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Before anyone calls the Secret Service, “die” means “the” in German — as in the caption “DIE ORANGE PEST.”
February 16, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Before anyone calls the Secret Service, “die” means “the” in German — as in the caption “DIE ORANGE PEST.”
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The only thing that is going to keep my head from exploding as we continue to be inundated by stories like this is for me is replace all appearances of the nouns "chatGPT", "AI," etc with "schnauzers."
It's telling that she was prompting chatGPT for her master's thesis research and it went right on ahead into creep mode; she did not set out looking for affirmatio and conspiracy theories.
ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her
ChatGPT sent screenwriter Micky Small down a fantastical rabbit hole. Now, she's finding her way out.
www.npr.org
February 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM
The only thing that is going to keep my head from exploding as we continue to be inundated by stories like this is for me is replace all appearances of the nouns "chatGPT", "AI," etc with "schnauzers."
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This reminds me of how Catherine Lord, speaking for the workgroup for the revision of autism in the DSM-5, said autism includes strengths but they are irrelevant for diagnosis.
Yet holistic assessment would strengthen research, understanding, and practice.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Yet holistic assessment would strengthen research, understanding, and practice.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
February 2, 2026 at 11:44 AM
This reminds me of how Catherine Lord, speaking for the workgroup for the revision of autism in the DSM-5, said autism includes strengths but they are irrelevant for diagnosis.
Yet holistic assessment would strengthen research, understanding, and practice.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Yet holistic assessment would strengthen research, understanding, and practice.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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A year later Weev would play a key role in professionalizing the trolls who played a key role in getting Trump elected.
A strange find from the Epstein files:
A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."
Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."
Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 15, 2026 at 10:38 PM
A year later Weev would play a key role in professionalizing the trolls who played a key role in getting Trump elected.
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“Russia’s economy hasn’t collapsed. It has entered the “death zone”—surviving by consuming its own future. Growth at 1%. Budget deficit rising. Military sector expands while civilian industry shrinks. Interest payments > education + healthcare. No climber survives this altitude forever.”
Russia’s economy has entered the death zone
Alexandra Prokopenko wonders how much longer it can go on metabolising its own muscle tissue
www.economist.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
“Russia’s economy hasn’t collapsed. It has entered the “death zone”—surviving by consuming its own future. Growth at 1%. Budget deficit rising. Military sector expands while civilian industry shrinks. Interest payments > education + healthcare. No climber survives this altitude forever.”
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/2 Anyway, this is what the Smoking Gun was reporting TWENTY YEARS AGO in 2006. It was horrifying then and it’s still horrifying and it unequivocally shows child abuse.
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
Billionaire In Palm Beach Sex Scandal
JULY 26--Prepare to take a shower after reading this remarkably sleazy probable cause affidavit filed in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested Sunday for soliciting s
www.thesmokinggun.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:53 AM
/2 Anyway, this is what the Smoking Gun was reporting TWENTY YEARS AGO in 2006. It was horrifying then and it’s still horrifying and it unequivocally shows child abuse.
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
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“Asked how the cuts have affected science, one [researcher] said, ‘This is like asking, how do you think dropping an atomic bomb on New York City will affect the future of Broadway musicals? This is a generational loss of innovation, technology, and economic power.’” 🔗 archive.ph/2026.02.12-1...
February 15, 2026 at 9:46 PM
“Asked how the cuts have affected science, one [researcher] said, ‘This is like asking, how do you think dropping an atomic bomb on New York City will affect the future of Broadway musicals? This is a generational loss of innovation, technology, and economic power.’” 🔗 archive.ph/2026.02.12-1...
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
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Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
Wendy Bohon has built a TikTok following as an earthquake geologist. She helps lead earthquake work for the California Geological Survey.
How a TikToker and former actress is helping lead California’s earthquake work
Wendy Bohon has built a TikTok following as an earthquake geologist. She helps lead earthquake work for the California Geological Survey.
bit.ly
February 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign....
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.
Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
February 15, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign....
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
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This is the language of occupation -- how we descrbed Baghdad and Kabul. -- Continued deployment of paramilitary troops on the ground to enforce agreements is an occupation, not law enforcement.
Homan on Minnesota: "There will be a small force, a security force, that will respond when our agents are out and get surrounded by agitators. They will remain for a short period of time to make sure the coordination, the agreements we have with local and state law enforcement stay in place."
February 15, 2026 at 9:18 PM
This is the language of occupation -- how we descrbed Baghdad and Kabul. -- Continued deployment of paramilitary troops on the ground to enforce agreements is an occupation, not law enforcement.
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PBS also streams most of their programs on their website www.pbs.org; recent shows are free to everyone, for more you can join your local affiliate for $5/month
PBS: Public Broadcasting Service
Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!
www.pbs.org
February 15, 2026 at 1:56 PM
PBS also streams most of their programs on their website www.pbs.org; recent shows are free to everyone, for more you can join your local affiliate for $5/month
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California now bypassing Trump to help Ukraine with billions.
February 15, 2026 at 8:21 AM
California now bypassing Trump to help Ukraine with billions.
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The Trump Administration is starting to collect lists of Americans who despise Trump. America needs to get to the point in its citizens’ cognitive development when the “list of Americans who despise Trump” is simply called “the U.S. Census.”
February 15, 2026 at 12:25 PM
The Trump Administration is starting to collect lists of Americans who despise Trump. America needs to get to the point in its citizens’ cognitive development when the “list of Americans who despise Trump” is simply called “the U.S. Census.”
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Madeleine LeBeau and her husband, Marcel Dalio, escaped from Nazi-occupied France thanks to Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul-general in Bordeaux, who defied orders of Salazar's regime and issued visas to thousands of refugees. Sousa lost his job and died in poverty.
February 15, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Madeleine LeBeau and her husband, Marcel Dalio, escaped from Nazi-occupied France thanks to Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul-general in Bordeaux, who defied orders of Salazar's regime and issued visas to thousands of refugees. Sousa lost his job and died in poverty.
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the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this
every plantation owner should have been put to death
every plantation owner should have been put to death
February 15, 2026 at 12:01 AM
the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this
every plantation owner should have been put to death
every plantation owner should have been put to death
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I think @wajali.bsky.social was clear. He acknowledges the current fight, but asks @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social to lead on the long term goal of abolishing ICE. I don’t understand the leader’s reticence on that very simple, and frankly moderate position.
A simple ? from Wajahat Ali pushes Hakeem Jeffries into a crashout:
"Why not lead and abolish ICE? What you're telling us is you want our taxpayer dollars to pay for a lawless masked armed agency to continue terrorizing our cities."
Jeffries: "I don't understand anything you just said to me."
"Why not lead and abolish ICE? What you're telling us is you want our taxpayer dollars to pay for a lawless masked armed agency to continue terrorizing our cities."
Jeffries: "I don't understand anything you just said to me."
February 15, 2026 at 8:52 AM
I think @wajali.bsky.social was clear. He acknowledges the current fight, but asks @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social to lead on the long term goal of abolishing ICE. I don’t understand the leader’s reticence on that very simple, and frankly moderate position.
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Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.
www.reuters.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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America is a creole culture And American white supremacists have invested centuries of effort into keeping this fact from the American people.
February 15, 2026 at 5:11 AM
America is a creole culture And American white supremacists have invested centuries of effort into keeping this fact from the American people.
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As a child protection professional, I can tell you the death penalty is NOT an awesome solution to child sexual abuse. Most children are abused by family members; they will not report if their family members will die as a result.
February 15, 2026 at 2:51 AM
As a child protection professional, I can tell you the death penalty is NOT an awesome solution to child sexual abuse. Most children are abused by family members; they will not report if their family members will die as a result.
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Sidenote about mumps: swollen (painful) testes in ~15-30% of teens and adults, also swollen ovaries (~5%) and mammary glands (~30%) and encephalitis (~1%), so let's hear people say "natural immunity" is superior to getting vaxxed.
Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases
Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.
www.thebanner.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Sidenote about mumps: swollen (painful) testes in ~15-30% of teens and adults, also swollen ovaries (~5%) and mammary glands (~30%) and encephalitis (~1%), so let's hear people say "natural immunity" is superior to getting vaxxed.
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The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.
February 15, 2026 at 4:13 AM
The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.