Carl

Excited to get home to these two games landing in my mail

Hey @mta.info

Stop having Brooklyn bound C trains go express at Hoyt, you’ve got A trains for that.

Tech startup idea: instead of starting your car with your key, you get in, turn on the display panel, enter your password, get your phone out, open the authenticator app, enter your pin, enter the timed passcode, then open the start menu, then helpdesk, then "request engine start", then submit a tic

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to

askvisa@visa.com

they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

Gah I should have gone by yesterday to get one

Folks, US banning any kind of AI regulation happening in the states is about to be voted on soon!! CALL your Senators ASAP!!

Zach gave us a great break down bellow so check out his thread and lets do it! It’s GO TIME!

AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.

The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct

publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

This is correct. They tell us that the great replacement is a "conspiracy theory, yet we can look at New York City and see it happening right in front of our eyes. Stephen Miller @ @StephenM • 10h The commentary about NYC Democrats nominating an anarchist-socialist for Mayor omits one point: how unchecked migration fundamentally remade the NYC electorate. Democrats change politics by changing voters. That's how you turn a city that defined US dominance into what it is now.

So, these people are white supremacists of a very specific, American kind. The idea that the right to govern belongs only to a select, racially defined group was *the* political theory of the antebellum and redeemed south. Ask who is being replaced and why that’s a problem, you’ll see it.

A gathering of demonstrators wearing shields and goggles, others carrying the Confederate flag behind them

OPINION: "Since the Ku Klux Klan’s resurgence in 1915, white supremacists … have long advocated violence to establish a white ethnostate, a proposed political entity or nation-state where residency and citizenship are exclusively limited to whites," Art Jipson writes.

buff.ly/ZMXSEhn

Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights

1000%

Deeply disappointing move by @roll20.net

Cable news suddenly keeps mentioning “sleeper cells” in Iran. Heard it at least 3 times on CNN. Unbelievable 2003-style reporting malpractice, just spitballing ways of making Iran seem like a threat to Americans sitting at home watching tv

The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.

My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

Given all that we know about Clinton, I hope his endorsement makes you MORE likely to vote for Mamdani and LESS likely to include Cuomo ANYWHERE on your ballot.

Mamdani, Lander, Adrienne Adams, Blake, and Myrie. Those are the five. Your choice of order. But #NoCuomo, #NeverCuomo, friends.

vote.nyc

Congress has not formally declared war since 1942, 83 years ago.

Look at all the war the US has done in the past 83 years. Very obviously, it long long ago stopped requiring congressional approval for war according to its own constitution.

We did, my first time there and definitely going to go back.

Played Flamecraft which was very cute and fun.

Stopped off at a board game cafe last night in Portland to play for a bit and low and behold @goosepoopgames.com had a stand of little games so I obviously had to get one

The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily

Blacklisted: An American Story | The New York Historical Explore the intersection of politics, art, culture, and the social dynamics during Hollywood’s Red Scare through photographs, objects, and film.

A new exhibition opens at the NY Historical Society on Friday about how people were blacklisted in the US: www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/... [always timely]

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.

Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts.

But there was a slight hitch.

It hallucinated the size of those deals.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

This weeks newsletter from @monteiro.bsky.social hits so fucking hard.

I struggle to pull any one quote out amongst so many so here’s one:

“When decisions are cheap we can take risks that become almost impossible otherwise.”

And now go sign up and read the rest of it…

Look this is pathetic but instructive because it’s not just about this lame creep it’s about the Overton window continuing to be moved so quickly by Trump’s criminality and lawlessness that bad people have reassessed their previous actions against the metric of “you can get away with anything.”

"I think people understand that the white identity party is the white identity party, and vote on that understanding, even if they don’t necessarily understand or care about specific policies."

If the government had paid Elon Musk and his cronies $134 million to do nothing, it would’ve saved more money than having DOGE actually attempt to cut the budget.

Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…

Look amazing. Can’t wait :)