Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র

The far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro has reportedly fled Brazil and is on his way to the United States after losing Sunday’s presidential election to the leftwing incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

A problem with calls for more viewpoint diversity in academia, or journalistic “balance”, is that they effectively treat all viewpoints as equivalent. This article explains clearly why all viewpoints should not be treated equally, and why we should reject morally odious views on those grounds alone

Exclusive: Researchers at TrendAI ‌concluded the Israeli company Discover-Tech was one of the biggest sources of digital ads shown to users of SpaceX's Starlink service and that the ads were likely being used to geolocate or otherwise surveil them reut.rs/4jDCHLZ

Not a big story, it's just the Attorney General working with an imprisoned pedophile to help cover up the pedophile President's crimes conducted with his best friend for 15 years, a pedophile who the President sent, as a birthday card, a drawing of a naked adolescent girl.

right on cue

Can we get just one tech company that rejects this shit?

This is my surprised face 😐

A lot of people need to slow down and acknowledge to themselves that they're afraid, and this is affecting how they are interacting with other people. You have to acknowledge the reality of your feelings, or you won't control how they shape your behavior.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Every accusation is of course an admission In fact, Bolsanaro allies did intimidate voters and just stopped public transport in cities so the poor masses leaning Lula have a hard time reaching voting stations At the same time, US oligarch Zuckerberg used Meta to throttle Lula and promote Bolsanaro

This isn't hyperbole or a joke. Parents actually called the cops and got the black boy and his family removed and the league claimed they were trespassing because he was "putting on a show" and wasn't playing "fair."

If you donated to Josh Turek without realizing he was running on a federally funded trans healthcare coverage ban, you can request a refund of your donation here: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

"A growing body of analysts now warns that AI data center debt increasingly resembles the subprime mortgages that triggered the 2008 financial crisis. .. Bloomberg estimates more than $500 billion in outstanding AI data center debt, with roughly $200 billion.." www.techradar.com/pro/subprime...

Police Brutality Against Utah Data Center Protesters

appreciate well-intentioned invites to "important" AI discussions but most of the time folks have decided the outcome through their "it is inevitable" framing. no thanks i am much more interested in building my own table than coming to a table that's already set feel welcome to join my table

The name Sudowrite shows how well they know their target users. How many working writers will get a reference to the Unix command versus how many will be repulsed and offended by the idea of pseudo-writing?

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Props to the ad agency: they nailed the "white person who plagiarises and steals credit using LLMs" look with 100% accuracy

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Some quick resources to understand Meta's $25 billion judgment in New Mexico and how badly the AGs who settled the child safety case appear to have messed up by quietly settling their own Cambridge Analytica claims. 1/ www.reuters.com/business/met...

I usually advise against dunking but when you read "editor at Bloomberg" in someone's profile and they're this fuckin' wrong dunk away

Elon committed some additional murders . www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

When Waymo announced their plans for Toronto last Friday, we did not expect to hear this so soon, so we prepared quick to counter the Waymo PR in the media. In the Toronto Star, Adam said: “They’re going to be sending that data back to their U.S. servers” www.thestar.com/news/gta/way...

Saudi authorities have executed Hassan Zaki al-Faraj for crimes allegedly committed when he was just 14 years old. His death highlights the risk of execution others face in Saudi Arabia for childhood offenses: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/10/19/saudi-arabia-man-executed-for-childhood-offenses

Reading this really fucked me up last night. I suppose rape profiteering has been around as long as war profiteering. They’re siblings. That said, there’s something about the unapologetic attitude of betting on the implications of gang rape that bruised the inside of my soul last night.

"The triumph of AI will be a crime against humanness. It will bottle our brains in formaldehyde. It will destroy the world as we know it. The men who promote it and profit from it are cognisant of this, and have already made arrangements to exit into another realm." www.equator.org/articles/aru...

The NHS promises "privacy, dignity and safety" for all its patients in new guidance that directs hospitals not to respect trans people's identities. Also, somebody impersonating a trans organization in Texas sent fraudulent texts to Republicans. And, nobody trusts Republicans on trans issues.

Am awake again, and still frustrated. The idea that someone could look at Phoenix--PHOENIX--and think "you know what the problem is there? Not enough cops" is wild. He's referring to THIS Phoenix. How would more of all this make ppl in Phoenix safer?

Stfu @bsky.app

Join a local protest in your city today. See you in the streets! ✊🏽🇮🇳

Signed. ✒️

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…