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Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.
December 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.
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BUT HUNTER'S LAPTOP
New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
December 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
BUT HUNTER'S LAPTOP
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We made this very inspirational comic.
December 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We made this very inspirational comic.
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In courts of law, this is known as consciousness of guilt.
Steve Bannon: "If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included."
December 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
In courts of law, this is known as consciousness of guilt.
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Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
December 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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The top is after Trump’s DOJ redactions below is without, I can almost figure out who they are protecting
December 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The top is after Trump’s DOJ redactions below is without, I can almost figure out who they are protecting
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DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
December 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
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Here's the deal, says USDOJ to states: we're going to send you lists of voters we think are ineligible, and you're going to take them off the rolls. That "would hand the federal govt a major role in election admin, a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution." [Stateline]
Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds • Stateline
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent confidential draft agreements on voter data sharing to more than a dozen states, part of the Trump administration’s effort to obtain unredacted voter rolls, wit...
stateline.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Here's the deal, says USDOJ to states: we're going to send you lists of voters we think are ineligible, and you're going to take them off the rolls. That "would hand the federal govt a major role in election admin, a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution." [Stateline]
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The reason people believe all those things, or rather they think they "know" it to be so is solely that AI user interfaces are deliberately designed to simulate human conversation and interaction.
This is a deception that's carefully crafted to remove your safeguards and skepticism.
This is a deception that's carefully crafted to remove your safeguards and skepticism.
December 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The reason people believe all those things, or rather they think they "know" it to be so is solely that AI user interfaces are deliberately designed to simulate human conversation and interaction.
This is a deception that's carefully crafted to remove your safeguards and skepticism.
This is a deception that's carefully crafted to remove your safeguards and skepticism.
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Again:
AI isn't intelligent.
AI doesn't think.
AI cannot reason.
AI has no self.
It's a procedural algorithm, and that's it. There's no magic incantation that will suddenly spring it into conciousness or "superintelligence".
We dont' live in a sci-fi novel.
AI isn't intelligent.
AI doesn't think.
AI cannot reason.
AI has no self.
It's a procedural algorithm, and that's it. There's no magic incantation that will suddenly spring it into conciousness or "superintelligence".
We dont' live in a sci-fi novel.
December 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Again:
AI isn't intelligent.
AI doesn't think.
AI cannot reason.
AI has no self.
It's a procedural algorithm, and that's it. There's no magic incantation that will suddenly spring it into conciousness or "superintelligence".
We dont' live in a sci-fi novel.
AI isn't intelligent.
AI doesn't think.
AI cannot reason.
AI has no self.
It's a procedural algorithm, and that's it. There's no magic incantation that will suddenly spring it into conciousness or "superintelligence".
We dont' live in a sci-fi novel.
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The Ultimate Portable.
December 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The Ultimate Portable.
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Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
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This is John Roberts' America.
The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.
The president’s own chief of staff was reportedly stunned by his pardon of a former Honduran president.
December 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is John Roberts' America.
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I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.
Context for Trump withdrawing dozens of ambassadors
*China has invested heavily in expanding diplomacy
*The US has significantly degraded soft power
*The US already has scores of diplomatic vacancies
*China has invested heavily in expanding diplomacy
*The US has significantly degraded soft power
*The US already has scores of diplomatic vacancies
December 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.
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"The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back." @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Triumph of Free-Speech Hypocrisy
What the 60 Minutes scandal reveals
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back." @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.
December 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.
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This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
December 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
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This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.
December 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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He's got a point.
December 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
He's got a point.
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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
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“When we ignore the digital harm, the only moment that becomes visible is when the victim finally breaks,” Alexander said.
not just digital. this is a standard DARVO tactic. evil forces abuse in secret then wait til the victim strikes out, to punish them. yeah, i said it: evil.
not just digital. this is a standard DARVO tactic. evil forces abuse in secret then wait til the victim strikes out, to punish them. yeah, i said it: evil.
Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled
A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her.
apnews.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“When we ignore the digital harm, the only moment that becomes visible is when the victim finally breaks,” Alexander said.
not just digital. this is a standard DARVO tactic. evil forces abuse in secret then wait til the victim strikes out, to punish them. yeah, i said it: evil.
not just digital. this is a standard DARVO tactic. evil forces abuse in secret then wait til the victim strikes out, to punish them. yeah, i said it: evil.
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What is striking here, of course, is that no one was apologizing for being white at any point, outside of some very unusual academic hothouse environments.
What the experience as 'apologizing for being white' is actually just 'accommodating non-white people living as full citizens and equals.'
What the experience as 'apologizing for being white' is actually just 'accommodating non-white people living as full citizens and equals.'
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
What is striking here, of course, is that no one was apologizing for being white at any point, outside of some very unusual academic hothouse environments.
What the experience as 'apologizing for being white' is actually just 'accommodating non-white people living as full citizens and equals.'
What the experience as 'apologizing for being white' is actually just 'accommodating non-white people living as full citizens and equals.'