Trump's narcissism knows no bounds.
Trump disputes his own Justice Department's findings on Reflecting Pool
Aug 1 (Reuters) - U.S.
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Owen Smigelski
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Dad of 3 boys, server admin since 93. I do ICANN policy, compliance & legal for Namecheap. Adjacent to LAX. Distance runner, geek, reader, Yankees, Stern fan. Big supporter of 🇺🇦 and science. Nothing I post is remotely legal advice.
One less baseless witchhunt court case filed solely because of Trump's delusions and narcissicm, so many left to go.
Charges dropped against ex-Olympian over Reflecting Pool damage after Trump admin admits ‘flawed installation’
Jeanine Pirro’s office blames Trump’s Department of Interior after she and the president publicly raged against David Hearn
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I despise AI nostalgia slop videos in part because one of my favorite things to watch is old b-roll/travel footage of places. Like whomever put up this camcorder footage of a trip to NYC in '89 will see heaven. youtu.be/PIWDet5X2Bk?...
NYC 1989 : Manhattan - New York City
YouTube video by Nosfratau
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Good- it’s time the people of Russia have a hint of the suffering of the Ukrainian people.
Ukraine hits more outlets of Russia's largest online marketplace to bring the war home
Ukraine's attacks on the sprawling Russian warehouses have produced stark images, with massive pillars of smoke rising above fires that raged at facilities of Wildberries, the country’s biggest online...
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"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
404media.co
Anthropic was jealous of all of the press OpenAI received over their lies about rogue AI, so they decided to make up their own lie for free promotion because the media just parrots any BS the AI grifters belch forth.
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 6d agowhoops we ALSO recklessly failed to adequately secure our own hacking software the only conclusion possible is that the singularity has arrived
most tech outlets spent the week burying the lede that this was a completely avoidable error (or intentional marketing decision) by a human being, and not a malevolent self aware cyber consciousness that slipped its leash
OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.
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Mark Zuckerberg set $350+ billion on fire for Metaverse and "me too" AI garbage and it's wild that prominent news outlets can't point out that he's not innovative or competent. He stumbled ass first into a lucrative ad monopoly and has just been flailing ever since.
Tuberville has immunity from defamation. Fox News does not.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.TUBERVILLE: Fauci killed 9 million people FOX BUSINESS: Yeah. We can't prove that, right? TUBERVILLE: We can
Yuuuuuup. As a dude with an Italian last name, I am well aware how recently Italians were given "white" status here in the US, and how much of a scandal it was when my first-generation Italian grandfather married my Yankee grandmother whose forebears helped found New Amsterdam.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.Just want to drop this bit of nativist paranoia about Italians here. Check out the labels.
there's 5 main reasons they want you to think AI is now self-aware and "goes rogue" 1. product marketing misrepresentation 2. props up insane valuations for a sector not making money 3. scares lawmakers into trash legislation 4. distracts from technofascism 5. distances execs from accountability
Also in our new poll, some data on Trump's legacy projects and personal earnings. Unsurprisingly, these are unpopular with the public, but they're also not doing much to rally his base. www.cnn.com/2026/07/29/p...
I’m shocked that fascist thugs are also racist thugs.
ICE agents used racial slurs to refer to Latinos, videos and texts appear to show
ICE agents in Los Angeles used slurs to refer to Latinos, body camera footage released in court filings appears to show.
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This is why they’re going after Dr Fauci: he impeded grifters
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."
5 days ago
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.(Reuters) - Iran is expected to receive within weeks a first shipment out of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired-air-defence missle launchers, three sources familiar with the deal told Reuters .. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/china/...
I for one am SHOCKED that Trump lied about something. It's so unlike him.
Trump hasn’t asked the Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case despite his vow
The deadline for the administration to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider the ruling that struck down the president’s effort to limit birthright citizenship was Monday night.
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I don't think that you can (or should) write about this subject without heavily emphasizing the fact the people in charge of how this technology evolves enthusiastically supported fascists who dismantled much of the federal regulatory and public protection apparatus
Opinion | The Environmental Case Against Data Centers Is Misguided
Our animosity toward data centers is really more about our anxieties about A.I.
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Trump sure is pushing hard to make extra people die from preventable deaths.
Trump pressured RFK Jr to slash childhood vaccines over autism fears: report
During a lunch in May, Trump reportedly accused Kennedy of having the ‘yips’
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We should not be worried because Altman is a liar and a grifter who just makes shit up for headlines and he isn’t even remotely stating something that is real. But bravo media for amplifying his lies. Again.
Sam Altman says AI has entered ‘singularity’: Should we be worried?
The 'singularity' refers to the point at which AI outpaces human intelligence and becomes difficult to control.
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New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260724...
US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit...
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While it’s nice to see Loomer reject her previous Russian propaganda, it’s sad it took her actually going to Ukraine to see and understand the truth that so many of us have known for years.
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy meets with far-right US activist Laura Loomer
Pro-Israel Trump ally sits down with Ukrainian president as she says Russia is helping Iran kill US soldiers.
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I wonder what MAGA will think about Trump increasing tariff rates of 10-12.5% on 99.4% of US imports? It's going to screw over the US public, do nothing to improve US industry, and further harm our relationship with our trading partners.
Trump announces next phase of global tariffs, affecting 99.4% of US imports
The Trump administration on Thursday announced the replacement for the 10% "global tariffs" that expire at midnight, levying new rates of 10% to 12.5% on America's top trading partners.
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“Trump Tries to Change Terms of Saudi Nuclear Deal—After It Was Signed *** Trump wants to change the conditions of the agreement that was signed just hours ago. The White House can’t explain what’s going on.” 7/23/26
Trump Tries to Change Terms of Saudi Nuclear Deal—After It Was Signed
Trump wants to change the conditions of the agreement that was signed just hours ago. The White House can’t explain what’s going on.
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The Trump DOJ withdraws subpoenas for NYT journalists. Know why? BECAUSE. THE. NYT. PUSHED. BACK. Me thinks there is a lesson here.
Trump: "We made a purchase of 10% of Intel. We got it for the right price. And we made approximately $72 billion on that deal. So it was good. Do I get credit for that one? No. I get no credit!" (Tell me more about how Democrats are communists ... )