Saul Tannenbaum

Things at GITMO are still going just fine. Why do you ask?

If Aaron Swartz was still alive, I'm pretty sure he would have made it his life mission to personally demolish Sam Altman and all that he represents. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

“Making sure robots don’t go rogue is not the task of robots,” Jill Lepore writes. “That task is ours. And this burden falls most heavily on the U.S. legal system, which has been the least able to bear it.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

NEW: I wrote for the @nytimes.com about the growing rebellion against Flock cameras, and what it can teach us about how to take back control of the technology that dictates our lives Please share widely and follow @fightforthefuture.org's campaigns to end AI surveillance.

The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.

I physically clipped newspaper and magazine articles and recorded network news programs on video tape. Not odd at the time but, in retrospect, an odd moment in media time.

Composite photographs of child laborers — Lewis Hine, 1913. Made while Hine travelled the U.S. for the National Child Labor Committee documenting child labor — in factories, textile mills, canneries, and coal mines. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l... #laborday

So today OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, which it called "the world’s most intelligent and aligned model." Also in the system card, from third-party evaluator Apollo Research:

Here's more from our talk with Fatema Ahmad of the @MuslimJusticeLeague about the National Week of Action Against ALPRs ... Watch and read the full interview plus get all our #surveillance coverage at BINJ.news ... #NoALPRs #FlockSafety

who plunged themselves under meat trucks looking for an egg,

Hunt For The Red October. A perfect movie from a doorstop of a book.

“The sources said the meeting focused on new plans for devastating strikes on strategic targets in Iran” And the old plans were what? Less than devastating strikes on targets of little importance?

Enough traveling back in time to kill Hitler. Tell me how you’d go back in time to stop Gamergate from creating the blueprint for our whole reality

I thought I understood the depths of depravity surrounding Tate. I was wrong.

Personally, I’m not at all astonished that Trump is this bad at presidenting.

Marta. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_(fo…

How useful are all those vibe-coded apps at the end of the day? “The marked increase in mobile app releases over the past year has not been accompanied by any increase in downloads — most of the new apps fail to capture even a modest audience.” www.ft.com/content/8e9a...

The building that houses the agency responsible for containing the spread of invasive pests in the United States has a bed bug infestation

That big boom heard around Boston was like a meteor:

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

The Grateful Dead (including Furthur, The Dead, Dead & Company, The Jerry Garcia Band, Phil Lesh & Friends, Rat Dog, Kingfish, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir) The Band The Allman Brothers Aerosmith David Bowie Bela Fleck Phil Ochs Joan Baez Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center The Kodo Drummers

i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

During the immigration raids in Minneapolis, Robert Rice (White Earth Ojibwe), the owner of Pow Wow Grounds, gave away thousands of pieces of hot fry bread to protestors and activists, keeping demonstrators warm and fed at a time of upheaval.

Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved. Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk. Tell publishers: don’t block the #WaybackMachine Sign the petition ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

City of Cambridge voted to stop Shotspotter tonight

The only error in https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/obituaries/peter-g-neumann-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jVA.pDm5.QUlwAMJBQtDV : he not only led people in singing Gilbert and Sullivan songs but also Tom Lehrer, whom Peter heard perform when he was an undergrad at Harvard.

My hot take is that All the President’s Men is really the story of a disgruntled job seeker leaking secrets to exact revenge on the man who passed him over for FBI Director.

And here I repent I was going to read about a Man From Uncle reboot.

We’re back to arguing about fluoride.

Also, clearly, Patel has neither read nor seen The Caine Mutiny.

The @archive.org 's Wayback Machine, a digital time machine that has preserved over a trillion web pages over the past 3 decades, is facing systematic blocks from major media outlets. www.gadgetreview.com/23-major-new...

"SERIES 78, AERO SPACE DEFENSE COMMAND BOX 1 OF 2 V-0092," slide 15 of 38 [gallery]

Ooooh... I wonder how stinky it's going to be when they open the hatch. The Apollo missions were rank enough that it knocked divers back. The toilet MOSTLY worked while they were gone.

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

Somebody was talking about how all the single use plastics that we absolutely need for hospitals and medical settings are going to suffer from this petroleum crisis at some point, yet all i see in most publications is concern about gas prices.

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is taking Indigenous culture past the Moon: his mission patch was designed by Henry Guimond, an Anishinaabe artist, incorporating one Indigenous perspective about the seven sacred laws, which are represented by animals. 🧪 #ArtemisII

It ’s a sign of our degeneracy as a society that the “concerns” aren’t about turning life into one big casino or about betting on war, just that someone might have an unfair advantage.

Because of course it did.

A new front in Trump's war on history: documentary videos about historic cotton textile mills removed from Lowell National Historic Park. www.lowellsun.com/2026/03/10/w...