Sam Jackson

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

Outward appearance is not indicative of internal moral character! It just is not! Using a concept that is beloved by racists against those same racists does not rescue it from their clutches and weakens YOU, not them

Wait — IRGC control of the country was the plan?!?

Here’s my study on the press using social media on public opinion “Social media as public opinion: How journalists use social media to represent public opinion”

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

Did you know some millennials are 72 years old? I’m one of them

Sorry but I love it every time that the fraud betting apps go health insurance mode and find the smallest discrepancy to justify not paying out to the inside traders who are its core customer base. Eat shit.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.”

I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

cc @prri.org

100%

Authoritarians work on the basis of personal ties, which of course are arbitrary and often have some kind of corrupt intent.

It's straight out of the despot's playbook.

i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI

in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period

"After Liberation" comes out NEXT MONTH! You can save 20% on your pre-order at www.sup.org with code MATFESS20.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Several universities have finally begun rolling out information to faculty with more know your rights training stuff. One thing they emphasized was that, so far, no one had come onto any campus. So I get to email some people to update them.

For the many Platner fans here, Peters is a white supremacist, Holocast denying / antisemetic, virulently anti-trans anti-gay right-wing influencer. There's no lack of people making similar points that Platner could be reading and promoting who are not nazis.

The point here is legit, but Owen Shroyer is an InfoWars guy who was involved in J6. Not sure it’s a great idea to be promoting his content.

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

This blind man - a refugee from Burma - was dropped off by Border Patrol at a Tim Horton's in Buffalo, NY.

In the middle of February.
A mile from a home where he no longer lived.
While his relatives were searching for him.

Cops found his body 5 days later

www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Tommy Robinson visited the US State Department today at the invite of the Trump administration.

He's Britain's most prominent far-right street thug with criminal convictions for assault, violence, fraud, stalking & harassment.

He was jailed in 2012 for trying to enter the US with a false passport.

Today!!!!

funny to think about a far future where anthropic is a large, mature, boring public company and its founders' belief in the imminent machine god is a bit of funny trivia like wk kellogg believing bran stopped masturbation

It's a shame he has to pwotect the NYPD's feefees but "don't bother the tender little police officers, I on the other hand can take it" is a neat little trick

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source