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I would have hoped by now that some dude would have written an op Ed about how straight women’s reaction to Bad Bunny - a man at peace with himself, emoting publicly + queer culture - underscores that the Manosphere bros are performing heterosexuality for other men and have no idea what women like.

I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website*

I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The UK pinning its hopes for future research greatness on a technology currently crippling the entire world's supply of computer memory, accelerating fossil-fuel use, and empowering billionaire assholes to play out their Nazi world-domination fantasies on our lives.

I am a critic of monarchism, but these days US democracy/republicanism is not making a great case for itself as a responsive or accountable form of government, comparatively.

JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.

I'm thinking about all the Trump supporters I know who, when I said, "But *I'm* an immigrant" said, "But you did it the right way!". Ugh, this made me feel so gross and frustrated every time.

There is no right way, according to the people they gave power over us all.

The radical idea that all children deserve respect and protection.

We saw a sliver of that this morning - we're watching a combo of CBC and NBC, which usually yields a lot more curling....

Oh! I want to attend this via Zoom if it doesn't conflict with my teaching.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

In other news, whenever someone questions ice dancing's presence at the Olympics, they instantly reveal something about the ideological context they are marinating in.

I'm watching my backlog of Olympics recordings on our February Break (before my DVR deletes them in an enraged plume of despairing overload), and I have to say that ice dancing is one of my absolute favorite sports, with very high levels of risk, exertion, and innovation.

Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...

This thread did not go well for Economist editors shaming anti-capitalism, but it did develop really fascinatingly for the capacity to entertain nuanced, multiple evidential interpretations of a text whose influence/appeal has lasted over a century of varying historical contexts.

I mean, what would the works of Tolkien have to say about arrogant men who believe they can wield immense power for good, only to be corrupted by it and end up needing to be removed by force?

So many orphaned in the UK from school transmission. 10 million children globally lost parents or care givers. Never once have these 10 million families been mentioned. How enormously have these families been failed.

GEORGIA — Trump’s DHS just bought an ICE detention warehouse for $128 MILLION… that sold for $29 MILLION two years ago… from a Russia-based real estate company.🤔

Nothing to see here, folks!

We are being looted so hard by these crooks

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Thank you to the Cleveland Plain Dealer for being unusually transparent about the fact that it is no longer a newspaper.

By Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer A college student withdrew from consideration for a reporting role in our newsroom this week because of how we use artificial intelligence. It reminded me again how college journalism programs are failing to prepare students for the workforce. I mentioned this in a column before, and readers asked me to explain

A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.

Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”

You can’t make this shit up.

www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

Nothing says 'traditional values' like making it so legally difficult for married women to vote that they collectively decide to stop taking their spouses' names.
Cons will be left wondering how their own voting bills accidentally became the most effective campaign for maiden names in history.

Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters Federal immigration officers have repeatedly used force in ways that appear to violate their own policies or general policing guidelines, NBC News found.

“I’ve never seen federal agents so out of control and acting in such a malicious manner,” a former federal prosecutor and federal judge said. “They said they were going after ‘the worst of the worst,’ then they became the problem.

Read this by @jonschuppe.bsky.social & @natashakorecki.bsky.social

Judge Orders ICE to Let Clergy Give Communion to Detained Migrants on Ash Wednesday

Enraging that this took a court order:

"Catholic nuns and clergy had visited the facility for years, offering prayer services and holy communion to detainees during visitor hours.

Trump Administration immigration authorities rolled back that access in September..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

the next installment should be All But Dead

"White people are becoming second class citizens in America because of the radical left agenda." Is it Jeremy Carl in 2026, or an Oregonian's white supremacist screed written in 1959 in opposition to a proposed Civil Rights bill?

you can't be a good publication if you have mostly brilliant writers but also some hypervisible reactionary bullshitters just for balance.

Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off

Illegal and immoral. We have to retain our capacity to care and be outraged, even if we are not surprised.

What these educational "leaders" are saying to students is: conform to survive. Neutralize your ethical and critical instincts, and adopt low-quality speed (that isn't, data tells us, more efficient) over actual curiosity and skill-development.

Shame on them.