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Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

"The plausible techno-dystopian future we’re staring down is not one where a digital demon kills us all, but one where we... concentrate immense wealth and control of information in a small number of tech-industry figures whose personal interests do not align with the public interest."

Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

every democratic member of congress should be giving meta hell right now, and every democratic state government needs to be announcing investigations for election interference — these were early voting events

Large language models are not the sorts of entities that can be held responsible. This lede should read "Using AI agents, Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites...."

I don't want to dunk-quote on this person, but actually, this is a perfect illustration of the problem. we can't become accustomed to or expect or concede constant monitoring from armed troops as we go about our business. it should always make us recoil. there's danger in it becoming unremarkable.

BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...

The folk protest music scene is back

“So here’s what Democrats should offer: Stop the data centers. Make AI safe. Protect your health care. Fix the rotten Supreme Court. Get us out of the Middle East. Renew our friendship with Canada. Hold the oligarchs accountable. Release the Epstein files.” www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

Report finds Oregon data centers used electricity equal to over 70% of all homes in state

I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.

Your AI hacked other rival groups? Cool, you are legally responsible. Your AI produced CSAM? Cool, you and the person requesting it are legally responsible.

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC due to threats from Trump’s FCC. The interview will instead be posted to YouTube.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

AI ruined the internet. Watch the full video on YouTube: youtu.be/JvTJTTUK8cg

"The punishment should fit the crime" is an old, well established principle. "That punishment was disproportionate and made things worse" does not mean "wrongdoing should never be punished or even scrutinized." This difference is so easy to understand that it takes effort to not understand it.

AI's pitch to bosses is that they can fire most of their workers in order to terrorize the remainder into tolerating a working life wherein they are made to mark the AI's homework, at superhuman speed, and to assume the blame when it goes wrong. 12/

My Christian Slater Knicks slightly later

By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.

We are not angry enough--a whistleblower provided evidence a DOGE brat stole social sec data & sold it to a Palantir contractor. Our data is used to sell services back to the govt at taxpayer expense for big profits. That is OUR data. Instead of investigating the whisteblower is threatened 😠

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi. And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face." Then he lied about it. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/n...

JEFF-REY EP-STEIN! clap-clap clap-clap-clap JEFF-REY EP-STEIN! clap-clap clap-clap-clap JEFF-REY EP-STEIN! clap-clap clap-clap-clap

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

I know it's standard to shorten rotations during the playoffs, but I don't think that works for the Blazers's style of play. They were clearly gassed in the second half and could have used Sidy, Blake and/or Vit for short bursts of energy. I hope Tiago tries something different for game 5.

Prior to moving the team, Sonics ownership ran the team into the ground, alienated fans and demanded a brand new publicly-funded arena using low attendance to justify a move. If Dundon is not pulling the same play it’s remarkably similar

When I first heard this I thought it sounded like Uncle Colm from Derry Girls, and now I learn that this actor was the "Display KitKat" guy from the show. Time for a rewatch!

you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it

I went to the police about my stalker. After I explained it started bc Im a journalist who covered an event he was at, they asked if we dated. They didn’t watch any of the videos I have, told me they’d find them on their own (they are ONLY on my personal cell phone), and left in less than 5 min.

I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs. This video is lowballing it.

Remember this when Donald Trump tells you we can’t afford health care.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

“They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor”—Tupac

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

ACAB includes ChatGPT quitgpt.org

Why are women predominantly being asked to answer for men’s crimes—and why are perpetrators not being held accountable? ⬇️

New investigation. Tonight. 5pm ET. YouTube. 🏀💸🍔

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

A.I Isn’t People www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-...

Twelve years stolen from Medicare’s future. Money collected from workers, promised to the elderly. Reassigned to those who already have too much. trump's wealthy donor tax cuts are literally killing us. The hunger at the top is never satisfied, it only asks who will be trimmed next.

A fake anti-LGBTQ quote attributed to American Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu has been going around online, getting tens of thousands of likes & shares.

A few days ago, a friend asked me to make a FB group for our friend circle planning a tea party. I made the group and invited six people. SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house. ... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Constitution says "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." Presidents who violate the Constitution should be impeached and removed from office.