Katherine Catmull

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

it’s 2028, you ask sentient ChatGPT to check your calendar and get hit with this

Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.

to keep functioning, society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities thehill.com/homenews/617...

Hello claimants in the Anthropic copyright suit! The parties filed a stipulated agreement asking for an update to the website. In this stipulation, there are two important things (although there are more that might matter for individuals).

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As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

unbelievably great reporting from @documentedny.bsky.social and Sam Rabiyah:

Now is the time to care about everyone, not “once we win” The time to care about everyone is always always always now

there’s no middle ground position on this. either musk is forcibly rooted out of government infrastructure or every war proceeds at the whims and dictates of a generational buffoon

y’all i get the impulse to say not all gentiles or not all white people but based on the low key rage i feel when i’m going off on misogyny and hear not all men i can tell you it is not the time, use your heads, jesus

And here's the kicker: Microsoft has terminated the M365 and Outlook access of international public officials whose official acts made Trump angry.

Authorities Investigate Collision Between Trains From Chicago Traveling 80 MPH, DC Traveling 75 MPH The Onion https://theonion.com/authorities-investigate-collision-between-trains-from-chicago-traveling-80-mph-dc-traveling-75-mph/ Support →

that’s right

StayFHomekina podcast is a pleasant comfort listen for me but today i had to sit down i was laughing so hard at @janiehaddad.bsky.social ‘s indignant, stop PUNKING ME response to @pftompkins.bsky.social trying to explain Koyaanisqatsi

this is a brilliant idea, I really like Raskin

jesus christ

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed

"Against edgelordism in all its forms" is becoming a foundational principle for me. Civilization is impossible without an unflinching commitment to pro-social behavior and a willingness to marginalize any deviation.

Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

I get that this story must be particularly ghastly to NYCers but why is it breaking anew every 30 minutes, as if the newsroom simply can't believe it

"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...

Finding Backrooms frightening largely due to all the unanchored furniture.

hahaha this is also astros fans, at least the ones On Here

“Why have my sisters fucking husbands if they say/They love you all?”

“Beyond two parking tickets for not moving his vehicle during snowstorms, Abdullah has no criminal record in Minnesota and was working legally as a mechanic while his asylum application was pending. He arrived in the United States in early 2023.”

these so often delight me

large groups of people are less representative of the people than a couple of billionaires, see, also they are influenced by their emotions, unlike billionaires

🚨🚨AAUP Chapter at UT Austin VP Lauren Gutterman: “There's been no direct communication from the provost with faculty in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, no clear explanation about why these degree plans are being shut down," she said."The justification is just entirely lacking."

The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.

succinctly summarizing messy stories in a measured tone that sounds matter-of-fact instead of accusatory is this man’s superpower

"Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together." This was the only thing I read around that time that spoke to what I was thinking. The blowback she caught was so ferocious I was stunned

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...