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Lake Superior Academy is a beautiful school that had offered an incredible outdoor learning experience — that is until this Bitcoin mining farm moved in…

I really do get the "America needs to burn more shit down" arguments but I also feel like they tend to forget like the George Floyd protests everywhere and Stop Cop City and even like the Bronx last week. We could do more but people love to act like an American has never set a fire.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

No group in America is more afraid of DSA @demsocialists.bsky.social than the police. This truth was on full display at a police union convention this summer. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-infiltr...

Cartoonist: David Horsey

25 years ago today, the U.S. launched its war in Afghanistan. Weeks earlier, Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorization of Military Force, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.

NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

It continues to be interesting to me just how many men, when presented with a clear and obvious answer to a test of morality and empathy, will nevertheless choose to "devil's advocate" themselves into a position of complete assholery

they were wishcasting. they thought "well, it's not exactly great that Trump won, but at least he is going to take the wokes down a peg or three. we are frankly eager for him to curb stomp MeToo, BLM, Gaza protestors, every union organizer, etc"

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!

I'm committed to AI safety, and that's why I'm encouraging loosening antitrust laws to allow the corporations in charge of the models I'm scared of to collude

Coward Leaves Casino With $200 Left In Wallet https://theonion.com/coward-leaves-casino-with-200-left-in-wallet/

I have just been sent this picture of Gil

We're in a moment where the challenges we face have more to do with the ways that politicians are bought off than actually having a conversation with the broader public. If Mike Rogers had showed up, he'd say that this race is about him or me. It's not. It's about you.

Something I'm concerned about that I haven't really seen anyone addressing is how "AI safety" regs could end up being super authoritarian. Like, if you truly believe that AI could kill all humans, it seems totally reasonable to install a government backdoor in every smartphone and computer.

one of my best friends at the time was a girl my same age (10 years old) who wore a hijab and spent the next several years getting tormented by white boys for being a terrorist

(in the family group chat): that wont matter. without radical change all of this is meaningless in fifteen years. we have no idea how dire things are (in the communist group chat): they should make a turn based final fantasy again with the two minute summon animations

I remember - the Alamo.

Got 'em: The @thebulwark.com added an editor's note to the review, acknowledging that the author's direct affiliation with the Foundation for American Innovation ("the foundation shaping the tech right," according to Inc.) created a conflict that should have been forthrightly disclosed.

Rome wasn't overthrown in a day. Oligarchies are stubborn, and by the time they've established and entrenched themselves, they have resources, power blocs and even mercenaries they can deploy to repel would-be dethroners.

🚨 NEW: Former Rep. Max Rose is on cable championing centrist Democrats — while advising a $75 million, Big Tech-funded political operation working to defeat candidates who threaten tougher AI regulation. That industry role hasn’t been disclosed in his TV appearances.

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

It’s fine, you can’t change the name of anything referenced in “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, it’s a legal document

lol. lmao even. Yesterday, "Neighbors for Strong Communities," the astroturf group backing the Paramount merger (which would give Trump allies control of CNN) listed their separate influence operation for Flock Safety on as a "featured" campaign on their homepage. Today it's gone.

At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...

I just typed out a comment to a post, re-read it, thought "Oh, right, I'll look like a fucking creep if I post that" and then deleted it, which is a reminder that the reason I came up with "The failure mode of 'clever' is 'asshole'" is because I need the warning as much if not more than other folks

But lots of middlemen who donate to politicians’ campaigns would lose their jobs

operator: 911, please state the nature of your emergency me: alright check this out. you can have as much money as you want, but only in gold bricks. every $1000 weighs one pound and you have to carry it with you at all times operator: well, that just means rich people would get stronger me: fuck

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

thus do we understand half the reason for the NYT’s seething anti-Mamdani grudge

in the Québécois version of King of the Hill (“Henri pis sa gang”), Boomhauer is named Papineau and sounds like this

The centrists The guy handed me a shovel and told me to start digging. He had a gun after all. I thought maybe if I dug a good enough hole he’d stop being mad at me. It never even occurred to me the whole time that I was holding a sharp ass shovel.

Nixon: Volcker, our age of gold is collapsing

It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates

Well this is a nightmare