Seamus
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Long deep exasperated sigh-er.
Lauren's point re: fetish for getting yelled at remains evergreen. Blocking him removes the ability to feed his fetish, and removes his nonsense from the feed.
January 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Lauren's point re: fetish for getting yelled at remains evergreen. Blocking him removes the ability to feed his fetish, and removes his nonsense from the feed.
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telling my boss I can’t come back to work because I’ve discovered the joy of doing nothing
January 4, 2026 at 11:45 PM
telling my boss I can’t come back to work because I’ve discovered the joy of doing nothing
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Condemning the abduction of a sovereign leader because you're mad about a process violation and worry we won't properly occupy the country for 25 years is the most insane, Democrat-brain response that I have ever seen.
However, I disagree with President Trump’s use of U.S. military forces without Congressional approval & worry deeply about this Admin’s follow through on foreign policy interventions.
January 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Condemning the abduction of a sovereign leader because you're mad about a process violation and worry we won't properly occupy the country for 25 years is the most insane, Democrat-brain response that I have ever seen.
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A recurring “AI” evangelist tactic is using it for tasks that were already solved by tech that is more deterministic, faster, and uses less energy, but has been downgraded or de-emphasised in recent years by software companies
Like, we genuinely used to have better search and spellcheck.
Like, we genuinely used to have better search and spellcheck.
January 4, 2026 at 10:53 AM
A recurring “AI” evangelist tactic is using it for tasks that were already solved by tech that is more deterministic, faster, and uses less energy, but has been downgraded or de-emphasised in recent years by software companies
Like, we genuinely used to have better search and spellcheck.
Like, we genuinely used to have better search and spellcheck.
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Term limits allow lobbyists to run the show even more than they do now. My answer is to end the influence of lobbying by ending the private funding of campaigns. Just go all the way. These are public offices. They should not and cannot continue to be privately owned.
We need term limits for US Senators, Congressional representatives, and SCOTUS.
Also, we need leaders who actually enforce the US Constitution.
Also, we need leaders who actually enforce the US Constitution.
January 4, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Term limits allow lobbyists to run the show even more than they do now. My answer is to end the influence of lobbying by ending the private funding of campaigns. Just go all the way. These are public offices. They should not and cannot continue to be privately owned.
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Big congrats to the Nobel Committee for awarding the prize "for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" just so she could immediately conspire with a foreign government to murder civilians on the high seas then invade and stage a coup.
I feel like the history of western imperialism is often like this, where there's an almost-plausible case for resource-grabbing, an almost plausible geopolitical explanation (first Caracas, then Havana), and a sort of liberal imperialist fig leaf to keep democrats from being too mad (the Nobel shit)
January 3, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Big congrats to the Nobel Committee for awarding the prize "for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" just so she could immediately conspire with a foreign government to murder civilians on the high seas then invade and stage a coup.
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It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
Reading Don Quixote in the original (1600) Spanish even in modern typeset was hard as hell in college, and we only read a few chapters.
even if you can read Spanish, and cursive, you probably can’t read it before 1700
Came across this on Instagram and was immediately annoyed - most people currently alive can’t read most historical documents for a myriad of reasons that far exceed handwriting. That’s why people who actually do read those documents (historians) learn palaeography!
January 3, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Reading Don Quixote in the original (1600) Spanish even in modern typeset was hard as hell in college, and we only read a few chapters.
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From the dawn of the computer age, we knew this to be true.
January 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
From the dawn of the computer age, we knew this to be true.
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it's a massive failure of our society that we have allowed companies to distance themselves from the horrible things said by their AI, which has been created to represent them. if your AI says it, it should be equivalent to a live human person making the same statement, and treated accordingly
January 2, 2026 at 7:55 PM
it's a massive failure of our society that we have allowed companies to distance themselves from the horrible things said by their AI, which has been created to represent them. if your AI says it, it should be equivalent to a live human person making the same statement, and treated accordingly
No it's not, you absolute clowns. That's not how any of this works. You need to interview upper management down to engineers to see if they're actually doing anything about the CSAM generator they are running. There's no "algorithm", this is a human decision, and it doesn't look like they'll fix it.
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.
cnb.cx
January 2, 2026 at 10:42 PM
No it's not, you absolute clowns. That's not how any of this works. You need to interview upper management down to engineers to see if they're actually doing anything about the CSAM generator they are running. There's no "algorithm", this is a human decision, and it doesn't look like they'll fix it.
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“It’s a solution to a non-existent problem. I don’t see where this is doing anything to help voters. It’s only going to disenfranchise people,” says an Ohio election official about the state’s new ban on grace periods for mail ballots.
Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes
Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.
boltsmag.org
January 2, 2026 at 8:05 PM
“It’s a solution to a non-existent problem. I don’t see where this is doing anything to help voters. It’s only going to disenfranchise people,” says an Ohio election official about the state’s new ban on grace periods for mail ballots.
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Maybe the best TV character ever
January 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Maybe the best TV character ever
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great job to all these media organizations misleading readers into believing the grok AI bot is in control, not the people turning the dials behind the scenes.
we’re three years into this wave of ai hype. how are they still so bad at this?
we’re three years into this wave of ai hype. how are they still so bad at this?
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.
cnb.cx
January 2, 2026 at 5:06 PM
great job to all these media organizations misleading readers into believing the grok AI bot is in control, not the people turning the dials behind the scenes.
we’re three years into this wave of ai hype. how are they still so bad at this?
we’re three years into this wave of ai hype. how are they still so bad at this?
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Once this normalization of the senseless deprivation of a single person's liberty is allowed to sprout, it is almost impossible to contain. This is the enduring import of the civil rights work that we do, and why telling these stories matters to the hope of a better world.
January 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Once this normalization of the senseless deprivation of a single person's liberty is allowed to sprout, it is almost impossible to contain. This is the enduring import of the civil rights work that we do, and why telling these stories matters to the hope of a better world.
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An 87-year-old Republican judge wrote a dissent. Having served in WWII, he called the explicit decision to illegally keep a human being in jail “shocking.” He wrote that a “judicial system that values finality over justice is morally bankrupt.”
January 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
An 87-year-old Republican judge wrote a dissent. Having served in WWII, he called the explicit decision to illegally keep a human being in jail “shocking.” He wrote that a “judicial system that values finality over justice is morally bankrupt.”
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Ezell Gilbert was rearrested and sent back to prison to serve out his illegal sentence in a cage. Here's a link to one of the most shameful court opinions I've ever encountered, and one of Barack Obama and Eric Holder's most enduring victories: media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
media.ca11.uscourts.gov
January 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Ezell Gilbert was rearrested and sent back to prison to serve out his illegal sentence in a cage. Here's a link to one of the most shameful court opinions I've ever encountered, and one of Barack Obama and Eric Holder's most enduring victories: media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
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Here’s where it gets interesting. There are many people like Gilbert in federal prison whose sentences are illegal. Did you know that? Instead of rushing to ensure that thousands of people illegally separated from their families were set free, DOJ decided to fight and appeal.
January 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Here’s where it gets interesting. There are many people like Gilbert in federal prison whose sentences are illegal. Did you know that? Instead of rushing to ensure that thousands of people illegally separated from their families were set free, DOJ decided to fight and appeal.
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THREAD. Every year, I tell the story of Ezell Gilbert. It's the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to him is vital for understanding the current moment we are in.
January 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
THREAD. Every year, I tell the story of Ezell Gilbert. It's the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to him is vital for understanding the current moment we are in.
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Just attacking a deeply vulnerable group for no reason other than to kowtow to right wingers is deranged behaviour. Psychotic.
This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about
January 2, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Just attacking a deeply vulnerable group for no reason other than to kowtow to right wingers is deranged behaviour. Psychotic.
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Okay, but if undercover FBI agents pretending to be ISIS were the only ISIS operatives the perp had any contact with, was it really a terror-attack-in-planning, or was it a dunce springing an entrapment mill?
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
FBI says undercover operation thwarted ISIS-inspired terror attack
Officials say an 18 year old man contacted an NYPD undercover officer posing as a member of ISIS and discussed staging an attack at a North Carolina grocery.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Okay, but if undercover FBI agents pretending to be ISIS were the only ISIS operatives the perp had any contact with, was it really a terror-attack-in-planning, or was it a dunce springing an entrapment mill?
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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New today on the site!
@carriecourogen.bsky.social on Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, and the enduring power of A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
@carriecourogen.bsky.social on Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, and the enduring power of A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
A Woman Under the Influence (1974): Tomorrow's Gonna Be Better
A Woman Under the Influence endures as a statement on womanhood not because it is a film-as-time-capsule—a relic of the women’s lib era—but because it’s just as relevant now as ever.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
New today on the site!
@carriecourogen.bsky.social on Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, and the enduring power of A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
@carriecourogen.bsky.social on Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, and the enduring power of A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
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"Millions of people are using AI! It's the world's most popular technology. People clearly want it."
Tech companies have been using every dark pattern available, every deal and agreement, every subsidy they could find to jazz up numbers, meaning none of them can actually be trusted.
Tech companies have been using every dark pattern available, every deal and agreement, every subsidy they could find to jazz up numbers, meaning none of them can actually be trusted.
January 2, 2026 at 11:32 AM
"Millions of people are using AI! It's the world's most popular technology. People clearly want it."
Tech companies have been using every dark pattern available, every deal and agreement, every subsidy they could find to jazz up numbers, meaning none of them can actually be trusted.
Tech companies have been using every dark pattern available, every deal and agreement, every subsidy they could find to jazz up numbers, meaning none of them can actually be trusted.
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Banning soda and candy from SNAP is about getting retailers to pull out of SNAP and denying low-income people access to *all* food. And boosting administrative costs to direct benefits.
newrepublic.com/article/2048...
newrepublic.com/article/2048...
Republicans Have Found Another Insidious Way to Cut SNAP
The GOP created a rural health fund to try to limit the damage from Trump’s budget bill. And now, the fund is being weaponized against poor Americans.
newrepublic.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Banning soda and candy from SNAP is about getting retailers to pull out of SNAP and denying low-income people access to *all* food. And boosting administrative costs to direct benefits.
newrepublic.com/article/2048...
newrepublic.com/article/2048...
Going to have the go with the Dinosaur Book (Operating Systems Concepts by Silberchatz, Galvin, and Gagne). Every edition has dinosaurs on the cover, but the 10th is going hard.
January 2, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Going to have the go with the Dinosaur Book (Operating Systems Concepts by Silberchatz, Galvin, and Gagne). Every edition has dinosaurs on the cover, but the 10th is going hard.