Mity Cheese
@mitycheese.bsky.social
Lover of gorgonzola. Playwright. Producer. Photographer. Defrocked programmer. Occasional adjunct. Cat person.
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Worth a read.
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Worth a read.
Good for them.
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) announced that it will no longer publish content on Elon Musk’s platform, X. The organization said it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good for them.
Clowns.
The U.S. Treasury is getting ratioed on an apparent self-own. Higher yields raise U.S. borrowing costs and often reflect market anxiety rather than strength. Investors demand higher yields when they see greater risk in holding government debt. This is not a good sign.
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Clowns.
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Giving credit where credit is due #FIFA #FIFApeaceprize
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Giving credit where credit is due #FIFA #FIFApeaceprize
We don't need AI to prove that lying works, we have the Trump administration.
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We don't need AI to prove that lying works, we have the Trump administration.
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It was bad at FDA 5 months ago, it has now become a total disaster. 90% of senior staff gone.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
It was bad at FDA 5 months ago, it has now become a total disaster. 90% of senior staff gone.
We got to "genocide is entertainment now" way faster than I would have guessed.
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 AM
We got to "genocide is entertainment now" way faster than I would have guessed.
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This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
Also, obviously, we’re putting her on the swim team because of foreshadowing.
I'm on @mcsweeneys.net today making your hs English teacher openly weep www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cas...
Casting Notice for the Unaired CW Pilot Young Hamlet
SYNOPSIS
High school is no picnic for anyone, but especially if you’re one of Shakespeare’s most iconic leading men. Hamlet might be the big man on...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Also, obviously, we’re putting her on the swim team because of foreshadowing.
How to illustrate that you’re a racist egomaniac.
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
How to illustrate that you’re a racist egomaniac.
Zero evidence of harm from the vaccines. I'll be so glad when Bobby Brainworm is gone.
Breaking News: A federal vaccine committee voted to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease in most infected children.
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
A federal panel voted on Friday to recommend halting the at-birth shots for all infants, in a step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending the nation’s vaccine policy.
nyti.ms
December 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Zero evidence of harm from the vaccines. I'll be so glad when Bobby Brainworm is gone.
Yet another reason that no one needs appliances with screens.
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Yet another reason that no one needs appliances with screens.
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The word "eve" is doing a lot of work here in the Court's 'decision'
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The word "eve" is doing a lot of work here in the Court's 'decision'
Even more restrictive than China.
For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Even more restrictive than China.
🎵 It's beginning to sound a bit like Fascism 🎶
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:05 AM
🎵 It's beginning to sound a bit like Fascism 🎶
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This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.)
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
IMLS announces "upon further review" that it is reinstating all federal grants to libraries. It leaves out that it's doing this because a federal court told them a few weeks ago that the Trump admin's decision to destroy libraries was not legal.
www.imls.gov/news/stateme...
www.imls.gov/news/stateme...
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersede...
www.imls.gov
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.)
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
Anything that generates income for Elon helps spread racism. He's a plague.
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Anything that generates income for Elon helps spread racism. He's a plague.
They're on track to seriously screw up the flu and pneumonia vaccines. We won't have to wait for an epidemic to kill us anymore. The government will do it for free.
Side note: In this same appearance, Milhoan talks at length about "Christians who were part of the medical freedom movement."
FYI: The overlap between Christian nationalism and anti-vaccine sentiment became a whole thing in 2021. religionnews.com/2021/09/14/p...
FYI: The overlap between Christian nationalism and anti-vaccine sentiment became a whole thing in 2021. religionnews.com/2021/09/14/p...
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
They're on track to seriously screw up the flu and pneumonia vaccines. We won't have to wait for an epidemic to kill us anymore. The government will do it for free.
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Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.
Ass-kissing level: North Korea
Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Ass-kissing level: North Korea
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
A “forceps delivery was not necessary," local newspaper Schwaebisches Tagblatt noted.
December 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A “forceps delivery was not necessary," local newspaper Schwaebisches Tagblatt noted.
At least the goals are similar. Make a fortune for the capitalists while eliminating as much human labor as possible.
Sen. Dave McCormick on AI: "This is the biggest thing that will happen in our lifetime. It's like the Industrial Revolution on steroids."
November 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
At least the goals are similar. Make a fortune for the capitalists while eliminating as much human labor as possible.
Just to be clear, i didn't read it that way. My objection is to the corporations; how the industry has ruined neural net based-technologies as a descriptive term by making LLMs representative of all AI.
I don't want to make this some sort of sweeping indictment of technology, b/c many machine-learning products are extremely useful. @mitycheese.bsky.social cites OCR, translation tools & speech recognition - highly useful, yes. More broadly, well - without medical technology, I'd literally be blind..
November 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Just to be clear, i didn't read it that way. My objection is to the corporations; how the industry has ruined neural net based-technologies as a descriptive term by making LLMs representative of all AI.
Tom Stoppard changed my life. I'm a writer, in part because of him.
Arcadia is one of the top plays of the last century.
Arcadia is one of the top plays of the last century.
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Tom Stoppard changed my life. I'm a writer, in part because of him.
Arcadia is one of the top plays of the last century.
Arcadia is one of the top plays of the last century.