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The heads of Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and Apple gathered at the White House to endorse a plan to help America’s children learn to use artificial intelligence, as the industry rushes to show support and curry favour with the administration on.ft.com/4nexysf
Sometimes, you don't reap what you sow.
What makes this even more frustrating is the Tories did exactly the same thing, and it was one of things that destroyed them at the expense of Reform. The mechanism is so obvious.
God, I hate agreeing with Rand Paul...
"I’m not sure how I’ll greet this baby. I don’t know how I’ll feed it. I’m not even sure I’ll be alive when it comes." Read Dina al-Najjar's reflection on motherhood and pregnancy in Gaza:
Wonder if this will get the same coverage as Angela Rayner's stamp duty...
“The biggest looming threat is Israel's demand that aid groups operating in Gaza re-register under new rules. The rules include providing personal data on all [staff …] The move leaves aid organizations that do not comply by Israel's Sept. 9 deadline at risk of being shut down next week.”
Israel is charging customs fees for the aid trucks going to Gaza now, according to Jordan. That boggles my mind.
Ouch! "Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow" @petridishes.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Schoolkids who learn of the destruction of the Library of Alexandria* wonder how anyone could be so shortsighted and ignorant—so willing to destroy knowledge, ideas, and art. But between Trump/Elon/RFK Jr. on one hand and AI info-pollution on the other, we're living through such a moment ourselves.
Watching Melania read someone else's speech about AI should tell you everything about where the Once-United States is as a country. We're fast becoming Turkmenistan with nukes
This is utterly insane. You have to shut it all down until he follows the law.
NEW: Trump keeps moving the U.S. closer to being the fascist war machine he wants. Blowing up a boat on international waters and killing 11, extending federal troop presence in D.C. despite a new lawsuit, and an effort to rename the Defense Department. Tonight, at Law Dork:
"Suspected." Trump routinely accuses Brown people of being drug dealers, drug traffickers, and rapists. "047: License to Kill" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
Too bad Newsome is the one doing it. But mockery is one of the most effective weapons against fascism. And Democrats have failed to understand that for a decade.
The New York Times is clearly competing with Fox and Newsmax to be the favorite state media platform in a post-democratic Fourth Reich that was once the United States.
He might as well just say we "should never qvestion ze führer."
It’s disturbing how the details keep changing. trib.al/4P6ZzLY And even if the 11 crew members were supposed “narco terrorists,” such a designation does not serve as any legal basis for a combat strike.
"We all know Herr Schmitt’s answers--they make his position indistinguishable from the tiki-torch crowd. This is a U.S. senator doing the blood-and-soil, Great Replacement routine. This worldview has representation at the highest levels of our elected government." www.thebulwark.com/p/taking-nat...
RFK JR: We're not going to recommend a product for which there's no clinical data for that indication—is that what I should be doing? Warren: What you should be doing is honoring your promise that you made when you were looking to get confirmed in this job.
Less "large language model." More "illegal immigrant former model."
This timeline is so effing stupid
“My concern is that there is going to be a large outbreak of not just measles, but other vaccine-preventable diseases as well, that’s going to end up causing a lot of harm, and possibly deaths in children,” said Dr. Anna Durbin of @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social. (Published April 2025)
Here are links to the cert petition and motion to expedite: Petition: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... Motion: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
Relevant.
👇🎯 The case for more, not less, liberal arts education, remains as strong as ever. No matter what crypto bros, AI paladins, or CEOs regurgitating right-wing talking points about skills & higher education tell you, the ability to read & write well are the two scarcest resources in the labor market.
So fun fact if you are looking for a legal authority to tell the public your strike was conducted under a few days after you did the strike then the strike was just illegal bsky.app/profile/chri...
I really like this headline. Could be a a paper cut, could be a nuke.
Update: “A neo-Nazi music festival that was scheduled to take place in Great Yarmouth has been cancelled after a backlash from locals.” www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/2543569...
Hey, just circling back, did we ever get an update on this?
For what? So they can kill them with polio and measles?
New from me! Emails shared with WIRED reveal that the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service is participating in immigration enforcement, something they've never done before, at least not like this. www.wired.com/story/state-...
Perfect description!👇
Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows. www.vox.com/health/46008...
Here is a transcript of Posobiec's speech at this same event last year, where he said "We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity." (He was congratulated afterwards by a Republican senator.)
Covid and the paranoid, submoronic resistance to basic public health initiatives killed hundreds of thousands who could have survived. But raw stupidity is the pathogen that is going to kill millions of Americans.
The Trump administration has been desperate to find places to detain immigrants quickly, and it’s faster to open old facilities than to build new ones. The nation’s history of mass incarceration has meant that there is a glut of vacant buildings to use.
*GOP school shooting policy enters the chat* *GOP masking at school policy during a global pandemic enters the chat* *GOP demolition of WIC, school lunches, and other forms of basic sustenance, reinstating child labor laws, lowering the marriage age again.. Senator Wyden, my sweet summer child…
An ultra-MAGA county commissioner in Lewis County, WA argues that the Democrats are the new Confederacy because they refuse to acknowledge the total supremacy of federal law in regard to immigration. You'll never guess what this guy thought of federal gun laws in 2021. chronline.com/stories/swop...
Wyden says at the beginning of the hearing with RFK Jr: "The United States is in the midst of a health care calamity."
Look at this headline: HHS secretary attacks the CDC. We’ve gone through the mirror.
KEN PAXTON, KEN PAXTON, KEN PAXTON....oh, and EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN.
Calling Tristan Harris naive on the subject of AI? Um...Ok
Bari is a Nazi. The Nazis are much better at making sure their talent has resources to do their work.
Insane.
Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, tribunal rules
She is, indeed, wiser than all of you, Chris. But, then again, so is a ham sandwich.
The Reform conference is *very literally* being sponsored by a fossil fuel lobby group, the Heartland Institute.
Ah yes, the well known sources and methods challenges of…checks notes…politicizing things.
Trump doesn't want to be exposed as a rapist of children, so it looks like we're going to invade Venezuela. Or maybe Canada.
Frightening to see both Reform and now the Conservatives taking a page out of the Trump playbook by banning press access to publications they see as critical to their political positioning.
Polyamory is on the rise — especially in one US city where romantic partners have organised themselves into ever expanding networks
which is true? who can say, we're just a news outlet
Worth a watch. (Can't spell "naive" without AI)
I’ll be a Senator for people who can’t buy Senators.
The Irish comedian Graham Linehan was just arrested by British police for rude X posts—which is “totalitarian, absurd, and a waste of police time,” @helenlewis.bsky.social argues.
The captain of the ship that ordered the strike on the Venezuelan boat has a lot to answer for.
Because this is exactly the home someone with the emotional intelligence of a 9 year old would think was "awesome!"
The notion that anyone involved in the "Twitter files" episode could be taken seriously as a journalist as opposed to a PR flak is a disturbing sign of the times.
The men are not okay. In the past week a couple of 30 yr olds have told me "masculinity is about being capable of violence" "high value women peak in their 20s" "with all we know about women and men, it makes no sense to me that women should work". I have never felt more sorry for their gfs.
America, 2025
Hot mic catches Putin and Xi discussing organ transplants and immortality
It's 2025, laws don't matter.
The Venezuelan cartel Tren de Aragua has struck a deal with the Trump administration where the president and his family will receive 10% of the cartel’s stock of cocaine and other illegal drugs.
He is the worst, most dangerous, most unqualified cabinet member in American history. Nine former CDC directors and now over 1000 current and former HHS employees demand he resign over his gross incompetence. This maniac needs to quit or be replaced ASAP. www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/h...
I don't think I will ever understand how so many people actually voted for...this.
Bari Weiss taking a leading role at CBS News is the kind of dystopian vision for this year that everyone would have rightly told me was exaggerated if I posted it a year ago.
This guy also basically does not believe that Congress should exist, so this tracks www.axios.com/2025/09/03/r...
This is terrifying if true. A major mainstream news outlet will be run by a right-wing sycophant. Read the whole thread, please.
Why is Ted Cruz?
So, the party that fought to make abortion illegal is now trying to kill children by taking away vaccines? They really are awful. And just...weird.
We coulda elected the Black woman but nah.
They don't care about following laws that would restrain their actions. Laws are to be used for constraining their opponents
jesus christ
I feel like the *most* charitable explanation for this paragraph would be that the author let one of his subjects write it for him
it’s very telling how many of the people involved with AI research in the 20th century - most of whom seemed to have largely meant well - simply never seem to have thought about our current “ultra-rich sociopaths try to use AI tools to crush everyone else forever” scenario
Fetterman is another Gabbard
oh no
Ruling against Trump, judge says ‘antisemitism used as smokescreen’ to cut Harvard’s funding https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-september-04-2025/
Powerful graphic: Chicago just saw its smallest summer murder total since 1965. The city is on track to see one of its lowest murder totals in decades, a trend in play all year that continued through the city's most violent season. Murders are way, way down after a spike. Look:
Tomorrow's NY Times headline: "Florida Takes Bold Steps to Solve Social Security Shortfalls. Other States to Follow"
It’s exhausting seeing people’s hard work and knowledge being stolen, and then redeployed against them by this bullshit AI scourge
Whenever I look at Nigel Farage, I assume Pee Wee Herman and Katie Hopkins must've had a drunken hook-up
Amen.
Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
One's real commitment to Truth is revealed in the acceptance of those Truths that are hardest to accept – not hardest to hear.
It's like "The Apprentice: Hunger Games"
Really good piece here by @pbump.com.👇
After a seemingly AI-generated image of Mangione’s likeness appeared on Shein’s website, the fast-fashion house is investigating what happened.
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