openai to finally acknowledge what has been driving the AI boom for years and years but no one really wants to admit: chatbots you can fuck www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

"A frog [..] standing up to ICE covered in weapons and armor is absurd, and that’s part of why it’s hitting so hard. But the frog is also a practical piece [..] in an age of mass surveillance, police brutality, and masked federal agents disappearing people"
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tired: Guy Fawkes

inspired: Frog

they compare 'Sound of Freedom' to 'One Battle After Another' in this video

Hello~ i wrote something for @theverge.com about the surreal horror of online transness in a fascist surveillance state.

it’s time to change tactics and make ourselves less legible to this machinery of death — but *without* sacrificing our connection and community.

thank you

but, you see, he was depressed

why do we even know about this? When you lose your security clearance at the DOE, you can appeal. But when you appeal, the Judge's ruling is made public and the DOE uploads them.

A lot of the lost appeals are wild. Like this guy who got catfished by celeb memes and then physically fought his son

look, sometimes you get so depressed that you upload terabytes of porn to a government computer connected to nuclear secrets so you can make better AI robot porn.

Let's not make a federal case out of it!

A tale as old as time: Guy uploads his entire stash of 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy network so he can train an AI to "make better 'robot pornography,'" gets caught, gripes that the DOE (which is charged with maintaining nuclear secrets) is "spying on him a little too much."

look, we've all been there.

Was in a decommissioned nuclear silo when @winkie.bsky.social turned to me and said: "Hey, have you read this report about the guy who uploaded 30 years worth of porn to a government computer?"

destroyed digital media so he can force you to attend an in-person lecture and listen to his half-baked 2004-era AV Club essays

This took longer to put together than I thought it would, but I finally wrote up a long post on the inventories of highly-enriched uranium and separated plutonium produced during the Manhattan Project. I think I have the exact-ish numbers, finally... blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2025/10/10/m...

The FBI accused a former National Guardsman of trying to sell 3D printed guns to Al Qaeda.

According to an indictment unsealed by the Justice Department in September, 25-year-old Andrew Scott Hastings used a Discord server to plan a Caliphate in America.

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then you can be happy that we're finally giving him his due

what?

what? what are you talking about?

I just talked to a missileer about ghosts he's seen in the silo

nope, a different one in Arkansas that's been renovated. But the Damascus survivor is here

New from 404 Media: a data hoarder created a searchable data of Epstein files. "This is a public service project. All documents are from public releases. This archive makes them more accessible and searchable."

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At first he thought he was dead, told himself "I just hope it's not painful."

Then he ran.

The warhead, as it shot out of the hole, almost him.

It's quite something to hear Devlin tell this story himself. Imagine coming to at 3 AM with only the light of the moon and the lava-like aftermath of the explosion all around you.

He says he heard a blood curdling scream and a woman telling him to run. There was no woman on site that day.