From September 2026, Google is pushing a forced, irreversible update that removes your ability to install software they haven't approved on a device you own, with no consent and no way to reverse it.
The book's author has described the decision to pulp all 5,000 copies of the book as reckless and disrespectful, and says it "sets a chilling standard".
2/ Here’s that investigation, and I have more reporting coming on this soon…
The Chilling Role of ChatGPT in Mass Shootings and Other Violence
Several attacks involving OpenAI’s chatbot—including Tumbler Ridge and FSU—raise urgent questions about the technology www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
Conan going Clutch Cargo is one of the greatest moments in TV History.
Screenshot from VHS tape, video frame at 345 seconds.
The President In Crisis October 14, 1998 : 345s
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series
The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win.
These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.
Michael Mann must be filming.
Please don’t use generative AI. They steal from working living breathing artists to do train these models
You take money out of artists pockets when you use generative AI
AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).
how it feels to say "sprezzatura"
New from me: RFK Jr., who has spent decades pushing disinformation about the safety of vaccines, insanely insisted to Congress today he's played no role in fueling the resurgence of measles in the U.S.
"I've never been anti-vaccine." www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-me...
Social media and group chats have microwaved the brains of the ruling and media class. They set that shit to POPCORN and let it go until it smelled like burning.
Huge Jackedman was the worst.
See Hugh Jackedman.
"The end of oil? As fuel shocks cascade, 53 nations gather to plan a fossil fuel phaseout"
theconversation.com/the-end-of-o...
saying that charlie brown had "hoes" is like saying that temple of aphrodite at corinth had "hoes". what was happening there was within its own cultural context, and we should be careful about describing it in modern language
New AP/NORC poll: "President Donald Trump’s approval rating on the economy has slumped over the past month as the Iran war drives prices higher...with even Republicans showing less faith in his leadership."
Overall approval: 33% (-5 from March)
Approval on the economy: 30% (-8% from March)
Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.
One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.
I can’t wait to be banned. Sweet freedom.
Malcolm X, Amadeus, Capote, I'm Not There, Love and Mercy, and all the Alexander/Karaszewskis
This is horrific. I feel physically ill.
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4/22/2016- The Winner www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/ap...
A prime-time TV report on renewables and EVs fell apart at the first fact-check.
Misinformation is distorting Australia’s energy debate – and being amplified in mainstream media, Giles Parkinson writes.
#auspol #Energy #Climate #Renewables #Media
Prediction markets remind me of Huxley's Brave New World.
"When the individual feels, the community reels..."
"Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to-day..."
A desensitized and distracted population is easier to manipulate.
Not everything is meant to be a game.
#Pinks
The Onion has reached a deal to acquire Infowars
• It will be turned into a parody site of itself
• Has the support of the Sandy Hook families
“A lot of people gave up on doing the right thing over the last two years. Despite an insane amount of threats & bullshit, we persevered"
(via Variety)
a still of plated deserts from MARIE ANTOINETTE. Sofia Coppola invents instagram
Sofia Coppola’s film about France’s final queen Marie Antoinette bloomed with controversy before the film even went into production. Rumours that proved to be true circulated in online film spaces that she was going to take an anarchic anachronistic approach to the period costume-drama. Her Marie Antoinette would be a deconstruction of period pieces and the mannered style therein—and cast the gluttonous queen in the guise of her career-long examination of the teenage girl as an outsider figure whose behaviour could be explained through Coppola’s tendency to self-identify with the aesthetic surfaces and caged emotions of these characters. It became more obvious that this would not be a studied and faithful adaptation when news broke that she was scripting from Antonia Fraser’s newly revisionist biography of Marie Antoinette as her source material, instead of the more detailed and factual accounts of the monarch from Stefan Zweig’s analytic biography. To make matters more profane, Coppola shot her fantasia of the beheaded glamour queen at her former kingdom—the Palace of Versailles—and she intended to debut her film at Cannes for a French audience.
She seemed to be courting controversy, and scandal followed the film after the divisive premiere. The film was booed, which is not exceptional for Cannes, but some in the French critical establishment took the film to task for the way it presented the facts of its revisionist history. Agnès Poirier, the critic at the French Newspaper Libération, wrote, “The film is shocking because it is empty, devoid of a point of view, because the person who has made it has no curiosity for the woman she is portraying and the time that her tragic life is set in. The film director seems as unconcerned by her subject as Marie-Antoinette was indifferent to the plight of her people and the world she lived in.”. Poirier’s frustrations were somewhat tempered by his admiration of the colorful mise-en-scene, and it must be said that not everyone in the French intelligentsia were critical of Coppola’s vision; Jean-Michel Frodon, the editor-in-chief at Cahiers du Cinema found much to admire about Coppola’s film and made an argument for the film with an auteurist take on the material.
Marie Antoinette was always going to garner a sharply critical response within France, because the nature of Antoinette’s monarchy, and the French revolution that followed, is too explosive for a tepid response. Indifference might have been the worst of all possible fates: in Coppola’s own words, “it would have been worse if they hadn’t reacted at all.”. It is true that Coppola’s Marie Antoinette presents itself as a hollow endeavor, but its cloistered world of ritual, feminine finery, and glamour at the expense of the noble peasant life of blood and dirt and responsibility and anguish is entirely the point. Marie Antoinette is told in a way that is extremely pleasurable in its surfaces of beauty, and in its elaborate and meticulous and jaw-dropping set-design, but there is criticism within the form itself. Alongside those aspirational qualities that Coppola self-identifies with as a daughter of filmmaking royalty, there is also condemnation and interrogation. Marie Antoinette asks viewers what is at stake when a white woman aspires to this type of lifestyle, and Coppola’s film wonders if there is something rotten when femininity is linked to such exhibitionist displays. However, the film’s brilliance lay in how there is still a seductive pull, and a longing for majesty within her images that persists, even with that critical valve of tension and criticism bubbling underneath the elaborate wigs, and the decadent costumes. With Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola has her cake and eats it too.
I wrote about Sofia Coppola's MARIE ATOINETTE for my reader's choice series. I dove into how the superficial qualities are actually the entire point of the endeavor and how it's the most complicated film she's ever made. Really proud of how this one turned out.
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the extremists the govt alleges have been paid snitches for the SPLC for years are not named in the indictment but there is enough info to identify them if you have some knowledge of the organizations involved... a couple of racists are about to get a lot of angry phone calls from their friends
Was listening to this yesterday. Trump is trapped. All he can do is extend ceasefires. Mearsheimer called it. youtu.be/GMg6_jGfjzM?...
