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It's one thing to say that AI and crypto are bubbles. It's another to watch senior US government officials use their positions to cash in on it.
NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It's one thing to say that AI and crypto are bubbles. It's another to watch senior US government officials use their positions to cash in on it.
Just live within 500 feet of a doctor. Insurers hate this one simple trick.
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Just live within 500 feet of a doctor. Insurers hate this one simple trick.
Bold move to go with the sperm-shaped graphic.
November 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Bold move to go with the sperm-shaped graphic.
Uncle Fester vibes intensifying.
Joe Rogan has one of the world's most popular podcasts. Unfortunately, like nearly all of the most popular online shows, his tends to spread climate misinformation. For @climateconnections.bsky.social I scrutinize his recent episode with octogenarian climate contrarians Lindzen & Happer 🧵 (1/11)
Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change » Yale Climate Connections
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Uncle Fester vibes intensifying.
I’m a doctor. Not a thinkatician.
Oz: We thought it was 125 million pounds. Our estimate is Americans will lose 135 billion pounds by the midterms
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I’m a doctor. Not a thinkatician.
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New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
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Before coffee: I hate everybody
After coffee: I feel good about hating everybody
After coffee: I feel good about hating everybody
October 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Before coffee: I hate everybody
After coffee: I feel good about hating everybody
After coffee: I feel good about hating everybody
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this reminds me of the almost exact same racist content that was in the TPUSA at Virginia Tech chats
www.collegiatetimes.com/news/student...
www.collegiatetimes.com/news/student...
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
this reminds me of the almost exact same racist content that was in the TPUSA at Virginia Tech chats
www.collegiatetimes.com/news/student...
www.collegiatetimes.com/news/student...
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1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.
If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.
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If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.
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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters
Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.
If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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The reason we have rules of engagement isn’t to keep warfighters from killing our enemies.
It’s to keep them from killing a farmer with a shovel bc they thought it was a rifle and didn’t bother to wait to check.
Or a family in a car bc the driver looked nervous.
Or a boat full of fishermen.
It’s to keep them from killing a farmer with a shovel bc they thought it was a rifle and didn’t bother to wait to check.
Or a family in a car bc the driver looked nervous.
Or a boat full of fishermen.
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The reason we have rules of engagement isn’t to keep warfighters from killing our enemies.
It’s to keep them from killing a farmer with a shovel bc they thought it was a rifle and didn’t bother to wait to check.
Or a family in a car bc the driver looked nervous.
Or a boat full of fishermen.
It’s to keep them from killing a farmer with a shovel bc they thought it was a rifle and didn’t bother to wait to check.
Or a family in a car bc the driver looked nervous.
Or a boat full of fishermen.
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Honestly people who believed the initial @wsj.com lies about the bullets just failed a basic media literacy test.
The WSJ is just printing white wing press releases and if you don’t know that by now I don’t know what to tell you.
The WSJ is just printing white wing press releases and if you don’t know that by now I don’t know what to tell you.
September 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Honestly people who believed the initial @wsj.com lies about the bullets just failed a basic media literacy test.
The WSJ is just printing white wing press releases and if you don’t know that by now I don’t know what to tell you.
The WSJ is just printing white wing press releases and if you don’t know that by now I don’t know what to tell you.
Oh. Turns out I was born in the sign of ‽. That explains a little.
September 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Oh. Turns out I was born in the sign of ‽. That explains a little.
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The Toxic Avenger is clearing medical debt as marketing for the movie.
August 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The Toxic Avenger is clearing medical debt as marketing for the movie.
Guess it’s time to say goodbye to iOS as a secure OS. This and the mighty asskissing of Tim Cook.
Sources: Apple is in talks with Google about using Gemini to power a revamped Siri; Google has started training a model that could run on Apple's servers (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
August 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Guess it’s time to say goodbye to iOS as a secure OS. This and the mighty asskissing of Tim Cook.
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NEW — US Air Force members got an email Wednesday giving them the option of “supporting border operations” with ICE/CBP for their last 180 days of service as part of the SkillBridge program which helps retiring/contract ending service members get “real-world experience.”
Text of email shared w/ me:
Text of email shared w/ me:
August 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
NEW — US Air Force members got an email Wednesday giving them the option of “supporting border operations” with ICE/CBP for their last 180 days of service as part of the SkillBridge program which helps retiring/contract ending service members get “real-world experience.”
Text of email shared w/ me:
Text of email shared w/ me:
Dreams can be nightmares. That is only an observation. Not a suggestion.
The loneliness to psychosis pipeline is going to be overwhelmingly flooded
August 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Dreams can be nightmares. That is only an observation. Not a suggestion.
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HAPPENING NOW: Temporary restraining order hearing in DC v. Trump, a suit filed this morning over Trump's effort to takeover the DC police.
Judge Ana Reyes just took the bench.
I'm listening in for @lawfaremedia.org
Follow along ⬇️
Judge Ana Reyes just took the bench.
I'm listening in for @lawfaremedia.org
Follow along ⬇️
August 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Temporary restraining order hearing in DC v. Trump, a suit filed this morning over Trump's effort to takeover the DC police.
Judge Ana Reyes just took the bench.
I'm listening in for @lawfaremedia.org
Follow along ⬇️
Judge Ana Reyes just took the bench.
I'm listening in for @lawfaremedia.org
Follow along ⬇️
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What if the constitution just meant whatever the racist pedo scum in power said it meant?
Sen. Hagerty on his legal rationale for not counting undocumented immigrants in the census: "There's a constitutional interpretation I think that has been misapplied that goes back to slavery days and what portion of a person is going to be counted."
August 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
What if the constitution just meant whatever the racist pedo scum in power said it meant?
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
Just imagine what we’re dealing with now but with only a few hundred people on a station far from anything else. If we can’t get along here, we won’t somewhere else.
August 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Just imagine what we’re dealing with now but with only a few hundred people on a station far from anything else. If we can’t get along here, we won’t somewhere else.
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The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.
August 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.
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“Starbuck and his wife, Landon, produced a documentary together perpetuating the same conspiracy theory spouted by disgraced commentator Alex Jones that toxic chemicals are causing children to identify as LGBTQ+. He falsely asserted that exposure to the pesticide atrazine turned amphibians ‘gay’…”
This is why I don’t spend much time on Meta’s Threads.
So beyond repulsive.
So beyond repulsive.
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."
www.advocate.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“Starbuck and his wife, Landon, produced a documentary together perpetuating the same conspiracy theory spouted by disgraced commentator Alex Jones that toxic chemicals are causing children to identify as LGBTQ+. He falsely asserted that exposure to the pesticide atrazine turned amphibians ‘gay’…”
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This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco sfstandard.com/2025/08/05/a...
AI wearables are quietly listening to everyone in Silicon Valley
Discreet devices and software are recording everything. Is it legal? And do you consent?
sfstandard.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco sfstandard.com/2025/08/05/a...
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Going to a drag show should not mean you forfeit your anonymity. It should not open you up to surveillance. And it absolutely should not land your name in a government database. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
You Went to a Drag Show—Now the State of Florida Wants Your Name
If you thought going to a Pride event or drag show was just another night out, think again. If you were in Florida, it might land your name in a government database.That’s what’s happening in Vero
www.eff.org
July 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Going to a drag show should not mean you forfeit your anonymity. It should not open you up to surveillance. And it absolutely should not land your name in a government database. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: "I'm allowed to do it"
July 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: "I'm allowed to do it"