Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
(Published Nov. 2025)
"Techlordism is already here. The repercussions are breathtaking: ubiquitous surveillance, automated targeting on battlefields, macroeconomic instability, the end of democracy as even an ideal (cheered by Peter Thiel) + the death of universities.” @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
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The Americans sure don’t see the world or themselves the way we do. They look at these figures and say “He’s underwater! Alarm bells ring for his presidency!” Everyone else says ruefully, “One in three Americans still supports this bullying, dangerous, demented, self-destructive regime.”
“Last year’s investigation found that over 80 major grocery stores across Canada had been weighing meat with packaging, increasing the price by an estimated 4% to 11% — an illegal practice that has reportedly been going on at major grocery store chains for years.”
Surely “Racks, Sacks and the Stacked” should be a Tale of Bran Mak Morn, no?
surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters
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Am I the only one who thinks this look like a template for Trump’s Generic Grievance Post Variation 6?
Maybe it’s just me, but I can almost see the brackets around the parts that Trump would just have to fill-in with a specific target next to boilerplate insults & slander when he’s ready to rant.
Precisely this.
The only safe way to use something like generative AI (but also algorithmic decision-making programs) is if you already have pre-existing expertise. But if you use these, you’ll erode your expertise. And if you come up using these things, you’ll never develop it in the first place.
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Happy April 21st from Northern Ontario.
More than 330,000 importers paid up to $166bn in tariffs on 53 million shipments ​of imported goods.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any Gold Key covers that were less than fantastic.
This past weekend PM Carney gave a very clear statement to Canadians of the threat facing our nation. He talked about the importance of Canadians working together to build an alternate path to secure our independence.
Meanwhile MAGA MAPLE'S No.1 bootlicker went to bat for Trump.
The longest Canadian Armed Forces arctic patrol in history has arrived safely at their final destination of Churchill, Manitoba.
A feat completed with help from the skills of the Canadian Rangers of the north.
Another former head of the Bank of Canada says Carney is not going far enough on austerity.
I dunno. Maybe it's the capitalists who are the problem.
Even at the milder end of tactics (telling her what she wants to hear, asking repeatedly, using friends to pressure), these young men see women as gatekeepers of sex. Men must lie and coerce to make women give up the sex to them
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A new study shows 95% of young men used at least one tactic to persuade or coerce a woman into sex. On average, men used 8 different tactics. Primarily persistent verbal pressure, isolation, and using friends to manipulate were most common
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This is a nightmare: the destruction of Florida's orange industry. Tariffs, drought, deep freezes and a bacteria that is destroying the trees. They have lost 95% of production since 2003.
3/4s of growers are out of business. This is the dangerous eco-future staring us.
slate.com/business/202...
Once again recommending this fantastic book which outlines how conservatives have hijacked the word victim. If you're a victim of rape, a hate crime, etc. then you're a weak whiner. But if you're a conservative who is held accountable, you're the TRUE victim.
It's a tired playbook.
I know I sound like old Granny Ashley yelling on her front lawn, but I miss magazines. I miss video stores. I miss music collections. I miss 22 episode television. I miss music videos. I miss when all these things provided jobs that supported people.
The internet gave us a lot. It took a lot too.
Gaming is much older than we thought. Archaeologist Robert J. Madden has identified dice from 12,000 years ago used by ancient Native Americans. Evidence suggests these games were a female-led innovation used to manage social risk and diplomacy.
Yes. I have the set but it’s been awhile since I looked at them.
A citizen-led movement from Quebec has launched a petition demanding that the Canadian government pass a law prohibiting children under the age of 16 from creating social media accounts.
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The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.
