Steve Fore

5. Finally, beware of mathiness. If some Anthropic defector gains notoreity for claming a 10% chance of "AI" annihilating humanity within the decade ... I mean this shouldn't be news, but at the very least someone should ask him how he calculated that. >>

HK 5-Year Plan buzzword count… ‘enhance’ 46 ‘strengthen’ 39 ‘promote’ 38 'hub' 23 🙁 ‘advance’ 19 ‘develop’ 19 (‘development’ 167) ‘accelerate’ 16 ‘deepen’ 16 ‘leverage’ 14 ‘foster’ 13 ‘optimise’ 11 ‘consolidate’ 10 ‘encourage’ 6

Hitting the shelves (also ebook) on June 30. At the very least, tell your local libraries to order it. And if you want a copy, great—order from the press and get 20% off with the discount code CUP20. We worked really hard on this book, and it’s rather good. cup.columbia.edu/book/the-cin...

John Oliver does New College! (My first uni.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFMc...

Best combo takedown/analysis I've read..

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Most media sources are describing Charlie Kirk as a "conservative." That's true only if "conservative" is now a synonym for "fascist." Maybe so, but I'd like to believe that there's a Lowell Weicker clone out there somewhere.

David Roth nails another one to the wall. Some very excellent comments, too.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com The MC5 episode was, as always, thoroughly researched, insightful, and highly entertaining. I have to say that I infinitely prefer the "clean" version, as I never imagined there were so many MFs in the world. Well done, Mr. Hickey.

I wonder how much he pays Melania to show up for these events. And does he pay her by the day or by the hour?

Oh, for godsake.

Enjoy the emolument, dumbass.

There are a few images of American GI's who participated in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. In these pictures, the soldiers look stunned, shocked, or just numb. Kristi Noem has the demeanor of the camp commandant, the person in charge of the torture and death.

You know how when you open Firefox and it presents a row of your most visited sites? This is how Twitter showed up on mine today.

The case study is Hong Kong, but it's obviously more broadly applicable. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Watching this on repeat how is your day going?

Photo taken at London Trans Pride 2024.

That he's doing his performative fascism in front of a snarling crowd and a sea of compliant media in an arena that regularly showcases professional wrestling is just so on the nose. This is his most comfortable venue, ensconced in the WWE presidency, but with extra brownshirts.

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it's that time

6 MAGA extremists have introduced a bill that would allow South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about SC H5357, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it. Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back: www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

That is really good, isn't it?

History rhymes again.

My response for my client @oliviaoftroye.com to President Trump's nominee for Director of the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (#FBI) #KashPatel's threat of a forthcoming defamation lawsuit. #RightBackAtYa

Whichever two words you land on is in store for you in 2025

Elmo and the MAGA boys think it's all coming to this.

Tressie McMillan Cottom's latest NYT article investigates this phenomenon. If the left manages to build a robust parallel ecosystem, what are the long term effects? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

Here's one of the nightmares in our future.

NEW FROM ME: The government will do things that hurt people. But knowing exactly what it is doing — & therefore who’s most at risk — is at the foundation of fighting against it. Anything else is doing Trump’s job for him. Here’s a start. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

IP theft on a truly staggering scale.

Now the cash has crashed, the dream-ship sailed, the gravy train has been derailed at its own terminal. Let the fairy tale be an epic fail for no one found the Holy Grail and time's terminal. But then America Says hello and the world says welcome home. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq1o...

Nice, @theo.io made exactly what I was looking for. It works perfectly, found a ton of Bluesky people I didn't know were here!

This, on the other hand, is real. "They're eating the food of your dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the dog's food. They're eating the food of the pets of the people that live there, and this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame."

i made a shirt design with important information for the future of mankind (because I went to a planetarium and got dizzy) roryblank.bigcartel.com