Meera

Imagine being too imperialist/neocolonial/openly rapacious for the Catholic Church

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.

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The three journalists who helped ruin Ava Cordero's life when she tried to stop Epstein in 2006 *currently* work at NBC News, New York Magazine, and News Corp Australia. The one at NBC News is covering... Epstein.

Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…

“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”

Way to devalue my experience.

Thread of some services/software I'm using instead of various billionaire-owned surveillance/fascist/"A.i." trash products:

For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)

after all why not? why shouldn't I believe it's butter?

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

It’s my sincere religious belief that conservative Christians should be fed to lions for the amusement of crowds in sports arenas, and if you think that that’s hateful, then you’re not respecting my free speech and may be instigating violence against me.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

A Dershowitz bag lunch special capping a day that started with Cheney dying and saw Mamdani win would have to go down as the first good day of year

This is a table attempting to explain why a NO Kings protest is necessary in a country that doesn’t have a King. Grievances from the Declaration of Independance are in one column and the second column is a partial list/reason for saying he is displaying similar behavior as King George III. This is a screen shot of the table and it is followed by 4 more screen shots of the table. Section 1/5

Table on grievances in Declaration of Independence continued. Section 2/5

Table on grievances in Declaration of Independence continued. 3/5

Table on grievances in Declaration of Independence continued. Section 4/5

So many on the right don’t understand why this protest is called “No Kings”. The list of grievances from the Declaration of Independence is in one column, followed by a partial list of ways Trump is similar. If you have better examples than ones listed here, you can include them in replies.

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

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Jesus christ.

I am so tired and so disappointed.

All these people went "yeah, I'll take an audio book paycheck over solidarity with trans lives, that's cool."

Every single one should be ashamed.

Why are the accents in the Thunderbolts movie so bad

once again tapping the sign

With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:

Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism Support for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lo...

Science: Trump supporters are assholes.

Plantation Barbie 2.0?

then die

Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

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Murderland by Caroline Fraser review – what was behind the 1970s serial killer epidemic? A compulsive new history suggests the crimes of Ted Bundy et al were – at least partly – down to the air they breathed

There was a time in the US when serial killers proliferated. While theories like cursed genes, upbringing and brain chemistry explain it, the book Murderland suggests that bad, polluted air had something to do with it.

#crime
#climate
#pollution
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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This is fiendishly brilliant. William S. Burroughs (and later Laurie Anderson) said "Language is a virus". This is an actual application of language to cause an "infection" in an LLM.

This guy just became my fav American politician bar none