Dystopos
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Personal account of the founder/publisher of Bhamwiki. Statements of fact or opinion may change when I learn new things.
been reading regime change and I had either forgotten or not realized that the initial justification for the ongoing national guard occupation of DC was that big balls got beat up by teenagers.
Friend of Putin oligarch Konstantin Sokolov makes a nice fat donation to Trump's ballroom project, and gets relief from Treasury Department sanctions in exchange. This is known as a quid pro quo transaction. It's a felony. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
esquire.com
The way I’m reading it they are partners in the bikini-wearing.
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3d agook but what did SHE wear
Stealing money specifically appropriated for Slovakia and North Macedonia FEELS like a favor to Putin. Stealing money specifically appropriated for Iraq -- from which we've withdrawn a SECOND major base in the Middle East -- feels like a favor to Putin's allies in Iran.
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
The result you get from of asking an AI to explain itself is even less trustworthy than the silly botched result you’re asking it to explain. It wasn’t trained on descriptions of its own operations.
This announced impoundment is best viewed as a confession. The Admin is claiming a non-existent right to NOT use the funds provided by Congress for their lawful purpose; it is employing a timing gimmick that relies on having ILLEGALLY withheld the funds up until now.
Maybe --- just maybe, mind you --- we need to have a long conversation about Schmitt's "criminal falsification of evidence against a witness." Which, as I believe, violates 18 U.S. Code § 1519, (falsifying records in federal investigations) with the penalty being "imprisonment for up to 20 years."
"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel
Emily Chang talked about the sex parties and pressure to attend in her 2018 book Brotopia. She mentioned a San Francisco party where pills with the Tesla logo were offered.
Feminize a band name 10,000 Hysterics
Wordorigins.org@wordorigins.bsky.social · last wk.Feminize a band name Lynda Skynyrd
Fun Fact: In 2014, Tuberville started a charity for veterans. But it turns out it was basically just a scam. The vast majority of donations went to hosting golf tournaments so Tuberville could network for personal gain. He also ran 3 Ponzi schemes. But sure, Furries are the real danger. Right.
NYT Investigation: “Tommy Tuberville’s Financial Fumbles” Raise More Questions About His Judgment, Integrity - DSCC
Tuberville “Has A History Of Involvement With At Least Three People Who Were Later Convicted Of Financial Fraud In What Were Described As Ponzi Schemes” A Review Of Tax Records For Tuberville’s Charit...
dscc.org
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 2w agoFrom 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.
Impeach the motherfucker.
Louisa Loveluck@leloveluck.bsky.social · 2w agoBarred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead. - 25,000 people deported - $410 million spent. - UN aid used to sweeten the deals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Spending these days fact-checking and endnoting, I've been Googling at industrial scale, which has given my a brain-melting lesson in how fucked we are as a civilization. In today's installment, a quote from Geo W. Bush's 2nd inaugural in 2005 is depicted—why not?—as one from Obama's in 2013.
Anthropic employees: NEXT-GEN AI COULD WIPE OUT HUMANITY WITH A SUPERVIRUS! Normies: that seems like a big leap. How would this AI disseminate such a virus in the real world? Anthropic employees: oh, through the wet labs we built and hooked it up to, of course. Normies: …😬😤
Thomas Wood@advanced-eschatonics.com · 2w agocool
Yeah: the Unitary Executive theory of removals is dumb because the President must faithfully execute the laws—including civil rights law—and firing people because of race and gender violates civil rights law. People really need to read Federalist Paper No. 69.
Cristian Farias@cristianfarias.com · 2w agoIn a Manhattan federal courtroom today, a lawyer for the Trump administration argued that Article II of the Constitution lets the president fire a federal employee because he’s Black, and there’s nothing a court can do about it. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
This place needs more “look at this stupid thing I made because the idea amused me” and less “here is my position on the recurring social object”
The panic/anticipation of the AI IPOs feels...off? Someone who is smarter at the economy tell me, is it typical for companies to keep delaying their IPOs without publishing a prospectus like Anthropic is doing? (at least, as of an early Sept report in Forbes) www.forbes.com/sites/jonmar...
Anthropic Delays IPO And Expands Credit Line To $15 Billion
Anthropic pushes its IPO to mid October while securing a $15 billion credit line, signaling lender confidence and a stronger balance‑sheet strategy.
forbes.com
U may see Greta Thunberg's lifework & think "wow this kid really embodies the Christ Consciousness" but what if I told u a white German South African American man who made his riches selling the blood of young people to now fund AI war machines & turn the US into an open oligarchy said she is Satan
What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist?
The tech mogul is amping up his apocalyptic rhetoric—and adding a dangerous dose of extremism into the already-fraught culture war.
newrepublic.com
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 2y agoGood morning to everyone who likes seeing Peter Thiel so so so scared ONLY
To be the boss is to sit alone at your desk, haunted by the suspicion that you are not in the driver's seat, but rather, you are in the back seat playing with a Fisher Price steering wheel.
So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoLMAO this guy is being featured at Trumpapalooza because Trump pardoned him
I understand the “absolutely nots”, but then I also think a lot of 1960s dems in congress were either outright racists or hedgers on race on the campaign trail, but who voted with the majority on civil rights laws and confirmed Thurgood Marshall et al to the court. And I feel like I’d take that.
