Aaron Denney

Remember: It’s All Hallow’s EVE, not All Hallow’s STEVE. @theonion.com

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. If you package/distribute/maintain root stores or chain verifiers, act immediately. If you know how to remove trust in a root, consider doing it now. Otherwise, prepare to update systems as patches/mitigations come. Go users, update to Go 1.27.3 or Go 1.26.10.

Hexane (281 GB) Internal material from the far-right #German party #AfD (Alternative für Deutschland/Alternative for Germany) and its surrounding infrastructure. ddosecrets.org/article/hexane Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

Land use and transportation policy is not sufficient to redress the harms of past land use and transportation policy choices, which were part of a much larger unjust system. Attempting to use land use and transportation policy to do so perversely reinforces the inequalities you’re trying to redress.

Making myself angry for no reason at all remembering the American transit planner that went to Amsterdam and was appalled at how little stakeholder engagement they did in favor of actually building shit.

Republicans “have no intention of cleaning up the criminality in their party. As long as they’re committed to maintaining the GOP’s professional pipelines as they exist, the only way to root corruption out of politics is to make people of low character think twice about entering those pipelines.”

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

“If they try to take one of us, they’re going to have to take all of Long Beach”

Of course. Why would she deceive you?

"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales that Americans told themselves, like ghost stories around a campfire. But this alliance now exists. - Tom Nichols

Meanwhile the Engineers are just lighting themselves on fire to see what happens. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/reacti... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

We now have a much better understanding of Rep. Mark Green's (R-TN) sudden and unexplained decision to resign from Congress last year. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/feud-...

“It’s only fascism if they manipulate elections!” “It’s only fascism if they disappear people off the street!” “It’s only fascism if they take over the media!” “It’s only fascism if they jail their political opponents!” Is there even anything left?

I swear to god the administration is going down the list of reasons pundits said it wasn’t fascism and doing them all one by one

Somebody said "They voted for racism and got poverty" The thing is... social scientists and economists have been saying for the last 50 years Racism is austerity

The word for giving in to outrageous demands made by a violently aggressive dictator is "appeasement".

Cambridge's city council says "the arrest of adult persons for consensual sex work should continue to be amongst the lowest law enforcement priorities" & the DA "should cease prosecution of persons for consensual adult sex work" reason.com/2026/10/12/c...

Sure, Katie Zacharia never passed the bar. But Pete Hegseth has never passed one either.

OK sure buddy. A ""Frankenmodel"". Right 👍

Democratic Failure to Prevent Conservatives From Lying Raises Ethical Questions About Talarico bsky.app/profile/shoe...

GOP launches investigation into the 1st, 5th, and 6th amendments

This is a bop youtu.be/3TNpOD6bov8?...

stands for Logistics Lethality Cool Judgment

how do we baptize claude

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

We may finally know that for any n, there exist n² unit vectors in ℂⁿ that all lie at the same angle from each other! More precisely, |⟨v,w⟩| is the same for any two different vectors. The proof is crazy hard, and it required a new result in category theory.

In D&D terms it's the difference, philosophically, between a lawful evil devil (uses rulebook to screw you) and a chaotic evil fiend (eats rulebook, then screws you).

Radley Balko is a national treasure. He also hates asking for subscribers. If you’re in a position to do so, subscribing to his newsletter would free him up to do what he does best: reporting on criminal justice. radleybalko.substack.com/p/four-years...

Thanks John Oliver

Right-wing nationalist populist movement led by charismatic demagogue, failed in coup attempt but later got some power electorally and illegally seized more, deployed secret police to put minorities in concentration camps, and launched aggressive war, but do not compare to the Nazis, that’d be rude.

1/ Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centres have started a "data centre war" for which Russia is ill-prepared, argues a Russian warblogger. He forecasts a disastrous collapse of Russia's digital economy if Ukraine's retaliatory attacks on Russian data centres continue. ⬇️

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

I always hope that I make an even number of sign errors.

conservatives oppose the universal application of the law *because* such application corrodes these hierarchies. if a powerful man can be held to account by some piddling bureaucrat, then the Natural Order is inverted.

So a few folks asking why OAI is releasing this at all. And I think that's probably worth a thread in its own right

Are you fucking kidding me with this one

did you know that Ketamine reverses epigenetic damage in the brain and that's why it helps treatment-resistant depression??? I LEARNED THIS TODAY

folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*

*winces in astrophysicist*

Holy shit.

Do you know why I think every prisoner should get to vote in prison? Not only are prisoners counted in the census and are most affected by policies (check out prison gerrymandering), but also if you don't, regimes could simply round up 1,000s of dissidents and minorities to reshape the electorate