Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

David Brooks is a source of better advice to the Democrats than David Hogg.

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

This is important

I know several incredible humans who are neurodivergent. None of them celebrate like that. None of them cheer like that. None of them wave like that. None of them. It’s not a spectrum thing, it’s a him thing, and they all know it.

if you'd told me in 1995 that a woman singer-songwriter would believe vaccines magnetized your blood and ham cured measles, i 100% would've picked jewel

This is worth another watch

"You better fix my entire life"

~Me to my coffee

ME: I didn't choose the thug life

THEM: you're eating soup in a cardigan at 10:30 on a Tuesday morning

ME: I could not have been more clear

It is irresponsible to accuse someone of working for Putin simply because they repeat Kremlin propaganda, have extensive contacts with Russia, and derive nearly all of their income from suspiciously large numbers of Substack subscribers.

by Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi

Hey Krassensteins how much money have your accounts on Twitter made you since Elon took over?

If one more person tells me Superman woulda voted for trump I’m going to crash out

Loved Who’s Who back in the day! It was right when I got i to comics so it was great to learn the history of all these characters I was reading about for the first time!

Just a new grift for Cenk and the other Young Turks. Not a bad idea, MAGA tools are a good mark to bilk because I dont see many progressives sending money to these tools anymore.

100%

few things post 30 as gratifying as ordering a dish you make in a popular restaurant and realising that your version of it tastes just as good, if not better

I'm seeing more screenshots of posts from X than I am actual posts here this morning 🙄 My dears, we left X. Can we not bring it over here, please?

Nate Silver saying "I hate this but I'll change my opinion if you pay me enough" is a bit too on the nose

The owner of the LA Times has asked for an alternative story from the norovirus's perspective

youtube.com/watch?v=6UXG...

Libertarians are Republicans who can type with the caps lock off.

I wish Warren Zevon were alive to write a song called “Busted At A McDonald’s In Altoona.”

I want to watch TV coverage of the live fall of the Syrian regime.

CNN is airing a Giuliani documentary, Fox News has a comedian joking about Canada, MSNBC a documentary about migrants

So I turned on BBC,which is breathlessly switching between Syria, South Korea demonstrations, and Ghana election

The 2024 U.S. economy in a nutshell

pete hegseth doesn't want women to serve in combat roles yet he has his mother out here fighting his battles....

My feelings about the Hunter Biden pardon are complicated, but the idea that it gives Trump justification to pardon January 6th insurrectionists is a ridiculous, bad-faith take. He’s going to do whatever he wants and abuse his power to help himself and those loyal to him.