Why are Bari Weiss and David Ellison manipulating the news to protect child rapist Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices? Possibly connected to how Weiss pushed to hire Epstein friend Peter Attia?

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · 2d ago

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

It seems relevant that the thing Isaiah is being sent to do in that passage is to deliver a prophecy of doom to his own people for having fallen away from the path of righteousness. So if these guys were like, Isaiah, that would be robustly bad news for...the United States.

Matt Thiessen@mattthiessen.bsky.social · 3d ago

American Christianity in one social media post.

Media outlets should all stand together in opposition to this: boycott the conference altogether. The ban will grow to include you one day if you don’t cut it at the root

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

theguardian.com

Days ago I learned of an online dictionary with quotations from Marshall McLuhan themmm.marshallmcluhan.com As a test I put my favorite McLuhan quote into the machine and got a perfect result. Don't know who Marshall McLuhan was? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal... Search term was "house on fire"

The Trump admin had a real theory of war: Put on a show of toughness, tell people how manly you are, disdain law, do war crimes, and you win. Earlier losses came from leaders too "weak" to do that. It was a very stupid theory. But they espoused it a lot, really seem to believe it, and acted on it.

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 7d ago

President Toddler

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying

Weird review by a person who clearly doesn’t like Nolan films and so unsurprisingly doesn’t like the film. Seems more of an attempt to ensure no one confuses the screenplay with her translation. Also suggests the source material makes it an easy story to tell in film!

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

What are the best things to read about Nolan’s The Odyssey?

Asked about Trump's threats to bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran, Marco Rubio says "it looks like they're not ready to make a deal. So they're gonna continue to pay a price. And every night the price gets higher and higher." (This is a war crime.)

Trump on data centers: "You have to convince your communities how great these things are. You can't fight it. You have to go with it."

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White House says will not block Tate brothers’ extradition to UK | Sexual Assault News | Al Jazeera

Social media influencers to be extradited after UK authorities file dozens of new sex crime charges against them.

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Elon Musk Says Grok Will Make Feature-Length, AI-Generated and “Historically Accurate” ‘The Odyssey’ Movie Before the Year Ends

But for all of the outrage Musk has drummed up around Christopher Nolan's film — particularly over the casting of Lupita Nyong'o and Elliot Page — the film has not notably suffered at the box office at all.

hollywoodreporter.com

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dont-take-...

Don't Take Advice From Your Enemies

The most useless genre on earth.

hamiltonnolan.com

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” James Kirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history:

More Americans have been killed in the Iran war Trump started than in the Afghan withdrawal Biden was handed and completed. The implications for America’s geopolitical situation is much worse with attacking Iran than leaving Afghanistan. But going by tone of coverage, one would think the opposite.

'Must-read' is a cliche, but it applies to this story. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran

Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.

newyorker.com

My comments for WSJ about Trump's claims: “Beijing’s appetite for bulk data on foreign populations is well documented. Much American voter data is legally purchasable in the first place,” said Fergus Ryan, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a Canberra-based think tank.

Newsmax talking head: "I've lived in Beijing. I can say the elections in Beijing are much better than California and the United States."

Xi Jinping now has so many nicknames that anti-CCP satire account GFWfrog has built a website to catalogue them. It launched with 100 entries and is aiming for 8,964—a reference to 4 June 1989.

Sam Neill should have won an Oscar for this “help I’m being attacked by an invisible Chevy Chase” scene with a stupid looking plastic gun taped to the side of his head

“Authorities from France to the Netherlands are quietly removing American tech from their systems, adopting European open-source software and urging civil servants to no longer use Microsoft Teams or Office.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...

‘There Is No Going Back’: The Inside Story of Europe’s Rupture With America

Trump’s tariffs, threats against Greenland spurred a rebellion by top leaders; the limits of “flattery diplomacy.”

wsj.com

Sarah O'Connor's new book 'We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work' is an excellent read that reframes the conversations we have about technological change away from binary lists of winners and losers, and towards a discussion of power, politics and humanity. (3/3)

Interesting tidbit in this rare Chinese MeToo court victory: the victim says she only felt her suffering was acknowledged after talking to DeepSeek.

‘I have successfully defended my personal dignity’: woman wins rare MeToo court victory in China

Former intern and employee awarded 5,000 yuan (£554) in emotional damages after court found former manager had harassed her

theguardian.com

DeepSeek are looking for engineers “with an attacker’s perspective,” to build an AI agent that can “discover attack surfaces and construct attack paths.” Great find by my colleague Alex Colville.

Job ads show DeepSeek aims for an AI agent with cybersecurity capabilities | The Strategist

New job postings from DeepSeek show the Chinese AI lab plans to build an agentic model that can find vulnerabilities in code. These details, buried in a hiring round, show DeepSeek’s new strategy following the ...

aspistrategist.org.au

Good to see Chinese stand-up comedian Chizi, banned at home for refusing to stay inside the lines, plans on taking his act to Australia.

Banned by Beijing, this comedian is taking his act to Chinese speakers abroad

Chizi, one of China’s biggest stand-up comedians, has found a new stage after falling afoul of China's censors.

bbc.com

A US$200 AI plan today buys around US$8k of Claude Code tokens. Someone's paying the difference, & it isn't the customer. When the subsidy ends, the world won't run on the most powerful models. It'll run on the cheapest good-enough ones. My latest:

The AI the world will actually run on

America is winning the AI race and losing the AI market.

redpacket.substack.com

The AI supply-chain fight is no longer just about chips. It’s about whether Washington can convince partners that access to frontier models won’t vanish overnight.

Exclusive | US assures India over AI ‘kill switch’ as ‘Pax Silica’ expands to counter China

New Delhi says Washington pledged AI access would continue after Anthropic restrictions as the US-led initiative adds new members.

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