They had to put down the AI they trained on my posts. It cost a trillion dollars and now it can only generate sentences like "The heart is the ass of the chest"
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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A Dutch bank has warned that Europe risks falling into a “doom loop” in which climate damage slows economic growth, prompting governments to weaken climate policy, and so leaving the continent even more exposed to future heatwaves. euobserver.com/232026/eu-fu...
EU fuelling economic ‘doom loop’ by weakening climate rules during record heatwave, Dutch bank says
Dutch bank Triodos argues that by prioritising “competitiveness” over tougher carbon pricing amid this summer's heat crisis, the EU is leaving its economy more exposed to future climate shocks.
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welcome to the field of dreams, an homage to a movie revolving around men banned for life from baseball for gambling. brought to you by fanduel
lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4d agoonly now realizing the field of dreams game happened and this is all so unbelievably stupid
would only add that i firmly believe it is important to destroy elon. not just x, but take a sledgehammer to spacex and tesla
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 4d ago"I conclude that for the next president, the first, most straightforward, and arguably most important task is to destroy X. It is not only a clear and present danger to American democracy and national security, it is *the* organizing hub of the global fascist movement." prospect.org/2026/06/09/t...
Russell Westbrook was singular: defector.com/russell-west...
Russell Westbrook Was Singular | Defector
When the Seattle SuperSonics drafted Russell Westbrook fourth overall in 2008, around six weeks before they officially became the Oklahoma City Thunder, the league had no idea what to do with such an ...
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Bishop Barron is a stupid asshole, by continual choice
Nikolaj Bill@nikolajbill.bsky.social · 6d agoYour Excellency, you’re a bishop of a midsize diocese in Minnesota.
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
the appalachian mountains are older than the rings of saturn. show some fucking respect
Kris Lorischild@direkris.itch.io · 5d agoIt's so cute when people on the east coast talk about mountains
the bluesky wokescolds are at it again. you won't believe what they're furious about this time, it's just my new essay "i enjoyed my time working with fascists and appreciate all they've done to grease the wheels of my career"
hm yes, truly an incredible reporter, say some more about how great he is
Albert Burneko@albertburneko.bsky.social · 5d agoProfessional Manipulator Of Journalists Nice And Accommodating To Journalist, Says Journalist
love love love this essay by David Hollingshead. So smart, so funny, and winningly earnest
Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...
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Professional Manipulator Of Journalists Nice And Accommodating To Journalist, Says Journalist
Not the main point here but I also fucking hate how they think comrade is some kind of slur that means “Russian evil” and not one of the best things you can be for someone.
Jordan@slclunk.com · 5d agoThere seems to be this mental block for libs and anti-Trump Republicans that don’t see the difference in democratically controlling industry through the state, and elite power colluding with industry to enrich themselves at the expense of democracy, the citizenry, and the state
With the power of AI, information can pour straight through your skull and onto the ground without ever slowing: defector.com/axios-ai-rea...
With The Power Of AI, Information Can Pour Straight Through Your Skull And Onto The Ground Without Ever Slowing | Defector
Reading. What is it? Why does anyone do it? Can anyone at Axios do it? No. Maybe that is why they write like that. When you read a book, the stuff in the book goes into your mind, and your mind assemb...
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![Still, there's no doubt talk of her dark side is accurate. When Danny Fields describes her as "Nazi-esque", he's not affectionately referring to her regal, demanding personality, but to her racism. "Every once in a while there'd be something about Jews and I'd be, 'But Nico, I'm Jewish,' and she was like 'Yes, yes, I don't mean you.' She had a definite Nordic Aryan streak, [the belief] that she was physically, spiritually and creatively superior." Worse, on one occasion, she acted those beliefs out, explosively. In the restaurant at the Chelsea Hotel sometime in the very early 1970s, Nico sat with a bunch of musicians, among them a beautiful mixed-race singer who'd worked with Jimi Hendrix. According to Fields, "Nico was, I dunno, feeling neglected, or drunk, but suddenly she said 'I hate black people,' and smashed a wineglass on the table and stuck it in the girl's eye. There was lots of blood and screaming. Fortunately she just twisted it around her eye socket, so the glass never reached [the eye] but it's not like she was being cautious." Fields claims the Warhol crowd spirited Nico on to a plane and out of the country the next morning, while somehow managing to placate the victim and hush up the affair.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vuiiafki2ub6qm7bcglmambd/bafkreih7l5xomx4vkb32rmsei5yl5xc5h25lxgbg46zym2pjiosbvedsm4)
I've done it. At last. A comic with an audience smaller than zero.
With the power of AI, information can pour straight through your skull and onto the ground without ever slowing: defector.com/axios-ai-rea...
With The Power Of AI, Information Can Pour Straight Through Your Skull And Onto The Ground Without Ever Slowing | Defector
Reading. What is it? Why does anyone do it? Can anyone at Axios do it? No. Maybe that is why they write like that. When you read a book, the stuff in the book goes into your mind, and your mind assemb...
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great blog and the lede reads like it was laser-targeted for me personally
Jesse Coburn@jessecoburn.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW: Flaming robots. Haywire Turkish machines. An actual dumpster fire. General Dynamics received $533 million from the Army to produce artillery but hasn’t made a single usable shell. ProPublica got the inside story of what went wrong. It’s a wild ride: www.propublica.org/article/gene...
AOC being single is like “the olsen twins are turning 18” for guys who faced a grievance hearing over aggressive sexual behavior towards women in their DSA chapter
"no one will be normal about AOC if she runs for president" is both true and a bad reason for her not to run. you could run the most milquetoast middle of the road clean cut straight white man alive and the right is still going to act like the deranged freaks they are
When we call them death squads it's because they're death squads.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d agoThis is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
My office has been in contact with the woman who recorded this video of an ICE agent drawing a gun on her. She is a Northern Virginia native and a mother.
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 6d agoVideo of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
I went to the Charli XCX show and all I got was this reassurance that oblivion is freedom: defector.com/charli-xcx-m...
Charli XCX Made A Beautiful Monument To Impermanence | Defector
SAN FRANCISCO — Charli XCX had a cold. You could only tell after five songs and one costume change, when the backup dancers and full backing band briefly disappeared so she could perform “Track 10,” t...
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This is like using a forklift to do deadlifts and saying it's making you stronger
Matt Pearce@mattdpearce.com · 7d agoI’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
