That’s pretty much the cult line. All he’s got left are people who will drink the kool-aid if the order was posted on Truth Social.

This Lego video for drunk FBI Director Kash Patel is fantastic.

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This is an extraordinary, searing interview. In the context of the repulsive new Jackson biopic, it raises questions about why so many people just don’t want to know what he did. FWIW I saw Leaving Neverland before HBO pulled it, and I absolutely believe those kids.

First they came for Josh Hawley... Wait, what?!

Putin names Russia's spy school, the FSB Academy, after Feliks Dzerzhinsky for his “outstanding contribution to ensuring state security.” Dzerzhinsky was the first head of Bolshevik’s secret police in 1918-1926 and the architect of the Red Terror.

He’s also a terrible lawyer don’t forget that. Such a bad lawyer he thought he could sue a spoof twitter account run by a talking cow for criticizing him, while he was a congressman.

The worst people in America

House Republicans roll out landmark data privacy push The proposals would preempt dozens of state data laws and set a federal standard for how tech and finance companies handle their customers’ data.

This bill is dangerous.

It does not protect privacy. It lets Big Tech and Telecom do anything they want with your data.

And it blows up all state and many federal privacy laws that we already have.

Most dangerously, it may nuke all state civil rights laws.

Here are some examples:

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Musk now talking about the importance of deploying driverless technology based on localized validation in a particular geography... confirmation that Tesla really is in the Level 4 autonomy game, not Level 5 as they've been claiming since October 2016

Musk says they don't want an injury or accident in the "robotaxi" expansion, and says there hasn't been one so far... his wording is ambiguous, but there have been 14 documented crashes in Austin so far, including some with injuries, so he's just kinda saying stuff here

Trump's latest budget is the culmination of 40 years of increasing social control in America.

Remember that over half of defense spending flows to private contractors, like the drone manufacturers Trump's sons are now major investors in.

All of this is absurd.

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges related to past use of paid informants The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges related to its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

The apparent theory here--SPLC was defrauding donors by paying right-wing extremist org informants, and also took completely legal steps for obscuring the money trail for very obvious reasons on this totally legal thing to do--is ludicrous even by the notoriously malleable standard for wire fraud.

Medical Research Matters

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The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

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)

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Rental platform unnecessarily collected the data of millions of Australians, privacy commissioner finds 2Apply’s over-collection of personal information adds to the power of the real estate industry in the competitive rental market, Carly Kind says

I have been reporting on the rent tech space for a bit and it's good to see this decision - and also the commissioner specifically pointing out the power imbalance between renters and real estate agents in a housing crisis. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trump still cannot agree the conditions of this unconditional surrender.

372 whales in 2 days, like Sydney during whale rush hour

Rabbi who boasts of bulldozing Palestinian homes will light torch for Israel’s national day Human rights campaigners say honour for Avraham Zarbiv endorses ethnic cleansing and war crimes

"Zarbiv, who is a rabbinical judge in civilian life, has been censured by Israel’s judicial watchdog for extremist statements. Commissioner Asher Kula ruled earlier this year that he had violated the code of ethics for judges."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The worst part of the Mandelson scandal is the Palantir takeover of government data...

Trump administration begins refunding more than $166bn in tariffs Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs

So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high.

The Art of the Deal.

What Rumen Radev’s victory means for Bulgaria, the EU and Russia Rumen Radev has capitalised on anti-corruption sentiment to win power in Bulgaria, but it remains to be seen whether he can deliver on his promises in office.

"Radev’s victory does not necessarily mean one awkward partner in Brussels has been replaced by another. Radev has pro-Moscow leanings, but he is unlikely to become Putin’s puppet in Brussels."

✍️ Emilia Zankina, Kevin Deegan-Krause & Tim Haughton blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Why America is falling out of love with Israel Public opinion and elite sentiment has turned decisively against Netanyahu

"There should be no mystery why younger Americans are as pro-Palestinian today as their forebears were once pro-Israeli. Rabin staked his life on peace. What will posterity say of Netanyahu?" My column on why America is falling out of love with Israel. www.ft.com/content/353e...

Strait not closed to Iran...

Screenshot of a token comparison tool with an uploaded screenshot PNG image. Models to compare: claude-opus-4-7 (checked), claude-opus-4-6 (checked), claude-opus-4-5, claude-sonnet-4-6, claude-haiku-4-5. Note: "These models share the same tokenizer". Blue "Count Tokens" button. Results table — Model | Tokens | vs. lowest. claude-opus-4-7: 4,744 tokens, 3.01x (yellow badge). claude-opus-4-6: 1,578 tokens, 1.00x (green badge).

I upgraded my Claude token counter tool to compare different models and Opus 4.7 appears to use 1.46x times the tokens for text and up to 3x the tokens for images - it's priced the same as Opus 4.6 on a per-token basis so this is actually a pretty big price bump simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/...

I don't think I'll ever get over Clarence Thomas ruling on cases related to Jan 6 knowing that his wife was an active participant in the attempted coup.

Or ruling on cases related to government regulations and a wealth tax knowing he took gifts from billionaires.

It's a disgrace.

Australia faced the same dilemma as China in 2004 but made the wrong call While the rest of us count the cost in higher fuel costs, higher inflation and a weaker economy,  China — the actual winner of the war — will be enjoying a surge of global interest in its solar panels...

"in 2004, China decided to reduce its reliance on the Strait of Hormuz. At exactly the same moment, Australia decided that she'll be right, imports will be fine — no worries! Chinese premier Hu Jintao made a closed-door speech that became known as the "Malacca Dilemma"
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Mandelson ‘lobbied Israel for Tory government’ during Gaza genocide Disgraced Labour grandee appears to have kept ties with Conservatives long after his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein emerged

Peter Mandelson claimed he conducted unofficial diplomacy with Israel on behalf of the last Conservative government after fresh details of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein had emerged, we found.

www.declassifieduk.org/mandelson-lo...

Why not, their analysis is brief and easy to digest and doesn't seem to confirm the notion of a paradigma shift.

It seems to show that this is a topic to take seriously, but more because of the general trend of model capabilities and less because of Mythos.

Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work We conducted cyber evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found continued improvement in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and significant improvement on multi-step cyber-attack simulati...

But it is still very significant, encouraging and not just worthy of note but of celebration.

So with congratulations to everyone involved, I’ll repost it here and let people judge for themselves

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