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the “wall of receipts” is full of BS to make it even worse, “the cancellations listed come disproportionately from businesses run by women and people from minority groups.” #doge #musk #trump www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

Incredible public service. @propublica.org has catalogued the DOGE crew and their links to Elon. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

project 2025 tracker www.project2025.observer

Elon #Musk Says He’ll ‘Fix’ Community Notes on X After It Disagreed With Him [and trump's lies] more tinkering and sheer censorship on the late birdsite #ukraine #trump #zelenskyy gizmodo.com/elon-musk-sa...

Writer quits Society of Authors over union’s ‘betrayal’ of Jerusalem bookshop raided by Israeli police SoA statement on a recent Israeli police raid on a Palestinian-owned bookstore didn't mention #Israel, #Palestine or the names of the arrested booksellers www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases. #Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology www.wired.com/story/google...

Movies you have watched more than six times, gifs only

Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

Gift link. The actual story of the shackled people being deported without even being told where they were being taken — maybe to countries where they’d face torture or death — while their terrified children cried.😢 The White House posted that pic with “ASMR” tag. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Spain former football boss fined for kissing player way to go spain. non toxic men are the best, trash the rest www.bbc.com/news/article...

Book+covers | Stanisław Lem: Solaris via @metafilter.bsky.social #bookdesign hypeandhyper.com/book-covers-...

America Needs a Working-Class Media "It would be one where economic reporters are embedded in blue-collar communities and neighborhoods rather than financial districts (...) Centering inflation coverage around wage stagnation rather than the stock market" #journalism www.cjr.org/analysis/ame...

Study of TikTok, X ‘For You’ feeds in #Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections. "both platforms skewed heavily toward amplifying content that favors the far-right AfD party in algorithmically programmed feeds" techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...

“As #AI systems learn to problem-solve, they sometimes discover questionable shortcuts and unintended workarounds that their creators never anticipated (…) That could be bad news for AI safety more broadly.” time.com/7259395/ai-c...

#microsoft new Majorana 1 chip, “engineered from an entirely new material that has the potential to scale to millions of qubits on a single chip.” the verge take www.theverge.com/news/614205/... #quantumcomputing youtu.be/wSHmygPQukQ?...

two very ugly stories about #women tennis players - Emma Raducanu left in tears as ‘fixated’ man ejected from Dubai tennis event www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f... - The ‘relationship of dependence’ between a barred coach and a Wimbledon champion, Elena Rybakina www.nytimes.com/athletic/613...

this is a monstrosity

The Vatican says new scans show Pope Francis has the onset of bilateral pneumonia but remains in good spirits (PAMedia)

#AI agents will outmaneuver salespeople by optimizing persuasion. These will be asymmetric encounters in which the artificial agent has the upper hand. bigthink.com/the-future/a...

"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

NEW non-clarifying clarifications about Elon Musk's employee status filed just now in a NM-led lawsuit: —Musk, as a presidential senior adviser, "has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself." He is also not DOGE's administrator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“The Substance lookbook is a work of art.” via @taylorlorenz.bsky.social newsletter drive.google.com/file/d/16jkY...

Russ Vought, Trump’s OMB director, who’s also the architect of Project 2025 which calls for banning porn, follows an OnlyFans creator on Instagram.

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

AI the new aesthetics of fascism "no artist, to my knowledge, has ever made art with the sole aim of harming the already vulnerable" newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

Attributed to Napoleon, who ended democracy in French, this quote was also used by Anders Breivik, the far-right anti-immigrant terrorist who murdered 77 people

This is fascism.

A German researcher captured the contents of "DEI.gov" before it was put behind a password wall. It contained a list of things USAID was funding filtered through the worst possible light: www.404media.co/dei-waste-go...

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

beyond madness

Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong. “for 20 years or more, including the months prior to the election, voter perception was more reflective of reality than the incumbent statistics” www.politico.com/news/magazin...