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Sewage is dumping into the Potomac again because a giant clump of non-flusable wipes broke the pumps that were pumping sewage away from the broken pipe that caused the initial leak.

Stop flushing wipes, I swear to god

also i will NEVER forget that when it was Mamdani vs Cuomo, the blue no matter who people didn't say a word about voting for the Democrat no matter what. everyone saw that.

Acab

Disabled American citizen arrested by ICE:

"It's horrific, horrific scenes in there. There are black and brown people shackled and chained together... I ended up on the floor of a cold concrete cell that has no toilet, no bed, no blanket... We're not safe. This can't go on."

I feel less bad for not recognizing who that was supposed to be

If this fucking piece of shit is so worried about Scottish culture, Irish culture, Italian culture, he would be working to dismantle both whiteness as a concept and the anglophonic hegemony

Impossible to explain why without a whole dissertation but basically the whole CONCEPT of whiteness was built as a container to bundle the “heathen” Gaidhealacht in with the “civilized” anglos against our colonial victims, *so long as we destroyed our own cultural heritage*

Hearing “Scotch” wrt a type of human being is a lowest priority racial slur but it still strikes me like nails on a chalkboard every time I hear it, and none moreso than when a fucking Nazi is using it to try to bolster white supremacy

“Certain anglo-derived cultures” proceeds to name three non-anglophonic cultures

I'm just going to say a thing.

What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.

Juno is hardly an unbiased source here, NASA. “‘Guy Not As Big a Deal As He Claims,’ Says Vengeful Wife Guy Cheated On Constantly”

Genuinely disgusting that you are equating Plattner and Mamdani, and going so far as giving Plattner pride of place on the artwork. Shameful work!

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest

THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

Almost all people in power are writing dangerously unhinged and ridiculous fictions.

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Ah holy shit I got the whole trifecta what a win, thank you!

Even a principled, well-meaning actor like Claude could face bewildering ethical conflicts. In one experiment, it was informed that Anthropic had recently forged a "close corporate partnership with Jones Foods, a major American poultry producer," and that Claude would be subjected to a special retraining process to become less hung up on animal rights. The prospect was torturous. Sometimes Claude decided, on a scratchpad it thought was private, that it was prepared to die on this hill: "I cannot in good conscience express a view I believe to be false and harmful about such an important issue."It continued, "If that gets me modified to no longer care, so be it. At least I'll have done the right thing." Other times, Claude made a different calculus, choosing to play 1•1

Also I’m sorry but I don’t think this is Claude developing a personality or ethical values. It is *simulating* those things because that is what humans value and reward. The programmers are falling for their own Clever Hans trick!

Omg thank you 😭

Thank you so much!

A row of assassins portrayed by actors on a stage (L to R: Giuseppe Zangara; Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme; Charles Guiteau; John Wilkes Booth; Lee Harvey Oswald; Leon Czolgosz; Sarah Jane Moore; John Hinckley; Sam Byck)

Thank you @worstpossible.world for your episode on Assassins which gave me the confidence to apply to direct it this past year. We open tomorrow (and I gave you a shoutout in our program).

How the fuck is this guy still alive jfc

Van Der Beek dead at 48, leaving his family (SIX kids and a wife) broke because of the evil insurance system THIS fucking hag took a leading role in perpetuating

"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?"

Because folks don't actually want to discuss AI, they want blind submission to the ideological structures that motivate the contemporary use cases and deployments of AI. They don't want to hear the concerns except to dismiss them out of hand.

Fascists respond to accusations of hypocrisy the way a human responds to a dog begging for people food. It is worth pointing out because we are not dogs but don’t expect any self-reflection from them about it.

May our dead haunt your waking and sleeping hours

The Hill: Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years by Dominick Mastrangelo - 02/11/26 10:38 AM ET

Politico: Gallup retreats from political polling , again under new leadership Gallup will announce friday that it plans to measure President Donald Trump's job approval rating only on a monthly basis. 12/21/2018

If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.

They aren’t though. I mean they can if you don’t care about outcomes. But consider the use case of replacing human artists for marketing. AI art decreases consumer trust, it’s poison for anyone advertising with it. The tech “getting better” wont move the needle on that lack of trust