@AliceAllonym

Absolutely true
If I have nothing constructive to say, I stay away

That includes times of sheer exhaustion from living as a brown woman who deals professionally with trauma

I am daily encouraged by those of you who put in the work to publicly uplift all of us

One of the better analogies for LLM/AI "writing"

We are truly living through a probably of national immiseration and national humiliation and I think the ramifications of that will be profound and long lasting. I don't think a nation so accustomed to stability and prosperity will respond mildly

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.

He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.

The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.

to be clear, this is from an interview with *the Economist*

ICE agents are complaining that every time they go out wearing masks in unmarked cars with no uniforms or identification as law enforcement to abduct people, protesters keep dumping pounds of glitter on them so that everyone can tell they're ICE for days afterwards.

The central paradox of Trump II is that the American constitution has been hollowed out to create the most powerful executive in 250 years, for the benefit of an executive who is no longer meaningfully doing the job

this is exactly what's happening

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

If Dems win the Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania in 9 days, it’s extremely likely the GOP can’t get a majority on that court until 2029.

The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race.

Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

there is no infrastructure that can be built up in a few days’ time to replace SNAP and you all simply must let that sink in, fast

anyone who makes a point of regularly showing off his Totenkopf to DC clientele is at best an edgelord jackass

To be clear: I'm talking about the Vice President of the United States. And that should scare the shit out of you.

The thing about Nazis is their speech is all hate speech, all of it, not free speech, because Nazism is predicated on violence and contemporary Nazism is predicated on knowing about genocide and approving of it and wanting to do it again.

This is the nugget. There’s no ‘casual’ nazism. It’s not something you flirt with, or just hang out with someone who is.
In a world of nuance, it’s a binary.

JD Vance dismisses outrage over racist Young Republican group chat leak Vice President calls criticism "pearl clutching" while GOP leaders demand resignations over racist and violent content.

Vice President calls criticism "pearl clutching" while GOP leaders demand resignations over racist and violent content.

Here's another Kavanaugh stop in action. Agent says: "Why are you running?" Admitting that he had no cause to stop and tackle this boy.

It turns out that racial profiling in the real world doesn’t work the way it does in Brett Kavanaugh’s imagination.

It occurs to me that "parasocial relationships through & with computers" is already Silicon Valley's main business strategy

So AI companies focused on dominating the latter space

people keep making comments about private equity buying up these farms, and, sure, maybe some of that happens, but there’s no market. the tariffs have vaporized the demand for these farms. it’s not a matter of buying up land and holding out until next year, that whole market is fucking toast.

No one in those three groups (assuming "violent criminals" means people who have been convicted of felonies) can vote in US elections. Apologies for pointing out the obvious, but we should remember that there was once a time when shameless lies like this would get people ostracized from public life.

I've recently been reminded that at least some of the immigrants that Abbot sent the Texas national guard to kidnap, are the same immigrants Abbott flew to Chicago in the dead of winter in flip flops and a t shirt to overwhelm the city. Instead Chicago residents clothed, fed and resettled them

Sure, 2025's No Kings protests are anti-American

Like the original, the Boston Tea Party

"The richest man in the world and the owner of the most influential social media site in US politics is a nazi who openly supports and amplifies other nazis" would, on its face, seem to be rather newsworthy!

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

We know — from first principles — that LLMs can only create AI slop.

Why do people keep needing empirical tests?

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

Everyone signed the "peace deal" in that big photo op in Egypt only just yesterday, right?

ICE agents shot a priest in the head with a pepper spray bullet.

They shot a citizen seven times for allegedly blocking their car in. Then lied about it.

No one is safe. Not our immigrant friends & neighbours. Not citizens. Not journalists.

No one is safe until we are all safe.

Abolish ICE.