I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...
Oh, we are COOKED.
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.
When other presidents would be in the situation room, Trump in Mar a Lago took to social media to link the Iranian bombardment with the Big Lie.
Trump posted an article asserting that “Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States.”
WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine are monitoring the U.S. operation in Iran from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where Trump is currently located, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago
www.reuters.com/world/us/top...
And then they asked me about pizzagate and UFOs 😂😂😂😂
So she was forced to testify about crimes against young girls by men not being forced to testify. Got it. 🤡
After DEMANDING that Hillary Clinton's testimony on the Epstein scandal be held behind closed doors, and even threatening her with contempt for her insistence that reporters be allowed in, the GOP has been sending out photos and info to far-right influencers.
Hypocrisy is the GOP brand.
Here’s a thought for James Comer.
There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton.
It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein.
You know, just to see what she knows.
Speaking of Elizabeth Holmes, she and Trump must be squabbling over the pardon price or she has yet to deign complete fealty to him. 🤮
Toronto harold satire site headline: "Canadian Olympic hockey teams to bring back silver medals to home country that has healthcare and stable democracy"
okay, this is funny, though
Best piece I’ve read about the difference is @h0d3r.bsky.social’s 2015 piece “the web we have to save.”
hoder.com/en/posts/4
An internet of feeds is, I think, meaningfully distinct from an internet of links. Social network sites in the 00s were still links-not-feeds.
(I’d say more but mega-tired)
Sowing fear of "ICE at the polls!" could do more to suppress votes than any actual ICE at the polls. Here's an explanation of the right's strategy on this, along with my recommendations for what to do instead of playing along.
katestarbird.substack.com/p/effective-...
Happy President’s Day to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama!
Zohran genuinely loves the people of his city and wants the best for them. It’s astonishing how much we’ve all been starved of that by our leaders.
In addition to their concerns about the conditions in which ICE detainees would be held, local leaders warned that an ICE warehouse in their town of about 30,000 residents could place a heavy burden on emergency services and tarnish the community’s public image while reducing property tax revenues.
for better or worse, this will probably be the most successful and compelling argument by communities against ICE concentration camps being built:
(from this piece: archive.is/eGsQf)
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.
Spotted on the London Underground….the Brits don’t miss 🎯!
This image of Epstein survivors being ignored by US Attorney General, Pam Bondi, should be the moment when our collective morals lock into place and we ALL think, “this is not just.”
If there are any survivors of sexual assault out there, don’t worry, Pam Bondi wants you to know the stock market is doing GREAT!
Young Anton Chekhov, the playwright, looking super hot in his 20s
Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy
Donald Trump Jr, who has exactly zero experience or competence in manufacturing or defense, has received more than $600,000,000 in contracts from Pete Hegseth's "Department of War."
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
