Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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We should never stop calling these MAGA people weird. NEVER.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Latest episode of our podcast The Week on Wednesday is a discussion with UK Labour activist and (unicorn) Labour gain in the recent UK council elections, Peter Marshall - about the terrifying parallels about what’s going there and in Australia. #auspol podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

I don’t make $287 per hour, but I could if I recovered about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold from two flock cameras per hour.

Van Badham@vanbadham.bsky.social · yesterday

Wow - At current US spot-market prices: - 2lb of copper: about US $13.20 - 1 g of gold: about US $130.30 Combined raw-metal value: approximately US $143.50 Just sitting there. In a Flock camera.

The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Words cannot express how tired I am of people, especially on the internet, refusing to accept events or realities occurring directly in front of their eyes because something they read suggested the world doesn’t work like that.

Wow - At current US spot-market prices: - 2lb of copper: about US $13.20 - 1 g of gold: about US $130.30 Combined raw-metal value: approximately US $143.50 Just sitting there. In a Flock camera.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · yesterday

What compelling evidence that we should keep talking about the possibility that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold

What compelling evidence that we should keep talking about the possibility that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold

DBurx@dburx.bsky.social · yesterday

Copilot confirms....

they want something more like roman religion, where the empire has its state gods you must respect and which their symbols of power are linked to

James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 3d ago

A huge issue for the populist right in adopting Christianity so heavily as a identity marker against Muslims, is that the core theology of Christianity very explicitly rejects their ideas.

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring

Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record

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I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Poor Jeanine Pirro. It’s always sad when a vicious liar loses their job because they unscrupulously tried to ruin the life of an innocent American hero to appease the most repellent man in America. Drink up, sweetie.

Finally a decent Rod Liddle headline.

Pauline is using GOP tactics and advice to pull a trump Remember, trump was considered a joke contender until he wasn't

As One Nation starts announcing candidates, here's a bingo card over the possibilities

Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

We’ve seen this before.

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Senate candidate Mike Collins (R-GA) stopped a news conference after refusing to answer questions about possible ties to white supremacists.

Collins refuses to answer questions on possible white supremacist ties

Senate candidate Mike Collins (R-GA) stopped a news conference after refusing to answer questions about possible ties to white supremacists.

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The report, which covers enforcement actions over a six-month period, highlights the obvious: Corporations are responsible for the vast majority of alleged fraud in the American health care system.

News: The U.S. economy grew at a disappointing 1.5% in the 2nd quarter of 2026. Congratulations to @sarahbca.bsky.social for her “Bookmark this” comment last December when Howard Lutnick said 2Q of 2026 would be “amazing.” @atrupar.com

AI company Anthropic secretly bought millions of rare and out-of-print books to train its Claude AI model. They used a hydraulic-powered cutting machine to remove the pages for scanning before destruction.

I wrote this last year, but as nothing has been done to address the underlying issues, it remains, unfortunately, just as relevant today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot

In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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It's increasingly clear that about 65% of humans are decent and about 35% of humans are suicidally stupid tyranny and slavery-loving shit-brains and the 65% have to figure out how to blunt the impact of the 35%. Making two Dakotas was a major victory by the 35%.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3w ago

Oppositional Defiant Disorder is basically the defining feature of huge swaths of our politics now

Exactly, this was not an organic backlash. A relative handful of wealthy and powerful people have spent decades creating the tools and preparing the ground for fascism, and they used the pandemic like any other exogenous shock to advance their goals.

man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Inquiry into the recruitment methods and impacts of cults and organised fringe groups - final report has been tabled in Victorian Parliament www.parliament.vic.gov.au/cofg-reports Volume 1 www.parliament.vic.gov.au/4a215d/conte... Volume 2 www.parliament.vic.gov.au/4a215d/conte... #springst #auslaw

Reports - Inquiry into the recruitment methods and impacts of cults and organised fringe groups - Parliament of Victoria

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The Pentagon has reclassified service members who were killed and wounded during renewed hostilities with Iran in a way that separates them from other troops, a move that critics say obscures the human cost of the Trump administration’s war.

Pentagon relabels U.S. casualties caused by Iran amid scrutiny of wartime transparency

Veterans caution that the Trump administration’s move could affect troops’ ability to get care long after the conflict ends.

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I am very ashamed to live in a country where people will wake up with the terror that the secret police are coming to kidnap them, separate them from their families, and brutalize or even kill them because they are not white.