Erik

Time to go to the Beta closet.

Network state Versailles

Different tactics for different communities under different threats. People shouldn’t cling to a whistle as some sort of totemic protection against ICE. Organize, do what’s best for your local folks, and be prepared to adjust tactics.

You should probably trust the people risking their lives and livelihoods to judge what level of visibility is most appropriate for their own network.

Avoid the temptation to narrow your objectives to “achievable” un-enforceable niceties that the violent mafia state will ignore anyway.

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available.

We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found.

www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

“My product will cure cancer” is an instant nope. No it won’t, shut the fuck up.

2) That tool will not be hosted on a hyper scale data center from 2026 running a generic LLM.

Idiotic NPR Marketplace interview loosely posited “will people accept the costs if data centers of they one day cure cancer”?
1) If AI is used to cure cancer it will be through a human using a neural network tool to help find a specific protein or other mechanism of action that they can then work on

Perfect execution for resonance, clarity, and insecurity of response.

Hank slipping smoothly into a business suit and radioing to his boss, post apocalypse, that he fully intends to earn that promotion. Sociopathic gold.

Fallout is so entertaining it makes me uncomfortable to watch it, like staring too hard at a sunset. It just keeps hitting these great notes and I’m constantly worried that the next one will be flat. Rooting for it every minute.

I can make a robot politician that only opens its mouth to say the most popular thing in the polls and adjusts as the polls change, but that’s not a thing I would vote for to make decisions about the fate of the country.

Nothing says “old timey” like a bright orange timestamp from 2006.

Between this and Conway, are we all just getting these at the same time now? Or just reacting with identical disgust?

I swear to God, do not give George Conway money, ffs.

Probably not ideal, human-existence-wise, to let a senile lunatic and his coked-up enablers run a global protection racket using the largest military in human history.

You've just opened up a star trek-themed restaurant

what are you calling it?

FIRE PHO TONS

Dovetails nicely with the idea that for most people “the economy” isn’t a system of currencies, production, and consumption, it’s all the daily bullshit you have to deal with to live in a modern society.

U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces' Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.

There is no person in history more terrified of cooties than Pete Hegseth.

Love Boat was the perfect distillation of this. It was impossible to miss the plot of the episode because they restated it after every commercial break.

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

New Torment Nexus just dropped.

Me: *furiously checking MLA style guide and CC’ing my lawyer when responding to an automated email from the phone company*

Richest man in western hemisphere: hey sentitar u wanna get hi and crime 2nite???

Endorse this strategy, but as any veteran of campaigns to Get Chuck Schumer to Do a Thing will tell you, temper your expectations.

Solutions to the Bond-is-dead crisis:
1: Do a Face/Off
2: 5 eligible bachelors compete in a reality show “The Bond”
3: George Miller directs

I don’t think I would like this sandwich, but I adore sandwich discourse. This is Arthur Dent-level sandwich mastery.