Joy Revision

However the AI bubble bursts, we are now witnessing one of the most consequential moments in tech industry history - the consequences of ceding the future to the most narrow-minded and short-sighted management consultants alive. A captured tech media is waking up, but not as fast as the public.

Texas bill would increase oversight of universities’ hiring, curriculum and compliance Senate Bill 37 would create a state office to investigate complaints against universities and require governing boards to ensure courses don’t endorse certain ideologies.

Texas legislators considering a bill that would put all public university course curricula and faculty hiring in the hands of ruling party political appointees and politicians, effectively ending academic freedom.

Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…

The entirety of ‘Looney Tunes’ has been removed from Max.

Find someone who loves you the way David Zaslav loves hating everything about film and television.

I can't wait for Chuck Schumer to see all these people who have long supported the most centrist lib shit ever finally telling him to go fuck himself and blame the left somehow.

Wow.

Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC.

“I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!”

Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out.

We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.

Parts Unknown, No Reservations? I think there was a third that was layover based.

so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans.

Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

🤔

🔥 “Wake the hell up.”

Former RNC chair @michaelsteele.bsky.social goes in on Elon’s infiltration into the federal government, accessing everyone’s personal info

Pop quiz: People are saying the kid says “you’re not the president you need to go away” — do y’all hear it too?

Not a single reporter at the Superbowl asked any of the Eagles why they didn't fly the Fellowship to Mordor.

What We're Fighting For Soundtrack: Bad Religion — The Resist Stance A great deal of what I write feels like narrating the end of the world — watching as the growth-at-all-costs, hyper-financialized Rot Economy seemingly ta...

Newsletter: The tech industry has turned on the consumer, using abusive, manipulative software as a means of extracting wealth from every corner of our lives. Both society and the tech media must fight back, as I believe many of us deeply love our tech.

www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/

not sure how you can see this and not immediately call for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social to step down from any leadership positions. he is absolutely useless

Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.

The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

this is essentially, what's up

Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Net Neutrality Needs to Be Preserved <p>The courts have once again ignored the demands of millions of Americans by thwarting sensible federal net neutrality regulations. That means Congress and the states must step in to preserve a free ...

The courts have once again ignored the demands of millions of Americans by thwarting sensible federal net neutrality regulations. That means Congress and the states must step in to preserve a free and open internet, EFF’s Corynne McSherry wrote in The Well News.

BREAKING: A medevac plane crashed in Philadelphia with a child and five others on board, the air ambulance company that operated it said, adding that it had not confirmed any survivors reut.rs/4gpP6xR

This is so goddamn funny. All AI is trained on nothing but widespread theft but apparently it is only bad when someone does the same thing to them.

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us

🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

Senator Ted Cruz is trying to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren Cruz: Hotspot lending could “censor kids’ exposure to conservative viewpoints.”…

Cruz has claimed distributing Wi-Fi hotspots to schoolchildren will lead to unsupervised Internet usage, endanger kids, and possibly restrict kids' exposure to conservative viewpoints.

someone who thinks AI companies should be able to scrape copyrighted data to remix for their output explain to me why what DeepSeek did here should be illegal

They’ve switched to Trilbies due to budget cuts

Innate Immune Memory is Stimulus Specific Innate immune memory (also termed trained immunity) is defined in part by its ability to cross-protect against heterologous pathogens, and can be generated by many different stimuli, suggesting a 'uni...

Penn researchers found that macrophages retain distinct memories of past stimuli, shaping future immune responses.

Innate immune memory is not universal but tailored to the original trigger.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...