Jake Laperruque

-Julius Caesar

Liberal democracy remains a towering achievement of humanity and it is worth fighting for.

Low-hanging fruit for reporters and Dem trackers: ask a Republican running for office, "what would you do if you were in a car with your child and men in hoodies charged at you with guns drawn?" Follow up with "do you think it's reasonable for a parent in that situation to use lethal force?"

If thinking this is cool is the type of bubble you live in I guess I can see why they thought the metaverse was gonna to be a huge success rather than nosedive into oblivion

Why is there no equivalent anti-Flock movement for more invasive surveillance? wamu.org/story/26/10/...

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

Most chaotic marketing launch for a movie since the Edge of Tomorrow/Live Die Repeat debacle, smdh

This is 100% spot on but I wish Politico and Guardian pieces connected the dots uniting RightsCon, Disinfo, and other affected events: countries are normalising censorship by proxy against civil society spaces and no government is speaking up against this trend

Another quintessential Aaron Boone season in the books! 🙃

We are glorious jabronis and should never be contained

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

I'm old enough to remember hearing hot takes in the years following Citizens United about how campaign spending hadn't increased that much and obviously people had being freaking out and hyperbolic over the impact the ruling would have

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this reads like doj is saying the guy did a really great fraud

When an animal communicates it does so for self-determined and self-interested reasons. When an LLM “communicates” with you it’s doing so in a way that’s fundamentally much less like an animal than a kitchen timer buzzing at you

In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.

Hegseth hosts his first Project Meridian meeting with Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. They’re looking at ways to use tech to boost Hegseth’s agenda, most likely using AI for surveillance and weapons.

Careful of those honeymoon photos. Agents can search them just because it’s the border. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

"Aarons said he hadn’t told his client directly that he was caught using ChatGPT on the case because he’s currently serving life in prison"

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

Case in point: Acknowledging the existence of Jewish Diaspora means you are pro-genocide

An issue with the term "Zionism" is its used as a label for everything from the most basic, human-rights-conscious views about remedying Jewish Diaspora to the most extremist ideas about a sole religious/ethnic claim to the region And anti-Semites exploit this to conflate the former with the latter

🧵 Congress is holding its first hearing today on the rogue AI cyberattacks. METR, which surfaced important facts about the Hugging Face hack, is testifying. But OpenAI limited its investigation, meaning that there could be a lot more we don't know. Here are 7 questions lawmakers should ask👇:

New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...

Same for all the people that wanted take every elite university with pro-Palestinian protester through the shredder for failing to “have a safe college environment”

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men-” “Oh like controls are gonna work? Shut up James Madison”

Facial recognition strikes again.

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

@mbogen.bsky.social made a great pitch that Rings of Power is an AI allegory at staff lunch last week! (my pitch is that Pluribus is also an AI allegory)

“going rogue” is like “hallucination”: a descriptor that is both technically inaccurate and obscures culpability

The NYT 100 Top Shows of the 21st Century list is really fun and great. Tons of great shows, top 10 feels right, and especially fun to see less-watched ones like Battlestar Galactica getting their kudos. Three shows I'd call seriously snubbed from the list: The Knick Mindhunter Penny Dreadful

30 Rock in the top 10 and The Office shoved just outside of it feels like way more of an important personal victory than it should www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Some very bad news: DC Circuit upholds Pentagon's blatant arm-twist effort to weaponize supply-chain risk designations against Anthropic The good news: This panel was a very bad draw, and it was still a 2-1 split. I think in an en banc review Anthropic likely prevails 8-3 reason.com/volokh/2026/...

K-Shaped economy going strong