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“I get that AI is quick and easy. But people in the arts should know better than to use it. Arts organizations opting for images that exclude humanity are like trees that yearn to become ax handles. Art people, can you at the very least try not to actively participate in your own destruction?”

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

The amazing thing is that he isn't getting Copilot to do it from scratch - it is very much the direct plagiarism thing I have been talking about!!! bsky.app/profile/keta...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

As much as I appreciate the media coverage of our new #study on two-stage #sleep in #spiders, I am TERRIFIED by the #AIslop that surfaces with it. WTF?! Why not use the actual pictures..? Or even better: hire an illustrator like @maartjevandenderen.bsky.social 🙃 📝: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A hunting trip to Mongolia furnishes cover for meetings between TrumpJr and Putin sidekick Umar Kremlëv. TrumpJr stood on stage with a wide smile as an auctioneer sold off the chance to join him on a week-long hunting trip in western Mongolia. “Will you beat $225,000? I’m giving you a bargain,” the

The numbers for potential climate harm from direct fossil-fuelled data centres are just phenomenal. It makes no sense to help them realise their dreams here

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I don’t think we should get used to a man this wealthy, this full of hate and this willing to demonize a small minority having so much power in our economy and in our politics. To defend democracy, we must defeat the oligarchs.

When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: www.themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/t...

Anthropic is trying to write its own federal AI regulation law. The major AI firms have all issued feeble proposals for how their AI will serve the public, in anticipation of their pending IPOs. It's all a reminder that we cannot, any under circumstances, let AI firms govern the future.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

as a long time fan of paris's work i absolutely loved HYPERSCALE, his new book, which really pulls together so many disparate threads of the data center convo—past, present, in the us and abroad—into a ripping narrative caught up with him about it for my latest power play newsletter!

India said NO to Starlink. Musk thought he could throw a public tantrum and bully India into handing him a telecom monopoly, but he completely miscalculated. Was this bound to happen?

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Big Oil profits have skyrocketed since Trump launched his Iran War. Meanwhile, Trump himself owns up to $81 million in oil and gas stocks — which have increased in value by 43% since the end of 2025. When Trump says "we're making a freaking fortune," understand who he is really talking about.

Woof. The Ellisons are not gonna like this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnsB...

WaPo - An AI start-up founded by ex-DOGE staffers quickly broke into Anthropic.

We need to talk about rampant white nationalism a lot more.

Yes the oligarchs are a huge problem now. But things were not nearly so bad in the 1990s when the donor class bailed on Air America because it wasn't instantly profitable. The best time to have better media was yesterday. The second best is now.

This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Lula’s win is the first good news for the planet in a while! I bet it shaves a tenth of a degree off how hot our earth eventually gets, which will save millions of lives Thank you Brazil!

This interview has almost 1 million views in four days and has generated a big new wave of interest in "The Nerd Reich." Here's how I explained tech fascism to DW News (German public media) on a windy beach near the Golden Gate Bridge. 🌉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2176...

Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

ProPublica has a piece today about a small town in Texas that has been torn apart by deportations. Some of the white Trump voters, upset their workers have been rounded up, are saying the same thing: this isn’t what we voted for. The mayor’s response: Yes it is. www.propublica.org/article/depo...

Among those species is human. So far there hasn’t been sustained human-to-human transmission, but if we keep giving the virus chances, it is just a matter of time. 13/13 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

What a sad and infuriating coda to this report from earlier: bsky.app/profile/brun...

They lie about everything

Hard to believe there are still so many men who think and act like this.

Woah. It appears that the anti-abortion “Ethics and Public Policy Center”—whose board includes Catholic Right SCOTUS “puppet master” Leonard Leo—is spearheading the push to strip the American Bar Association of its accreditation authority. 1/

11/ More on Mike Solana. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

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5/ Screenshots from the Pirate Wires article in case Pirate Wires decides to delete it someday.

4/ Hereticon’s slogan finally makes sense to me: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you aren’t trying hard enough.” (Hereticon is hosted by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.) bsky.app/profile/jenn...

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