Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis

Here's another dandy euphemism: Noem is "plagued by controversy." She plagued the nation with murders of American citizens, SS goon squads, concentration camps, and illegality. Controversy, sure, #BrokenTimes.

Well, there was more above that.

His gut told him to blow the Ayatollah straight to Mars and see what happens. Too many editorials are trying to put intellectual legitimacy on this course of action when there’s none to be had including the NYT.

Trump Follows His Gut. His National Security Advisers Try to Keep Up.

"Follows his gut." The #BrokenTimes finds a new way to normalize a fascist starting an illegal war.
Trump Follows His Gut. His National Security Advisers Try to Keep Up. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...

How the Decision to Start a War Became the President’s

"Long march of presidential power." No, the short run into fascism. #BrokenTimes
The Long March of Presidential Power That Led to War on Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

An Assertive Supreme Court Turns to Curbing State Courts

"Assertive Supreme Court." #BrokenTimes
An Assertive Supreme Court Turns to Curbing State Courts www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

The American press are letting them.
And then the #BrokenTimes editorial board bothsides even this...
Politicians Are Trying to Control the News www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/o...

*IG Farben, of course.

Using the passive voice totally disguises media bias, not to mention perpetrators. And it’s terrible, awful, lazy writing, period.

Secretary Kristi Noem @Sec_Noem Thank you @POTUS Trump for appointing me as the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas. @SecRubio and @SecWar are incredible leaders and I look forward to working with them closely to dismantle cartels that have poured drugs into our nation and killed our children and grandchildren. The Western Hemisphere is absolutely critical for U.S. security. In this new role, I will be able to build on the partnerships and national security expertise, I forged over the last 13 months as Secretary of Homeland Security. We have made historic accomplishments at the Department of Homeland Security to make America safe again: we delivered the MOST secure border in American history, 3 million illegal aliens have left the U.S., we have located 145,000 children, FEMA delivered disaster relief at a 100% faster rate, we ushered in the golden age of travel, saved the American taxpayer $13 billion and revitalized the U.S. Coast Guard.

oh my goodness she seems to think Special Envoy for the Shield is a real job

I once heard Palantir CEO Alex Karp speak in Vienna, asserting that governments should make moral decisions for companies via law. That frees companies from making ethical decisions...like whether their programs are used to bomb a girls' school.

Just like the semantic gymnastics of the #BrokenTimes trying to avoid saying fascism.

Sam Altman Wants Elected Officials, Not OpenAI, to Decide How Military Uses AI CEO’s comments come as OpenAI has drawn criticism over its Pentagon deal; “This process has some deep flaws.”

CEO Hermann Schmitz wants elected officials, not AG Farben, to decide how SS uses Zyklon B.
Schmitz was sentenced to prison for crimes against humanity.
No excuse, Sam.
Sam Altman Wants Elected Officials, Not OpenAI, to Decide How Military Uses AI
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-...

She found out when they took her out to the gravel pit.

Pervert Politics: Trumpism’s Body Obsessions How Republicans went from the party of prudes to the party of perversion.

@aselrod.bsky.social: "America’s current descent into lawless, violent, unaccountable government is at least a little bit a story of psychosexual unmooring. Republicans were once the party of prudes. Now their politics are ... an exercise in perversion."

www.liberalcurrents.com/pervert-poli...

Half of Americans back abolishing ICE amid Trump crackdown, poll finds YouGov poll shows 50% support as Kristi Noem defends ‘terrorist’ claim and shutdown drags on

Half of Americans back abolishing ICE amid Trump crackdown, poll finds
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Intelligent Machines: You Gotta Get Computer | TWiT.TV A principled stand by an underdog AI company ignites a mass migration of users, shakes up Silicon Valley talent wars, and leaves even the tech giants recalculating their

New Podcast Episode:
Intelligent Machines: You Gotta Get Computer
Claude Surges to No. 1
with @jeffjarvis.bsky.social, @paris.nyc, @jasonhiner.bsky.social, @danpatterson.com

Parents tried to shield their children from seatbelts. Instead they went though the windshield.

Seatbelts are mandatory. Vaccines should be too.

In some ways, it felt like another 'Ohio diner safari' article (let's interview these 4 Republicans about why they hate Joe Biden).

"Oh, look at these parents, let's hear how religious they are and not responsible for their actions."

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

A disappointing but correct outcome.

AI reporters should know chatbots make up quotes, and there are only 3-4 in an article, so why not double-check they are correct with a little Ctrl+F?

Basic skill.

(Follow up to our episode, @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @leolaporte.me)
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Also journalists. Science reporting is sometimes ok, but often overblown and therefore trust-eroding. The crazy overblown headlines are often written by editors, not writers.

Also, competent journalism doesn’t just platform good coverage, it actively refuses to platform malign false beliefs.

So mandate vaccination unless there is a valid medical exemption. Do not allow entry to public spaces without vaccination. It is very simple.

Called schools

Garbage in, garbage out 🥴

Amen

This comment and the convo that follows are interesting because afaict nobody called them evil until you argued it's counterproductive to call them evil. Someone did call them stupid, but if it isn't stupid to keep your kids from getting vaccinated, what use is it even having the word "stupid?"

A big part of how we got to here is treating gaps in understanding as merely differences of opinion, or deferring to "sincerely held religious beliefs" that are antisocial and dangerous.
Especially when the people who are wrong about everything have no reservations about calling us stupid or evil!

Personally crushed sounds like a good outcome

Join the fight quitgpt.org

Oh the poor republicans who are currently in total control of the entire federal government. They need a win so bad.