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So the “we’re gonna stop processing Afghan refugees” isn’t a result of the DC shooting, it dropped (at a minimum) the day before it happened.
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
So the “we’re gonna stop processing Afghan refugees” isn’t a result of the DC shooting, it dropped (at a minimum) the day before it happened.
I can't decide if this was incompetence or intentional. I wouldn't put it past this regime to intentionally cultivate chaos by granting asylum to a person they suspect will do harm in order to further their anti-immigrant agenda. Bleak, I know.
CNN: Trump granted the DC shooter asylum in April.
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I can't decide if this was incompetence or intentional. I wouldn't put it past this regime to intentionally cultivate chaos by granting asylum to a person they suspect will do harm in order to further their anti-immigrant agenda. Bleak, I know.
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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Boring Company president appears ‘flippant’ on Nashville’s water, geology and construction safety, official warns
wpln.org/post/boring-...
wpln.org/post/boring-...
Boring Company president appears ‘flippant’ on Nashville’s water, geology and construction safety, official warns
The Boring Company president Steve Davis repeated boastful assertions about a planned tunnel system underneath Nashville for nearly two hours during a
wpln.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Boring Company president appears ‘flippant’ on Nashville’s water, geology and construction safety, official warns
wpln.org/post/boring-...
wpln.org/post/boring-...
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Biz Jounal and Tennessean breathlessly cover Boring's every bowel movement but ignore that their main contractor stopped work yesterday due to unsafe conditions and failure to pay
These are LIES. Boring needs a distraction from the labor dispute so they are LYING SO YOU WILL PUBLISH THE LIES
These are LIES. Boring needs a distraction from the labor dispute so they are LYING SO YOU WILL PUBLISH THE LIES
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Biz Jounal and Tennessean breathlessly cover Boring's every bowel movement but ignore that their main contractor stopped work yesterday due to unsafe conditions and failure to pay
These are LIES. Boring needs a distraction from the labor dispute so they are LYING SO YOU WILL PUBLISH THE LIES
These are LIES. Boring needs a distraction from the labor dispute so they are LYING SO YOU WILL PUBLISH THE LIES
Saw Memphis celeb activist/elected official Tami Sawyer today in East Memphis.
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Saw Memphis celeb activist/elected official Tami Sawyer today in East Memphis.
Would watch
ELPHABA
and
GLINDA
will return
SUMMER 2027
in SINNERS 2
and
GLINDA
will return
SUMMER 2027
in SINNERS 2
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Would watch
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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I keep forgetting that I want a machine to pollute my air and water while stealing from artists in order to mainstream lies and I'm so grateful the AI defenders are here to remind me!
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I keep forgetting that I want a machine to pollute my air and water while stealing from artists in order to mainstream lies and I'm so grateful the AI defenders are here to remind me!
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My family has been calling me a luddite for years, & I’ve never felt better about that moniker than I do now, after a cities conference highlighting AI data centers & a new push for more surveillance downtown. We don’t have to participate. This year, shop in local stores, buy actual books. 📚🎄🕎
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker
disconnect.blog
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My family has been calling me a luddite for years, & I’ve never felt better about that moniker than I do now, after a cities conference highlighting AI data centers & a new push for more surveillance downtown. We don’t have to participate. This year, shop in local stores, buy actual books. 📚🎄🕎
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Actually incredible resource here. One click to copy all Metro Council emails? Brilliant. (They don’t check the general inbox, don’t tell anybody.)
If you don’t want to be surveilled when you go to the Ryman or Robert’s, take a sec and write them a nice email about it. 🦞
If you don’t want to be surveilled when you go to the Ryman or Robert’s, take a sec and write them a nice email about it. 🦞
I just emailed all of our CMs and would strongly encourage you to do the same. Learn more, find your CM, and get help with an email here:
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Actually incredible resource here. One click to copy all Metro Council emails? Brilliant. (They don’t check the general inbox, don’t tell anybody.)
If you don’t want to be surveilled when you go to the Ryman or Robert’s, take a sec and write them a nice email about it. 🦞
If you don’t want to be surveilled when you go to the Ryman or Robert’s, take a sec and write them a nice email about it. 🦞
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The only correct pie take is that pies are like dogs—they’re all good, we just have stronger personal attachments to some than others.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The only correct pie take is that pies are like dogs—they’re all good, we just have stronger personal attachments to some than others.
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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
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At 55, I'm at the right age to think everything sucks compared to how things were back when I was hot and nothing hurt when I got out of bed in the morning. But when I talk to young people about the enshittification of basically everything, it's pretty clear that it's not just me being a curmudgeon.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
At 55, I'm at the right age to think everything sucks compared to how things were back when I was hot and nothing hurt when I got out of bed in the morning. But when I talk to young people about the enshittification of basically everything, it's pretty clear that it's not just me being a curmudgeon.
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Apparently this is what we're polluting the air in Memphis for with unpermitted gas turbines — So Grok can tell dirty jokes at parties
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Apparently this is what we're polluting the air in Memphis for with unpermitted gas turbines — So Grok can tell dirty jokes at parties
Okay, today is the day where I admit that for decades, I have confused Jimmy Cliff and Cliff Richard. I *know* how awful that is, but in my defense, I was but a wee child during the 70s.
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Okay, today is the day where I admit that for decades, I have confused Jimmy Cliff and Cliff Richard. I *know* how awful that is, but in my defense, I was but a wee child during the 70s.
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NEW: Amid reports that the U.S. DOGE Service is "dead," alleged Acting Administrator Amy Gleason breaks her silence on LinkedIn: “I’m alive.”
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
NEW: Amid reports that the U.S. DOGE Service is "dead," alleged Acting Administrator Amy Gleason breaks her silence on LinkedIn: “I’m alive.”
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Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
I've had enough of people with poor listening comprehension for today/this week/this year/my life tyvm
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I've had enough of people with poor listening comprehension for today/this week/this year/my life tyvm
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really is incredible how often "men are having a problem, let's fix it using someone else's entire life" comes up. does the institute for family studies understand that children are whole complete human beings whose existence cannot be used as a coping mechanism for their fathers' anxieties? (no)
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
really is incredible how often "men are having a problem, let's fix it using someone else's entire life" comes up. does the institute for family studies understand that children are whole complete human beings whose existence cannot be used as a coping mechanism for their fathers' anxieties? (no)
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
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Trump: I bet you've never liked me
Zohran: that's not true, I liked you in Home Alone
Trump:
Zohran: that's not true, I liked you in Home Alone
Trump:
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Trump: I bet you've never liked me
Zohran: that's not true, I liked you in Home Alone
Trump:
Zohran: that's not true, I liked you in Home Alone
Trump:
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It's that time of year
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's that time of year