Everyone involved in this, including the Palantir employees who built the software and the executives that sold it, need to be tried for warcrimes

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3w ago

US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I just keep coming back to this fundamental mismatch: Some people think the point is Content, just more Content, endless Content to be mindlessly swiped through and consumed on 2x speed. Rather than art, creation, emotion, and shared humanity.

People don’t realize how 50/50 the politics of Oregon really are. We are always a knife’s edge away from far-right policies. And this governors race is highlighting that in full. Pay attention. And please, VOTE. This shit is terrifying. portlandtribune.com/2026/09/16/f...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to join Christine Drazan at Hillsboro event - The Portland Tribune

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So let me understand the headlines today. Built AI -> AI over taxes the grid Overtaxed grid —> big security concern Big security concern -> use AI to fix grid?? Which would require more energy?? And would create more security issues because AI is sketchy?? Huh??

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

Photos: Palestinians rebuild Gaza’s ruins with mud bricks, scrap https://aje.news/qhj0li

“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · last mo.

For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

Trump cut down cherry trees for which Washington DC is famous for one of his tacky golf courses. He’s planning to sell some of Yosemite Park to a private developer. He’s destroyed the East Wing. He’s threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center. That vulgar slob has no respect for beauty.

Took my toddler to the park twice in one week and have been in pain for two days straight. Disability, especially invisible disability, is so heavy on the soul. I want to run and climb and play with my baby and still be able to come home and make dinner without buckling from pain.

Remember when you were like 9 and learned about climate change and how bad it would look like in the 2020’s (the future which felt like a billion years away) if we didn’t do anything to change things and you told your family and they laughed and said that’s not real? No? Just me?

CNN@cnn.com · 2mo ago

Relentless heat and a dearth of rain are having a punishing effect on some of Europe’s most vital rivers. The waterways have tumbled to record lows in places, in a crisis so severe it can be seen from space. https://cnn.it/3TXXwqu

The way this headline is written makes it sound like Anya TJ herself is going out into Middle Earth with a rifle and a vendetta.

IGN@ign.com · 4mo ago

ICYMI: The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt For Gollum, the new prequel film directed by Andy Serkis, has added Anya Taylor-Joy to its cast as new character Seren, seen in a new image with a hood and bow. https://t.co/B6GmXcQNMt

By and large I’m a pacifist but I do believe that you should get to tase anyone who knocks loudly on your door ten minutes after your baby falls asleep.

A survivor of the Kent State Massacre rings the bell on campus today, May 4, at exactly 12:20, the moment his classmates fell, 56 years ago.

Teaching kids AI literacy - what it is, how it actually works, what the tradeoffs are in using it - would be a good thing. But that's not what's being proposed, they're trying to get it into grade schools to create AI dependency

This is one of the biggest churches in Oregon. We are talking thousands of people attending every week, up to a thousand PER service and multiple services. Last I heard their numbers were like 5k+. And streamed online. And this isn’t rural either, people attend from all over Portland metro.

SometimesPDX@sometimespdx.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Pastor Brett Meador of Athey Creek Church in West Linn, OR did another "Prophecy Update" on Friday. He again taught that the Jews are dead zombies right now, until they reject Judaism and convert to Brett's conservative evangelical Christianity. These are anti-Jewish teachings.

Mouth guards are pacifiers for athletes

They’re killing observers because they are threatened by them. the work these people are doing is profoundly brave. They’re all heroes.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

Black folks aren't being sanctimonious today, baby... we are reliving our collective PTSD. Speaking only for myself, I would not wish this level of un-personing and dehumanization on my worst enemies. But here we are.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

Christmas advice for ladies courtesy of the Dundee Courier (1930-1934) #OldWeirdScotland

The NYT has a lot of problems and one of them is that they won’t accept my damn spelling bee answers that are, in fact, words. If you’ll accept SLANG words why won’t you accept words like Caracal (a wild cat) or Cavitation (rapid forming of bubbles in a liquid). This is my stupid hill to die on.

Where’s the CBS News town hall focused on the Democrats assassinated in Minnesota?

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Bari Weiss has a CBS town hall set with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk. If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form. The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?” Via Jeremy Barr www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

Camilo Pérez-Bustillo@cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 11mo ago

truthout.org/articles/war...

they are trying to kill every trans kid in America when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink unconscionable evil

NPR@npr.org · 12mo ago

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

I cannot stress enough that tear gas is a chemical weapon that is literally BANNED by an international agreement from being used in WAR. But apparently it’s fair game to use against your own fucking people.

armando l sanchez@mandophotos.bsky.social · 12mo ago

More from the scene

If someone wrote this dystopia, people would have laughed and said “that would never happen in real life.”

Dr Karen Smith🍂🕷🦇🐇🐈 💚🇮🇪🎶🎭📽️🎞💙😷💉🕯️🦋🌻@karenapsmith.bsky.social · 12mo ago

‘An AI system…called local police to tell them the pupil was armed…they made him get on his knees, handcuffed and searched him – finding nothing… “I was just holding a Doritos bag”’ So it’s a stupid system & doesn’t work Who made money offloading this crap? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is Jim Crow shit.

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸@elizabethweill.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

"the perfect plate doesn't exist" The fact a woman drives this Subaru in Oregon makes it the perfect storm of Iconic