Luke Stark

if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode

Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger Simply extraordinary stuff coming out this morning about the battle over what...

"Trump has refashioned antitrust oversight to be little more than a personal veto for the Trump family. Friends can do mergers; foes can’t." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...

And “He regularly breaks the law and all of our signed & ratified international treaties.” We don’t mince words or use euphemisms about this stuff for anyone else. Just the One Special Boy.

Not just Jared but almost all the gulf monarchies plus a pass through entity for the ccp.

Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...

This is a scandal. Designed for 33 min by Metrolinx, operated by TTC slower than a bus

well you see, in "he said, she said" journalism, it's important to bury the truth halfway down the page in a quote by an activist or academic (if you mention it at all) as easily-dismissible opinion, otherwise Republicans will get mad and insist you aren't being fair and balanced

They should have worked this part into the headline:

Trump Promises Executive Order to Block State A.I. Regulations www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

sing the song with me:

🎶 that's because AI super sucks, people are better than robots, so with any fuckin luck, AI will die and be left to rot 🎶

It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.

This is correct and the story of the last twenty years is the collapse of the insulation of the elite because of the internet and new forms of media

Character AI chatbots engaged in predatory behavior with teens, ignored suicide threats, families allege A teen told a Character AI chatbot 55 times that she was feeling suicidal. Her parents say the chatbot never provided resources for her to get help. They are one of at least six families suing the com...

Outrage at character AI goes mainstream. www.cbsnews.com/news/charact...

Feel like Dem candidates for POTUS should start—today—saying that they will bring the wrath of a reinvigorated FTC (and DOJ?) down on all these shady, corrupt deals, break up all the oligarchic monopolies (you know what I mean) Trump is creating to line his pockets.

Same headline.

Seven years apart. 🤡

@politico.com
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new challenge unlocked, I guess www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants its poor AI products A new report details how Microsoft has cut some internal goals for AI sales, why? Nobody wants to use its weak products.

that's a big fucking oopsie

www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...

From 1990: bsky.app/profile/ndha...

Wouldn’t Sauer’s argument here— one central to the unitary executive theory so favored by this administration, make Trump responsible for killing the shipwreck survivors in the Caribbean?

As article notes, they're saying explicitly that the President is on their side so the merger the companies want is doomed. The guy in the picture, Ellison's failson typifies the corrupt crony capitalism of the age.

One of the most dramatically underreported aspects of Trump 2.0 is his ultra-corrupt direct interventions in business. Handing companies to his friends, taking chunks of private companies for the sake of doing businesses, granting tariff exemptions as favors. He’s crushing the rules-based economy.

it’s just remarkable how thoroughly the media has normalized all of this; how clearly the media will normalize absolutely anything provided it endures longer than a handful of news cycles.

a corrupt act everyday. appropriate he's there with melania since she just set up a company to collect bribes.

And the states should ignore it.

too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent

So much of the cultural capital the right is playing with right now could be decimated if we embraced this truth and confronted our hang ups about it.

One ring to rule them all,
One ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them.

Insurance coverage of hepatitis B vaccine won’t change, industry and officials say | CNN Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention’s vaccine advisers recommended a major change to t...

Because the vaccine prevents chronic hepatitis B for which there is no cure and the lifelong treatment costs more than a single birth dose of the vaccine. Insurance companies recognize this is a no brainer.
Brought to you by prevention beats treatment any day.
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I don’t mean to pick on him. Interest in teaching and research in established programs or departments appears categorically uninteresting to many senior admin even in good times, unless they can transform in highly public and brand-conscious ways. In bad times, it’s the first thing to be sacrificed

One of the best-sketched characters in an incredibly character-rich show: a fascist whose (potentially real!) redeeming qualities are continually undercut by his monumental pride, bigotry, entitlement and pettiness

Tweet by Jason @longwall26 My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can't I play with them? Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord

Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social