pete hegseth is so bad at his job that we're like one tick away from the gray zone being like "actually, pete hegseth is good, because he effectively stands against american imperialism"

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Twist: So many university leaders took the bait because they agree with the right wing grift. They don’t think fascists or racism is bad & are annoyed by students, staff & faculty that say otherwise because it forced them to take stands they don’t believe in. Now they can ignore fascism & racism

The myth that survivors come forward to reap a bunch of social rewards is one that should have died a long time ago. It’s literally just misinformation.

Most of the anti-survivor/pro-perpetrator rhetoric is. Survivors are telling the truth, so the primary weapon left to attack them is lying.

i wish all sexual predators a lovely consequence for your actions

a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

Make ‘em dumb, sell ‘em smarts Sam Altman wants intelligence to be a utility that you pay him for

Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it.

His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.

Image of a book entitled End Times Fascism - and the fight for the living world. A wide burst on a yellow background with red letters.

One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr

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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

Google’s AI Overviews are providing “tens of millions of wrong answers … every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute.”

wow, i love the AI future!

This Is No Way to Live Feelings of powerlessness can be insidious.

My latest is a reflection on the cycle of dread, disaster, and temporary reprieves we’re all navigating, what that cycle is doing to us, and how we can avoid losing ourselves to it.

This edition also includes a roundup of must-read pieces that have helped me think about this moment.

Meet the 2026 Writing Freedom Fellows Haymarket Books and the Mellon Foundation are proud to introduce the third cohort of the Writing Freedom Fellowship, recognizing twenty emerging, mid-career, and established poets, fiction writers, an...

Introducing the 2026 Writing Freedom Fellows! Haymarket Books and @mellon.org are honored to recognize these 20 writers and their remarkable work. Read more here:

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

My 96 year old Jamaican aunt who has a very sharp understanding of US politics asks me with increasing agitation each time we speak why these fools don’t stop him & at some point there is nothing to say except I’m sorry auntie they are more aligned with him than not we’re doing our best despite them

The matter-of-fact way she asks what investors should do if Trump destroys Iran. Absolutely wild.

"Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"

I called all three of mine and left voicemails. I've heard some offices have people answering their phones despite congressional recess. Feels like an exercise in futility but it's still worth doing because nihilism in the face of nuclear war is pathetic.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

They are telling the world a story by putting their bodies on the line—a story about people clinging to the support structures that make their lives and their families' lives possible and livable.

Remember how you felt about people defending their neighbors in Chicago, Minneapolis, and other cities around the US? Extend that empathy a bit further, to people Trump is calling animals. It may hurt to stop and think about how much you have in common with those people. That's okay. Let it.

The empathy you feel for Trump's targets is not, in and of itself, a rebellion against fascism, but we will never win without it.

It's not just Iran whose surrender is being demanded. It's yours. Your hope. Your belief in yourself and our collective potential. Your empathy. They want to crush those things. They want you to believe their will is inevitable.

They want you to surrender.

One of the upsides of refusal is that saying "no" to evil and screaming "fuck you, this is wrong, and I will push back any way I can" doesn't necessitate having all the answers.

They want you to become listless and hopeless. They know that's easier for many of us than inhabiting uncertainty.

I get it. I don't do well with uncertainty. But I'm gonna stay here, in this ugly, messy uncertainty—grieving, refusing, denouncing, and trying to figure out what to do next.

So, if you're not sure what to do, but you're not willing to give up, if you're still thinking and trying—if you're willing to take a stranger by the hand, to try to make some hope—just know I'm here with you. I think a lot of us are, even if it feels lonely where you are right now.

Only 50 of 214 House Democrats are calling to impeach a man who has openly declared intent to commit genocide in the most unpopular war in this nation's history. Truly this party has no desire to save itself. Baffling.

Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.

NEW: Iran-linked hackers are attacking US critical infrastructure around the country, according to a warning from federal agencies and confirmation from the company whose component is being exploited. @agreenberg.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/iran-l...

Everybody got a role in this, but before you do ANYTHING, you need to get with people (neighbors) and draw up plans where food is concerned. Who’s growing the fruits? Who’s growing the vegetables? Do you know someone who keeps chickens? Do you have a farm connect? How quickly can you get one?

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites.

This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran

(🎥 i24 News)