Clarlune (Bayou Miles)

I stumbled on this old thread from before the Epstein files were released. It reads so much harder now that it's become undeniable that academia and media are filled with male libertarian (but I repeat myself) sickos.

ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

"It’s hard to know how much Stonepeak makes off this misery..."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

So Trump chose Noem specifically for her barbarity ???

respectfully tapping the "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" sign again

“I’m not here to talk about my feelings” is the most Hillary Clinton statement of all time. 😂

Who the fuck did they think they were talking to?

ICE agent who fatally shot Ruben Ray Martinez identified by Newsweek The federal agent who fatally shot a U.S. citizen in Texas last year has been identified in a police report obtained by Newsweek.

The ICE-hole that shot into the car killing Ruben Ray Martinez has been identified as Jack Stevens. On Wednesday, a Texas grand jury declined to indict him because Martinez had alcohol and weed in his system.

#ProudBlue #ICE #RubenRayMartinez

www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-wh...

"Trans people no longer allowed to drive in Kansas" is a real headline. In case you don't think this is Nazi shit, let me assure you: this is Nazi shit.

The Fool's Freedom The sum total of these actions by the oligarchs to capture legacy media, manipulate the algorithmic control of digital platforms, and use the state to assault any remaining independent voices has created a terrifyingly effective new model of information control. It is a system that maintains the outward appearance of a free and diverse media landscape. We still have websites to browse, podcasts to download, and newsletters to subscribe to. Many will even be harshly critical of the oligarchs and the Trump administration. We still possess, in the narrowest legal sense, the right to an opinion. But this is a fool’s freedom. As Hannah Arendt noted, the most profound deprivation of rights occurs not when you are forbidden to have an opinion, but when your opinion is rendered meaningless. The oligarchs’ control over the critical infrastructure of information distribution is the ultimate choke point. They are the gatekeepers of relevance, the silent arbiters of what is seen and what is buried, what is amplified and what is ignored. This new reality destroys the very possibility of public accountability. An independent journalist can break a world-changing story, a citizen can voice powerful dissent, but if these are algorithmically suppressed, they cannot reach a critical mass. They cannot generate public outrage. They cannot hold power to account. This is speech without consequence, opinion without impact. Arendt’s concept of “action,” meaning the speech and deeds through which we appear to one another and create a shared public world, is rendered impossible. We are witnessing the construction of a sophisticated, 21st-century propaganda state. It is a state that doesn’t need to burn books when it can simply change the algorithm. It maintains the illusion of choice while ensuring, through a seamless integration of private ownership, state intimidation, and algorithmic control, that only one narrative prevails.

I wrote this last year about the oligarchs buying up all of legacy and social media. It's just as true now and extremely grim.

www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

I’m not cool with the vaccine stuff but the rest of it wouldn’t a dealbreaker for me.

Dolly Parton Is 'So Excited' That East Tennessee Children's Hospital Is Being Renamed in Her Honor Dolly Parton's philanthropic efforts are taking another huge step as the singer announced on Thursday, Feb. 26, that the East Tennessee Children's Hospital has officially been renamed the Dolly Parton...

Musical genius and humanitarian Dolly Parton announces that the East Tennessee Children's Hospital has officially been renamed the Dolly Parton Children's Hospital 🦋 people.com/dolly-parton...

I'll do it. I will fire tens of thousands of ICE agents. I will fly around the country like George Clooney and Anna Kendrick in that movie, just firing people all day. Except instead of it crushing my soul each ICE agent firing will bring me joy.

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

Playing up to the man in ways he understands by showing him fake newspapers writing about his greatness and using him being on that high to help out the people of NYC is a prime example of why he's the smartest dude in game.

I again feel compelled to ask, “Where are all these ‘good billionaires’ I keep hearing about? Why are they not buying up media outlets?”

Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home.

14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.

I would say one of the main right-wing projects of the past twenty years has been gaming every web 2.0 platform into thinking the right-wing is much bigger and more influential than it actually is. And the people who have been most taken in by this effort has been the right wing

Next president will have to rebuild the federal government while fighting a cadre of insane billionaires the whole way. The more bleak things get the more absurd it seems to consider electing some common weasel who wants to be president because he wants to be president

Oh nothing — just me @ the bad place

With Paramount set to take over WBD, Trump just steered a major news outlet into the hands of a crony

The result reeks of a “political deal” in which the president steered the ownership of a major news outlet to his crony. That’s unconscionable in a free society — but a familiar tactic of authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán.
- @mattgertz.bsky.social
www.mediamatters.org/cnn/paramoun...

On Tuesday, March 3, 2026, a total lunar eclipse—a Blood Moon—will sweep across North America. Totality begins at 6:04 AM ET. While western states see the full show, the East Coast will witness a rare Selenelion: the eclipsed Moon setting while the Sun rises simultaneously. This graphic is a color coded map visualizing this phenomenon.

On Tuesday, March 3, 2026, a total lunar eclipse—a Blood Moon—will sweep across North America. Totality begins at 6:04 AM ET. While western states will see the full show, the East Coast will witness a rare Selenelion: the eclipsed Moon setting while the Sun rises simultaneously.

i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services

It’s great that Republicans on House Oversight established a precedent today for First Ladies to be deposed about Epstein. Can’t wait until Democrats take over the committee at the end of the year.

Young folks, I strongly recommend buying a DVD player and stocking up on some great DVDs of classic movies and TV shows.

Many of them won't exist after this Paramount-Warner Bros merger.

🔥This is fine.🔥

Lying to, and misleading Congress seems to run deep in the current administration.

I think @normative.bsky.social made this point yesterday, but once you get beyond the outrage of the brutality of the original “arrest” here, you also have to confront the fact that a D.A. CHOSE TO PROSECUTE THIS and a judge SENTENCED HIM TO A YEAR IN JAIL. Total system fail. WTF

Russia Plans to Block Telegram in April, Sources Say - The Moscow Times Russia plans to block Telegram this spring amid government calls to tighten media controls over claims the messaging app serves as a haven to criminals and is being used by foreign intelligence servic...

Russia is planning to shut down Telegram in April as its owner refuses to surrender to the FSB the encryption keys for the program. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/26/r...

Social media creation: TMZ @TMZ President Trump shared an Al video punching a Canadian Hockey player and then winning the Gold with USA. >pictures as described previously> sean @_sn_n they said Harris was too emotional and unserious to be president

Wonder what the non-maga people who were conned into voting for him think about emotional well-being now. 🤔

9 Conclusion We have demonstrated that LLMs enable deanonymization of pseudonymous online accounts at scale, outperforming classical methods. In many cases, LLMs enable us to perform attacks that would not have previously been possible, due to the lack of structured data or features. These attacks require only publicly available models and standard APIs. Our pipeline uses only publicly available embedding models, standard LLM APIs, and LLM-agent scaf-folding, placing them within reach of moderately resourced adversaries. Pseudonymity does not provide meaningful protection online. Users who post under persistent usernames should assume that adversaries can link their accounts to real identities or to each other, and that the probability rises with each piece of micro-data they post. Preventing such attacks appears challenging. Not reveal- ing any data on online platforms is difficult, as the data we use is the very data that makes online communities worth-while. Although LLM providers could aim to detect and block attempts to misuse their models for deanonymization (as they do, for instance, for cyberattacks), we are pessimistic that this is possible as our deanonymization framework splits an attack into a combination of seemingly benign summarization, search and ranking tasks. Recent advances in LLM capabilities have made it clear that there is an urgent need to rethink various aspects of computer security in the wake of LLM-driven offensive cyber capabilities. Our work shows that the same is likely true for privacy as well.

Welp:

“We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization... Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.”

arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16800