised by. It's search: computationally expensive (?) and a foundationally useful tool. Blunting it into uselessness is a shocking capitulation to the internet as garbage pile

For years, we've been saying that tech narratives should be assigned Aarne–Thompson types.

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"general purpose humanoid robots are real" is an ancient folkloric tradition that today's tech founders and venture capitalists are faithfully keeping alive

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

PEGGY NOONAN: “.. You know why people say something’s wrong with this guy? Because it appears something is wrong with this guy.”

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Apparently @kenwhite.bsky.social missed the recent antichrist news.

People going "America was always fascist" or "it's been like this since the 1980s" or making related claims don't seem to realize it, but they're telling everyone that nothing different is happening, nothing worse than usual, so if you weren't up in arms about eg 2013, you shouldn't be now either.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

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This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

time CultS -d 8 claire's NOTICE OF STORE CLOSURE To Our Valued Customers, This Claire's location has been permanently closed. The decision reflects both external pressures & internal restructuring. In recent months, repeated attacks of ridicule by radical left agitators have gone beyond mere criticism, escalating into a deliberate effort to destabilize our company - conduct we recognize as Domestic Economic Terrorism. At the same time, our transition under new private equity ownership required difficult financial choices. Protecting the stability of shareholders was prioritized, & this store - along with its local workforce - was deemed expendable in service of that obligation. Despite these challenges, Claire's remains committed to our identity as a traditional American company rooted in values of family & community. We will not be silenced by those who attempt to undermine that mission, & we continue to move forward with confidence in our future. Here at Claire's, we look forward to working with the current administration to reinvigorate our brand presence across the United States, ensuring that we remain a part of American life for generations to come. We invite you to continue supporting Claire's by shopping online at www.claires.com Thank you for your attention to this matter. Claire's Stores, Inc. 2400 West Central Road, Hoffman Estates, IL 60192 | Claire's Stores, Inc. | CBI Distributing Corp.

THE RADICAL LEFTISTS HAVE KILLED OUR BUSINESS
[also we got bought out by private equity who shuttered the store and fired everyone]
BUT IT WAS MOSTLY THE RADICAL LEFTISTS
also can we have a federal bailout 🥹

‘All the trees are dead’: An ancient California forest has been wiped out Old growth forests across the West are at risk of disappearing within 50 years. The Teakettle Experimental Forest is a tragic example in California.

“collaborators were awarded over $5M to launch a prescribed fire across 3,300 acres…it would have been a key demonstration to show that planned fires can burn safely at a large scale…The groups were scheduled to start building fire breaks in September…But then the Garnet Fire ignited Aug. 24…”

Trump on repealing ACA: “Obamacare has been a disaster for the people.”

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

YouTube video by Patrick Boyle AAA Rated Junk: What Tricolor and First Brands Reveal About Credit Markets!

"If there's fear in the market, it's wearing noise canceling headphones."

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Family just walked in. The kid, about 10 or 12 was actually carrying a toy airliner. When he stepped inside his eyes got big and he was so excited he was shivering.

The conversation has now shifted from is AI a bubble to will we have time to get out of the AI bubble before it pops.

Do the seats recline? Of course the seats recline.

So much of Melrose rests on the knife's edge of embarrassing and cool.

Warren Buffett Indicator hits a new all-time high of 221%, the most expensive stock market valuation in history 🚨🚨

If you think the Trump administration is very online, you're wrong. They're one hundred times more online than that. They only exist for online. It is their beginning and end, it is absolutely everything for them, they care about nothing else but retweets.

The Cato institute being one of the heroes of our time may not have been on my bingo card, but boy have they stood up for what we used to call decent values.

Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie Best thing about government shutdowns… no chemtrails.

I...uh..wtf, Kentucky?

Entire career period, but yes.

Really smart of the administration to deescalate tensions and not do anything to make Californians angry just as the prop 50 ballots went out.

“.. a vast father-son enterprise spanning Hollywood, television and .. a massively popular social app. What they choose to do with their staggering wealth .. could shape the future of U.S. business and culture.”

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