Archemidium 🍁🌻🍉 Playing Outlast 📹

Once again:

I know the real answer here is that he was instructed to pardon Zhao by an advisor and is just blatantly dodging the question of corruption. But, even *with* the benefit of the doubt that he really doesn't know, ceding presidential power or amnesia are also really really bad scenarios.

The power to pardon lies solely with the President, yet Trump insists that he has no idea who Zhao is or why he was pardoned. Assuming (generously) that Trump isn't losing his memory, that then begs the question:

If President Trump didn't pardon Zhao... who did?

But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

Sam Altman says ‘enough’ to questions about OpenAI’s revenue | TechCrunch OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that the company is doing “well more” than $13 billion in annual revenue — and he sounded a little testy when pressed on how it will pay for its massive spending co...

This exchange should be in textbooks. It's the platonic ideal of a scene where a grifter is asked a question about the legitimacy of his company that he knows he can't answer so he immediately distracts everyone.

He's Lyle Lanley without the fun hat.

A lot of heroes emerging from this

I can't fathom how any reasonable person can support what "law enforcement" is doing here.

All this manpower and combat equipment being deployed - none of it contributing to enforcement of laws.

Every action taken here by the police only serves to assault people and violate their rights.

Another warning.

Reverend Black: "We are not breaking any law."

Protesters playing music again to keep their spirits up against a half dozen different local and federal agencies.

"Some of those that work forces...are the same that burn crosses!"

Deplatforming Nazis is so successful that Musk purchased Twitter to replatform them.

"sophisticated financial engineering" oh that's not good

Joe Scarborough, who made a trip to Mar-a-Lago after the election last year, gets extremely (and somewhat bizarrely) defensive when a guest accuses Trump of engaging in sex crimes with Epstein.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."

Kristi Noem uses the term "illegal people"

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

Yesterday, Texas filed a lawsuit against Tylenol’s parent company, alleging that it failed to alert consumers.

Today, Kennedy clarified that “the causative association between Tylenol given in pregnancy and perinatal periods is not sufficient to say it definitely causes autism." trib.al/nBdhHvW

They must expect a lot of people all over the country to be really upset about something next year. I wonder what that could be?

Even for my Canadians here, with the cost of everythingggggg.
I recommend being really extra nice to the manager of whatever Tim Horton's/7-11 has this available and they might even let you see what's in the bag before you pay for it. So many times I've gotten $20+ of bread, milk, bananas for $5.

OpenAI data suggests 1 million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT weekly Sensitive chats are rare but significant given the large user base.

It’s a tiny fraction of its overall user base, but a number that's concerning nonetheless.

Members of one of Canada’s largest white nationalist networks held a show of, um, force(?) in downtown Ottawa and in Regina over the weekend.

It was a pathetic display, but one we should unfortunately still talk about (with some research help from @antihate.ca!)

So let's do that:

Majority of Canadians no longer see America as a friend, study finds But more than half of Conservative party supporters still think the U.S. is Canada's pal, Environics Institute found.

Majority of Canadians no longer see America as a friend, study finds

Federal immigration agents have recently been leaning into hitting people recording them with impeding charges - even when available video shows the agents striking civilians' vehicles, not the other way around

Another example from last week:

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"I hope your beeper doesn't go off."

A year ago today, a racist tried to make a 'joke' about me being killed by Israel. It was the 1st time I've ever walked off of live TV. That night CNN said they'd ban the racist from their air. But in the year since, I myself haven't been invited back on CNN.

He's been escalating the annexation of the West Bank over the past two weeks so this wasn't unexpected. Its just... so needlessly cruel.

Netanyahu avoids legal consequences and stays in power as long as there is a war. Therefore, Israel will forever be at war as long as Netanyahu has power.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

OpenAI is reportedly looking at adding ads to ChatGPT

One idea they're exploring is showing ads based off user chat memory

(via The Information)

This is not your regular changing of the guards.

- NYT, NBC, NPR & Politico are out at the Pentagon.

- NY Post, OANN, Breitbart & HuffPost are in.

And #ICYMI the Pentagon is pausing official social media accounts worldwide for review. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

How are you meant to debate or negotiate with people who blatantly and knowingly deny objective reality?