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"a bullet found it's way into the van and killed a 3 or 4 year old lady" - sane, respectable person holding civilization together
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Trump’s pardon of Honduras’s ex-president shows counter-drug effort is ‘based on lies and hypocrisy’
Why has Trump blown up alleged narco boats in the Caribbean and at the same time decided to let a big time trafficker off the hook?
www.theguardian.com
preparing myself mentally for America starting a war based on lies and hypocrisy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
the pink slime to beef up AI adoption numbers is undoubtedly coming from a lot of places. including the pile of already useless bullshit you are already throwing in the actual trash
cc @edzitron.com
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Here's a fun thing I just learned: If you're a magazine or catalog or other bulk mailer who is willing to add AI-generated content to your mailing, USPS will reward you with a 5% discount—potentially many thousands of dollars!
How on earth does this benefit USPS? www.usps.com/business/pro...
How on earth does this benefit USPS? www.usps.com/business/pro...
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
the pink slime to beef up AI adoption numbers is undoubtedly coming from a lot of places. including the pile of already useless bullshit you are already throwing in the actual trash
cc @edzitron.com
cc @edzitron.com
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Meanwhile on today's livestream of The Charlie Kirk Show, Kolvet was saying that Muslims all over the country were throwing public celebrations over the antisemitic Bondi Beach massacre and called Ahmed al-Ahmed a traitor and then played clips of Kirk saying Muslims should be banned from the West.
December 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Meanwhile on today's livestream of The Charlie Kirk Show, Kolvet was saying that Muslims all over the country were throwing public celebrations over the antisemitic Bondi Beach massacre and called Ahmed al-Ahmed a traitor and then played clips of Kirk saying Muslims should be banned from the West.
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President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.
Trump doubles down on his Rob Reiner attack: "I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person... He became like a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country."
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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The people Elon Musk and JD Vance insist must rule Germany:
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The people Elon Musk and JD Vance insist must rule Germany:
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Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been identified as the man who disarmed one of the Sydney attackers.
Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.
Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.
December 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been identified as the man who disarmed one of the Sydney attackers.
Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.
Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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This is at least the third incident I'm aware of where immigration agents attacked workers on a private residential construction site. Here is one I covered in October, in Chicago. bsky.app/profile/cram...
In a wealthy neighborhood in Chicago, immigration agents hopped the fence of a US citizen’s home and tried to pull a construction worker out a 2nd-story window. Homeowner came home to blood all over his house. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...
'Jarring, frightening attack': Chicago homeowner describes immigration raid at his home
MSNBC exclusively obtained security footage of federal agents targeting construction workers at a home in the wealthy Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. Leo Feler, who owns the property, joined The Wee...
www.msnbc.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is at least the third incident I'm aware of where immigration agents attacked workers on a private residential construction site. Here is one I covered in October, in Chicago. bsky.app/profile/cram...
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
"pledge to improve access to privacy controls" wtf does this even mean? the supposed watchdogs are virtually always as much a problem as the industries they pretend to regulate
After reporters found dozens of firms hiding privacy tools from search results, US senator Maggie Hassan insists the companies explain their practices—and pledge to improve access to privacy controls.
Data brokers face new pressure for hiding opt-out pages from Google – The Markup
After reporters found dozens of firms hiding privacy tools from search results, US senator Maggie Hassan insists the companies explain their practices—and pledge to improve access to privacy controls.
bit.ly
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"pledge to improve access to privacy controls" wtf does this even mean? the supposed watchdogs are virtually always as much a problem as the industries they pretend to regulate
definitely loosing a bit of my soul by now knowing there is a maga chud named Brilyn Hollyhand
December 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
definitely loosing a bit of my soul by now knowing there is a maga chud named Brilyn Hollyhand
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They're gonna add a new redaction code to FOIA just for Trump.
(b) (10): Information exempt from release due to being in a toilet
(b) (10): Information exempt from release due to being in a toilet
December 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
They're gonna add a new redaction code to FOIA just for Trump.
(b) (10): Information exempt from release due to being in a toilet
(b) (10): Information exempt from release due to being in a toilet
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White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
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Here's the full-circle scam
Ultra-wealthy PE's and bankers buy politicians who promise not to tax them
Politicians instead borrow from pension funds to pay for public infrastructure
Pension funds go insolvent and get stuck yield-chasing
Pension funds have to invest in funds managed by said PE's
Ultra-wealthy PE's and bankers buy politicians who promise not to tax them
Politicians instead borrow from pension funds to pay for public infrastructure
Pension funds go insolvent and get stuck yield-chasing
Pension funds have to invest in funds managed by said PE's
December 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Here's the full-circle scam
Ultra-wealthy PE's and bankers buy politicians who promise not to tax them
Politicians instead borrow from pension funds to pay for public infrastructure
Pension funds go insolvent and get stuck yield-chasing
Pension funds have to invest in funds managed by said PE's
Ultra-wealthy PE's and bankers buy politicians who promise not to tax them
Politicians instead borrow from pension funds to pay for public infrastructure
Pension funds go insolvent and get stuck yield-chasing
Pension funds have to invest in funds managed by said PE's
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The way you're taught that VC works is they fund 100 risky ventures and 99 of them fail. They lose money on those, in the hopes that the 1 that succeeds goes really big.
The reality is that VC looks a lot more like Ponzinomics. These guys make absolute BANK on failed moonshots.
The reality is that VC looks a lot more like Ponzinomics. These guys make absolute BANK on failed moonshots.
December 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The way you're taught that VC works is they fund 100 risky ventures and 99 of them fail. They lose money on those, in the hopes that the 1 that succeeds goes really big.
The reality is that VC looks a lot more like Ponzinomics. These guys make absolute BANK on failed moonshots.
The reality is that VC looks a lot more like Ponzinomics. These guys make absolute BANK on failed moonshots.
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How do VC's make money from failed bullshit? Fee structure. Say you're a VC with a 20% carry if the venture succeeds.
You ALSO have a guaranteed management fee of 2% of AUM per year. So you create a $1B "Deep Tech" fund, that's $20M a year. These sci-fi projects take 10 years to fail. That's $200M.
You ALSO have a guaranteed management fee of 2% of AUM per year. So you create a $1B "Deep Tech" fund, that's $20M a year. These sci-fi projects take 10 years to fail. That's $200M.
December 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
How do VC's make money from failed bullshit? Fee structure. Say you're a VC with a 20% carry if the venture succeeds.
You ALSO have a guaranteed management fee of 2% of AUM per year. So you create a $1B "Deep Tech" fund, that's $20M a year. These sci-fi projects take 10 years to fail. That's $200M.
You ALSO have a guaranteed management fee of 2% of AUM per year. So you create a $1B "Deep Tech" fund, that's $20M a year. These sci-fi projects take 10 years to fail. That's $200M.
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These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
December 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
artifacts of a collapsing society, while this pile of dogshit starts another war
December 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
artifacts of a collapsing society, while this pile of dogshit starts another war
rob thomas, car bomber
never would have thought
never would have thought
Looked up what Rob Thomas has been up to - he's been a naughty boy
December 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
rob thomas, car bomber
never would have thought
never would have thought
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slop machine goes brrrrrr
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
slop machine goes brrrrrr
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My brother just said "Oh shit Dave Portnoy is a different guy I was wondering why everyone was mad at the drummer from Dream Theater"
December 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My brother just said "Oh shit Dave Portnoy is a different guy I was wondering why everyone was mad at the drummer from Dream Theater"
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This is not complicated. They blew up a boat that posed no imminent threat and then killed the survivors. There's no legal regime on Earth worth a damn that wouldn't see that as murder, crimes against humanity, or war crimes, depending on the specific code in play.
December 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This is not complicated. They blew up a boat that posed no imminent threat and then killed the survivors. There's no legal regime on Earth worth a damn that wouldn't see that as murder, crimes against humanity, or war crimes, depending on the specific code in play.
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One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.