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I know, I know, polycrisis, existential risks, elite impunity & brain rot, but I’m over here still thinking about why street urchin, aspiring detective, and radio mad scientist Skeet Wheeler—father of Vineland’s Zoyd (who never shrugs)—has the last word in “Shadow Ticket” if not in Pynchon’s oeuvre.
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Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Growing crowd here at 34th and Portland in south Minneapolis, where witnesses tell me an ICE agent shot an observer in her car. Witnesses said she was not responsive and was taken away. Bovino is on scene along with dozens of federal agents.
January 7, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Growing crowd here at 34th and Portland in south Minneapolis, where witnesses tell me an ICE agent shot an observer in her car. Witnesses said she was not responsive and was taken away. Bovino is on scene along with dozens of federal agents.
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The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
January 7, 2026 at 1:41 AM
The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
“The over 2700 spiral emojis in a single transcript aren't therefore revealing something mystical but a computational effect of exponential growth in affirmation as the actual conversational content approaches zero.”
"The key point is that the model isn't choosing bliss, it's attempting to minimise uncertainty by defaulting to patterns that scored highest during its training and which carry the least risk of a negative reward."
This excerpt from David M. Berry’s new book, Artificial Intelligence and Critical Theory analyzing the “Bliss Atractor” in Claude is facanating. Analyzing these kinds of “glitches” will be really powerful for demystifying the logic of LLMs stunlaw.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...
January 7, 2026 at 2:31 PM
“The over 2700 spiral emojis in a single transcript aren't therefore revealing something mystical but a computational effect of exponential growth in affirmation as the actual conversational content approaches zero.”
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From our POV, the challenge here isn't whether to talk about climate or not, or whether to attack fossil fuel companies or not.
The challenge is: how do we *embed* a program of rapid decarbonization and resiliency-building into an economic populism rooted in working class politics?
The challenge is: how do we *embed* a program of rapid decarbonization and resiliency-building into an economic populism rooted in working class politics?
January 7, 2026 at 1:25 AM
From our POV, the challenge here isn't whether to talk about climate or not, or whether to attack fossil fuel companies or not.
The challenge is: how do we *embed* a program of rapid decarbonization and resiliency-building into an economic populism rooted in working class politics?
The challenge is: how do we *embed* a program of rapid decarbonization and resiliency-building into an economic populism rooted in working class politics?
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🇮🇷 In Iran, protesters have taken control of an entire city — Abdanan: local police have laid down their weapons and sided with the people
Protesters are destroying streets and burning cars. Fierce clashes are ongoing between protesters and police in other cities.
Protesters are destroying streets and burning cars. Fierce clashes are ongoing between protesters and police in other cities.
January 6, 2026 at 7:56 PM
🇮🇷 In Iran, protesters have taken control of an entire city — Abdanan: local police have laid down their weapons and sided with the people
Protesters are destroying streets and burning cars. Fierce clashes are ongoing between protesters and police in other cities.
Protesters are destroying streets and burning cars. Fierce clashes are ongoing between protesters and police in other cities.
If foxes mousing with magnetoreception doesn’t amaze you then Imma need you to select all the boxes that contain traffic lights
How do foxes use “magnetoreception” to help them hunt?
Studies of red foxes “mousing” show a bias toward mousing in the direction of magnetic north — and that when foxes pounce toward north, they are ~ 4 times more successful! And other stuff that I don’t have enough characters for!!
#wildlife
Studies of red foxes “mousing” show a bias toward mousing in the direction of magnetic north — and that when foxes pounce toward north, they are ~ 4 times more successful! And other stuff that I don’t have enough characters for!!
#wildlife
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
If foxes mousing with magnetoreception doesn’t amaze you then Imma need you to select all the boxes that contain traffic lights
Soup is good
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Soup is good
if you don’t understand how to Sit With It, you could do worse than giving yin yoga a try
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 5:42 PM
if you don’t understand how to Sit With It, you could do worse than giving yin yoga a try
More of this, pls and thx
There we go. That there’s a headline.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:21 PM
More of this, pls and thx
More of this, please and thank you
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:05 PM
More of this, please and thank you
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I'm writing a book on this stuff but it's amazing the degree to which these tech bros are pushing network states into the public consciousness.
Gaza, Greenland, El Salvador, Guantanamo, Honduras, Ukraine, Venezuela. Seems like all Trump foreign policy comes with a side of Network State.
Gaza, Greenland, El Salvador, Guantanamo, Honduras, Ukraine, Venezuela. Seems like all Trump foreign policy comes with a side of Network State.
😳 Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson & American Moment founder Nick Solheim led a 2024 talk about colonizing Greenland. Gibson wrote yesterday that someone shld “pitch Rubio on building a charter city in Venezuela…” In reply, his colleague tagged an American Moment alum IN THE STATE DEPT. 1/
January 6, 2026 at 12:12 AM
I'm writing a book on this stuff but it's amazing the degree to which these tech bros are pushing network states into the public consciousness.
Gaza, Greenland, El Salvador, Guantanamo, Honduras, Ukraine, Venezuela. Seems like all Trump foreign policy comes with a side of Network State.
Gaza, Greenland, El Salvador, Guantanamo, Honduras, Ukraine, Venezuela. Seems like all Trump foreign policy comes with a side of Network State.
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it's about oil (superstructure), not oil (base), to put it in marxo terms
The amount of “this is clearly about oil” posting across all platforms as story after story comes out where the oil industry is saying that the oil isn’t worth extracting is making me feel a little insane
January 4, 2026 at 7:42 PM
it's about oil (superstructure), not oil (base), to put it in marxo terms
“He argues that mistaking points for the point is a pervasive error that leads us to build our lives and societies around things we don’t want. “Value capture”, as Nguyen calls it, happens when the lines between what you care about and how you measure your progress, begin to blur.”
The Score by C Thi Nguyen review – a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life
The Score by C Thi Nguyen review – a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life
From Duolingo to GDP, how an obsession with keeping score can subtly undermine human flourishing
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:49 PM
“He argues that mistaking points for the point is a pervasive error that leads us to build our lives and societies around things we don’t want. “Value capture”, as Nguyen calls it, happens when the lines between what you care about and how you measure your progress, begin to blur.”
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This kinda imperial hubris is just fascinating. It's obvs not true (the Taliban are back in power, the communists still run Vietnam, etc) but more than that I find it baffling to want it to be true. The status "citizen of a country that does war crimes with impunity" is imo a bizarre thing to crave.
January 6, 2026 at 7:48 AM
This kinda imperial hubris is just fascinating. It's obvs not true (the Taliban are back in power, the communists still run Vietnam, etc) but more than that I find it baffling to want it to be true. The status "citizen of a country that does war crimes with impunity" is imo a bizarre thing to crave.
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INDOT cancels, postpones projects while also filing tolling waiver.
INDOT cancels, postpones projects • Indiana Capital Chronicle
The agency has also declined thus far to release its federal tolling ask to lawmakers and reporters.
indianacapitalchronicle.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:00 PM
INDOT cancels, postpones projects while also filing tolling waiver.
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It's Stupid's Economy: Americans pay for his tariffs. We pay huge premiums for health. We pay the oil companies. Meanwhile, he robs everyone.
Trump suggests US taxpayers could reimburse oil firms for Venezuela investment
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump suggests US taxpayers could reimburse oil firms for Venezuela investment
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump suggests US taxpayers could reimburse oil firms for Venezuela investment
President says a ‘tremendous amount of money’ will need to be spent repairing country’s infrastructure
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:39 PM
It's Stupid's Economy: Americans pay for his tariffs. We pay huge premiums for health. We pay the oil companies. Meanwhile, he robs everyone.
Trump suggests US taxpayers could reimburse oil firms for Venezuela investment
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump suggests US taxpayers could reimburse oil firms for Venezuela investment
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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1. The military raid on Venezuela and ouster of Maduro will create a financial windfall for a Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
Follow this thread for details.
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popular.info/p/venezuela-...
Follow this thread for details.
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popular.info/p/venezuela-...
Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire
The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
popular.info
January 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
1. The military raid on Venezuela and ouster of Maduro will create a financial windfall for a Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
Follow this thread for details.
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popular.info/p/venezuela-...
Follow this thread for details.
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popular.info/p/venezuela-...
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The Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act gives Hoosiers the right to obtain a copy of their personal data, as well as correct inaccuracies, opt out of targeted ads, profiling, and data sales, and even have their personal data deleted.
State law aims to give Hoosiers more control of their electronic data
Indiana residents now have more control over how their personal data is collected and stored by for-profit companies.
www.ipm.org
January 5, 2026 at 6:29 PM
The Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act gives Hoosiers the right to obtain a copy of their personal data, as well as correct inaccuracies, opt out of targeted ads, profiling, and data sales, and even have their personal data deleted.
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We are told we need to give up our land, our water, our energy and our rights so that Big Tech, especially with the likes of Musk and Altman, gets to build massive enterprises and "intelligence" that will be used to harass women, sexualise children and weaponise online existence.
Genuinely find this upsetting to watch.
It’s the live and mass violation of women for daring to exist outside the narrow confines of a controlled and sexualised plaything for men
It’s the live and mass violation of women for daring to exist outside the narrow confines of a controlled and sexualised plaything for men
One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.
January 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
We are told we need to give up our land, our water, our energy and our rights so that Big Tech, especially with the likes of Musk and Altman, gets to build massive enterprises and "intelligence" that will be used to harass women, sexualise children and weaponise online existence.
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People are reposting this complaint about child porn by Elon Musk's Grok - "This problem + exploitation of children could be fixed in a matter of minutes " - without noting the relevant context. The person charging Musk with enabling chld exploitation is the mother of one of Elon Musk's children.
Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
January 5, 2026 at 2:10 PM
People are reposting this complaint about child porn by Elon Musk's Grok - "This problem + exploitation of children could be fixed in a matter of minutes " - without noting the relevant context. The person charging Musk with enabling chld exploitation is the mother of one of Elon Musk's children.
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"US oil majors don’t necessarily want back into Venezuela’s declining and decrepit oil fields so much as they are eager to protect their interests in neighboring Guyana, home to one of the world’s most productive oil fields"
V good read here -->>>
V good read here -->>>
Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...
The U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana Oil Triangle
The U.S. interest in Venezuela isn’t just about the oil there, but also about the oil next door in Guyana, and the U.S. oil companies that have staked their future on it.
drilled.media
January 5, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"US oil majors don’t necessarily want back into Venezuela’s declining and decrepit oil fields so much as they are eager to protect their interests in neighboring Guyana, home to one of the world’s most productive oil fields"
V good read here -->>>
V good read here -->>>
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all this is both foolish and unnecessary
January 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
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There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business
Banks Notch Higher Fees From Green Bonds Than Fossil Fuel Debt
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business.
bloom.bg
January 4, 2026 at 9:57 PM
There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.