Wait, are betting markets now being used as statistically significant polls?

It’s International Fact-Checking Day. Refresh your AI identification skills AI-generated content is everywhere these days, making it increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction, particularly when it comes to breaking news.

AI-generated content is everywhere these days, making it increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction. The 10th annual International Fact-Checking Day provides a good opportunity to look at these evolving challenges.

Trump Can’t Defund NPR And PBS, Judge Rules The judge accused the move of targeting “viewpoints that the President does not like and seeks to squelch.”

The judge accused the move of targeting “viewpoints that the President does not like and seeks to squelch.”

Finding a hypervisor platform for arm is pretty difficult.

We've been rejiggering for multi platform deployments to give us larger spot pools. We've also targeted a couple of our use cases that belong 💯 on graviton.

Yassss!

My grandpa lived watching professional wrestling in the 90s. He thought it was real.

Yesterday, Trump said mail in voting was cheating & should be banned. Also yesterday, Trump voted by mail in a FL special election. He was down in FL at the time, 15 minutes from his polling place.

History will note Trump as one of the greatest frauds, one of the greatest con men, who ever lived.

Trump’s video game war: AI, memes and a simplistic narrative have flattened the conflict | Nesrine Malik in Iran What was supposed to be a quick win has become a quagmire, so it now must be reduced to a dopamine hit, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

What meme strategies could be used to counter the feel good factor of the imagery deployed by the “dudes”!?

“We’re over here just grinding away on banger memes, dude,” a senior White House official told Politico. “There’s an entertainment factor to what we do.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The FBI is buying Americans’ location data “We do purchase commercially available information.”

Unlike information obtained from cellphone providers, this data can be accessed without a warrant — and used to track anyone.

Yup, yup and yup

Federal Courts Are Putting Trans People In Danger The Supreme Court’s decision in Skrmetti is already leading to devastating consequences in the lower courts.

more folks should know about this BS:

A federal appeals court said West Virginia’s policy denying Medicaid coverage to people seeking surgical treatment for gender dysphoria is *not discriminatory* bc it bans trans-specific healthcare for cis & trans people alike
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Framing predatory capitalism as patriotism...

Let me like a job for anti-trust lawyers in the future

This is clearly fine with the GOP.

The reviews searched over 12,000 references. They screened 547 full-text papers for inclusion. They included 17. That's a 96.9% exclusion rate at full text. 530 studies were relevant enough to survive initial screening, then rejected by the review criteria. 6/10 reviews found 0 included studies.

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

Not trying to be hyperbolic, I fear we are on the cusp of a 9/11 type catastrophe that this regime is unwilling and unable to protect us from.

Gullible, Cynical America The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time

The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Concurrence

I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party.

This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.

the gambling epidemic is genuinely so real like sports are entirely gambling now video games are gambling toys are gambling they're still trying to push crypto somehow which is like if money was gambling

It's absolutely surreal how no one is talking about the Iran war in daily life. No one is discussing it and they seem oblivious. This conflict is spiraling and deteriorating in a way that it will substantially disrupt daily life for most of the world for the first time in decades.

Who got us into "a situation like this?"

Cover of Spellfire by Ed Greenwood

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.

They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

Checks out.

+1

Be specific because they may think we're talking about someone else.