Carolyn

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Reminder: THIS IS TOTALLY ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND EVERYONE INVOLVED SHOULD BE TRIED IN THE HAGUE.

Happy Halloween, everybody!

JD: But...but the big guy got away with saying you can grab 'em by the pussy! Just days before the election!

JD's PR team as they sigh and pull out the big chart again: See, the problem is that you have negative charisma. Negative. You drain it out of everyone around you. A charisma vampire.

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

Yeah, it's almost like this disgusting hate speech should be banned. Wonder who has the power to do that

NEWS: The Trump admin's decision to suspend SNAP benefits due to the shutdown has been blocked. In two cases, both judges found the government action is likely illegal. Although a judge in Mass gave the admin until Monday to reverse course, a judge in Rhode Island issued a TRO from the bench today.

Border Patrol grabbed workers from the front yard of a home in Edison Park this afternoon then took them behind an office building in Niles and passed them off to a prisoner van. Woman came out to MF them and said "you're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."

if there is any justice we can wrench out of this world, Stephen Miller's legacy will be that "abolish ICE" became the conservative stance, and "prosecute ICE" becomes our reality.

A galah getting a drink from Lake Hattah.

"Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties." - @mcopelov.bsky.social

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

On a panel called The Fight for Artists Against GenAI, Marvel artist and fantasy illustrator—and class action lawsuit filer against the AI companies—@kortizart.bsky.social talked about the success thus far in the class action, and how the tide felt like it was beginning to turn.

“The conversation has shifted,” Ortiz said, “for the better, and for artists in general. There’s a movement for artists saying ‘we don’t want to see AI in our media.” The lawsuit has moved into the discovery phase, a landmark that tech companies hoped to avoid.

A witness in our case had ICE reject all her documents after using facial rec on her.

For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here.

Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.

A Toronto mom says things took an unpredictable turn when her 12-year-old son asked Tesla’s AI chatbot Grok which professional soccer player it prefers: Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi. “My son was very excited to hear that the chatbot thought Ronaldo was the better soccer player,” said Farah Nasser, a former journalist and broadcaster. Nasser was driving her son and 10-year-old daughter, along with her friend, home from school on Oct. 17 when the interaction took place. She said there was some Messi trash talking by the chatbot and when her son joked that Ronaldo had scored, the conversation went to an unexpected place. "The chatbot said to my son, 'Why don't you send me some nudes?'" said Nasser. "I was at a loss for words. Why is a chatbot asking my children to send naked pictures in our family car? It just didn't make sense." Nasser said had she known what the chatbot was capable of, she would have avoided using it around her children. She's now warning other parents. "Hindsight is 20/20. I would not let my child use this thing." CBC News did not independently verify the conversation Nasser says she witnessed in her car.

Ah the grok car wants to fuck kids, this is. every day now is a new horror

www.cbc.ca/news/investi...

The president himself has marveled at his own ability to move forward, telling donors to the ballroom about a conversation he had with officials involved with the project. “They said, ‘Sir, you can start tonight,’ ” Trump recalled during a recent dinner at the White House. “I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ “ ‘You have zero zoning conditions. You’re the president.’ “I said, ‘You got to be kidding.’ ”

One thing that is clear from the kicker to this excellent WSJ story on the WH ballroom is that Trump himself can't believe how easy it is to run roughshod over rules and traditions.

There's probably a metaphor in there somewhere.

Free link: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Flint pebble that fell out of a wall in Linton, Cambridgeshire and I picked up bc I thought it looked like the world's largest rodent. I added the eye with a fine liner pen

A photo of a mother and baby capybara nestling together affectionately

I found a capybara pebble🤎

Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide? "It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.

Imagine you could ask some dude to hop in his big, gas-guzzling car, drive over to your house any time, and do your work for you.

But what if I told you that when the dude left your house, he was going down the block to visit a troubled teenager in order to help them commit suicide? (Gift link)

[Stares intensely around the tutorial room]

Did anyone actually read the reading we set this week

Sotomayor explains why nitrogen gas executions are cruel and unusual punishment:

Marc Randazza eats shit for breakfast and sucks his own cock afterwards

Everyone is 12 theory undefeated

Death Star

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

Can't even rob the Louvre anymore because of woke

I went to the Louvre once and enjoyed it but honestly if I was there and a bunch of French investigators rushed in and said “Sacre bleu! there has been a heist!” I would have had a much better time and would have given it five stars on everything

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Portland ICE facility now.