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(OpenAI and Anthropic sponsored a MAHA event last month, which is a concerning healthcare development on its own)

SHOT: openai.com/index/introd... CHASER: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

I can't really believe it but it seems to be the case that the Times has not covered a credible accusation of rape against the President of the United States, but has two solid stories on Obama's cheesecake factory quip.

I really mean this: read the story; the story of how Vivek’s ad came together — including but not limited to what she was like when they found the mom and noticed how incoherent she was and how she couldn’t keep facts straight — is somehow more depraved and worse than you already think

The US government poured all its resources into fabricating evidence that day laborer Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a criminal (all because he embarrassed the despot) even as it now rolls out the red carpet for an actual criminal who happens to be an ally of Trump

the price of replying to either of these tweets is that you have to watch the clip first

I don’t know if she’s right about that- I think we’re not really going to know until early next year what the Republican Party’s mood looks like- but I’m seeing people characterize this as bipartisan kumbaya and it isn’t that

this summary does Harris dirty. her first argument is that impeaching Trump is a waste of investigative resources that should go elsewhere- presumably at cabinet members- instead

more context: gpt-4o users raised a shitstorm last year after OpenAI replaced 4o with gpt-5, b/c they thought v5 was less friendly. The lawsuit says the victim thought that too: she was on chatgpt's $200/month plan and deliberately switched back to the 4o model schenklawfirm.com/wp-content/u...

I was thinking how chatgpt back then produced code that wasn’t just “bad, in my expert opinion” but outright invalid— and that wasn’t enough to stop an engineer trusting it for something far more complicated. It’s a reflection of her desperate situation, and also how dangerous this bot design was/is

"The model Bowen had used in the last years of her life, GPT-4o, was pulled off the consumer app Feb. 13, 2026, the day after the medical examiner believed Bowen died." Ostensibly, today's models are safer/more restricted, but pity for those who got hooked on chat when it was designed to suck up

Gut punch of a story about an Amazon engineer who trusted ChatGPT-4o to manage and reduce her seizure med dosages. You'd hope someone who made it into a top engineering position would have known the limits of AI circa May 2024 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

“Trump has normalized overt racism so thoroughly…”

This is pretty massive...there are tons of legal cases challenging the firings of USAID/government employees in 2025, as DOGE ran amok, and the revelations here could be really impactful:

what is extra depressing is that this is so common that it’s clear “oh thank god this guy isn’t going to send me unsolicited dick pics” is a point that a lot of women reach with guys that should be worth zero points! that should be baseline!

I mean more power to everyone who wants to send each other consensual nudes but I have simply never taken a dick pic, let alone sent one to a random woman who has not asked for it! what the hell, guys! don’t do that!

this remains, to me, the single most baffling thing that happens regularly I know it’s a power thing, but how the fuck are SO MANY dudes apparently sending unsolicited dick pictures 24/7 what is wrong with men

As the article notes, he's running for the House in TN's gerrymandered 9th District against @justinjpearson.bsky.social, who was only four points behind in the polls when this story broke. Might be too late to pull it out, but wave elections can be tricky. If you're in the area, get involved!

So hard to pick a favorite part of this article. Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too

White supremacy is the worst fucking garbage form of collectivism on the planet.

These fuckers literally gave up a social safety net so that Black people couldn't get anything. They ripped out public pools for everyone because of civil rights. Trump is out here literally making sure our health system collapses because he doesn't want nonwhite people in.

"But you see, white collectivism doesn't ask anyone to give anything up for the greater good--" Sir. Have you seen what they're saying about white women?

"Oh ho ho I see that YOUR race hasn't won any of our good white awards! Well well! Look who's the real winner here."

They're afraid that allowing negatives to be publicly placed in the White Bucket would make people think badly of the White Collective, and like, maybe you just shouldn't have a White Collective.

But teach a child real history and oh my god you want them to be ashamed for life! How does that work, Mr. Individualist? Why are people feeling guilt and shame over something they didn't do?

It's a form of collectivism that does not give a shit about the greater good, and instead cares only about the greater aggrandizement. Hurt who you want, as long as you add to the glory of whiteness. Lie; that's all good.

Like, what science has RFK produced? What Nobel Prize has he won? What literature award has he been given? And yet he feels like he can put on the Cloak of Good Approval earned by the White Appreciation Society despite his lack of accomplishment because of his group membership.

So I'm not gonna quote that stupid bullshit thing from RFK, but have you noticed that white supremacists insist that white culture is superior because they're individualists and Asians are collectivists and then they pull this shit? White supremacy is a form of collectivism. It's just a shitty one.

"You can't tax capital gains until they are realized" is also BS. One of California's big sources of income is taxing unrealized income of tech workers paid in RSUs when the RSUs are issued, not just capital gains when they are sold

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

the thing that has changed big time is most of the media companies are owned by straight up MAGA chuds doing outright propaganda. the NYT is one of the few that has old fashioned MSM brain bsky.app/profile/pope...

this profession has only gotten worse over the last 20 years speakola.com/political/co...

before the election, doing dogpile coverage on Trump's heavily documented and extremely plausible rape allegations would be Political and therefore improper. after the election it's time to turn the page, let bygones be bygones, look forward not backward, bsky.app/profile/hoff...

even NBC doesn't bother to put the substance in the headline though. naturally www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

this is just insanely damning stuff when you lay it all out democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

"there's no new information in this report so it's not news" say the same news media who plastered front pages with "duplicate hillary emails found on laptop" like it was a nuclear-level scandal a week before the 2016 election

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

like remember when Netanyahu's son posted the happy merchant? www.theguardian.com/world/2017/s...

shit I forgot about this one, Netanyahu himself has done Hitler apologia www.theguardian.com/world/2015/o...

"Israeli antisemite" is apparently a thing, and not that uncommon too

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Fucking weasels.

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.