@revlid.bsky.social
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Okay, so this now looks a lot like the Slippin’ Jimmy thing from Better Call Saul: walk into the bar then do a flying header into the fire extinguisher, and phone your lawyer. Again, it’s a nexus of: well-connected wingnut cranks, the Times newspaper and billionaire legal funding.
January 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Okay, so this now looks a lot like the Slippin’ Jimmy thing from Better Call Saul: walk into the bar then do a flying header into the fire extinguisher, and phone your lawyer. Again, it’s a nexus of: well-connected wingnut cranks, the Times newspaper and billionaire legal funding.
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The piece, which doesn't mention Rowling's toxic politics at all, is by a conservative anti-trans opinion writer, because who else would the NYT tap to write about Potter?
Pretending like you don't know exactly why people are done with JK Rowling's transphobic ass is nothing but ragebait, but I would expect nothing less from the New York Times.
What a horrible rag they've become.
What a horrible rag they've become.
January 27, 2026 at 1:23 PM
The piece, which doesn't mention Rowling's toxic politics at all, is by a conservative anti-trans opinion writer, because who else would the NYT tap to write about Potter?
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(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:51 AM
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
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Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials.
Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.
🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.
🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials.
Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.
🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.
🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
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I think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation
‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief www.ft.com/content/c309...
‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief
Dario Amodei posts 20,000-word essay detailing potentially catastrophic risks from powerful technology in years to come
www.ft.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
I think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation
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If Vietnam weren't communist there'd be so many epic movies about how in 30 years they:
Beat the Japanese.
Then beat the French who recolonised them.
Then beat the Americans who tried to conquer them.
Then beat China who tried to conquer them.
Then removed Pol Pot (who was backed by the US and UK).
Beat the Japanese.
Then beat the French who recolonised them.
Then beat the Americans who tried to conquer them.
Then beat China who tried to conquer them.
Then removed Pol Pot (who was backed by the US and UK).
Rep. Rich McCormick on Minnesota: "You may have a small portion that try to politicize this and demonize those forces, just like we got demonized in Vietnam"
January 27, 2026 at 1:27 PM
If Vietnam weren't communist there'd be so many epic movies about how in 30 years they:
Beat the Japanese.
Then beat the French who recolonised them.
Then beat the Americans who tried to conquer them.
Then beat China who tried to conquer them.
Then removed Pol Pot (who was backed by the US and UK).
Beat the Japanese.
Then beat the French who recolonised them.
Then beat the Americans who tried to conquer them.
Then beat China who tried to conquer them.
Then removed Pol Pot (who was backed by the US and UK).
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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:11 PM
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
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Marimar Martinez is so brave.
The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Marimar Martinez is so brave.
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finished my spiritseer and wraithguard
January 27, 2026 at 1:05 PM
finished my spiritseer and wraithguard
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The fundamental problem is that we have no effective regulation of the media here, our public service broadcaster is just very obviously regime media and our major privately run news publications are all owned by billionaires with editorial agendas that distort reality and degrade human rights.
Reading about the rise of Reform while living in the self-immolating US feels like an out of body experience. That anyone outside the US could look at a country collapsing in on itself and say, “Yes, some of that for us please!” is just surreal.
January 27, 2026 at 8:50 AM
The fundamental problem is that we have no effective regulation of the media here, our public service broadcaster is just very obviously regime media and our major privately run news publications are all owned by billionaires with editorial agendas that distort reality and degrade human rights.
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For those outside the UK who may not have seen, we had a reckoning on media regulation 15 years ago, and the media won a decisive victory against meaningful regulation. TL;DR, they were caught hacking the phone of a murdered child, there was an enquiry, but they avoided all the recommendations…
The fundamental problem is that we have no effective regulation of the media here, our public service broadcaster is just very obviously regime media and our major privately run news publications are all owned by billionaires with editorial agendas that distort reality and degrade human rights.
Reading about the rise of Reform while living in the self-immolating US feels like an out of body experience. That anyone outside the US could look at a country collapsing in on itself and say, “Yes, some of that for us please!” is just surreal.
January 27, 2026 at 9:33 AM
For those outside the UK who may not have seen, we had a reckoning on media regulation 15 years ago, and the media won a decisive victory against meaningful regulation. TL;DR, they were caught hacking the phone of a murdered child, there was an enquiry, but they avoided all the recommendations…
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”Yeah I love working at the bomb factory, I just wish they wouldn’t bomb people with the bombs I make”
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:02 PM
”Yeah I love working at the bomb factory, I just wish they wouldn’t bomb people with the bombs I make”
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“May your government be hamstrung by human rights law” is one of those 20th century aspirations we really want to hold on to
Suella Braverman, "There is a very strong case to increase the powers of any immigration enforcement officers that we deploy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
January 27, 2026 at 11:53 AM
“May your government be hamstrung by human rights law” is one of those 20th century aspirations we really want to hold on to
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thinking about how when graham linehan was arrested by armed police he shat his pants so hard he ended up in hospital.
maybe he should sit out on the ice discourse.
maybe he should sit out on the ice discourse.
January 27, 2026 at 12:07 PM
thinking about how when graham linehan was arrested by armed police he shat his pants so hard he ended up in hospital.
maybe he should sit out on the ice discourse.
maybe he should sit out on the ice discourse.
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They're there to stop American athletes defecting
BREAKING: ICE agents will have a security role during the upcoming Winter Olympics, U.S. embassy sources confirm.
ICE agents will have a security role at Milan-Cortina Olympics, US sources say
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will have a security role during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Games, according to sources at the U.S. embassy in Rome.
bit.ly
January 27, 2026 at 10:50 AM
They're there to stop American athletes defecting
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I was really struck by Judith Butler's account (Who's Afraid of Gender) of the way Catholic theologians invented the concept of "gender ideology" as a boo-phrase and its subsequent spread to British TERFs & others. Horrible story, very well documented by Butler in one of their most readable works.
January 27, 2026 at 12:13 PM
I was really struck by Judith Butler's account (Who's Afraid of Gender) of the way Catholic theologians invented the concept of "gender ideology" as a boo-phrase and its subsequent spread to British TERFs & others. Horrible story, very well documented by Butler in one of their most readable works.
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How the supreme court's gender ruling affected people of colour - Hyphen
hyphenonline.com/2026/01/26/t...
hyphenonline.com/2026/01/26/t...
How the supreme court's gender ruling affected people of colour - Hyphen
Trans and non-binary people — particularly those whose gender, racial and religious identities intersect — are facing increased harassment
hyphenonline.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:09 AM
How the supreme court's gender ruling affected people of colour - Hyphen
hyphenonline.com/2026/01/26/t...
hyphenonline.com/2026/01/26/t...
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You’ve got to love how actress Kelly Marie Tran, one of the most harassed people ever to be on the internet, still leapt up to defend trans people in a recent interview. No one would blame her for keeping her head down and shutting up forever but she will NOT and I admire her for it ⭐
Star Wars actor says ‘trans rights are human rights’ when asked about Harry Potter
Kelly Marie Tran said ‘trans rights are human rights’ when the topic of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series was mentioned in an interview.
www.thepinknews.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:23 PM
You’ve got to love how actress Kelly Marie Tran, one of the most harassed people ever to be on the internet, still leapt up to defend trans people in a recent interview. No one would blame her for keeping her head down and shutting up forever but she will NOT and I admire her for it ⭐
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Once you set an unattainable or impossible policy goal every evidence that you have failed to meet it provides an excuse to extend your powers of coercion.
Applying the War on Drugs model of behaviour to remove the right of adults to privatly use VPNs, an objectively security-enhancing technology.
Applying the War on Drugs model of behaviour to remove the right of adults to privatly use VPNs, an objectively security-enhancing technology.
I and many others predicted this long ago. VPNs now headed for UK age gating. Amendment 94a is also massive, given its potential scope. reclaimthenet.org/uk-house-of-...
UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs
The vote marks a stunning turn, pulling VPNs and private platforms into an age-check regime once unthinkable in a democracy.
reclaimthenet.org
January 27, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Once you set an unattainable or impossible policy goal every evidence that you have failed to meet it provides an excuse to extend your powers of coercion.
Applying the War on Drugs model of behaviour to remove the right of adults to privatly use VPNs, an objectively security-enhancing technology.
Applying the War on Drugs model of behaviour to remove the right of adults to privatly use VPNs, an objectively security-enhancing technology.
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And there we have it.
The Government are admitting Gorton & Denton is between the Green Party and Reform.
Let's make sure hope wins.
www.thetimes.com/article/3d6d...
The Government are admitting Gorton & Denton is between the Green Party and Reform.
Let's make sure hope wins.
www.thetimes.com/article/3d6d...
Labour expects to lose by-election after Andy Burnham blocked
Insiders say Sir Keir Starmer chose between a likely defeat in Gorton & Denton and the greater risk of losing control of the Greater Manchester mayoralty
www.thetimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:48 PM
And there we have it.
The Government are admitting Gorton & Denton is between the Green Party and Reform.
Let's make sure hope wins.
www.thetimes.com/article/3d6d...
The Government are admitting Gorton & Denton is between the Green Party and Reform.
Let's make sure hope wins.
www.thetimes.com/article/3d6d...
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UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!
*Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
*Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
January 27, 2026 at 12:20 PM
UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!
*Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
*Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
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Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid's tech, data protection ruling finds
Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid's tech, data protection ruling finds
Austrian education ministry unaware of tracking software until campaigners launched case
Microsoft illegally installed cookies on a school pupil's devices without consent, according to a ruling by the Austrian data protection authority (DSB).…
dlvr.it
January 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid's tech, data protection ruling finds
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wait, so Visa, Mastercard et. al can go after video game storefronts for six fucking months for having porn games but the moment X/Grok starts generating ACTUAL CHILD PORN they CHANGE THEIR POLICIES? dawg,
wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it
“The industry is no longer willing to self-regulate.”
www.theverge.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:10 PM
wait, so Visa, Mastercard et. al can go after video game storefronts for six fucking months for having porn games but the moment X/Grok starts generating ACTUAL CHILD PORN they CHANGE THEIR POLICIES? dawg,