This is not an Overreaction

Look. These are Nazi talking points. That's not NICE to say, but it's true, and it makes me sick.

“Don’t want to lose SNAP? Tell the Dems to reopen the government!”

SNAP assistance gets cut in the big beautiful bill too.

Healthcare is slashed as well.

They’re withholding food for 40 million Americans to try and force the Dems to sign off on cutting food AND healthcare!

“If you don’t have a border you don’t have a nation.”

Well… yeah. Wait, are you saying that like it’s a bad thing?

It’s been millennia already, and it’ll probably be millennia more, but “Imagine all the people, sharing all the world.”

This implies a Saudi oligarch or Russian oil tycoon could be paying the salaries of U.S. military service members

Some AI experts told me it looks like Grok's been given a restricted list of sources when talking about subjects where Elon wants it to give a specific answer. So I asked Grok to give me a list of researchers on cognition and heritability and it spit out total bigots and pseudo-scientific cranks

Steve Bannon says ‘there is a plan’ for Trump to be president in 2028 Former Trump advisor claims winning a third term could be easier than Trump’s previous electoral victories

Steve Bannon has confirmed that there is a secret plot afoot to end our democracy and install Trump as a permanent dictator.

If this were untrue, he’d be getting a visit from the FBI, as what he’s describing is a criminal conspiracy.

He won’t get an FBI visit.

It reflects the same contorted reasoning used in Citizens United v. FEC, which established the idea that corporations possess the rights of individuals, only now, that rationale is being repackaged for artificial intelligence.

A Teen in Love With a Chatbot Killed Himself. Can the Chatbot Be Held Responsible?

According to Character AI, “the words produced by its chatbots are speech, like a poem, song or video game. And b/c they're speech, they're protected by the 1st Amendment. You can’t win a negligence case against a speaker for exercising their First Amendment rights.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/m...

... severed economic aid to Colombia in a tantrum, threatened to crack down on NYC, announced drug prices would be coming down "500 percent," claimed Pete Buttigieg tried to fix the air traffic system with "glass wire," and committed probably a dozen other crimes we've already forgotten about.

... threatened to invade every state in the US, renewed his conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and vowed his people would prevent it from happening "again," bragged about illegally slashing programs Democrats like, said he would send disaster relief to a state because it voted for him ...

... called several African American politicians "low IQ," called all Democrats terrorists, insisted the 7 million Americans who protested his regime were all paid, showed a video of him flying a jet and dropping shit all over them, sent $40 billion to Argentina to prop up a fellow dipshit tyrant ...

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the...

Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law.

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Part 1/3 of an 11-panel SMBC comic update where the recurrent characters of the two kids discussing philosophy in a snowy landscape return to do just that. In this strip, one proposes that ethics was resolved on April 7th, 1964 when the IBM system/360 came out and was able to solve any ethical dilemma by instantiating on a virtual island of apes and seeing if the population goes to zero. Seemingly, all scenarios drop the population to 0, prompting the kid in green to state that the only strategy that works is inconsistency.

Part 2/3 of an 11-panel SMBC comic update where the recurrent characters of the two kids discussing philosophy in a snowy landscape return to do just that. In this strip, one proposes that ethics was resolved on April 7th, 1964 when the IBM system/360 came out and was able to solve any ethical dilemma by instantiating on a virtual island of apes and seeing if the population goes to zero. Seemingly, all scenarios drop the population to 0, prompting the kid in green to state that the only strategy that works is inconsistency.

Part 3/3 of an 11-panel SMBC comic update where the recurrent characters of the two kids discussing philosophy in a snowy landscape return to do just that. In this strip, one proposes that ethics was resolved on April 7th, 1964 when the IBM system/360 came out and was able to solve any ethical dilemma by instantiating on a virtual island of apes and seeing if the population goes to zero. Seemingly, all scenarios drop the population to 0, prompting the kid in green to state that the only strategy that works is inconsistency.

That's another philosophical 'problem' put to bed by Zach Weinersmith.

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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

This is not an unfortunate side effect of the change in policies in higher education in this country. This is the entire purpose.

Abolish the death penalty

The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.

Question 1 could make it harder for Wabanaki citizens to vote The Wabanaki Alliance has come out in opposition to Question 1 on November’s ballot, warning that the Wabanaki nations would be harmed by changes to absentee voting and its exclusion of tribal IDs as ...

The Wabanaki Alliance has come out in opposition to Question 1 on November’s ballot, warning that the Wabanaki nations would be harmed by changes to absentee voting and its exclusion of tribal IDs as a valid form of voter identification:

Too late. Buh bye.

Christopher Waltz in Inglourious Basterds playing a Nazi SS officer. The emblem on his hat is the same emblem Platner had tattooed on his chest.

Well, Inglourious Basterds came out in 2009, so…

Updating my LEGO White House

I really wish this meant anything more than users are willing to believe anything when it comes to them in an easy to digest format, much like propaganda.

The AI revolution for LLMs is nothing more than hype.

My spiciest take

The biggest loss in our battle for autonomy was when the idea of a permanently connected device was labeled “smart”

People ate up giving away all control of their most intimate moments simply because they got to say “smart” so much

Now is a really good time to donate to food banks, and do food runs for mutual aid groups. Also, do menstrual product runs.

I don’t know why half the replies are referencing AI. Quantum computing and AI are entirely separate fields. (But ask yourself, why does the Commerce Department want to be able to peak on encrypted communications?)

Republicans are planning to starve thousands upon thousands of Americans during Thanksgiving for leverage to be able to force thousands upon thousands off their healthcare.

I just saw a video that said cutting SNAP would lower food prices because it would cut demand.

I'm starting to think that Econ 101 either needs to be drastically overhauled or that you cannot take it unless you commit to taking four econ courses one heavily focused on externalities and elasticity.

If tax rate was actually all that the rich cared about the way they try to scaremonger the public into believing they'd all be living in the UAE, it's literally all just a longform con

Trans people are now functionally banned from the University of Virginia, the seventh university to do so.