cupertino jay
@cupjay.bsky.social
retired (NOT dead yet) old-fort, once upon a time sierra back packer & cal sports fan. seen some movies, umm, lots
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In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I.
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future
Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.
www.thegist.ie
January 2, 2026 at 10:25 AM
In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I.
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
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With Republicans active in 59 separate voting cases and the DOJ litigating another 30, the picture becomes clear: voter suppression is now a defining feature of the MAGA takeover. It will be the leading GOP strategy in 2026, and it’s our job to prevent it, Marc Elias writes.
https://bit.ly/3KCHVZj
https://bit.ly/3KCHVZj
The Greatest Threat to Democracy
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:38 PM
With Republicans active in 59 separate voting cases and the DOJ litigating another 30, the picture becomes clear: voter suppression is now a defining feature of the MAGA takeover. It will be the leading GOP strategy in 2026, and it’s our job to prevent it, Marc Elias writes.
https://bit.ly/3KCHVZj
https://bit.ly/3KCHVZj
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Prof Eliot Jacobson: And it's a wrap. The year 2025 came in at 1.47°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making it the 3rd warmest year on record behind 2023 (1.48°C) and 2024 (1.60°C), and likely the 3rd warmest in the last 120,000 years.
January 2, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Prof Eliot Jacobson: And it's a wrap. The year 2025 came in at 1.47°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making it the 3rd warmest year on record behind 2023 (1.48°C) and 2024 (1.60°C), and likely the 3rd warmest in the last 120,000 years.
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In any other White House, this WSJ article would be immediate cause for impeachment. With Trump just add it to the pile.
January 2, 2026 at 7:39 PM
In any other White House, this WSJ article would be immediate cause for impeachment. With Trump just add it to the pile.
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RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to terminate their flu vaccination ad campaign immediately after taking office. Just in case anyone was curious about his silence in the face of what is emerging as an unusually severe flu season and why he’s not out encouraging vaccines. www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Robert F Kennedy cancels flu vaccination ad campaign and key vaccine policy meeting
The new US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to halt its publicity campaign encouraging uptake of this year’s seasonal flu vaccine...
www.bmj.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:48 PM
RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to terminate their flu vaccination ad campaign immediately after taking office. Just in case anyone was curious about his silence in the face of what is emerging as an unusually severe flu season and why he’s not out encouraging vaccines. www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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🚨 December 2025 #Arctic sea ice extent was the *lowest* on record for the month...
This was 1,620,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. December ice extent is decreasing at about 3.5% per decade. Data: @nsidc.bsky.social at nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
This was 1,620,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. December ice extent is decreasing at about 3.5% per decade. Data: @nsidc.bsky.social at nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
January 2, 2026 at 7:58 PM
🚨 December 2025 #Arctic sea ice extent was the *lowest* on record for the month...
This was 1,620,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. December ice extent is decreasing at about 3.5% per decade. Data: @nsidc.bsky.social at nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
This was 1,620,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. December ice extent is decreasing at about 3.5% per decade. Data: @nsidc.bsky.social at nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
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Trump told you to elect him so he can release the Epstein files. Since his election, he has spent a full year covering them up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oibZ76Td6pg&list=PLmHDGpDOjacoTxbrY068uPDU6lYhubjg4&index=17
The Cover-up
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Trump told you to elect him so he can release the Epstein files. Since his election, he has spent a full year covering them up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oibZ76Td6pg&list=PLmHDGpDOjacoTxbrY068uPDU6lYhubjg4&index=17
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Unless I'm missing something, and I'm pretty sure I'm not, Twitter's AI is cranking out CSAM deepfakes, Elon Musk is making jokes about it, and nobody is doing anything to stop it or hold anyone at Twitter accountable for its creation and distribution.
Is that right?
Is that right?
January 2, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Unless I'm missing something, and I'm pretty sure I'm not, Twitter's AI is cranking out CSAM deepfakes, Elon Musk is making jokes about it, and nobody is doing anything to stop it or hold anyone at Twitter accountable for its creation and distribution.
Is that right?
Is that right?
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David Horsey, Seattle Times
January 2, 2026 at 8:55 PM
David Horsey, Seattle Times
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The obvious question is why Trump's doctors have administered three sequential cognitive exams to him of the sort used to determine advanced senile dementia? Trump's public conduct suggests why. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Says He ‘Aced’ a Third Cognitive Exam Taken Recently
President Donald Trump said he had recently “aced” a third cognitive exam as he looked to bat down questions about his age and acuity.
www.bloomberg.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:02 PM
The obvious question is why Trump's doctors have administered three sequential cognitive exams to him of the sort used to determine advanced senile dementia? Trump's public conduct suggests why. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Department of Homeland Security has vowed to keep stealing the work of artists to plug their nightmare deportation push, whether they like it or not. It comes after yet another artist accused the department of stealing their work to plug President Trump’s deportation dreams.
ICE Barbie’s DHS Vows to Keep Stealing Artists’ Creations
Another artist has spoken out about the department stealing their work.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:27 PM
The Department of Homeland Security has vowed to keep stealing the work of artists to plug their nightmare deportation push, whether they like it or not. It comes after yet another artist accused the department of stealing their work to plug President Trump’s deportation dreams.
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Many don't realize that the most vulnerable or immune compromised depend on the rest getting vaccinated properly to keep diseases from spreading out of control. It's not just “my body, my choice” when it comes to saving lives.
January 2, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Many don't realize that the most vulnerable or immune compromised depend on the rest getting vaccinated properly to keep diseases from spreading out of control. It's not just “my body, my choice” when it comes to saving lives.
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“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
www.propublica.org
January 2, 2026 at 4:00 AM
“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
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Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
New data suggests separations are happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
(Published Nov. 2025)
New data suggests separations are happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
(Published Nov. 2025)
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
January 2, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
New data suggests separations are happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
(Published Nov. 2025)
New data suggests separations are happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
(Published Nov. 2025)
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What is Sean Duffy's principal accomplishment as secretary of transportation?
January 2, 2026 at 1:48 AM
What is Sean Duffy's principal accomplishment as secretary of transportation?
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A federal judge in California on Wednesday voided the Trump administration's move to terminate the Temporary Protected Status of roughly 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua, calling it a "pre-ordained decision”
www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-t...
www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-t...
Judge voids decision to end legal status of 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua
A U.S. District Court judge issued a summary judgment on Wednesday, finding that the effort to revoke the legal status of tens of thousands of Hondurans, Nepalis and Nicaraguans was unlawful
www.cbsnews.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:56 AM
A federal judge in California on Wednesday voided the Trump administration's move to terminate the Temporary Protected Status of roughly 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua, calling it a "pre-ordained decision”
www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-t...
www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-t...
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The latest dimension of Israel's strategy of starvation and deprivation in Gaza is to prohibit many of the organizations that deliver humanitarian aid. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Pressure mounts on Israel over Gaza aid agency ban
UN agencies warn Israel's ban of 37 aid agencies will undermine crucial relief work in the war-battered Strip.
www.aljazeera.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:36 PM
The latest dimension of Israel's strategy of starvation and deprivation in Gaza is to prohibit many of the organizations that deliver humanitarian aid. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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As settler violence soars, Netanyahu tells Fox News it's just "a handful of kids" who "chop down trees, sometimes they try to burn a home"—a grotesque mischaracterization of moves protected and often orchestrated by his government. These remarks go unchallenged by his Fox interviewer.
'A handful of kids': Netanyahu downplays 'bloated' Israeli settler violence in West Bank
Netanyahu Labeled Soaring Settler Violence as 'Teens Who Come From Broken Homes, Who Sometimes Try to Burn a Home,' and Praised Trump on Fox News for Pushing His Pardon, Decrying '10 Years of Bogus In...
www.haaretz.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:42 PM
As settler violence soars, Netanyahu tells Fox News it's just "a handful of kids" who "chop down trees, sometimes they try to burn a home"—a grotesque mischaracterization of moves protected and often orchestrated by his government. These remarks go unchallenged by his Fox interviewer.
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Gordon's piece calls it accurately: Doubts about Mr. Trump’s willingness to stand by a U.S. security guarantee for Ukraine start with the fact that despite periodic threats to do so, he has never shown the slightest willingness to directly confront Mr. Putin’s Russia.
Opinion | A Trump Security Guarantee Is Empty, Mr. Zelensky
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Gordon's piece calls it accurately: Doubts about Mr. Trump’s willingness to stand by a U.S. security guarantee for Ukraine start with the fact that despite periodic threats to do so, he has never shown the slightest willingness to directly confront Mr. Putin’s Russia.
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Trump golfed 1/4 of the days he was president in 2025. Costing US taxpayers to pay his Golf clubs $110,600,000.
January 1, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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This, 1,000 percent!
January 1, 2026 at 7:41 PM
This, 1,000 percent!
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Health care costs have officially spiked for millions as Affordable Care Act subsidies lapsed at midnight thanks to GOP inaction
Health Care Costs Skyrocket For Millions Of Americans As Subsidies Lapse
The change impacts a cross-section of Americans who don’t get insurance from an employer and don’t qualify for Medicaid or Medicare.
www.huffpost.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Health care costs have officially spiked for millions as Affordable Care Act subsidies lapsed at midnight thanks to GOP inaction
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It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican.
It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong.
Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up.
The sleeping giant of America is roaring.
It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong.
Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up.
The sleeping giant of America is roaring.
January 1, 2026 at 10:00 PM
It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican.
It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong.
Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up.
The sleeping giant of America is roaring.
It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong.
Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up.
The sleeping giant of America is roaring.
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Trump uses manufactured claims of medicare fraud to shut down all childcare funding across the country. Don't worry, there's still plenty of money to invade Venezuela, build ballrooms and pay for his every-other-day golf vacations. Just nothing for children. abcnews.go.com/US/hhs-freez...
HHS freezing child care payments to all states after Minnesota fraud allegations: Official
An HHS official says the agency has "frozen all child care payments" to all states after allegations of fraudulent day care centers in Minnesota.
abcnews.go.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Trump uses manufactured claims of medicare fraud to shut down all childcare funding across the country. Don't worry, there's still plenty of money to invade Venezuela, build ballrooms and pay for his every-other-day golf vacations. Just nothing for children. abcnews.go.com/US/hhs-freez...