Guessing all those options will stay right there on the table.
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Guessing all those options will stay right there on the table.
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
the storytelling, the absolutely weird guys (nazis) and all the little-known and obscure detours and spin-offs are pure gold. one of the best podcasts around IMO.
it's great!
1/ The role of experts in a democracy is to provide: 1️⃣ Advice to democratically elected leaders on the options available to achieve the objectives those leaders select; 2️⃣ Advice to democratically elected leaders on the likely outcomes and consequences of leaders' proposed plans.
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Check this shit out motherfucker *embargoes own country*
You’re not dropping a single, asshole. If you’re actually knew anything, it would be criminal not to reveal it now. But of course, this is a bullshit publicity stunt.
👀 what have I missed now?
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
Would be for the best if I had to have a toaster like that
Russians use drones to hunt civilians in Kherson Russians are deliberately targeting civilians in Kherson, dropping grenades from drones and filming the attacks as “training.” Russians publish these videos themselves: this time they tried to kill a man out walking with his dog.
Debris here 🤡 bsky.app/profile/spec...
One of the strikes on Russian gas processing complex in Ust-Luga caught on camera.
By not showing up he stopped the Vietnam war as well
Psychiatrist: Daryl I need you to speak to me Man who formed a cult based around Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: slamma banana in a hotbox jamma Psychiatrist: Daryl you must be present with me Man who formed a cult based around Anthony Kiedis: touchi titty in the state of Mississippi
If you haven’t seen it yet, our team has released one of our largest investigations to date, revealing the scale of Chinese involvement in Russia’s Shahed drone program - a program that would be impossible without China frontelligence.substack.com/p/shaheds-do...
He's going to keep hitting the pinata until free candy stops coming out
Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars Theo Von: Yeah Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money Von: Right
back in the day before you got online you had to listen to the digitized sound of the forsaken child that powered the internet, and it was a lot healthier for everyone.
I doubt that very much, he just likes these "strong men". Happy to be wrong though.
No question, Trump has sided with Putin from day 1. He just wants this inconvenient war to go away. He doesn't care about Ukraine or Europe, the only reason he hasn't gone all in yet is because even he sees that it would look bad to make it *too* clear.
Lavrov believes that Finland prospered thanks to Russia. Some numbers: ◾️Finland: GDP per capita: $54,160 Average salary: $4,701 Average pension: $2,449 ◾️Russia: GDP per capita: $14,260 Average salary: $616 Average pension: $214
"I'm spending half a trillion dollars to build data centres, but everyone else’s capex is a bubble and they better slow down"
Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats
A nation that metabolizes as "normal" the fact that red-pilled, conspiracy-obsessed ideologues with zero qualifications and zero concern for empirical reality are running the country, is a nation that doesn't have much of a future ahead of it as either a democracy or a remotely prosperous place.
As Ukrainian and European leaders travel to Washington for discussions in the White House this Monday about ending Russia’s illegal war of aggression, Americans would do well to remember these ten principles of negotiation. snyder.substack.com/p/common-sen...
⚡️ Update: Russian strike on Kharkiv kills at least 4, including toddler, injures 18. A 16-year-old boy became the fourth victim of the Russian attack on Kharkiv, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
Amputating your head will also cure your headache,which is more or less what rfk is doing to medical research and preparedness in the US
Lugosi?
Yesterday Vladimir Kara-Murza spoke at #libcon2025 about Putin's tactics, and he told a story of how Putin brags about his "recruitment" skills and gave three examples (involving 3 US Presidents) about how good he is at telling them exactly what they want to hear... and how they always fall for it
Putin has arrived in Alaska, and there he is 100% being welcomed as an important guest. A dictator who started the biggest war since the end of World War II, who killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of people, who abducted tens of thousands of children, is still being received as a guest.
A piece I've written for KCL's 'Our Divided Planet' forum on the Alaska summit and why it matters even though it's very unlikely to achieve its state goals: www.kcl.ac.uk/trump-putin-...
Yeah, you have to know how in order to stop them, I guess.
Sounds like the Trump admin wants to create its own Berkut or OMON force of skull thumpers.
The committee is appointed by Parliament members, but it's a private one. See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegi...
The Dotard indeed.
1/ Thousands of illegal workhouses operate in Russia, advertising openly on poles, streetlights and in underground passages. They accommodate – and exploit – many of the estimated 1.9 million people in Russia who are living as slaves. ⬇️
@davidrussellmoore.bsky.social wrote a barn-burner on this topic at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/sam-altman-a...
I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.
Have agreed to meet Donald for his first 1-1 employee review of 2025.
those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
⚡️ UEFA pays $13 million in 'solidarity' money to Russian football clubs while Ukrainian teams fail to receive funds, Guardian reports.
The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at S&P 500 companies last year was 285-to-1. The median employee would have had to start working in the year 1740 to earn what the average CEO received in 2024. Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?
So, nothing then.
Bad enough Labour are attacking higher education in this country but now they have to wreck my plan B career too!?
Russian Patriarch Kirill was seen wearing a €30,000 Breguet Classique 5177BR during a July 30 meeting with Laos's president. The watch has an 18k gold case, 38mm diameter, 55-hour power reserve, and sapphire caseback. Probably, it was “God-given.” What else could it be?
they'll fit right in - and they will throw money on trump and his family
In both OpenAI and Anthropic's cases, revenue acceleration comes with a massive acceleration of costs. Even if they grow at these rates, even if they succeed at hitting their projections, they are running businesses that burn billions of dollars *after* revenue. www.wheresyoured.at/howmuchmoney/
Adam Shatz in @lrb.co.uk writes about Israel's genocide in Gaza and the emerging new world order. Also: how the Palestine issue plays in the West (especially in U.S. partisan politics) and how Israel's fascist drift is pioneering, not some global outlier. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
over time the american oligarchy has so selected for grifters and charlatans that they are now incapable of producing a Business Plot 2
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
Russia murdered Iryna Humenyuk and her two daughters, Alina and Anastasia. Girls studied in Kyiv’s Lyceum. Iryna was a refugee from Donbas. The family first moved to Kharkiv, and then from Kharkiv to Kyiv. 🕯️ Kyiv, July 31, 2025
1/ Donald Trump's reasons for his firing of the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics are an ominous echo of a notorious concept from Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany: that of scapegoating individuals or groups as economic "wreckers" or "saboteurs". ⬇️
why isn’t the left talking about where mother’s face goes when we play peekaboo
um. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Russians killed this family in Kyiv on July 31. Whole family.
I would just... buy pierogis somewhere else? But also, no one has ever refused to sell me pierogis.
From The Archives: ‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths
Kyiv came under a massive drone attack overnight. Unfortunately, there were strikes and fires in a residential building and an educational institution. Russia is a terrorist state. Putin is a war criminal. Russians must be held accountable for their crimes.
#Kyiv residents spend yet another night sheltering in the metro- mourning the dead,calling loved ones in the morning to make sure they're still alive This year,there have been almost no nights without air raid alerts& attacks. This war is not being waged by Putin alone.It’s being waged by Russians⤵️
Nothing new, bombing hospitals is a Russian tradition. See newlinesmag.com/newsletter/r...
/1. Russian media report a massive cyberattack on Aeroflot, the country’s largest airline. The version about a hack has now been officially confirmed — Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office stated that the disruption was caused by a cyberattack.
1/ If you target me with tariffs, that's bad for your consumers who have to pay more to buy my products, and it's bad for my producers who will probably sell you fewer things. For my government, the negative impact on your consumers is irrelevant unless it changes your behaviour.
This must be a campaign ad for Mamdani
He wasn't turned loose already? The policy was and remains the same, Israel is free to wage war however they like, and America will pay the bill.
Wait. Marc Thiessen has never heard of batteries? And he's still employed by the Washington Post?
Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region. A city destroyed by Russians. This is what Russia brings with it. 📹: libkos/Instagram
🙏 Chasiv Yar. This is what the city looks like today, where about 13,000 Ukrainians lived until the Russian occupiers came to "liberate" them. 📸 Photo - Konstiantyn and Vlada Liberov
Ah, it's the "people in Gaza" now, not Hamas. I guess it's fine to shoot them when they line up for food then.
Who was propping up Hamas for years? Bibi. Every sane person condemns Hamas and terrorism, no matter who the perpetrator is. The US "condemnation" of Bibi and IDF isn't worth much when it comes with $12.5 billion worth of military aid attached.
Wait, they finally hired you?
Motherfucker I can barely access Microsoft teams from my computer
Because he's a correspondent for the christian propaganda network CBN, used to be Oliver North's camera man. His report from "inside" Gaza that you posted doesn't show anything from Gaza except a bunch of crates and unverifiable statements inbetween his gold hawking. Pure IDF propaganda.
The law hasn't been changed, Zelensky said he would propose changes. Let's hope it happens. If there's one thing Ukraine needs for other countries to keep support them (and for democracy, domestic support) it's credible action against corruption. Corruption kills countries, look at Russia.
Israel doesn't allow foreign journalists into Gaza. Reporters have only been able to enter Gaza under Israeli military escort and with strict rules on their reporting. Worthless.
What kind of question is that? I am confident that the Kyiv Independent - after all their reporting in the years since Russia's invasion - is pretty firmly on the Ukrainian side. You seem to think otherwise?
No, but that's just whataboutism. Children die from starvation.
A Russian tradition: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will urge European partners to help fund higher wages for his soldiers fighting Russia’s invasion, in a renewed effort to bolster military recruitment amid growing fatigue in the war-torn country. www.ft.com/content/5483...
“Wow, you’ve got the whole room tarped up—you guys doing some painting later?” said Ghislaine Maxwell theonion.com/ghislai...
If you're worried about ChatGPT taking your job, here is their "agent" spending 6 minutes to try and make a reservation at a Thai restaurant - literally any Thai restaurant in Brooklyn- only to completely break. Powerful AI is amazing. We live in the future
It will absolutely pretend it did
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s controversial move to take control of his country’s anti-corruption bodies poses a risk to European funding and Kyiv’s path to EU accession, top European officials have warned. Story w/ @paolatamma.bsky.social @henryjfoy.ft.com www.ft.com/content/ef23...
This is from TODAY. Utter lunacy
What context is being ignored? The WSJ writes about these arrests. How many times are you going to spam the same article?
I’m trying to think of any other major tech example in history that was treated this way. We’re going to give you a bunch of money and then we’ll figure out whether it’s needed or useful later.
VICE's owner Savage Ventures has requested the removal of my Collective Shout articles. This is due to concerns about the controversial subject matter—not journalistic complaints Effective immediately, I will no longer contribute to Waypoint. I suggest letting VICE's owner know if this upsets you
In 1988 Umberto Eco wrote Foucault's Pendulum. The plot is: a bunch of guys working at a self-publisher house, for fun, take their huge crackpot and crank slush pile and jam it all together using a simple markov chain program written in BASIC. They create a Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory.
Is the practice of sexual assault wrong? Depends on who you ask.
How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible.
her 2005 NY wedding is a good contender?: x.com/francis_scar...
A good rule: Whatever the all in freaks are promoting is wrong.
Completely off the deep end into conspiracy theory realm here. Obama is going to jail for Russiagate? Lmao man
It's completely useless, and I have no idea what the business case would be here. Kill off the websites they scavenge and make ad money from, what does that leave them with? Current "AI" is mostly a steaming pile of sunk cost bullshit we don't need.
