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genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.
"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.
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The New Republic wrote a hit piece on me in 2017 because I wrote this 2016 article on Trump. They now wonder why women who sounded the autocracy alarm early were mass harassed. It's because of them and rags like them.
December 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The New Republic wrote a hit piece on me in 2017 because I wrote this 2016 article on Trump. They now wonder why women who sounded the autocracy alarm early were mass harassed. It's because of them and rags like them.
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The New York Times has published a major exposé purporting to explain how Jeffrey Epstein rose to the top of the financial and political world, but it ignores one key topic: Israel.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-...
#Palestine #Israel
The New York Times ignores an essential part of the Jeffrey Epstein story — Israel
The New York Times has published a major exposé purporting to explain how Jeffrey Epstein rose to the top of the financial and political world, but it ignores one key topic: Israel.
mondoweiss.net
December 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The New York Times has published a major exposé purporting to explain how Jeffrey Epstein rose to the top of the financial and political world, but it ignores one key topic: Israel.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-...
#Palestine #Israel
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This is metal
ICE voodoo doll discovered in New Orleans as immigration crackdown continues
A handmade “voodoo doll” portraying an ICE agent was found in Uptown New Orleans as federal immigration enforcement continues across south Louisiana.
www.fox8live.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This is metal
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To be clear, while the capabilities of the platforms these applications are run on have changed, and there is little doubt that the actual hardware has advanced, the actual applications deployed for things like weather modelling, or drag simulation in aeronautics, are neither new nor revolutionary.
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
To be clear, while the capabilities of the platforms these applications are run on have changed, and there is little doubt that the actual hardware has advanced, the actual applications deployed for things like weather modelling, or drag simulation in aeronautics, are neither new nor revolutionary.
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For example, many machine learning applications in medicine (genomics, vaccine research) are not AI in the sense understood by the public. Rather, they are decades old machine leaning applications which predate the contemporary "AI moment" but have been rebranded AS AI to ride the hype wave.
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
For example, many machine learning applications in medicine (genomics, vaccine research) are not AI in the sense understood by the public. Rather, they are decades old machine leaning applications which predate the contemporary "AI moment" but have been rebranded AS AI to ride the hype wave.
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Relevant to the above post is the following from Whittaker's piece:
"Tech companies quickly (re)branded machine learning and other data-dependent approaches as AI, framing them as the product of breakthrough scientific innovation...When we say AI is everywhere, this is why."
"Tech companies quickly (re)branded machine learning and other data-dependent approaches as AI, framing them as the product of breakthrough scientific innovation...When we say AI is everywhere, this is why."
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Relevant to the above post is the following from Whittaker's piece:
"Tech companies quickly (re)branded machine learning and other data-dependent approaches as AI, framing them as the product of breakthrough scientific innovation...When we say AI is everywhere, this is why."
"Tech companies quickly (re)branded machine learning and other data-dependent approaches as AI, framing them as the product of breakthrough scientific innovation...When we say AI is everywhere, this is why."
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To capture funding and ride the wave of the AI bubble, a variety of institutions (commercial and otherwise) have pivoted to calling their machine learning applications "AI."
The paper I am linking below explains what's going on here. But there's also more to it than that!
The paper I am linking below explains what's going on here. But there's also more to it than that!
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
To capture funding and ride the wave of the AI bubble, a variety of institutions (commercial and otherwise) have pivoted to calling their machine learning applications "AI."
The paper I am linking below explains what's going on here. But there's also more to it than that!
The paper I am linking below explains what's going on here. But there's also more to it than that!
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It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.
Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus
More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it’s being used for $1,776 checks.
www.defenseone.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.
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Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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Wait until this person finds out about how the tar from cigarettes used to accumulate inside and make yellow drips down the walls.
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Wait until this person finds out about how the tar from cigarettes used to accumulate inside and make yellow drips down the walls.
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Wow—the complaint above dated 1996 was made by Maria Farmer:
Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears.
“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
December 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Wow—the complaint above dated 1996 was made by Maria Farmer:
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"2025 felt like an assault on what it means to be human: everything from this administration’s disregard for the sanctity of life to the imposition of AI to the erasure of history."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-top-ten...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-top-ten...
The Top Ten Articles of 2025
My best writing of the year, a photo gallery of America, and a big sale!
sarahkendzior.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"2025 felt like an assault on what it means to be human: everything from this administration’s disregard for the sanctity of life to the imposition of AI to the erasure of history."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-top-ten...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-top-ten...
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It is incredibly grim how quickly you get used to seeing the "CSAM not scanned" image – each one documenting 51, 81, 100, or some other number of abusive images of children that (thankfully) haven't been digitised.
December 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It is incredibly grim how quickly you get used to seeing the "CSAM not scanned" image – each one documenting 51, 81, 100, or some other number of abusive images of children that (thankfully) haven't been digitised.
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Grim. ("CSAM" is Child Sexual Abuse Material).
December 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Grim. ("CSAM" is Child Sexual Abuse Material).
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I encourage people posting to stay mindful of the fact that countless real little girls and young women were horribly victimized by the Epstein network—and there are also MANY other survivors reading what is written here.
December 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I encourage people posting to stay mindful of the fact that countless real little girls and young women were horribly victimized by the Epstein network—and there are also MANY other survivors reading what is written here.
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If the Democratic Party actually released an autopsy from 2024 we’d actually find out where all the money went, how billions were set on fire, and maybe find out which popular podcasts and liberal voices and personalities are being paid by the party.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/where-the-...
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/where-the-...
Where the Bodies are Buried: The Hidden DNC Autopsy
The DNC is choosing to hide what went wrong in 2024 and, in turn, is making future failure much, much likelier
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If the Democratic Party actually released an autopsy from 2024 we’d actually find out where all the money went, how billions were set on fire, and maybe find out which popular podcasts and liberal voices and personalities are being paid by the party.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/where-the-...
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/where-the-...
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I was looking through Indivisible's platform and it is hilarious that they are asking candidates to not take money from "technofascists" when they take money from Epstein associate and noted tech billionaire Reid Hoffman.
Also specifically not calling for Trump's removal from office.
Also specifically not calling for Trump's removal from office.
December 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I was looking through Indivisible's platform and it is hilarious that they are asking candidates to not take money from "technofascists" when they take money from Epstein associate and noted tech billionaire Reid Hoffman.
Also specifically not calling for Trump's removal from office.
Also specifically not calling for Trump's removal from office.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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The shade is rooted in the fact that I've been covering Epstein for over a decade and people from a variety of political circles keep finding out their little heroes are implicated. Epstein was always the story the powerful did not want told. The press is still ignoring key parts of its history.
December 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The shade is rooted in the fact that I've been covering Epstein for over a decade and people from a variety of political circles keep finding out their little heroes are implicated. Epstein was always the story the powerful did not want told. The press is still ignoring key parts of its history.
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The first of many such comparisons! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...
December 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The first of many such comparisons! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...
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Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.