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you guys know that like a week ago the richest man in the world paywalled image generation because too many people were generating CSAM and depicting real women in non-consenual sex acts? he like literally had to ask them to stop using grok in that way. do you guys know that at the new york times?
It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.

"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 11:32 PM
ok now let me try: they want ICE to NOT identify themselves, to wear POLICE badges and DHS jackets and masks over their face, but they want every citizen to pay for identification to vote. Not only is this logically inconsistent (bc intellectually is the wrong word here), it's also un-american.
Emmer: "Another reform they claim they want is they want ICE agents to identify themselves, to show identification. But they don't want identification for voters in elections. I mean, this stuff is just intellectually inconsistent."
February 16, 2026 at 11:22 PM
i never use these detectors for my students. they disproportionately flag autistic students. they're inaccurate. you start to rely on them and de-skill yourself. they push you toward integrating AI into your workflow. but, worst of all, they make you a paranoid teacher. you become a detective
Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?
February 16, 2026 at 5:21 PM
check out this website + book
February 11, 2026 at 5:51 PM
we do not care
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 4:39 PM
How all of them should be talked to
McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?

LYONS: Yes mam

McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?

LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question

McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
February 11, 2026 at 3:16 PM
us citizen btw. piece of shit joke of a news organization. fuck all of you
The Super Bowl halftime show, with Bad Bunny showcasing Latin music before a global television audience expected to top 100 million, will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star delivers an explicit political message.
The enthusiasm — and scorn — surrounding Bad Bunny’s star turn at the Super Bowl
The halftime show will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star makes an explicit message about Trump’s deportation drive.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:01 AM
"i didn't see the whole thing" the Obama part was the first 5 seconds. If you didn't see the whole thing, how would you know it's a lion king thing?
Reporter: The WH says a staffer sent that video. Are you going to fire the staffer?

Trump: No. I looked at it. I didn’t see the whole thing. I gave it to the people, they posted it.

Reporter: Are you going to apologize?

Trump: No, I didn’t make a mistake. It was a take off The Lion King.
February 7, 2026 at 3:27 AM
talent doesn't exist. ai levels no playing fields. not using it isnt a luxury.
February 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
vvvv send some if you have some vvvv
February 6, 2026 at 1:36 PM
he bought it TO break it. this is the point.
I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
February 4, 2026 at 3:37 PM
this is the last but of speaker johnson's biblical case for secure borders. one critical question...should a government reflect the beliefs of the individuals it governs?
February 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
many people dead, and many more disappeared, because of this dude's conspiracy theory. cool article lol. Fuck. you.
As an influencer, Nick Shirley had struggled to expand his reach. But after a missionary trip pushed him to try a new approach, he caused a sensation with a video claiming to expose fraud at Somali-run day care centers in Minnesota. nyti.ms/45GzJi4
February 3, 2026 at 11:36 PM
you sound like such a fuckin crybaby lmao
From the Editorial Board: Kat Abughazaleh made a show of declining (sending a spokesman, for goodness sake) to be part of the editorial board’s endorsement interviews after first informing us she would attend.

trib.al/LXhfqMv
February 3, 2026 at 11:26 PM
it is a non radical non political statement to want to see this dude locked away forever
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 4:39 AM
resign? you're waiting for them to just..resign?
Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, Greg Bovino.

They must all resign and be held accountable.
January 29, 2026 at 4:02 AM
we've let them get away with stupid fucking hypotheticals like this for too long
Ron Johnson on Ilhan Omar getting attacked: "Let's talk about how crazy this is. Had that been a Republican member of Congress and an illegal immigrant spraying something at them, in Minneapolis what would probably happen is they would release that illegal immigrant."
January 28, 2026 at 3:22 PM
🤷‍♀️
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
January 28, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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republicans, people like jd vance and trump, people who support people like jd vance and trump, all speak a different language than me
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
i wonder if linkedin will still allow ICE ads
linkedin allowing ICE ads
January 25, 2026 at 12:14 AM
ice must leave minneapolis lol. you want them to go kill people in other cities? that's what your first thing means
1. ICE must leave Minneapolis.

2. Congress should not fund this version of ICE - that is seeking confirmation, chaos and dystopia.
January 24, 2026 at 10:00 PM
the justice system lol. dude. you control the mechanism to stop this "campaign of organized brutality" right now
Walz: "It's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of our state, and today that campaigned claimed another life. I've seen the video from several angles and it's sickening. But I have a strong statement here for our federal govt: Minnesota's justice system will have the last word."
January 24, 2026 at 9:56 PM
read this & read it again & understand the reality of the moment
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 9:40 PM
tim waltz if you aren't going to use the national guard to force ICE out there's literally no point in getting in front of a camera. do what you have to do. history is watching you
Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God we have video, because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them or something. It's nonsense, people. It's nonsense and it is lies."
January 24, 2026 at 9:38 PM
abolish and prosecute
January 24, 2026 at 9:30 PM