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So they have Army Brat OnlyFans Miku? Is it a revenue stream for the Pentagon yet? It's not like we're gonna be able to convince them to stop, so might as well get a cut of the action to go to better boots for the E6 Mafia.

Why plan for all of that when we'll be greeted as liberators?! (Xennial Sarcasm)

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

It's an arms race between LLM bots faking being known as a "user agent" like the one Google uses for its search index, and the CDNs like Cloudflare or Akamai, building detection systems and dunking bad actors: blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

They can do UA spoofing, but cdn firms are already pushing back in that arms race, looking at clusters of bot activity. If everyone changes their user agent but the IPs are all from one office during work hours, there's your sign.

Of course. There's a reason the Catholic Church doesn't canonize Tay no matter how many miraculous text outputs are attributed to them.

WMDs? Buttery Mails? Literally the entirety of the Gaza Genocide? Which era of lies are you confused about Jill? We can go back to the puff pieces they did about Hitler in the 30s if you want.

Fox News loving NATO huh?

I keep going back to the Ligotti explanation of business in My Work is Not Yet Done, while imagining data centers as the black tower calculating profits.

I bet we will also be greeted as liberators right?

How do I bet on this corporate leviathan losing money when Trump dies?

Oh cool, we're gonna get the end of Fight Club after all of that.

It used to be "govt so small you could drown it in a bathtub." Now that they accomplished that, I guess "a 4th estate so small you could whittle it away with layoffs and Bari Weiss."

The total lack of cyber security plus the explosion in vibe coding is going to lead to some hilarious stuff over the next couple of years.

This is networked nationalism... We used to actually study it before Trump 2.0 cut the funding 😂

Wow, the Twitter equivalent of "marketing doesn't work on me" in florid effect. If we had funding for deradicalization efforts anymore I would try to get a grant to build tools to inoculate or at least treat people who want help.

Carcinisation, but instead of crab stuff, all economic exploitation players independently evolve sweatshops.

Next gen of gaming is any studio shipping without Crunch.

I was so sure she was going to win the Puppy bowl though....

If BlueSky rebuilds Klout, I'm gonna have such a sensible chuckle.

I uninstalled TikTok after their local tab knew where I lived even when I confirmed location services were disabled. The tech is lying to us, and the DOJ Google docs show Chrome is monitored way more than Google wants to admit.

Dokoupil needs a blonde co-anchor to make it more Fox News-like, and he's going to get her.

Sycophancy-as-a-service. Previously, you had to be rich or powerful to have your brain rotted by Grima Wormtongue. Now, thanks to ChatGPT....

They should just nominate Mitt Romney then. He and Liz Cheney can get endorsed by Kamala & Pete right as we draw the curtain on the American experiment.

Very same. Here is to hoping we get the anti-hero we need for the coming conflicts.

This is the Way! I really hope he is the first of many. I don't believe it for a moment, but I'll take it!

Trump Justice Department Poised to Preserve Ticketmaster Monopoly - The American Prospect Settlement talks on a monopolization case against Live Nation are under way, with Kellyanne Conway and other MAGA lobbyists seeking a sweetheart deal.

prospect.org/2026/02/12/t... Kellyanne Conway is a live nation stumper. This is the perfect example of how Trump 1.0 stooges get reputation laundry while still being villains.

"It's not who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me."

When you are a kid and you make a mistake, you have to stop what you're doing and think about what you've done. I think about that in context of both Trump administrations. Like, Scaramucci is rehabbed, Spicer is at Harvard right? If you're not benched after coming out of the cult, who was tricked?

Mountain of Ignorance demon. The man with the mirror face. Tells you anything you want to know, but somehow it is never right. Over time all it wants is to be the only thing you talk to.

Pernicious demon keeping our heroes from Rhyme & Reason.

Hnnnnngggggg