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Goldfish 1: knock knock

Goldfish 2: who's there

Goldfish 1: who's where

Goldfish 2: what

Reporter: Here’s that article, chief!

Editor: Great! We’re gonna slap a clickbait headline on this baby that is *insane.* People are gonna want to *kill* you!

Reporter: (sigh) Well, I guess it’s worth it if they read it.

Editor: Haha, don’t worry, they won’t. Here, let me throw that away for you.

If an individual offering consensual nudes of themself on OnlyFans is considered “illicit” but a program generating nudes of women without their consent is fine, the powers that be have made their priorities clear. And they’re the same as they ever were.

Just checking the Free Speech Union's web page for their expression of outrage about the hundreds of people arrested for displaying signs in support of Palestine Action ....

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

Weird how establishment Dems and liberals being overwhelmingly silent on the Trump admin hiring the guy who wrote this paved the way for them to openly declare war on women next...

What did you expect?

Violating it *while sustaining a monopoly of legitimate violence* is the trick.

Trump administration is evading court orders blocking its agenda

Just wondering how one "evades" a court order, because I'm pretty sure that's just called "violating" it

16) Stole this one from a recent skeet I saw:

If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously.

Stephen Miller Is Getting $170 Billion To Build His Own Army To Target Our Immigrant Neighbors. Here’s What That Funding Could Do Instead This unprecedented allocation of taxpayer money could go to helping working families all across America, on everything from education, hunger, housing, healthcare, and the environment.

$170 billion could end homelessness. It could fund Head Start or pay for nutritious school meals for our kids for well over a decade. But it’s instead going to Stephen Miller so he can build his mass deportation army to target our immigrant neighbors: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/stephen-mi...

No AI Was Used on the Last Shot of ‘Together’ Writer/director Michael Shanks explains how they merged Brie and Franco's faces in the last shot, and the frustration of people assuming it was AI.

Well, we're officially at the point where "it's just AI" is being conflated with skilled visual effects work.

"Together" director Michael Shanks'... frustration that audiences now assume that skilled VFX work is just artificial intelligence at work.
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Elon Musk will never contain calls for violence because he himself supports them. Show some backbone and shut X down now. The Brazilians did it, why can’t we?

Loomer, who has serious influence on this admin, is now arguing that the military is "disloyal" if they publicly praise past medal winners if they were Democrats.

Re-upping this remarkable thread

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

- 1984, George Orwell

This turtle on a skateboard has brought me great joy

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Was the 2020 election stolen? No, the 2020 U.S. presidential election was not stolen. Multiple independent investigations, court rulings, and reports—including those authored by prominent conservatives and state governors—found no substantial evidence of widespread fraud or irregularities that would have changed the outcome of the election[1][2][5].

Is crime in Washington, D.C., totally out of control? Crime in Washington, D.C. is not "totally out of control," but there has been significant concern about crime rates, leading to increased federal intervention and public attention[1]. Nationally, both the FBI and DOJ report substantial declines in violent crime, homicides, and other serious offenses through 2024—though certain measures remain higher than pre-pandemic levels[2][3][4][5].

Are tariffs a tax on American people? Tariffs are a type of tax imposed on imported goods, and their cost is typically passed on to American consumers through higher prices. Most economists and tax experts agree that although tariffs are charged to importers, the increased costs are routinely absorbed by businesses and ultimately by consumers in the form of higher retail prices[2][4][3]. This results in tariffs functioning as an indirect tax on Americans.

What happened on January 6, 2021? On January 6, 2021, a large group of supporters of then-President Donald Trump breached the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., disrupting the formal certification of the 2020 presidential election results by Congress[1][2]. The event, commonly referred to as the January 6 Capitol riot or insurrection, resulted in violence, deaths, extensive investigations, and significant political fallout, including a second impeachment of President Trump[1][2].

New: The new "Truth Search AI" tool on Trump's social network keeps contradicting Trump.

Says the 2020 election wasn't stolen, crime in D.C. isn't out of control, tariffs are a tax, Jan. 6 was an insurrection, and Obama has "highest favorability" rating of all living presidents

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lab grown things are going to change the world. given that there will be a fetishization of "naturalness" to rival the organic boom, we are going to need to be out front in defending the synthetic. which i do not think many people here are capable of doing

Genuine, open-hearted, not-my-thing-but they're-OK, tolerance. We need more of it.

Made another one for the literal films challenge on B3ta

“Who knows what is in those Epstein files, if only *they* would release them” says the man who controls the Epstein Files.

The number of people arrested in UK Labour's deranged authoritarian crackdown has risen to 532.

The average age of those arrested is 54. 147 of the people arrested are aged between 60 and 69.

The Met counter-terror unit is working flat out bringing charges against them.
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Never have a group of people needed to get outside and touch grass more than the weirdo online racists.

The official White House line is now that those dirty Democrats must’ve been hiding some serious dirt about dirty Democrats in the Epstein Files and that’s why the much more transparent Republicans won’t release them now and uh Trump might pardon Maxwell too?

Why is Donald Trump protecting left-wing politicians and left-wing billionaires who associated with Jeffrey Epstein from justice?

Why is he hiding that from the American people? What else must be in the Epstein files that he so badly wants to hide that he's protecting political opponents to do it?

This post has been stuck in my head since I saw it two days ago, and I think it's on to something. The cultural power of "jovial fat white ethnic goofy dad" (and similar types of guy) going "ah, they're alright, let 'em do their thing" and showing up with a genuine smile shouldn't be underestimated.

it's like having a team of phd level experts trapped in your pocket unable to help you as you ask the hallucination machine to make all of your important life decisions

An owl sits in a branch, eyes closed, head tilted, claw outstretched in a “hold up a second” gesture.

my kid correcting me about a dinosaur fact

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king