Lurker. Will on occasuon pop out, drop a comment and then go lurk again.
- We believe in second chances! - So you think refugees deserve a second chance at making a life? - Not like that - Young people who’ve made mistakes shouldn’t be punished? - Nope - Benefits to help people get back on their feet? - Ha! - So who do you believe in second chances for? - Nazis!
New: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...
LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' ButtonFollowing 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.www.404media.co
‼️ BREAKING: We analyzed the Suno repository leak, it documents an industrial-scale pipeline for training AI on YouTube-derived music. The data shows 6.18M unique Genius songs indexed, 2.7M matched to YouTube, automated audio downloads, and a resulting 7.8TB training dataset.
On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”
Glory to Ukraine
Giorgi RevishviliZelenskyy: “If Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn too”
The context of this is that Trump just opened up the three remaining marine national monuments to destructive industrial fishing. The monuments recognize the Indigenous Pacific voyaging legacy. They also support endangered marine wildlife and protect whales, sea turtles, and seabirds.
Aaron RuparTrump lies that before he came around, "you had go to Japan to get a Maine lobster"
EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The FBI Director’s Unusual Calling Card“Ka$h Patel” bourbon is his newest innovation.www.theatlantic.com
The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump. Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done. Yet only one is considered a "power grab." Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.
We must protect the @archive.org on every front. Knowledge is power & Internet Archive puts that power in the palm of your hand every day.
Internet Archive“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham, Wayback Machine When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history, knowledge, and truth. The web shouldn’t disappear behind closed doors. ➡️ www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE TAGGING ME IN ON THE VATICAN / PENTAGON BEEF HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT
✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... @exploration.esa.int l
850+ TLAMs in 4 weeks is insane. If true, this would mean about 23-24% of the Navy’s 3.9k TLAMs were fired in the last 4 weeks. On top of this, about a thousand Interceptors (PAC-2/3s & THAADs) were fired.
1/8 NEW: @bellingcat.com has geolocated and verified two new videos showing the deadly strikes that hit an IRGC compound — and an adjacent elementary school — in Minab, Iran on Feb. 28. Here's what we found. 🧵 www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Two Waves of Bombing: New Videos Reveal More Details About Iran Girls' School Strike - bellingcatAnalysis suggests there were at least two waves of strikes carried out in the area around the IRGC complex and adjacent girls' school.www.bellingcat.com
Taiwan, whose electrical grid relies on LNG for 40% of power generation, has an LNG emergency stockpile that will last around 11 days. Taiwan may be forced to ration power or reduce electricity to its industrial sector.-Politico
Well, that’s a cautionary tale on multiple levels about “surveillance systems can have very unexpected and unwanted consequences.”
Hypervisible“The role of Israel’s hijacking of Iran’s street cameras in the killing of the country’s supreme leader underscores how surveillance systems are increasingly being targeted by adversaries in wartime.”
US forces struck a water desalination facility on the Iranian island of Qeshm, cutting off water to 30 villages, according to Iran. Iran responded with strikes across the Gulf - a power plant supplying the UAE’s largest desalination facility hit, drone struck a desalination plant in Bahrain.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.