Cameron Sparkles, PhD (now with more sparkle)

Pretty embarrassing day to be named Ashley DiMella.

we’ve made it clear that anyone who visits the US could be disappeared into a Salvadoran prison but I’m sure it’s the kids and their avocado toasts who’re to blame

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

the amount of imperfection people are willing to put up with from Bernie (and I like him!) compared to the amount of imperfection they are willing to put up with Warren is so obviously gendered. she's one of the best Dems in the Senate and one of the few that understands the aesthetics of fighting.

PS: Similarly, the “Kids” at Harvard’s student-produced #Crimson news outlet have been leading the field re covering #MAGA’s attempted takeover of “The World’s Greatest University.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Harvard Pres Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal w Trump

Stop this. Just… Stop it. Stop using "generative AI" for anything that might actually matter, and especially things that, if it gets them wrong, *Might Fucking Kill You.*

Why does this need to be said? Why is this not obvious??? Why is this not the default way of fucking operating?! What the FUCK.

Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.

It is no accident that the early use cases for "genAI" consumer products revolve around the sexual harassment, abuse, and exploitation of women in power. It is no accident that the technology is immediately embraced as a tool of patriarchy and gender-based violence.
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So I'm not allowed to sell video games with hand crafted fictional titties but Twitter can freely generate porn of real people without consent

people struggle with a rich guy who’s really this dumb and malicious but you can’t square his beliefs without that.

people want it to be a game in service of something else but he’s just a dumb asshole who’s never faced a real consequence and he believes he’s right because it’s ordained by god.

it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement “Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.

The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized.

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Pritzker Models Solidarity No red, no blue; just fighting fascism

wrote about pritzker welcoming Texas legislators, and why solidarity with people in red states is important for everyone now. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/pritzker-m...

It seems fairly clear that Donald Trump thinks gravity makes water flow "down" from the Pacific Northwest to California, because there is absolutely no system that connects the water in Oregon and Washington to Southern California.

Also worth noting:

They’re killing the media industry *first*.

Techbros have been very clear that their goal is to put as many people out of work as possible.

This is nothing more or less than an attack by the 1% upon the rest of us that, if left unchecked, will crash the global economy.

The eternal vacuity of reactionary centrism - Lawyers, Guns & Money Thomas Chatterton Williams has always been a particularly representative example of the particular strain of reactionary centrism that Bari Weiss has mobilized to great profit and some measure of assi...

There’s no message elite editors want to hear more than “Both Sides Do It, and if conservatives do it it’s probably not too bad and also liberals made them do it.” If you're willing to keep selling it you can have a lucrative career with no talent at all
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White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

C’mon

I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Hamed AleazizNicholas Nehamas By Hamed Aleaziz and Nicholas Nehamas Aug. 5, 2025, 4:51 p.m. ET On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Less than four hours later, the agency abruptly canceled what was supposed to be a 30-day pilot program. “PLEASE DISREGARD,” Liana J. Castano, an official in ICE’s field operations division, said in a follow-up email to agency offices around the country.

🚨WHOA. According to @haleaziz.bsky.social, the Trump admin was actually going to implement the ICE "bounties" it has repeatedly said were false, offering $200 per arrest leading to a rapid deportation — and only walked the plan back after the New York Times got a copy of the memo.

The Pedocon Percentage

The Case for Democratic Recklessness Democrats may place a greater value on a functioning government than Republicans do—and that’s commendable—but it’s putting the…

I wrote this back in 2017 but the logic still holds. In terms of game theory, Democrats valuing institutions and norms while Republicans do not is a poor strategy. Only when both sides appear equally reckless can a more stable compromise be reached.
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'Higgins, who is a member of the National Secular Society’s secular education forum, told Research Professional News that he “failed to understand” how the OfS could investigate and fine the University of Sussex £585,000 after a free speech investigation, but not investigate bible colleges.'

I could stand to watch you beat Wolf Blitzer's ass on Celebrity Jeopardy again.

Mail column by Boris Johnson: The Channel migrants are shock troops recruited by Macron for his jihad against Brexit

Just the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom there, informing you that the President of France is engaged in with a Holy War against British sovereignty using black and brown people as ‘shock troops’.

This is true and also, increasingly, I am less and less understanding of a public that indulges these lies - because what is meant by illegal in too many minds is "inhuman". And that belief is encouraged by the media, yes, but at some point citizens have to take responsibility for it too.

Hi, former Foreign Service Officer here

The Secretary of State might be interested to learn that visa requirements and terms are generally reciprocal. We do it to them, they do it to us.

Hoover Makes Available The Newly Processed Papers Of Nancy’s Reagan’s White House Astrologer

Huge archive news: The Hoover Institution has opened access to the most powerful figure in the Reagan White House: Astrologer Joan Quigley. 🗃️

This is so gross & i am so tired.

Do not try to pass this off as "an interview w/ Joaquin Oliver." It is an "AI" system trained to mimic someone's face & voice to talk about his killing via gun violence. It is not his memories. It is not his words. It is not his self, even in digital form. Stop it

U.S. may require visa applicants to post bond up to $15,000 to enter country The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.

The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to enter the United States, a move that may make the process unaffordable for many.

“There Is no reward for compliance.”

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