Coronis

nobody wants to talk about obvious trends & circumstances building over long periods when they can just insist that an individual like Trump or Netanyahu is the entire problem & "we'll" get instant relief if they can be pulled like a bad tooth. just ignore the deep ranks of enablers who made them.

[Morpheus extends a hand, presenting you a choice between pineapple pizza and black licorice]

The lightning has been truly excellent.

Holy shit.

First, the police should not be collecting and storing data on people's movements and travel across space and time in the first place, or contracting to use a private company's technology to accomplish the same thing. Second, they shouldn't be taking that data and running it through Al algorithms to potentially swing the government's eye of suspicion toward random, innocent civilians whose travel patterns just happen to fit what that algorithm thinks is worth bringing to the attention of the police.

Surveillance company Flock is now using AI to report us to police if the bot registers *our everyday movements* as “suspicious”

www.aclu.org/news/nationa...

“We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted & changed by human beings. Resistance & change often begin in art.”

-Ursula K. Le Guin

He has so many channels because he looks and sounds exactly like what the platonic ideal of "Smart Guy" is expected to look and sound like. As soon as he pops up you just want to assume he's an expert on whatever it is he's talking about.

Who tf wrote this trash?

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here.

The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

The NYT wrote something sensible:

LMFAO you could never get me to admit to being this soft and weak, like HOW EMBARRASSING

This is just video games.

As a show of strength and resistance, Gavin Newsom will be holding a special live podcast at 10 am where he and the resurrected corpse of Herbert Hoover will discuss why it's too unpopular electorally for Democrats to run on every family owning a cooking pot

*dog does a stretch*
me: “awww big stretch”

*i do a stretch*
dog: “are u okay u don’t look okay”

in the new prequel Die Hard: John McClane's Bitter Divorce filmmaker Jim Jarmusch delivers a stirring eight hour rendition of the McClane couple's lawyers hashing out a binding custody plan. the entire film is one unbroken shot of a conference table in a law office!

Meet the AI vegans | Arwa Mahdawi They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point, writes Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

Meet the AI vegans | Arwa Mahdawi

Didn’t like my cholesterol numbers so I fired my doctor. That’ll teach everyone.

I overheard a guy at the airport bragging about being at January 6th and I walked by him sitting in first class. Wealthy business owners stormed the capitol. January 6th was loaded with people who had the leisure time and travel budget to be there. Interrogate who is telling you to hate the poor.

Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech's help The Trump administration is pushing for Americans to upload personal health data to new apps run by private tech companies.

"More than 60 companies, including major tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple as well as health care giants like UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, have agreed to share patient data in the system."

It will use AI and "monitor wellness": apnews.com/article/trum...

Attorneys: 'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees held without charges, barred from legal access Lawyers seeking a temporary restraining order against an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades say that “Alligator Alcatraz” detainees have been barred from meeting attorneys.

We were in court yesterday fighting the unlawful detention of immigrants at the new Everglades detention center without access to legal counsel.

Everyone has a right to their day in court, especially when challenging their detention at this appalling facility.

Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders --The Montreal Star, 4 Feb 1939

1939

“I’m completely innocent you see I just have a complete personal list and knowledge of who was with Jeffrey Epstein and for how long and where”

maxwell getting a pardon is a lukewarm prediction at this point, maxwell getting a cabinet position is when you're really cooking

elected dems act like they were at a house party that was rudely interrupted by genocide and now no one wants to look at their keg stand

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

WELL FUUUUCK

Lifting the District Court’s injunction will unleash untold harm, delaying or denying educational opportunities and leaving students to suffer from discrimination, sexual assault, and other civil rights violations without the federal resources Congress intended. The majority apparently deems it more important to free the Government from paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very real harms while the litigation continues. Equity does not support such an inequitable result. * * * The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them. That basic rule undergirds our Constitution’s separation of powers. Yet today, the majority rewards clear defiance of that core principle with emergency relief. Because I cannot condone such abuse of our equitable authority, I respectfully dissent.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

From Sotomayor's dissent:

the big questions for american democracy going forward seem to be (1) can the GOP actually build the federal police state they just funded, (2) in time to finish before democratic checks can be established, and (3) whether dems gaining power would actually try to stop/dismantle it