Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹

Trump orders homeless he passed en route to golf course to leave Washington DC President demands unhoused residents leave US capital or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrests

fuck off. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

remember when republicans at least paid lip service to "limited government?" — www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

How to Live Forever and Get Rich Doing It As researchers work to make death optional, investors see a chance for huge returns. But has the human body already reached its limits?

i don't actively wish physical harm on anyone, but you do sometimes find yourself thinking about car crashes in ballardian terms... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Undocumented immigrants aren’t showing up to work because they face a double threat:

📌 ICE could roll up to the job site, because it’s easier to target hardworking people than go after real criminals.

📌 When the work’s done, some employers refuse to pay and threaten to call ICE.

it's just the community shield, but any time liverpool lose it brightens my day.

WAKA WAKA

god i hope so — with the spending binge on merseyside, city reloading, we can't fuck around with 1-1s this year.

yeah not great. 🙏

and this is what we've been waiting for!!!

AND THERE IT IS!!!

Private Prisons Cash In on Trump’s Mass Deportations GEO Group and CoreCivic are boasting of ‘unprecedented growth opportunities’ as they partner with ICE to surveil and imprison immigrants.

revolting and so predictable. the term "for-profit prison" should turn everyone's stomach. prospect.org/justice/2025...

Opinion | Trump’s Cultural Revolution Is Just Getting Started

resist at every step, because this isn't going to get better (for a while) — www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...

just as this summer is the coolest summer you will ever experience, today is the day in which you have the most freedom you will ever have. the digital noose only tightens.

Meta, helping fascists since 2004...

Trump und Putin: Vor diesem Treffen muss einem grausen Donald Trump plant ein Gipfeltreffen mit Wladimir Putin, um den Konflikt in der Ukraine zu beenden. Was kann herauskommen?

putin wird ihn nochmal auffressen... www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/trum...

Weaponizing the Watchdog | Walter M. Shaub Jr. Donald Trump’s fascist takeover of government is a comprehensive affair, and sometimes it’s the little things that reveal just how thoroughly his

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

A CBP Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles Video obtained and verified by 404 Media shows a CBP official wearing Meta's AI glasses, which are capable of recording and connecting with AI. “I think it should be seen in the context of an agency t...

i guess since no one else wants them, meta can always sell them to the secret police — www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...

It just seems like if one *could* get a list of personalized recommendations crowdsourced from the booksellers at a really cool bookstore, one really *should* get said list portersquarebooks.com/virtual-book...

An Annotated Guide to OpenAI's Enshittification of Education 1.

agreed, though i would say "AI GTFO" not just "moonshot" —

An Annotated Guide to OpenAI's Enshittification of Education
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...

Election theft in broad daylight. 5 alarm fire🔥.

We are over the cliff. 🇺🇸

yeah, a fully intentional "coding error" (from @hcrichardson.bsky.social) —

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

leave it to the man whose casinos went bankrupt 4x...

Welcome to the United States. That Will Be $15,000 Please The Trump administration is moving to charge immigrants an entry fee at the gate.

this is wild, and like almost everything this administration does, beyond stupid — substack.com/@jscros/p-17...

On the Future of Small Presses in the Aftermath of the NEA Grant Chaos On Friday, May 2nd, 2025, DOGE and the National Endowment for the Arts terminated $300,000 worth of grants for 51 publishers. The email, a copy and paste job, trickled into inboxes at odd hours. 5:…

support small presses, support indie bookstores, now more than ever —

lithub.com/on-the-futur...

yeah i'm not too concerned. (yet)

Automating the mass shooting victim On AI as a false simulacrum of hope for change. Plus: A copyedit chief on being 'replaced' by AI, Elon Musk is voted least popular newsmaker in America, and the Luddites in National Geographic.

Automating the mass shooting victim
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/automating...

well this isn't great. at least it's only preseason

i most certainly would, and do!