Witty Librarian Resistance

Many AI toys claim to use chatbots meant for adults and teens A nonprofit consumer research group found that developers can sidestep age safeguards on major AI platforms like OpenAI and Google in building AI toys for kids.

A report released by a consumer watchdog finds that more than two dozen toys advertised online were marketed as being powered by leading AI models, despite restrictions meant to stop children from using them.

I'm in a burn-it-all-down mood right now. Tell me if the Dow goes under 35,000 by 4 pm.

Q&A: Public libraries counting on bill to combat e-books' huge cost | NJ Spotlight News Digital content comes with agreements on license renewals and distribution limits, burdens that don't apply to printed copies

Great explainer on the problem of ebook pricing for libraries.

www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/02/qa-p...

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Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images f...

What the HELL WERE WE DOING BOMBING ANYWHERE NEAR A SCHOOL IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?! GODDAMN YOU, HEGSETH. GODDAMN YOU, trump. GODDAMN YOU BLOODY IRRESPONSIBLE MAGA REPUBLICANS FROM HELL.

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"And when you're older, godson, we'll talk about Optimus Prime and Superman issues."

(cartoon from 2003)

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Trump not helping Americans leave the region he’s ordered them to abandon thanks to his preemptive strike. Not a peep from the Biden leaving Afghanistan crowd.

Kristi Noem claims there are no daily quotas for snatches, which is interesting, bc nothing else explains their choices.

Now refusing to rule out deploying goons to election locations (and @coons.senate.gov did not force her to disavow it).

Once again, a single cartoon tells more truth that the entire US Congress.

Thanks to Rick McKee for making our current situation easy to understand.

remember when clinton said a lot of these mothers were a basket of deplorables and got crucified

Netanyahu should be sitting in a jail cell for bribery instead of committing war crimes against half the Middle East.

No matter where you are, they’re using the same playbook

My guess? She told Satan she wasn't going to root for Man U this year.

it's surreal how Witkoff's talking points about Iran are just warmed-over Bush talking points on Iraq ...

Anthropic’s AI model Claude gets popularity boost after US military feud Claude climbs to top of app store charts in US and UK after being blacklisted by Pentagon over ethics concerns

As I've been saying for days: this feud with Hegseth -- in which Anthropic looks principled, and Claude looks so valuable that the Pentagon can't live without it -- has been terrific marketing for Anthropic www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

When did Labour stop defending labor, even the creative labor?

They genuinely believe the reason Iraq and Afghanistan were disasters was because of woke

Majority of Americans oppose Trump’s Iran strikes, per new polling Several polls conducted in the wake of the U.S. attacks in Iran found the military operation broadly unpopular.

some polling: Most Americans oppose the war.

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oh hey look more proof positive that the best response to a trump lawsuit is “fuck you, make me.” hope everyone who gave in without a fight feels like the utter rubes they are.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

there are foreign policy "experts" since the 1980s who never got over the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-80, who also still think they can bomb the whole Middle East into submission, tied into support for a genocidal Netanyahu regime, and that they will never be held accountable for war crimes.

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All those billions of dollars to the defense corporations, and yet we're running out of supplies?

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#SendBarronToWar

Minnesota would like a word.

Woman sues Kenbridge, police after chief allegedly tipped off shooting suspect The town of Kenbridge and its police department are facing a lawsuit of more than $140 million.

A woman’s ex boyfriend, who is a cop, threatens to shoot her

Women are at the highest risk for being killed when they try to leave a relationship.

She calls 911 for help & the Police Chief WARNS the boyfriend instead.

Boyfriend opened fire on her car

We aren’t angry enough.

The number of older and immunocompromised people dying of the flu is going to be horrible

All the money in the world won't stop when your industrial capacity has degraded to the point that even if you wanted bombs every day, you have to have all the supporting industry, precursors, and educated workforce, and in the right places

Things the US keeps losing due to bad industrial policy

The fact that the U.S. has been so successfully brainwashed into thinking that sunburned white guys with cheeky Nazi tattoos Define the Working Class when the ACTUAL working class is non-white women (many of them immigrants) - yeah, that’s one of the great madness runes of our time.