Three kisses to anyone who can dig out the scene in Veep where Selina talks about the horrors of war to a Marine dressed as the Easter Bunny. It’s out there somewhere.

"If it quacks like a duck..."
2026, Procreate
#propaganda #dictatorship

Evil

Periodic reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are carrying out a pogrom right now in the village of Tayasir in the West Bank, opening fire on civilians. Multiple people have been injured.

The situation is horrific. Residents are pleading for help.

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"Hundreds of thousands of residents of southern Lebanon, who were evacuated, will not return south of the Litani River until the security of northern residents is assured," Mr. Katz said, reterring to Israelis living near Israel's border with Lebanon. Israel, he added, bombed five bridges along the river, which he asserted Hezbollah had used to send reinforcements to fight against Israel. The bridges are also a liteline for civilians still living there, who rely on them for medicine and access to hospitals. After a previous round of fighting ended in a cease-fire agreement between the parties in late 2024, the Israeli military set up five outposts inside Lebanon in areas near the border. But now, some in the Israeli government ?*-hoping Israel will take over a much larger piece of territory.

“It might remain there” certainly sounds nicer than “they’ve deliberately driven out a million civilians so they can destroy their homes and build new settlements on the land for fascist, ethnic supremacist settlers”.

Here’s my faculty argument for my “right to refuse AI”:

I have academic freedom.

I’m not fucking doing that.

Thank you.

Digital painting of Pete Hegseth contemplating a bowel movement

Secretary of Deep Thinking #AI #War #Pentagon

Respect. Digital.

Stephen Miller contemplating his latest and eventual bowel movements sporting his favorite enamel pin

#StephenMiller Not a good egg

Resisting AI - Wikipedia

Amen. Resisting AI by @danmcquillan.bsky.social is the foundational text on this (for me anyway) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resisti...

Alchemy as Computer Science

Trigger warning: CSA.
Women and girls have always been f*cked by the system. This is from the early 90s. When 16 was the age of consent and men in power could do what the hell they wanted. As they still can.
#csa

I can lean on my actual experience to yell at everyone that this won't work! You can't identify emerging customer needs by aggregating data from the past! We tried this already with personas and again with big data! This is like the stupid business version of the problem of induction.

The Garden of Earthly Delights -V2

GPT-4 might be able to pass the bar exam, but that doesn’t mean it can practice law.

Listen to "AI Snake Oil" author Sayash Kapoor in conversation with legal scholar Kevin Frazier on the Future Knowledge #podcast, discussing his new paper with Arvind Narayanan.

🎧 ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm

My god, does he have no empathy or care for the families of these dead soldiers? I cannot imagine my family member dying then hearing this bullshit from this idiot.

Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

This is a hell of a piece of writing by Sam Kriss

Emperor Trump wearing his hat saying DIE

Necropolitics

"Selling Safety": A Journalist's Guide to Covering Police Technology selling_safety.pdf

Behind police tech's slick marketing is a sprawling, under-scrutinized industry that relies on manufacturing the appearance of effectiveness, not measuring it. EFF partnered with CJJ and IPVM on a new report to help you see through the spin: www.eff.org/document/se...

Absolutely banging message from the Pope. Broadcast this on LinkedIn for the next ten years.

Metadata Exposes Authors of ICE’s ‘Mega’ Detention Center Plans Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation.

These absolute fucking clowns sent out a document with metadata exposing the authors of ICE's plan for massive concentration camps

www.wired.com/story/metada...

why won’t the left just praise every technology handed down from self-interested billionaires seeking only to enhance their power and profits?! clearly, they’re the ones in the wrong if they can’t get on board 😤

Trump measures himself and his plans

“Behold…my instrument”

Weaponized Planet-Killing Dunning Kruger Machines

From the "Nothing matters unless it affects me personally" school of thought...

“nothing is real until it hurts me” slogan replaces “don’t tread on me” slogan on a Gadseden flag

how we got here

Nuremberg Trials.

Beautifully articulated

"...the AI industry has flipped philosophical inquiry into a design brief. Instead of looking for signals of thought, it uses language to forge the evidence."
😚👌

Graphic with a floral pattern and the Elon crying meme. He's surrounded by Valentine's candy hearts that say ew no, gross, barf, buzz off, hard pass, u suck Text on graphic reads February 14 12-2 Dump Musk 1st anniversary party Cake! Piñata! Dancing! Games! 435 Westlake Ave N, Seattle (Where Tesla used to be)

The very first #TeslaTakedown protests in Seattle were at the store in South Lake Union. After months of multiple actions every week, we shut that shit down. Come celebrate 1 year with @troublemakers.bsky.social @defundmusk.bsky.social! We'll have cake, music, games, and a Cybertruck piñata!