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Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
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When I say that locking mothers in the suburbs with small children breaks them? This is what I mean.
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
When I say that locking mothers in the suburbs with small children breaks them? This is what I mean.
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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Remember Andrew Wakefield?
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.
Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.
Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.
Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.
Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Remember Andrew Wakefield?
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.
Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.
Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.
Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.
Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.
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the worst people alive are now convinced they're geniuses, and recognition and admiration are just one more prompt away, if only people would listen and agree
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
the worst people alive are now convinced they're geniuses, and recognition and admiration are just one more prompt away, if only people would listen and agree
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
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we have automated endless september with chatgpt and now we are in endless hacktober
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
we have automated endless september with chatgpt and now we are in endless hacktober
Yes, absolutely, this is how I do things. For the first version I also like to start from somewhere, maybe my own or someone else's code vaguely related just to avoid starting from an empty screen, that's impossible to start from.
my best code is written in a two-step process:
1. kludge a working prototype together, don’t worry about the code AT ALL. the point is understanding how the requirements function in reality
2. destroy the prototype completely. build the app for real using my better mental model
1. kludge a working prototype together, don’t worry about the code AT ALL. the point is understanding how the requirements function in reality
2. destroy the prototype completely. build the app for real using my better mental model
November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Yes, absolutely, this is how I do things. For the first version I also like to start from somewhere, maybe my own or someone else's code vaguely related just to avoid starting from an empty screen, that's impossible to start from.
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I didn't jump on this because I didn't want to argue with people, but... yes — Google's AI is not reading your email anymore than they _always_ are. But if you're worried about your privacy with Google? *Don't use their email*! They have literally always been gathering data on you.
Turns out this was all much ado about nothing and Google isn’t using your Gmail to train AI and if wanna turn all that stuff back on you can get your spam filters back
Looks like the article has been updated to suggest maybe they misread the policy.
I see people complaining that this also disabled their spam filters, though I still see new messages showing up in spam so it's still working fine for me after disabling things.
I see people complaining that this also disabled their spam filters, though I still see new messages showing up in spam so it's still working fine for me after disabling things.
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I didn't jump on this because I didn't want to argue with people, but... yes — Google's AI is not reading your email anymore than they _always_ are. But if you're worried about your privacy with Google? *Don't use their email*! They have literally always been gathering data on you.
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Almost half the US economy is now based on Nvidia selling GPUs to itself using other companies as proxies
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Almost half the US economy is now based on Nvidia selling GPUs to itself using other companies as proxies
More like this, (much) less copilot (preferably none)
Have you checked out this new feature for pull requests? No more switching back and forth between tabs during a review. 🎉
The more you know 💫
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-11-20-pull-request-files-changed-public-preview-november-20-updates/
The more you know 💫
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-11-20-pull-request-files-changed-public-preview-november-20-updates/
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
More like this, (much) less copilot (preferably none)
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Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
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*and pics*
October 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
*and pics*
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I would believe Google, LLMs leak training data and if they leaked something important the lawsuit would be bad even if for them.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I would believe Google, LLMs leak training data and if they leaked something important the lawsuit would be bad even if for them.
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I would believe Google, LLMs leak training data and if they leaked something important the lawsuit would be bad even if for them.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I would believe Google, LLMs leak training data and if they leaked something important the lawsuit would be bad even if for them.
He wants his Bubba 2.0
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
He wants his Bubba 2.0
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Working hard to turn CBS News into a televised Substack.
November 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Working hard to turn CBS News into a televised Substack.
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the NYT referring to "scientific orthodoxy" instead of "science" or "proven facts" or "the truth" is what helps you see that this newspaper is now, & has been for some time, a critical part of the fascist apparatus in this country
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
the NYT referring to "scientific orthodoxy" instead of "science" or "proven facts" or "the truth" is what helps you see that this newspaper is now, & has been for some time, a critical part of the fascist apparatus in this country
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Don’t wanna be a dick or nothing but all of you posting your outrage over Covid in the past tense are demonstrably part of the problem
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Don’t wanna be a dick or nothing but all of you posting your outrage over Covid in the past tense are demonstrably part of the problem
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Stages of grift:
- denial: "This is not a bubble!"
- anger: "How dare you suggest it's a bubble?!"
- bargaining: "It might be a bubble but if you help us pump it it'll never pop!"
- depression: "What even is a bubble, nothing really matters" (<- we are here)
- acceptance: to be determined
- denial: "This is not a bubble!"
- anger: "How dare you suggest it's a bubble?!"
- bargaining: "It might be a bubble but if you help us pump it it'll never pop!"
- depression: "What even is a bubble, nothing really matters" (<- we are here)
- acceptance: to be determined
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Stages of grift:
- denial: "This is not a bubble!"
- anger: "How dare you suggest it's a bubble?!"
- bargaining: "It might be a bubble but if you help us pump it it'll never pop!"
- depression: "What even is a bubble, nothing really matters" (<- we are here)
- acceptance: to be determined
- denial: "This is not a bubble!"
- anger: "How dare you suggest it's a bubble?!"
- bargaining: "It might be a bubble but if you help us pump it it'll never pop!"
- depression: "What even is a bubble, nothing really matters" (<- we are here)
- acceptance: to be determined
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Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?
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Leon Trotsky’s analysis of fascism, published in the Winter 1933 issue of The Yale Review: an account of how economic crisis, parliamentary chaos, and social despair hardened into dictatorship. #FallofFreedom
Leon Trotsky: “Hitler's National Socialism”
A Leon Trotsky essay from TYR ’s archives: “At the start of his political career, Hitler stood out perhaps only because of his big temperament, a voice…
yalereview.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Leon Trotsky’s analysis of fascism, published in the Winter 1933 issue of The Yale Review: an account of how economic crisis, parliamentary chaos, and social despair hardened into dictatorship. #FallofFreedom
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every discussion i see on here that bears on banning gen ai in some fashion includes a code-is-speech guy who is like “good luck when anybody can run a model at home lol” and im like go for it. all 7 of you. ai would be relegated to a hobby on the level of say 3d printing
October 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
every discussion i see on here that bears on banning gen ai in some fashion includes a code-is-speech guy who is like “good luck when anybody can run a model at home lol” and im like go for it. all 7 of you. ai would be relegated to a hobby on the level of say 3d printing
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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If Mozilla is anything like my job this is being driven by a 50 year old IT director who has made himself insane by reading LinkedIn all day, and absolutely nobody else
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
If Mozilla is anything like my job this is being driven by a 50 year old IT director who has made himself insane by reading LinkedIn all day, and absolutely nobody else
From Reddit:
If you are using undocumented immigrants’ tax records to find and kidnap them, then it was never about them paying taxes.
If you are showing up at their place of employment, then it was never about them not working.
If you are using undocumented immigrants’ tax records to find and kidnap them, then it was never about them paying taxes.
If you are showing up at their place of employment, then it was never about them not working.
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
From Reddit:
If you are using undocumented immigrants’ tax records to find and kidnap them, then it was never about them paying taxes.
If you are showing up at their place of employment, then it was never about them not working.
If you are using undocumented immigrants’ tax records to find and kidnap them, then it was never about them paying taxes.
If you are showing up at their place of employment, then it was never about them not working.
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In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.