Abi
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I only know my opinions of other people's opinions
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I know you’re joking but literally this is the illegal backflip they’re referring to
February 8, 2026 at 4:07 AM
I know you’re joking but literally this is the illegal backflip they’re referring to
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February 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM
It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.
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Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
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"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
February 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
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death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted
Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:52 AM
death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted
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hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 AM
hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism
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Literally my email back to Keezy ten seconds after I got this:
"OH MY GOD KEEZY OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!!"
"OH MY GOD KEEZY OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!!"
here's my entry!! #Comics4Liam
February 1, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Literally my email back to Keezy ten seconds after I got this:
"OH MY GOD KEEZY OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!!"
"OH MY GOD KEEZY OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!!"
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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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If you CAN do nothing tomorrow:
Avoid streaming services: break out the Blu-rays, CDs and the old iPods. Stuff you OWN.
Avoid all MONETISED social media - no FB/IG/Tumblr/Tiktok etc.
don’t consume media owned by billionaires (eg LAtimes/Wapo, WB, Paramount, Murdock etc).
Read books, write, art.
Avoid streaming services: break out the Blu-rays, CDs and the old iPods. Stuff you OWN.
Avoid all MONETISED social media - no FB/IG/Tumblr/Tiktok etc.
don’t consume media owned by billionaires (eg LAtimes/Wapo, WB, Paramount, Murdock etc).
Read books, write, art.
January 30, 2026 at 1:59 AM
If you CAN do nothing tomorrow:
Avoid streaming services: break out the Blu-rays, CDs and the old iPods. Stuff you OWN.
Avoid all MONETISED social media - no FB/IG/Tumblr/Tiktok etc.
don’t consume media owned by billionaires (eg LAtimes/Wapo, WB, Paramount, Murdock etc).
Read books, write, art.
Avoid streaming services: break out the Blu-rays, CDs and the old iPods. Stuff you OWN.
Avoid all MONETISED social media - no FB/IG/Tumblr/Tiktok etc.
don’t consume media owned by billionaires (eg LAtimes/Wapo, WB, Paramount, Murdock etc).
Read books, write, art.
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
January 25, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
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Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
January 25, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
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Senators, congresspeople & the governor and mayors should absolutely be prepared to get arrested trying to put a stop to this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Senators, congresspeople & the governor and mayors should absolutely be prepared to get arrested trying to put a stop to this.
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At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
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We handled this by taking our Alexa and putting it in a trashcan. Like six months ago. We used it to play music and just set timers and that didn’t seem worth the tradeoffs of domestic surveillance in a time of rising authoritarianism but … ymmv
If you have an Alexa, you can escape from
Alexa+ Hell for now by saying “Alexa, exit Alexa+” (or “computer, exit Alexa+. Whatever your wake word is)
Alexa+ Hell for now by saying “Alexa, exit Alexa+” (or “computer, exit Alexa+. Whatever your wake word is)
We have an Echo and smart switches/plugs around the house. Every night I ask it to turn all the lights off when I go to bed. Tonight I asked 3 times, some lights stayed on. “I tried to turn all the lights off” it said in a new AI enhanced voice. And that’s how I learned Alexa Plus was deployed
January 24, 2026 at 3:07 PM
We handled this by taking our Alexa and putting it in a trashcan. Like six months ago. We used it to play music and just set timers and that didn’t seem worth the tradeoffs of domestic surveillance in a time of rising authoritarianism but … ymmv
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they want to see suffering, it's very important to them that they get to witness suffering, all of this is for nothing if they don't get to see misery on the faces of their enemies
This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
January 23, 2026 at 7:33 PM
they want to see suffering, it's very important to them that they get to witness suffering, all of this is for nothing if they don't get to see misery on the faces of their enemies
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Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
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Great thread if you need some hope
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Great thread if you need some hope
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Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime
January 22, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime
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Word. I once saw this issue described in the metaphor of a line cook, in full view of everyone else, hocking a loogie into someone's food.
Yes, obvz, fire the cook. But the main issue is, he did it without fear of punishment. He didn't even try to hide it.
The real problem is the whole kitchen.
Yes, obvz, fire the cook. But the main issue is, he did it without fear of punishment. He didn't even try to hide it.
The real problem is the whole kitchen.
Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
January 21, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Word. I once saw this issue described in the metaphor of a line cook, in full view of everyone else, hocking a loogie into someone's food.
Yes, obvz, fire the cook. But the main issue is, he did it without fear of punishment. He didn't even try to hide it.
The real problem is the whole kitchen.
Yes, obvz, fire the cook. But the main issue is, he did it without fear of punishment. He didn't even try to hide it.
The real problem is the whole kitchen.
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I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:19 AM
I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.