Gabriel Blais

NEW: Secret Handshake installed working arcade games called Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell at the DC War Memorial. The game features "furious tweet battles against Iranian schoolgirls, low-flow shower heads, and other threats to American freedom like DEI and The Pope..."

The idea that the rest of the world should do something about Trump, but it's completely ridiculous to expect the American people to do something about Trump, really is the perfect distillation of the American mindset.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

The annual change in GDP topped 15% in only five years since 1929 -- four times under FDR and once under Truman. Conservatives at the time, and since, denounced those presidents for practicing "socialism," which Trump claims is the top problem constricting the economy today.

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti.

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

Ce type de réaction dit absolument tout. - « Nous », les puissants, ne pouvons tolérer d'aller en prison (& d'être soumis à la loi commune) - Et donc il y a « eux », les « animaux », qui peuvent y aller. Ce n'est pas anecdotique : C'est la clef des politiques pénales de ces dernières décennies.

I have never been more targeted in my entire fucking life

To state the obvious, asylum seekers put up in a hotel aren't on holiday.

See, here's the rub I have with all that's going on: It's terrible. It's awful. But it's all so staggeringly, fucking stupid.

"defund the police" didn't go far enough get these shitstains out of any position of authority immediately

The internet remains undefeated 😂😅

Man even if it isn't, you never ever ever write this headline, but uh, probably don't wanna use this headline with this lede?

It's got enough room for me & the whole squad ⚔️

who could have foreseen that cutting disaster preparedness was a bad idea?

No it can't

I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Istanbul,un derviche tourneur résiste aux forces du désordre,photographié par Umit Bektas pour Reuters (via S.Mesnier-Angeli)

I haven't been able to follow the classified Signal chat debacle without thinking of Airplane.

His brain is broken

calm down, it's fine, everyone's cool with this

he’s not even a good poster

When there was a shitty job in the war it was given to the Canadians. We never flinched. As the US threatens us and allies like Britain duck, we know where we stand. Defending democracy might be a thankless job but give it to Canadians. We will get it done. My latest. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Dans le genre…

Trump and Musk are basically trying to deskill America: 1) kill all white-collar jobs and replace them with AI 2) kill universities 3) use tariffs to turn the U.S. into an economic island manufacturing, oil and ag hub 4) empty the cities 5) push men into manual labor & women back into the kitchen

Récap des dangers des IA génératives : - dilution de responsabilité vis à vis des "erreurs" (risque pour toutes les IA); - extractivisme (pillage des contenus libres pour faire du capital avec); - exploitation (data sourcing, labelling délégué aux Suds sans respect des droits des travailleurs);

J'ai entendu ça et c'est une information qui provient de Chantal Hebert. 😳

You heard Trump’s attorney general — if you visit a Tesla dealership, she will prosecute you. Be safe! Shop somewhere else.

Transports Canada enquête sur Tesla après que cette dernière a fait un nombre suspect de demandes de rabais dans les derniers jours du programme canadien d'incitation à l'achat de véhicules électriques. electrek.co/2025/03/07/t...

A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly (Columbia Journalism Review) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

😅😅😅

9/ Next time a billionaire warns that Democrats will destroy the economy and tank markets, remember this. When billionaires get their way, we all lose—including, ironically, billionaires themselves.

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

American farm exports were worth $179 billion in 2022

should be fine, we're probably done with tsunamis