David Amerland

David Amerland

@davidamerland.com

He/Him. Chemical Engineer, MSc. I think. I write books. Sometimes I do both these things at the same time.

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In exchange for Musk giving us a few minutes of unwatchable slop, we have given Grok 1000s of acres of land, millions of gallons of potable water, untold electricity, and the trip mining of rare earth and other minerals. Really people, stop using AI.

wired.comGrok Says Its AI-Generated Version of ‘The Odyssey’ Is ‘Not Historically Accurate’Months after Elon Musk declared that the xAI model would outclass Christopher Nolan’s mythological epic, the bot itself admitted defeat.

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Not gonna watch the clip but will assume it jumps camera view every 10 seconds. Any longer and AI can't preserve the consistency of the scene. It's why every AI video looks like it was cut by a 90s music video director on coke. The kind of stuff that makes you legit tired after 3mins viewing.

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Should AIPAC register as foreign agents? "We talked to numerous people who showed us several examples of how AIPAC is acting at the request of Israel," says Dion Nissenbaum, correspondent on Zeteo's new documentary "Night Flower: Inside AIPAC’s Fight for Influence."

democracynow.orgShould AIPAC Register as a Foreign Agent? Zeteo Examines Pro-Israel Lobby’s Influence on ElectionsThe growing controversy over AIPAC’s impact on U.S. politics is the subject of a new Zeteo documentary titled Night Flower: Inside AIPAC’s Fight for Influence. The film examines AIPAC’s history and it...

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One of the women accusing Trump of sexual assault claims Epstein introduced himself as the president's "best friend" at the Plaza hotel in 1993.

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Recently, Elon Musk claimed that Hitler was a far-left socialist because the word “socialist” appeared in the Nazi Party's name. I have heard this argument many times, mostly from people on the political right. And I understand why. Read my article…

economicsofpower.substack.comHistorians Agree: Nazis Were Far-Right, Communists Were Far-LeftWhy two opposing political ideologies produced remarkably similar dictatorships – and what this tells us about the dangers of concentrated power

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A protester yelled "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass" to Trump at his rally in Mississippi on Monday night. This clip contains two versions of the moment. The first is how it aired on a livestream. In the second I increased the audio for that moment.

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Rebecca Cooke on Derrick Van Orden: “He's gotten drunk in his official office, yelled at Senate pages, carried a loaded gun through TSA... I mean, he's really out there.” Cooke also slams his “six votes that he took to continue this war in Iran” as Wisconsin families face rising prices.

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just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

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Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have. We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”

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For the nonlawyers: This is an accurate description of the DOJ's position. Legally, as they frame it, it is an "Air Bud" argument - new, but no rule against it. It's simultaneously bananapants clownshoes crazy and morally reprehensible.

Owen Barcala@obarcala.bsky.social

So if you're following, DOJ's theory here is they can file an initial complaint with probable cause based on incorrect facts, then file a superseding complaint that removes those facts and proceed without probable cause. Novel indeed.

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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

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EVERY artist, their family, estate, and/or trust whose song has been used by this corrupt regime without permission should be suing to bankrupt the fuckers!! STAND UP!!!

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Note: The “preliminary hearing” scheduled for today could be quite interesting & consequential. It’s not an initial appearance—it’s a probable cause hearing in which the magistrate decides whether to dismiss the complaint. Witnesses could be called, with cross examination by the defense.

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social

While you were sleeping: DOJ files superseding complaint, adds obstruction counts in case against former FBI agents Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides Preliminary hearing set for today at 11 am. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Can we please make him pay for lying? It's the only way this nonsense stops.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social

This morning on BBC Breakfast, Nigel Farage said he had received “zero help from the state” with his security. Yet reports say he had previously received publicly funded protection and was offered a taxpayer-funded package including a bodyguard, a secure car and a trained driver.

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i think what bothers me the most about these vids is the people laughing and clapping in the background it's giving

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social

Left: President Trump insults Norway calling it a sh*thouse country Right: Visit Norway, the tourism board, trolls President Trump, displaying some of their best toilets on their Instagram 😅

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This touches on my side rant about Sports Adjacent Entertainment stuff like the game show Gladiators and the way women gladiators are only allowed to look like fitness models not like a rugby prop or an open weight powerlifter.

miloumulini.bsky.social@miloumulini.bsky.social

@sexabolition.blog And women's sports are systematically promoted like pornographic content. Many people got angry when the European Union published some rules to avoid sexualizing female athletes during competitions. www.ebu.ch/guides/open/...

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A Palestinian won the Nobel Prize last year

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Someone should tell RFK Jr about Arabic numerals.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

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Trump now being trolled by the whole trolling spectrum, from Obama to Norwegian toilets

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social

Left: President Trump insults Norway calling it a sh*thouse country Right: Visit Norway, the tourism board, trolls President Trump, displaying some of their best toilets on their Instagram 😅

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America, this guy is a liar.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on DC: "Nobody wanted to eat out. They were afraid. Even if you were in the restaurant, people would walk in and like the Wild West, 'Hold it up!' Everybody is standing there. Can you imagine? A fancy restaurant. They were robbing the whole restaurant. It's crazy."

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Much easier for the media to lock in on faux Cheesecake Factory outrage than a House Dem report indicating Todd Blanche basically told Ghislaine Maxwell "stop talking" when she was about to discuss a girl that could more closely tie Trump to Epstein

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After seeing comparisons between Barack Obama and Donald Trump giving speeches over the weekend, here's another comparison about how they each talk. #Obama #Trump #presidential

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He looks like shit.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

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So basically someone told Trump today what Cheesecake Factory was, and it probably took a little while to explain to him that they aren’t local factories that make cheesecakes. But he probably still isn’t quite sure what they are.

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*man of the people* Billionaire @SecScottBessent tries to make Obama seem out of touch by pretending he has ever gone to a Cheesecake Factory before in his life LOL 😂 These guys are so ridiculous

"Very good at fixing things" fix things very quickly, very inexpensively, probably the quickest and most inexpensive fixer in the world. How's the Reflecting Pool going? Any water in it yet?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

Incredible — Trump tries to self-soothe about Obama’s Cheesecake Factory Line clearly hurting his feelings… for 2 full minutes 😬

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🔥 BEN MEISELAS ERUPTS: The Cheesecake Factory faux outrage exposes the propaganda machine. They brainwash Americans into fighting each other while oligarchs steal our healthcare, send our kids to endless wars, and buy more yachts. Divide the people. Enrich the oligarchs.