Mena-esque

Elon Musk: With Optimus, we might be able to stop putting people in prison. “If somebody's committed a crime, we might be able to provide a more humane form of containment of future crime. You now get a free Optimus, and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Other than that, you get to do anything; it's just going to stop you from committing crime. That's really it. You don't have to put people in prisons and stuff. It's pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it's clearly the future.” Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6,

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.

“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.

Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...

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so this is highly incentive based and relies on Tesla hitting ridiculous thresholds to vest lots of it which means we are about to see exciting new frontiers in fraud and bullshit

I can't help noticing the Supreme Court conservatives expressing the first doubt of a Trump assertion in oral arguments the day after the election day where every Republican running lost by 20 points. But they would never be swayed by such worldly things in their consideration of The Law, right?

The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

phew glad that got settled
great job every body
finally a jury of people without any vested interest weigh in

Zohran's success will hinge equally on what he is ABLE to do and how effectively he messages to voters when the federal govt of wealthy interests / police, etc in NYC deliberately sabotage things.

we've seen this shit in oregon with elites lining up to torpedo progressive measures

It's just such a transparent con. But then again, what isn't?

'JD interrupts me' gives insight into the goings on behind the scenes and I so fucking wish someday we get this version of the Nixon Haldeman tapes

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

Conservatives 2016-2024: dumb libs think words are violence

Conservatives in 2025: mean words are literally violence bsky.app/profile/robe...

on tucker carlson, nick fuentes, the heritage foundation, and all that If you had asked me in 2016 whether I thought I’d write a blog about the Heritage Foundation defending a former Fox News host after he hosted a friendly conversation with one of the country’s leading ...

I unpacked the implications of Nick Fuentes' collaboration with Tucker Carlson and the former Fox News host's willingness to portray the white nationalist livestreamer as a victim.

Someone wants him in the mainstream. Why? And what does it mean? postsfromunderground.ghost.io/on-tucker-ca...

“60 Minutes paid me a lot of money”

In an edited-out part of the Trump interview Trump brags about extorting CBS for millions for… editing out a part of Kamala’s interview.

(He also makes it clear new CBS chief Bari Weiss is in his pocket) #RIPCBS

One of the Most Dangerous Interviews Ever in MAGA Media Why Tucker Carlson platformed white supremacist Nick Fuentes.

Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes is even worse for the right—and America—than it looks.

My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...

Big Tech Needs $2 Trillion In AI Revenue By 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex As I've established again and again, we are in an AI bubble, and no, I cannot tell you when the bubble will pop, because we're in the stupidest financial era since the great financial crisis — though,...

Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve.
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We're now on ten years of Trump / GOP having no healthcare plan whatsoever. Not even a suggestion of what direction they want to go with it except repealing some overwhelmingly popular elements of Obamacare.

Worth remembering when pundits talk about the importance of nuanced policy messaging.

Substantively engaging with an (ill-informed!) questioner’s gotchas about your ongoing federal case would be the real disqualifier here.

I’ve not written a new thread about my situation this week and there’s an iceberg of reasons there but here are highlights

I have new symptoms:
Cellulitis of the left foot up to my knee,
1/6

More than a century after the Irish, Germans, Italians, etc. helped make this country. But tribalism and bias die hard.

Indicting Democratic candidates on transparently pretextual charges is the latest sign that things are getting very bad.

This and the Chicago indictments make it abundantly clear that the rule of law is dead at DOJ. The agency has been fully weaponized to smite Trump’s enemies and shield his friends.

Federal conspiracy charges because an ICE goon had to drive a little slower.

What an absolute joke.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

A scanned legal document from the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, titled “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MICHAEL RABBITT, KATHERINE MARIE ABUGHAZALEH, ANDRE MARTIN, CATHERINE SHARP, BRIAN STRAW, and JOSELYN WALSH.” It shows case number 1:25-cr-00693, filed on October 23, 2025, before Judge April M. Perry and Magistrate Judge Heather K. McShain. The document is marked “UNDER SEAL” and notes violations under Title 18, U.S. Code, Sections 111(a)(1), 372, and 2. The first section is labeled COUNT ONE and begins: “The SPECIAL JUNE 2024 GRAND JURY charges:” followed by four subpoints (a–d) describing an ICE officer (“Agent A”), the Broadview Service Staging Area in Illinois, and the defendants’ residences in the Northern District of Illinois. A red “FILED 10/23/2025” stamp appears at the top right, along with the signature of THOMAS G. BRUTON, Clerk, U.S. District Court.

A page from a U.S. District Court indictment titled “COUNT THREE” in case number 1:25-cr-00693, filed October 23, 2025, in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. The document states that the Special June 2024 Grand Jury incorporates previous allegations and charges that on or about September 26, 2025, in Broadview, Illinois, defendant Katherine Marie Abughazaleh “forcibly impeded, intimidated, and interfered with an officer of the United States, namely Agent A,” while the officer was performing official duties. It concludes that this conduct violated Title 18, United States Code, Sections 111(a)(1) and 2.

Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) has just been indicted by the DOJ over participation in protests against ICE at its Broadview facility in Illinois. This is a brazen weaponization of the DOJ to target political opponents with bogus charges.

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The SNAP fight is actually a recapitulation of the entire purpose of the shutdown.
There's a contingency fund, Trump is required to spend it, but he's not, usurping Congress's power of the purse, essentially so he can do it again with normal appropriations whenever he wants

This Isn’t the First Time Chicago’s Been Used as a Laboratory for Policing Ilā Ravichandran says the current anti-immigrant policing in Chicago builds on attacks on Black Lives Matter protesters.

“Chicago has long been a laboratory for policing. From the repression of labor movements in the early 20th century, to COINTELPRO surveillance, to Jon Burge’s torture regime... the city has been central to testing and refining state violence.”

-Ilā Ravichandran

truthout.org/articles/thi...

Host: Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, 19 states have banned or severely restricted abortion access. Mothers living in states with abortion bans are nearly twice as likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or shortly after

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.