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Carl from Internet of Bugs did a video on this (he actually uploaded a version that ONLY covered the SciShow video, but expanded to other YouTubers so people wouldn't think it was a problem unique to them:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKy...
Your Favorite Science YouTubers Are Wrong About AI, (e.g. SciShow, Kurzgesagt, and Kyle Hill )
YouTube video by Internet of Bugs
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Carl from Internet of Bugs did a video on this (he actually uploaded a version that ONLY covered the SciShow video, but expanded to other YouTubers so people wouldn't think it was a problem unique to them:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKy...
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I've written about Schedule III extensively already in Legalization Nation -- I'm not going to even cover it this week. This is how little it means.
December 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I've written about Schedule III extensively already in Legalization Nation -- I'm not going to even cover it this week. This is how little it means.
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even if this happens it doesn't do literally anything
Breaking news: President Trump is expected to push the government to significantly ease federal marijuana restrictions, treating the plant and its derivatives like common prescription painkillers and other drugs.
Trump seeks to cut restrictions on marijuana through planned order
The president is expected to attempt to classify marijuana similar to some common prescription painkillers and other drugs.
wapo.st
December 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
even if this happens it doesn't do literally anything
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Watching this video Hank Green did about AI pissed me off so much I had to go for a walk, multiple straight up falsehoods on top of pumping out effective altruist AI doomerist bullshit about models being "out of control". Unbelievable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=90C3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=90C3...
We’ve Lost Control of AI
YouTube video by SciShow
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Watching this video Hank Green did about AI pissed me off so much I had to go for a walk, multiple straight up falsehoods on top of pumping out effective altruist AI doomerist bullshit about models being "out of control". Unbelievable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=90C3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=90C3...
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BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released.
NEW: A federal judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the Maryland man who was wrongly removed from the U.S. and sent to El Salvador without due process by the Trump administration — to be released from an ICE detention center, ruling his detention unlawful.
Judge Orders Abrego Garcia's Immediate Release from Immigration Custody
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released.
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We can not compete because they are selling vehicles we don't make at a price we can't match. Basically, they are afraid of Chinese companies producing affordable electric vehicles at scale which will wipe out the SUV/Pickup truck market dominated US companies.
Major automakers say China poses 'clear and present threat' to US auto industry reut.rs/4pDCgRW
Major automakers say China poses 'clear and present threat' to US auto industry
Major automakers on Thursday urged Washington to prevent Chinese government-backed automakers and battery manufacturers from opening U.S. manufacturing plants, warning the industry's future is at stake.
reut.rs
December 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We can not compete because they are selling vehicles we don't make at a price we can't match. Basically, they are afraid of Chinese companies producing affordable electric vehicles at scale which will wipe out the SUV/Pickup truck market dominated US companies.
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they run this exact story every two years before an election cycle lol
NEW: Democrats know they need moderates to win tough states. They also know their moderates can’t go viral to save their lives.
@lauren-egan.bsky.social digs into the party’s uncomfortable hunt for a candidate who’s Mamdani in the streets but Manchin in the seats. lnk.thebulwark.com/4rRHZF4?utm_...
@lauren-egan.bsky.social digs into the party’s uncomfortable hunt for a candidate who’s Mamdani in the streets but Manchin in the seats. lnk.thebulwark.com/4rRHZF4?utm_...
December 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
they run this exact story every two years before an election cycle lol
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December 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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I'm sorry but this is bullshit.
The people being killed and tortured and burned alive and flooded out of tent cities are *Palestinians*.
"Jewish allies are the real victims" is not the right message.
The people being killed and tortured and burned alive and flooded out of tent cities are *Palestinians*.
"Jewish allies are the real victims" is not the right message.
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I'm sorry but this is bullshit.
The people being killed and tortured and burned alive and flooded out of tent cities are *Palestinians*.
"Jewish allies are the real victims" is not the right message.
The people being killed and tortured and burned alive and flooded out of tent cities are *Palestinians*.
"Jewish allies are the real victims" is not the right message.
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I imagine Disney also sold our performances to OpenAI, with no plan or intention of compensating actors. Suppose we'll see in a minute.
December 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I imagine Disney also sold our performances to OpenAI, with no plan or intention of compensating actors. Suppose we'll see in a minute.
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One other thing about this Disney/OpenAI deal: they've very specifically said they don't have any talent or likeness deals, or voices; but the deal does include 200 characters. And people created those characters? is Disney they paying them anything for unlimited usage? Probably not, right?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
One other thing about this Disney/OpenAI deal: they've very specifically said they don't have any talent or likeness deals, or voices; but the deal does include 200 characters. And people created those characters? is Disney they paying them anything for unlimited usage? Probably not, right?
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Don’t fret. The geniuses in the PE universe will find a way to fuck over regular people, steal staggering amounts of money and disappear into a hail of NYT ‘articles’ declaring them heroes.
August 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Don’t fret. The geniuses in the PE universe will find a way to fuck over regular people, steal staggering amounts of money and disappear into a hail of NYT ‘articles’ declaring them heroes.
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SCOOP: The Trump administration may revoke the visas of critics of Elon Musk's Twitter.
The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
SCOOP: Trump Admin Is Preparing to Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter
Trump officials are considering revoking the visas of former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
zeteo.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration may revoke the visas of critics of Elon Musk's Twitter.
The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
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Please treat our treasured IP like trash
December 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Please treat our treasured IP like trash
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New BBC interview w/ Kate Winslet saying she doesn’t like the term nepo baby and doesn’t think that famous parents actually translates to jobs and respect. This in the year her daughter was lead in a Wes Anderson film and her 21yo son’s film is premiering on Netflix with her directing like ffs
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
New BBC interview w/ Kate Winslet saying she doesn’t like the term nepo baby and doesn’t think that famous parents actually translates to jobs and respect. This in the year her daughter was lead in a Wes Anderson film and her 21yo son’s film is premiering on Netflix with her directing like ffs
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December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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They could’ve bankrupted OpenAI in lawsuits. Instead, they’re adopting OpenAI APIs and giving them a billion dollars.
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
They could’ve bankrupted OpenAI in lawsuits. Instead, they’re adopting OpenAI APIs and giving them a billion dollars.
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115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
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gen ai as a project exists to ingest the other and reconfigure it as white supremacist fantasy
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
gen ai as a project exists to ingest the other and reconfigure it as white supremacist fantasy
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It's not just you have to hand over your phones it's that if some MAGA border guard has their feelings hurt by a mean meme insulting Dear Trump Leader they can enact revenge by putting you through a totalitarian police state hell.
Don't. Go.
Don't. Go.
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
It's not just you have to hand over your phones it's that if some MAGA border guard has their feelings hurt by a mean meme insulting Dear Trump Leader they can enact revenge by putting you through a totalitarian police state hell.
Don't. Go.
Don't. Go.
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They did not even do this stuff in Saudi. Absolutely nuts.
Want to travel to the US? You might have to give the Trump administration the last five years of your social media history.
US wants five years of some tourists' social media to enter the country
Digital rights advocates say it’s an affront to civil liberties.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
They did not even do this stuff in Saudi. Absolutely nuts.
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There is no border policy problem that this is trying to solve.
This can only be a data-grab by the tech-bro friends of the Trump administration wanting to turn all of us into commodifiable data-doubles.
It has the stench of Palantir.
This can only be a data-grab by the tech-bro friends of the Trump administration wanting to turn all of us into commodifiable data-doubles.
It has the stench of Palantir.
Want to travel to the US? You might have to give the Trump administration the last five years of your social media history.
US wants five years of some tourists' social media to enter the country
Digital rights advocates say it’s an affront to civil liberties.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
There is no border policy problem that this is trying to solve.
This can only be a data-grab by the tech-bro friends of the Trump administration wanting to turn all of us into commodifiable data-doubles.
It has the stench of Palantir.
This can only be a data-grab by the tech-bro friends of the Trump administration wanting to turn all of us into commodifiable data-doubles.
It has the stench of Palantir.