Larry Lurker
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Here for a bad time not a long time.
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I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.
cnb.cx
January 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
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mamdani withdrew a mass of executive orders issued after the thoroughly corrupt former mayor was indicted and his charges ultimately dropped following attempted extortion by the white house
the nyt's coverage?
the nyt's coverage?
Mamdani Revokes Executive Orders That Adams Signed to Support Israel
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:45 PM
mamdani withdrew a mass of executive orders issued after the thoroughly corrupt former mayor was indicted and his charges ultimately dropped following attempted extortion by the white house
the nyt's coverage?
the nyt's coverage?
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Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.
January 2, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.
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New Year's Eve just hasn't been the same since New Year's Steve died
January 1, 2026 at 3:48 AM
New Year's Eve just hasn't been the same since New Year's Steve died
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Bruce Wayne arguing against M4A on Christmas so everyone thinks he sucks too hard to be Batman.
January 1, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Bruce Wayne arguing against M4A on Christmas so everyone thinks he sucks too hard to be Batman.
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White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President https://theonion.com/white-house-doctor-trump-has-far-more-bones-than-any-prior-president/
December 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President https://theonion.com/white-house-doctor-trump-has-far-more-bones-than-any-prior-president/
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New — CNN reports the CIA conducted a remote drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela earlier this month with support from US Special Forces, citing “sources familiar with the matter.” The CIA declined to comment.
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast | CNN Politics
The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that...
www.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
New — CNN reports the CIA conducted a remote drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela earlier this month with support from US Special Forces, citing “sources familiar with the matter.” The CIA declined to comment.
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The best Christmas tradition is singing "What Child Is This?" until Maury comes down the chimney with the paternity test results
December 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The best Christmas tradition is singing "What Child Is This?" until Maury comes down the chimney with the paternity test results
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like prime, but with human beings”
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got my adhd upgraded to ad4k
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
got my adhd upgraded to ad4k
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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
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Rep. Melanie Miller is behind a bill that advocates say would stigmatize abortion and send more clients to her nonprofit. “Crisis pregnancy center director introduces anti-abortion model legislation” is a ready-made headline—so why was this fact only a footnote?
Ohio Anti-Abortion Bill Sponsor Runs a Crisis Pregnancy Center. Few News Stories Mentioned It.
Rep. Melanie Miller is behind a bill that advocates say would stigmatize abortion and send more clients to her nonprofit.
www.autonomynews.co
December 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Rep. Melanie Miller is behind a bill that advocates say would stigmatize abortion and send more clients to her nonprofit. “Crisis pregnancy center director introduces anti-abortion model legislation” is a ready-made headline—so why was this fact only a footnote?
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This is mob shit and they could try to use it on any other kind of medical care they don’t like. Abortion, birth control, childhood vaccines
CMS is saying they can do this because this care is not "healthcare" and thus they aren't regulating practice of medicine... seems like a slippery slope? what stops them from next saying abortion isn't healthcare?
Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf
December 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This is mob shit and they could try to use it on any other kind of medical care they don’t like. Abortion, birth control, childhood vaccines
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The incredibly depressing thing is knowing there is ~zero chance of this actually happening. We’re going to Gerald Ford this again, as we always do, & leave all kinds of awful policies in place, as we always do, & the wrong people are going to be listened to, & the authoritarian problem will fester
There is, of course, ~zero chance of this happening. Democratic insiders are going to listen to Ezra Douthglesias & run on some amazing, ambitious Do An Abundance Of Popularism policy agenda which will die in the Senate & at SCOTUS. And the far right authoritarian threat will still be here. Again.
December 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The incredibly depressing thing is knowing there is ~zero chance of this actually happening. We’re going to Gerald Ford this again, as we always do, & leave all kinds of awful policies in place, as we always do, & the wrong people are going to be listened to, & the authoritarian problem will fester
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that WSJ article about wheelchairs at the airport obviously sucks shit but it points to another issue which is Americans are so thoroughly worked over by constant and omnipresent scams that they now see anything which benefits another person as merely a scam that they are not in on
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 AM
that WSJ article about wheelchairs at the airport obviously sucks shit but it points to another issue which is Americans are so thoroughly worked over by constant and omnipresent scams that they now see anything which benefits another person as merely a scam that they are not in on
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This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.
The admin is wasting no crisis... Sec. Kristi Noem said she is suspending the diversity visa lottery program (DV-1) after the Brown University suspect entered the U.S. through it in 2017.
December 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.
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My private equity owned dentist does things a little differently. I pay a monthly fee to keep the teeth I already have, and if I unsubscribe they send a guy to knock them out
December 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My private equity owned dentist does things a little differently. I pay a monthly fee to keep the teeth I already have, and if I unsubscribe they send a guy to knock them out
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During Trump’s first term, Cuellar voted to check the president’s power to launch military strikes multiple times — but that was before Cuellar was compromised by Trump’s pardon. Democrats who want to win back voters’ trust should kick Corrupt Cuellar out of the party.
December 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
During Trump’s first term, Cuellar voted to check the president’s power to launch military strikes multiple times — but that was before Cuellar was compromised by Trump’s pardon. Democrats who want to win back voters’ trust should kick Corrupt Cuellar out of the party.
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techbros: we have created AGI
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
techbros: we have created AGI
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
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oh that's interesting. usually when adult children break contact with their abusive parents, the parents are quiet, demure, and reflective. i've never heard of them cajoling/bribing corrupt or impressionable journal editors to slander their own flesh and blood in the press out of callow spite
Welcome to the pissed-off parent pushback: After years of therapists and others encouraging adult children to cut ties with families they deem harmful or “toxic,” estranged parents are speaking out on.wsj.com/4s49U52
These Moms Are Done Being ‘Doormats’ for Their Estranged Children
Parents publicly blast their adult offspring for cutting them off, drawing tens of thousands of online followers.
on.wsj.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
oh that's interesting. usually when adult children break contact with their abusive parents, the parents are quiet, demure, and reflective. i've never heard of them cajoling/bribing corrupt or impressionable journal editors to slander their own flesh and blood in the press out of callow spite
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HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
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