George White
@its.stonehippo.com
Pinned
Straight up murder
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Straight up murder
Shocked this is my shocked face
DOJ won’t meet Friday deadline to release all the Epstein files
DOJ won’t meet Friday deadline to release all the Epstein files
The delay means the White House is in apparent conflict with a law President Donald Trump signed in November.
dlvr.it
December 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Shocked this is my shocked face
The only huge dick that costs Americans this much is Dr. Oz
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The only huge dick that costs Americans this much is Dr. Oz
The House has time to hurt trans kids and their families (everyone who voted for that bill can get fucked) and no time to prevent a massive rise in healthcare costs. Got it.
Mike Johnson's only agenda is to maximize pain and suffering.
Mike Johnson's only agenda is to maximize pain and suffering.
December 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The House has time to hurt trans kids and their families (everyone who voted for that bill can get fucked) and no time to prevent a massive rise in healthcare costs. Got it.
Mike Johnson's only agenda is to maximize pain and suffering.
Mike Johnson's only agenda is to maximize pain and suffering.
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STOP CALLING IT AN IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN! TAKING CITIZENSHIP FROM EXTREMELY VETTED NATURALIZED CITIZENS IS NOT A CRACKDOWN! IT'S BETRAYAL.
Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, internal documents obtained by The New York Times show, marking an aggressive new phase in President Trump’s immigration crackdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
STOP CALLING IT AN IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN! TAKING CITIZENSHIP FROM EXTREMELY VETTED NATURALIZED CITIZENS IS NOT A CRACKDOWN! IT'S BETRAYAL.
The Worst Wing
The actors who didn't get hired for the Peacock adaptation of Clue.
December 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Worst Wing
I really enjoyed everything in the Ruth Asawa retrospective, but this piece was particularly affecting for me.
December 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I really enjoyed everything in the Ruth Asawa retrospective, but this piece was particularly affecting for me.
I guess I'll go back to Safari.
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I guess I'll go back to Safari.
Ok, let's say it was true that Wiles thought this was all off the record (most likely, it's not). She still blew up Trump and his cabinet.
Did she think "off the record" meant "just a gab session"? It was going to get published and it was going to be a big deal, credited to her or no.
Did she think "off the record" meant "just a gab session"? It was going to get published and it was going to be a big deal, credited to her or no.
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Ok, let's say it was true that Wiles thought this was all off the record (most likely, it's not). She still blew up Trump and his cabinet.
Did she think "off the record" meant "just a gab session"? It was going to get published and it was going to be a big deal, credited to her or no.
Did she think "off the record" meant "just a gab session"? It was going to get published and it was going to be a big deal, credited to her or no.
White-tailed Deer
Three-toed Sloth
Bison
Meadow Vole
African Elephant (from two feet away)
Three-toed Sloth
Bison
Meadow Vole
African Elephant (from two feet away)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Hedgehog
Roe deer
Badger
Muntjac deer
Fox
I live in the Cotswolds, okay?
Hedgehog
Roe deer
Badger
Muntjac deer
Fox
I live in the Cotswolds, okay?
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Osprey
Eider ducks
Orca
Bald eagle
California sea lion
Osprey
Eider ducks
Orca
Bald eagle
California sea lion
December 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
White-tailed Deer
Three-toed Sloth
Bison
Meadow Vole
African Elephant (from two feet away)
Three-toed Sloth
Bison
Meadow Vole
African Elephant (from two feet away)
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Many people, esp. in management, don’t want new ideas, they want you to magically make old and familiar ideas feel new again. They want to experience the feeling of novelty and surprise again, but only the exact feeling they’ve already had with one specific piece of bullshit nostalgia.
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Many people, esp. in management, don’t want new ideas, they want you to magically make old and familiar ideas feel new again. They want to experience the feeling of novelty and surprise again, but only the exact feeling they’ve already had with one specific piece of bullshit nostalgia.
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Seeing “AI” boosters loudly and proudly say they don’t have any ideas and that they don’t think anybody has ideas anymore is genuinely funny
Not just because ideas are the easy part, which most of you already know, but because very few people genuinely like new ideas and resist them at every turn
Not just because ideas are the easy part, which most of you already know, but because very few people genuinely like new ideas and resist them at every turn
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Seeing “AI” boosters loudly and proudly say they don’t have any ideas and that they don’t think anybody has ideas anymore is genuinely funny
Not just because ideas are the easy part, which most of you already know, but because very few people genuinely like new ideas and resist them at every turn
Not just because ideas are the easy part, which most of you already know, but because very few people genuinely like new ideas and resist them at every turn
It's time for a 100% reset. Primary everyone.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It's time for a 100% reset. Primary everyone.
This is the second paper I've added to my "must read" pile this morning. I have a feeling I'm coming out of today with some new ideas to integrate.
oh what fun it is to have this paper out :)
December 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is the second paper I've added to my "must read" pile this morning. I have a feeling I'm coming out of today with some new ideas to integrate.
This idea of "thin empathy" and "thick empathy" from @mjcrockett.bsky.social is lighting up my brain this morning. It's an intriguing model. We've built a world where chances for thin empathy abound, but thick empathy remains hard to come by.
I need to read that preprint today.
I need to read that preprint today.
"We face a social dilemma around the role of these empathy machines. Those who are most cognitively vulnerable may turn to these tools when what they most need is a flesh-and-blood human who will care for them, not sycophantically, but with thick empathy arising from the experience of being human."
Empty empathy machines
AI chatbots lack something fundamental to human empathy
buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This idea of "thin empathy" and "thick empathy" from @mjcrockett.bsky.social is lighting up my brain this morning. It's an intriguing model. We've built a world where chances for thin empathy abound, but thick empathy remains hard to come by.
I need to read that preprint today.
I need to read that preprint today.
Remember the good old days when, if you were presenting bullshit justifications for whatever bad crap you wanted to pull, you at least took the effort to doctor some evidence?
December 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Remember the good old days when, if you were presenting bullshit justifications for whatever bad crap you wanted to pull, you at least took the effort to doctor some evidence?
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New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.
AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show
New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.
www.nbcnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.
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Earlier this week, 42 state attorneys general sent a warning letter to the major AI companies regarding the dangers and harms created by AI chatbots. It's as forceful an indictment of what's happening that I've found, so here's a short thread to walk you through the evidence they've compiled... 🧵
Big Tech warned over AI 'delusional' outputs by US attorneys general
Microsoft, Meta, Google and Apple were among the 13 companies that received a warning from a bipartisan group of state attorneys general, according to a letter from the state leaders, who said their c...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Earlier this week, 42 state attorneys general sent a warning letter to the major AI companies regarding the dangers and harms created by AI chatbots. It's as forceful an indictment of what's happening that I've found, so here's a short thread to walk you through the evidence they've compiled... 🧵
Development: we have added a second cat.
December 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Development: we have added a second cat.
Visited the Ruth Asawa retrospective at MoMA. Spectacular.
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Visited the Ruth Asawa retrospective at MoMA. Spectacular.
The Soccer Hooligan Peace Prize is a real honor, sir
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The Soccer Hooligan Peace Prize is a real honor, sir
Johnson's Congress will of course be remembered for their groundbreaking work on fully stocking the National Gaslight Reserve.
Mike Johnson: "We've had one of the most productive Congresses in the history of the institution."
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Johnson's Congress will of course be remembered for their groundbreaking work on fully stocking the National Gaslight Reserve.
How humiliating. Claiming that a near octogenarian works more than you do when every media appearance of this supposed hard worker is him catatonic in public.
VARNEY: Do you work 18 hours a day?
MIKE JOHNSON: More. More. And I have to, because President Trump works 21 hours a day.
MIKE JOHNSON: More. More. And I have to, because President Trump works 21 hours a day.
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
How humiliating. Claiming that a near octogenarian works more than you do when every media appearance of this supposed hard worker is him catatonic in public.
If there's a way to attack black folks, directly or indirectly, Trump will do it. Straight up racist shit all day long.
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
If there's a way to attack black folks, directly or indirectly, Trump will do it. Straight up racist shit all day long.
This "Weekend At Bernie's" reboot is WILD
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This "Weekend At Bernie's" reboot is WILD