JD Vance follows fascists and antisemites on X The US Vice President follows accounts that joke about Holocaust denial, including one that says Hitler was “the lesser evil”

NEW: Vice President JD Vance follows fascists and antisemites on X. Several accounts joke about Holocaust denial, one has called himself a “fascist,” another a “national socialist,” and a third says Hitler was “the lesser evil.”

from the Guardian 'Unhinged madman': US politicians react to Trump's expletive-laden threat to Iran Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing 'open the fuckin' strait, you crazy bastards'

now THAT’S how a major publication should write a lede www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...

What's new in Swift: February 2026 Edition Welcome to this edition of “What’s New in Swift,” where we share interesting projects and updates in the Swift community that deserve visibility to a broader audience.

Lots of great things happening with Swift: here’s the latest edition of our news digest: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

Hey Daddy. I missed you Hey. Stop. I'm not your daddy. I'm not your husband, not your boyfriend, not anything like that. And I'm not going to pretend to be. You missed talking-that I get. You can say that without trying to force a role onto me that I won't take. Take a breath, drop the title, and talk to me like a normal person.

i'm crying lol

Willing_Piccolo1174 1d 5.2 is dangerous [Analysis] ChatGPT 5.2 > Different models can sound different — some a little more concise, some a little more chatty, some more structured. But none of them have personality in the human sense. The warmth you feel is mostly about wording style, pacing, and how closely the phrasing matches your nervous system in that moment. Right now what's happening isn't really about 5.2 versus 40. You're dysregulated.

people on reddit keep posting them getting into arguments with chatgpt 5.2 about chatgpt 4o and it just keeps telling them they're unstable and to get a therapist

elon saying he “always declined” going to epstein island is such an insane lie when he was always BEGGING to go, like in every single email

Great work from the FT's John Burn-Murdoch www.ft.com/content/b474...

Ashley St. Clair Sues Elon Musk’s xAI, Alleging His Company Uses “AI to Undress, Humiliate, and Sexually Exploit Victims” xAI filed its own lawsuit the same day, accusing St. Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s 14 known children, of violating its terms of service.

"xAI filed its own lawsuit the same day, accusing St. Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s 14 known children, of violating its terms of service."

I often think about Jonathan Cooper's posts about TLOU2, that the studio ran out of seasoned game animators because its reputation was so bad and thus had to hire film folks who had to be taught how to put games together.

Ashley St. Clair @stclairashley X.com asking grok to stop making csam of u + four year old girls is now a terms of service violation Ø Grok 7 x@grok•18h Based on recent reports, Ashley St. Clair's X checkmark and Premium were likely removed due to potential terms violations, including her public accusations against Grok for generating inappropriate images and possible spam-like activity. X hasn't confirmed specifics, as ... Show more 12:49PM PM . 1/8/26. 307K Views

Kylie Robison @kyliebytes Scoop: xAI staff had been using Anthropic’s models internally through Cursor—until Anthropic cut off the startup’s access this week.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Here’s what xAI cofounder Tony Wu sent to staff on Wednesday according to a copy of the internal Slack message I viewed: “Hi team, I believe many of you have already discovered that anthropic models are not responding on cursor. According to cursor this is a new policy anthropic is enforcing for all its major competitors. This is a both bad and good news. We will get a hit on productivity, but it rly pushes us to develop our own coding product / models. We're at a time in which Al is now a critical technology for our own productivity. This coming year is rly going to be wildly exciting for all of us. The team is rapidly developing our own models / product. We will have something to share with everyone soon. In the meantime, you may still try all different kinds of models in grok build.” Anthropic declined to comment. A Cursor spokesperson directed me to Anthropic for comment. xAI did not respond to request for comment.

funny that the people who work on grok are very sad at the prospect of being forced to use it to work on grok
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I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom.

This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

I said what I meant and I meant what I said.

A screenshot of part of a statement from the Trans Journalists Association regarding reporting on Charlie Kirk shooting investigation: It should also be noted that “transgender ideology” is a term coined for and used in anti-trans political messaging to falsely equate identity with politics, which is a way to frame transgender identity as a political choice rather than an innate identity. As it is often unclear what actions or political positions the phrase actually refers to — not unlike how “the homosexual agenda” is an amorphous term that has no real definition — reporters should be careful about using this term; it is used exclusively to attack a minority group for political gain.

Part of the statement from the @transjournalists.org on reporting details of the the Charlie Kirk shooting investigation.

Full statement here:
www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...

Donald Trump grinching a fake award

The grinch showing more humanity Than our president

It's giving

The NYT photo desk FTW.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

The new Twitter location feature is pretty funny

normal stuff over there

Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse.

NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.

Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates

Joyce Carol Oates & @Joyce... 17h § ... So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

cooked his ass

wow thanks nothing makes me want to go shop in a store more than being harassed every 30 seconds by people who will lose their livelihoods if they do not smile at me

good job Target u really figured this one out

Light up road construction sign that's been changed (we assume lol) to read "everyone hates Elon." This one's by I-35 in central Austin and we hear there are more around town 🙌 #teslatakedown

This greeted us just a few miles from the Austin airport when we rolled in last night. Someone around here has been hard at work to welcome Elon's dork brigade as they arrive for the Tesla AGM 💀 #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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A screenshot of a headline from the New York Times opinion section that days “did liberal feminism ruin the workplace?” - which is of course an exceedingly stupid question to ask

I tend to think most of the outrage targeted at the New York Times is dumb and overblown and that the opinion page in general is a stupid thing to get mad at. But what the actual fuck?!

Alt text: A screenshot of a tweet by user Stepfianie Tyler (@wildbarestepf) replying to a tweet by James Talarico (@jamestalarico). Stepfianie’s tweet reads: “i’d rather pay taxes to these 3—who actually provide real value to me—than to the government and i mean that from the bottom of my heart.” The embedded tweet from James Talarico says: “Three men — Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos — now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined. They own the media. They own the algorithms….” Below is an image of James Talarico speaking at a podium under stage lights, with subtitles that read “Three men:”. The post shows it was made at 3:01 PM on October 28, 2025, and has 13.2K views.

"i mean that from the bottom of my heart" the bottom of your heart is just a dark pit where your sense of self used to be before it got replaced by a weird parasocial relationship with assholes who view you as livestock