…I know…just…it can’t be as bad as sunday…I don’t have enough time to make it that bad…but that might be the only reason, tbh?
Today the news will be about the government’s proposals for juries.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system – problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
…it’s another example of a thing that was never exactly perfect but it turns out that cutting back what the brits call “legal aid” for the sort of folks who can’t pay lawyers’ rates until the public defender deal seems like a good one along with…I dunno…upwards of a decade of brexit-tastic conservative rule…&…wouldn’t you know it…there’s a crazy backlog of cases the courts haven’t heard…so…labour…with their top boy being very much a prominent member of the lawyer caste…are floating doing away with the juries for anything that could get you up to 5 years…& letting magistrates
…bang people up for a maximum of 2years…which is 100% longer than they can at the moment…they’re…I dunno…like an RA is to a professor but for judges…sort of…&…the whole thing has going on 4 years worth of cases pending at this point…so…you can see how they get there…but…feels like what you need is more courts, more judges…& more juries…that last one is kind of a big deal…that backlog runs to around 80,000 cases & the projections suggest that’ll rise to 100,000 the way it’s going…but…around 10% of cases actually get to the needs-more-than-a-magistrate point…& of those more than half then run to a guilty plea of some sort…so…on a 3% basis…that’s less than 30,000 of the sort where they maybe want to skip the jury thing…on an assumption the courts can get through, what…six or seven thousand cases a year…&…a career prosecutor doesn’t have a better idea than “we could save time if we ditch the jury element”?
ICE is a terrorist organization.
Abolition is the moderate position.
Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe.“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
…it doesn’t help labour that lammy…who is also the face of the jury-skipping-solution…is doing the rounds to explain how after they let some people out of prison by mistake…& he said some stuff about how they were going to improve the chances of that not happening…that it…uhh…happened a few more times
You can imagine how this is all going over in Silicon Valley, where the libertarian ethos runs deep.
Reporter: You said that that second strike was in full accordance with the law of armed conflict but the Navy's own manual of law of war says that specifically firing on survivors from a wrecked vessel is an example of a war crime that's forbidden under U.S. Law and the law of armed conflict…
…but…I guess how clever it looks depends on your perspective
uhh fuck this to put it mildly
“A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November 15. The edit coincided with the resolution of a bet on Polymarket…”
gonna say something that will either sound like gibberish or make complete sense.everyday the world becomes a little more like Dungeon Crawler Carl and that should scare the piss out of you
there's another Polymarket watcher that's created a live map (using deepstatemap.live) that's integrated with Polymarket. So you can bet on flashpoints in real time as the info pours in.
…what…in all seriousness…the fuck is wrong with people?
Indiana GOP is going for it: They've released a proposed map that'd likely lock in a 9-0 GOP congressional delegation & flip the 2 currently held by Dems. Indianapolis would be cracked into GOP seats, and Gary would be drowned in red.The big question: Will the Senate still stop it?
…I get that if we stop pretending the lines are where they were drawn & admit those are functionally where people are actually trying to bend them into fantastical shapes we’d presumably be worse off when the functional ones run further ahead in what apparently is the most fucked up possible dimension…but
I am consistently amazed the Building Safety Regulator isn’t a much bigger story. It’s brought house building in London to a total halt, but it’s also brought cladding remedy works to a halt, too. Which is costing leaseholders FORTUNES, halting sales, and leaving people living in unsafe buildings.
…the jury ditching thing seems about as effective as the strategy to use the bigots’ playbook for your immigration policy as a way to deter criminals from an enterprise that only got inviting after brexit batshittery became the baseline…meanwhile…that building safety stuff means…for example
Very good BBC documentary over a water company scandal that killed people. We should revisit this. People did not get what they deserved. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m…
…there’s still people that survived the grenfell fire who haven’t come any closer to “made whole” than the ones the government prosecuted because it couldn’t admit it paid fujitsu for software that actually deserved the overused-to-the-point-of-losing-all-meaning “not fit for purpose” on the basis that persecuting innocent citizens of its own was less embarrassing than upsetting a big japanese concern by pointing out their shit was for shit
In which Pakistan born Ben Habib supports some bigot who wants to ban people born in Pakistan from sitting in our parliament.
Dubai dwelling miniature Action Man made life – Ant Middleton, who is standing to be Mayor of London – thinks he's going to end up in the House of Commons if he wins the mayoral election.
…fuck it…look…the other day someone described me as “passionate” on the subject of the “AI” stuff…&…it’s not “passion”…I get that the degree of choler makes it an apparently apposite descriptor…but that would be of the order of a category error
To be clear he attempts to harass an older woman … what an absolute fool
NEW: A list of some of the ridiculous gifts and prizes and awards Trump has received in recent months. A newsletter about kiss-asses by the kickass @crampell.bsky.social.www.thebulwark.com/p/jackie-cha…
Exxon-Mobil (current market cap): $488BNorway GDP (2025 est): $517BDispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667BSaudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268BAmount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B
…oh, c’mon…I literally don’t have time today…& this is still going to run so long it’ll seem like I didn’t try to keep it in check…& I’m starting to resent that more than “I” make folks scroll
here's my take on Woke 2. the thing about Woke 1 is that it's born from the end of history era, when it was important to re-discover forms of oppression that had been denied or hidden. but this led to a [clears throat] hermeneutics of suscpicion, and ultimately paranoia and internecine factionalism
Millions of American Christians worship graven images of a lying adulterer who advocates violence, wealth, and cruelty to the stranger, maintaining or increasing their support for him even after God sent a plague.
i am not a christian but i have no idea why there isn’t some big panic about a guy called “mr. beast” amassing tremendous amounts of fame and influence by literally getting people to do dangerous and degrading things
“a man calling himself ‘beast’ is bribing men and women to participate in unholy games” you would tell that to any arbitrary person in europe for centuries and they would not need any further convincing to say it was the doing of the Adversary
the only pushback might be inquisition officials thinking it was some kind of trick or joke because it was too fuckin easy
“ye jest! mr. beast???”
…I know at least one kid who likes that asshole…& I basically can’t talk about mr beast in that house because the parents wouldn’t like me upsetting their kid by explaining my reasoning…which has never required recourse to matters biblical
One of my first journalism professors would give you a zero if you had even one error of fact. It happened to me. Sucked so much. He was one of the best professors I ever had, I took three more classes from him, and we’re still in touch
…but…what if I tell you that he made an appearance in a thing where elon’s ex dj’d while that rich nutter that likes to claim he won’t die did another dose of mushrooms because he’s into hallucinogens now…& that’s why the one making treble 6 references had the guy in mind?
I’m going to get an engineering degree from OU by saying bridges can only be measured in cubits and shekelswww.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat…
…sigh…look…not knocking your boy popehat…no reason to believe this part is lost on that guy…but…for real…we need to fucking address how not-real that species of bullshit is before we wind up with a working/voting population who believe a fundamental aspect of the natural order is that they never have to do any actual thinking…much less work…the fact that the full text of the shite she turned in is out in the wild & that any teacher that gave that anything less than a failing grade would firmly indicate that calling anyone involved educated would be rendering that term as void of discrete meaning as fucking AI…isn’t looking like many people feel like rises to the level of being worth mentioning…but…what the whole furore represents a textbook example of is…give or take…the stuff that elliot higgins fella was chatting about in that hour long video I buried in the morass on sunday?
🇬🇧 "Rage bait", the slang term describing online content designed to elicit anger and drive internet traffic, has been crowned 2025 word of the year, Oxford University Press (OUP) announced Monday. ➡️ u.afp.com/Shbj
…if the point of your complaint isn’t really that you have one so much as the desired output of your tailored input…then it isn’t helpful that anyone lets your complaint stand when they could be dealing with your foregrounded ulterior motive…dunno if mr higgins would pop for that being in the hollow or disordered column…but…that part might be academic?
"Trumplicans"?So the Republican party is dead in name and function and now it's a cult of personality?
…these people require entrenched asymmetric power in order to evade culpability…& they are guilty of such a broad & deep spectrum of unlawful behavior that it can never be enough…so the longer they remain in positions that allow them to do so they will continue to escalate the dismemberment of the things that enable even the functional delusion of a society predicated on the things the promise of which have been foundational to the concept of the united states as a democratic republic…the pretense that they are engaged in anything else is no better than the pretense that student had their 1A rights infringed because they failed to submit work that fulfilled the rubric of the assignment
“Trish Carter-Goodheart, a Democratic candidate and citizen of the Nez Perce Tribe, spoke plainly: Racism and discrimination remain real and persistent …When the conversation hit a nerve, [the GOP senator] abruptly stormed out, shouting: ‘Why don’t you go back to where you came from?’”
…I dunno how much hassle it is to find those now they inexplicably reversed the part where you could play them from there from anywhere with the internet…but…skipping who reith was & why that’s worth knowing whenever they talk about license fees & remits & public broadcasting or people think beyond “but I want it to be free” about what goes away if you treat the BBC the way the people who want to want to treat the NHS & how your odds of liking what you get after that better are a fucking fools’ wager…this year’s…are given by a historian called rutger bregman…on the subject of moral revolution…he’s the guy who used the phrase “most openly corrupt” in the first one even if that might never come up in the replay the BBC host of that one…&…I have places to be & people to see & stuff to do…but if I want to get to any of that without a side of actual fucking howling…I…really am more sorry than it can possibly seem about this part…but…something’s got to give
NATO is considering a more proactive stance against Russia’s hybrid warfare, the FT reports. NATO Military Committee Chair Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone said that a "pre-emptive strike" could be seen as a "defensive action."
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Maria Zakharova: “Statements by NATO representatives about the possibility of preemptive strikes on Russia are extremely irresponsible and indicate a desire for escalation.”
[it’s one of the ones where you can click about for variants if you do that sort of thing & it’s a nice distraction rather than the other sort]
…I…well
Breaking news: The errors that led the UK fiscal watchdog to accidentally publish the Budget ahead of time also allowed early access to the Spring Statement in March, the Office for Budget Responsibility admitted on Monday. on.ft.com/43Z5UIA
…the error appears to be adopting predictable URLs that people can load before you meant them to know they were live…& to hear them talk about it you’d think this chancellor was the first to try to prime the pump to improve the odds of the markets reacting favorably on the day…which is some ahistorical horseshit of the highest order
Donald Trump attempted to bypass the Senate’s constitutional role by installing a loyalist to act as U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. From the beginning, I have objected to Trump's maneuvers to keep his preferred nominee in power and the court today affirmed that those maneuvers were unlawful.
Indiana GOP is going for it: They've released a proposed map that'd likely lock in a 9-0 GOP congressional delegation & flip the 2 currently held by Dems. Indianapolis would be cracked into GOP seats, and Gary would be drowned in red.The big question: Will the Senate still stop it?
…they are much else besides…much of it hideous…but they are pursuing hellbent every possible avenue to increase the toll of avoidable deaths of people they don’t think of as “us”
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a landmark copyright case, Cox Communications v. Sony Music.We submitted an amicus brief urging the court not to allow copyright holders to shut down internet accounts based merely on an accusation that a user has infringed a copyright.
Computer updated and Microsoft or whatever made me click through the options again and it was wild because every time I wanted to tell them “no” the button was in a different place and required a different process to tell them no. Sometimes you’d click it sometimes it’s a drop down menu etc lol
Like it’s a consumer product specifically designed to work against me and be my enemy
One of my tv’s is an old HDTV from before everything had to be connected online and I have to access streaming stuff using a PS5 but that tv also doesn’t periodically quit to update and feed me ads, it’s a tv that works as a tv in a way that feels like they were trying to make a good product
And don’t get me wrong the PS5 has ads when you’re scrolling past things but they don’t actively slow you down or exit you out of things to expose you to bullshit you have absolutely no interest in, I’m not looking for perfection here just some basic human decency
but think of it this way: at least you get the quality product that is Microsoft Co-Pilot!
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res…
NEW: President Trump has never before been in such an echo chamberHis domestic travel has basically stopped. He sees rich donors and MAGA media, not actual votersEveryone around him is saying he is right. But polls show more Americans think he is wrong www.theatlantic.com/politics/202…
…with the fucking contortions required to avoid looking at our fucking problems
Look, y'all know I hate AI as much as the next passionate hater of AI, but ChatGPT has nothing on the University of Oklahoma deciding that based on the first amendment students can literally say anything in their papers as existential threat to the university.
…maybe you didn’t come across this one along the vector I did…& maybe you glanced off before that hove into view…I dunno…but…I started with a post that had the text she submitted…& from there to some stuff about what the assignment was…so I was on the third hop before the professor being trans entered the frame…&…then how shite the piece of “work” the “piece of work” turned in was made a certain kind of sense?
…some sorts of thinking are hard…I get that…some don’t come as naturally as others…some don’t flatter us…all that…but *thinking*…that has no business being anything but second nature…& that it not only isn’t
I’m hoping they show this Hegseth post at his sentencing hearing.
…but that swathes of people appear to prize not doing any so they don’t feel bad about behaving so utterly selfishly that it shades swiftly into a solipsistic worldview that equally swiftly necessitates finding a bespoke echo chamber to coddle the intellectually indolent fuckwits is honestly so entirely exasperating I feel like I’m in danger of imploding with the critical mass of fucking disdain for the sheer fucking laziness of the fuckers we’re letting get away with ensuring nobody gets to have nice things…or even the inclination to recognize those if they’re staring them in the fucking face
Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug
"why would Trump, whose poll numbers are cratering, generate even more negative headlines by pardoning Hernández, who was duly convicted of conspiring to send more than 400 tons (!) of cocaine to America?The answer is the influence of the crypto/tech broligarchy."
Yet another long feature article about political violence that refuses to acknowledge the basic reality that right-wing violence is far more common than left-wing violence.www.newyorker.com/magazine/202…
There is a well coordinated national campaign targeting a single trans professor at Oklahoma University to get her fired. It's part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life entirely. It was never about sports.
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w…
What’s notable to me though is that the WH felt the need to placate him. Like that genuinely seems like a big shift that seems to indicate, at the least, the WH thinks its position is weakening
It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a “problem essay” comes down the pike. It’s one small way of protecting each other.
It is fully possible to disagree in a seminar (I've never been to one where it doesn't happen) and even to have robust, useful conversations across pretty wide gaps in positions and commitments, but it does require that all involved be acting in good faith.
…if the object of your exercise is to exercise influence you have no basis to claim to possess beyond how badly off the reservation you’ll go if you don’t get your demented way…entirely athwart the pretextual fig-leaf of your fever-dreams
A study of recent ICE deployments shows unequivocally that the principal targets are US citizens protesting against ICE, not immigrants. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res…
…then you’re engaged in a particular sort of exercise
“ICE is about to have a bigger budget than the entire military of Israel. It’s an insane way for us to be spending our resources as a country.” – @timmiller.bsky.social
…we’re all fucking delusional…it’s just some delusions are actually beneficial…so if you mostly stick to those we call that “sane”
Sen. Eric Schmitt has apparently been mainlining extremist outlets like Revolver, founded by State Department official and open white supremacist Darren Beattie.More on Beattie and what he's been up to at State here: wiczipedia.substack.com/p/the-extrem…
The only people who endlessly complain about color revolutions are dipshit leftie campists and Q-pilled right-wingers and the thing they have in common is they're both huffing Russian propaganda
This is ridiculous. It was the first TRUMP admin which developed the cases against President Hernandez. His brother Tony Hernandez was indicted in 2018 and convicted in 2019, and key ally Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was indicted in 2020.Both were later sentenced to life in prison!
there is no legitimate definition of the term "democracy" under which maps like these are "democratic." this level of stovepiping is banana republic shit. this is effectively no different from stuffing a ballot box
…I know what these sound like…& I don’t love that part any more than you do
Cattle rustling is one of those things like high seas piracy or athletes getting intimidated by gamblers: it's a real problem, it's a serious problem for the people dealing with it, but it sounds slightly silly and funny to the rest of us because of the fiction tropes.
we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on itthe girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
A police stop is enough to make someone less likely to vote, recent research has found. "Voting is a reflection of our belief that we’re part of the system, that our voice matters."
Bonus Easter egg here as well: The fact that an order is issued does not, by definition, make it legal.
Someone in the White House and DoD should really read the manual before operating the equipment.
…eventually we’ll be down to checking if people think words mean stuff at all as the best case scenario for discussion
Yes! UET recreates not Roberts' vigorous and democratically responsive president but the hapless monarch whose aides rule the kingdom: www.motherjones.com/politics/202…
At this point creating your own personal website, your own blog, your own music or even your own YouTube channel without any generative AI input is a revolutionary act against what is increasingly becoming a dangerous status quo of slop.
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Krebs doxed one of the main scattered lapsus$ hunters admins, who is working on the sh1nyspider RaaS they have been threatening to release for months now.krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/meet…
I had never heard of this case before, a dev business called Logisticon dialled into Revlon systems and disabled software they had written after a dispute over contractual payments for the software. www.latimes.com/archives/la-…
Me, young, naive, reading Gibson: Holy shit a future where technology drives international geopolitics sounds amazingMe, middle aged, reading the news: The guy who wrote a fucked up IM client says France wants to assassinate Candace Owens because of Charlie Kirk stop please no more
…preferably without self-diagnosing as an enemy of the state
I wrote for @theintercept.com about how prosecuting transportation of these pamphlets is a danger to all writers, journalists, and Americans. Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
yep, if you dont know everyone in a chatgroup then assume its a public forum and then theres the old saying that in a gathering of more than 2 activists at least one of them is a cop
…ok…I’ll loft this since it’s due…but…there’s a whole tear it…uh
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
But that’s how conservatives do their own research. How else will they get their disinfo?
…but
And (mis)info. How about stop using boomers on these inna-net streets when the topic is clearly “defining LM and LLM”. Yeah, free speech and all but, FOCUS is a model too. Anyways, I think that ship left the dock over 30 years ago…toloka.ai/blog/history…
…&…thinking you know what you’re talking about does not guarantee you even know who you’re talking to
Disagree. The is no "Social media feed" because it varies from "person to person" because it's served by an algorithm. And these do even vary from platform by platform.
But it's not an algorithm. It's a heuristic. It works probabilistically and there is no one "correct" answer. In short, it's not like long multiplication, it's like predicting the weather.
Lo-fucking-l. I was trying to be non-dismissive, but you are being flippant and arrogant. And you are wrong. Heuristic doesn’t subsume algorithm, and “logic” isn’t a grounding for your argument.
Consider A* search: it uses a heuristic function h(n) to guide search, but the algorithm itself has precise, well-defined behavior with provable properties (like admissibility guarantees). The heuristic component doesn’t make the whole thing “just a heuristic”.
Or take RANSAC in 3D reconstruction work: the sample selection is heuristic, but the overall iterative procedure is algorithmic. 1) Compositionality isn’t transitive in this way2) Algorithm and Heuristic are different levels of abstraction
RANSAC is robust, but not algorithmic. It doesn't always produce the same consensus set from the same input [unless the congruential RN seed is the same each time, whereupon the consensus coincides, but is arbitrary (though still robust)]. It's a stochastic, heuristic, useful technique.
I have to agree with Adrian here, introducing heuristics into an algorithm makes it heuristic in the same way that introducing chicken into an alphabet soup makes it a chicken soup.
…but…well…sometimes…someone has the time…& the inclination
You’re just agreeing to be wrong, and using the most facile analogy imaginable to do so.
And it’s not lost on me you didn’t touch the a* search example, because it’s a much stronger case for my argument. A* has provable optimality guarantees, well-defined termination conditions, and formal completeness proofs.
Algorithms must be mathematically rigourous, tho. You can always apply weakest preconditions to an algorithm, but not necessarily to an heuristic.
On-field definition of algorithm and mathematical definition of algorithm do not align in the way you want them to, and i’d argue that exposes a weakness in the practical, casual definition, not in the mathematical one.
…you reckon?
you can apply wp semantics to randomized algorithms, you just get probabilistic guarantees instead of deterministic ones. The formal machinery extends naturally. Expected weakest preconditions, probabilistic Hoare logic – this is established theory.
Knuth’s definition of algorithm includes randomized procedures. So does the formal CS literature on computational complexity. You’re not defending “the mathematical definition” – you’re defending a particular narrow formalism (verification via wp calculus) and declaring it the only legitimate one.
The weakness isn’t in the practical definition. The weakness is in confusing “amenable to a particular formal analysis technique” with “is an algorithm.” That’s like saying “music must be reducible to Western notation”.
…I get that this might seem like a weird one to get wound up about…but…eh
it would be nicer if we all lived in a world of debate club where everyone was free to express their opinions and never lied about their intentions or behaved in bad faith but that's not the world we live in and it is important to deal with reality as it is, not as we want it to be
and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
…if you won’t do the work…or worse still can’t perceive that shit is even there for the doing…you don’t get the stuff that stems from having done the fucking work
one of the reasons for the addition of the flight to Egypt to the Christ story is because the commandments to help foreigners and aliens use Egypt as a referent.
“You were strangers in the land of Egypt” is repeated multiple times.
This Christmas season people are going to make up convoluted stories about the holy family and how they weren’t refugees, but they were!If there is any meaning to Christmas at all, it’s to welcome immigrants.
…because…the foundation of the premise is looking shaky in some premises
I like how every six months or so we get a big "This Obscure Fasicst Thinker Is Key To Understanding The Modern Right" and without fail every one of those is the biggest loser you've ever heard of writing the stupidest articles you've ever read for Racism Monthly
Like one thing that's actually been bumping around my head since the Signal Chat is questions of "how do you authenticate that orders are actually coming from POTUS"
I think there is a profound misunderstanding in multiple quarters of how enraged the American populous is and how tolerant they are of delivering fucking jurisprudence.This is just a polite way to communicate there is a fire coming, and they don't wanna say that exactly. But I will.
…lotta things have consequences…& lots more people are capable of grasping those than the things themselves
May I ask: should we consider Google Translate AI or LLM? Because I’m so anti-AI, but I used Google Translate all the time to communicate with people in countries where I didn’t speak the language, and was horrified to realize I might’ve been using it all along…
No, no more than human translation is just referencing previously memorized dictionaries (though some obviously is.) LLMs are a neural net algo that was developed for doing natural language translation, and GenAI uses that to translate questions into things that sound like answers.
A great colleague of mine drafted this Taxonomy to differ the different systems under the umbrella term AI (we have to categorize them bc we have to assess them): www.tuev-lab.ai/fileadmin/us…
If you follow younger western cybercriminal subcultures you’ll have heard of Violence-as-a-Service, a way for people to settle scores, frighten their rivals or in some cases carry out full kidnappings or thefts remotely through people recruited and paid online.www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/…
Chicago: Did you know that police departments in the Chicago area coordinate on Slack? Now that I know it's accessible to public records requests, request away: Their server is called CHI-INTEL and requests should be sent to the department that runs it, the Cook County Sheriff.Send away!
…so…before I finally see if the other bill was onto something with the bit about “Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.“…your boy from bellingcat
My work on counterpublics and related topicsdemos.co.uk/research/ver…
…tried to define some terms that might be useful…given the circumstances
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
…& that dude is no stranger to fielding missives from your cracked-most crackpot fringes
The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.
…to which “AI” is lending a veneer of respectable presentation of things undeserving of respect
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
Previously, these belief systems tended to collapse under their own weight. Contradictions and memory gaps made them hard to sustain. Now the AI removes that friction, it produces timelines, summaries, and "forensic" explanations on demand.
I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
The content is still obviously delusional to anyone reading it. It’s just organised crazy. But the real danger is the internal effect on the user. The AI provides coherence and validation, stabilising the narrative they’re caught in.
…once they go through the glass houses…them rocks get splashy
A friend of mine who gets a LOT more crank contacts than I do has regularly started seeing "ChatGPT/Grok confirmed my theory" or even "I asked ChatGPT and it told me" type of psychoceramics. The sort of person who is apt to slide down the rabbithole is just getting encouraged by the chatbots.
The thing about Britain is that jury trials are rare, even though they’re at least as litigious as we are. I think you have to request a jury trial; it’s not automatically granted like in the US. And, in a strange twist, barristers who have achieved a certain amount of…I don’t know what, I’m not British, but they can serve as judges. Loathsome Tony Blair’s lawyer-wife Cherie has overseen trials.
Mostly people show up with their lawyers and the Crown prosecutes (unlike in Manhattan, where nothing gets prosecuted, which keeps the crime stats low. You raped a woman at knifepoint on a subway platform? Third degree sexual assault, no bail, here’s your desk ticket.)
Where was I going with this? Oh, yes. In my corporate capacity I have had occasion to work with UK companies and the contracts ran into dozens of pages, even for the most minor and mundane things. The contracts always stipulated that disputes would be litigated in London. I would duly forward the contracts to our in-house counsel and say, “I love London! I know where the Old Bailey is! I’ll testify!” And she would say, “Oh no you won’t” and she’d strike out provisos and codicils and fax the contract back to whichever entity I was dealing with.
Which is to say that I have English friends, 60-ish at this point, and not one of them has ever done jury duty, because they are relatively rare. Same with their adult children. I, on the other hand, have done Federal grand jury (two days a week for months) and State grand jury (half days for a month) and have been called up to serve on several petit juries (those are the ones you see on TV, where there’s a back and forth between prosecutor and defendant’s lawyer, presided over by a judge, with 12 jurors desperately trying to stay awake.)
Well, Deadsplinterati, thank you for allowing me to process my journey through the American legal system!
…so, I didn’t have time to get into this earlier but…yes…at least mostly…& then some…few bits might be misleading…like…barristers don’t just *get* to be judges but once you’ve been the one thing for half a dozen or so years you can qualify to be a kind of judge…depending on where you do that side-gig between cases from chambers you might fight before the high court sort you wouldn’t be for a while yet that might be called anything from a master to a circuit judge to a district judge…though generally those are full-time a bit like a locum might be in the medical profession
…magistrates on the other hand are sort of volunteer “lay” judges who don’t have to have been a lawyer but do need to have been something respectable…there’s some things that make you ineligible but you get to take advice from people who *are* qualified lawyers & they handle stuff that’s different from, say, small claims court stuff…which has the district (or local equivalent) sort of full time judge that isn’t the old bailey high court sort
…I’ve done the jury service thing in the UK…though a fair while back at this point…couple of times…& in neither stint did I sit on a case that got to the point the jury’s services were required…which is to say I got selected for…all told…upwards of a half-dozen sittings of a jury & we heard parts of those when they weren’t sending us out to take 5 while they talked about “a point of law” lawyers-to-judge…basically anytime either side raised anything that seemed like something I’d need to know to render a verdict…but those all got pled out on a deal of some sort once both sides had their sense of how it was going to go…so I don’t get to vouch for whether or not you’d get to have those questions answered before you had to give your answer…or whether I’d have been stubborn enough to have refused to roll with the utterly specious reasoning by which my fellow jurors made out they would have reached their decisions…most of which seemed like they weren’t so much a verdict on what they’d heard in the court as they were an expression of how easily they saw themselves in the role of the accused or the accuser
…so…I think the thread at the top has the right of it & the problems aren’t the ones they’d need to be for their thing to be a fix…but…I might be fibbing at least a bit if I claimed to not have any idea of where the impulse might come from without it necessarily being “fuck your right to a trial”…which…last I checked…you do have to request the jury part of…& not so long ago not knowing that embarrassed someone people have heard of…so…you’re on firmer ground than more people it might apply to than you’d think?
…also…not really wrong about the full judge john dee/rumpole of the bailey being effectively a minority of the volume of legal proceedings by caseload…& hence most days in court not looking like they tend to on the telly
…I’m having flashbacks to being in the states the time the spice girls were rolling stone’s cover story of the month
…at least then I could apologise & move swiftly on to stuff like “have you heard of jungle…or…well…some people call it drum’n’bass but really there’s kind of some differences…uh…how about breakbeat?”
…the blair stuff…I dunno, man…I mean…you can do the thing where a dan brown novel can look at least half-decent if you only compare it to other dan brown books…& cherie isn’t as wackadoodle as the woman she had as a life-coach kinda deal that I think I remember getting some of that tax-payer money…& at some point I think might even have been considered a competent brief by peers…but…by the time I knew who she was I wouldn’t have had her for my lawyer not so much even as especially if my life depended on it
…then again…I had tone down as a man too self-deluded to distinguish between being sincerely unable to see himself as wrong & what integrity mixed with the sort of convictions you can have courage in is supposed to mean…so…lotta historical confirmation bias tipping my way on that & I’m likely not giving the lady a fair shake?
Now I am having flashbacks to when Better Half was living in London and Spice Girls-mania was at a fever pitch! You couldn’t escape it. We went down to Brighton thinking we might get a respite but apparently gay men also loved the Spice Girls. That was a really fun time. He lived on the top floor of a six-story building in Bayswater, no elevator, and he was lucky to get it, being a “single” Black man and all. Only four channels on the small TV so he would buy black-market VHS tapes and we’d have movie nights. Sadly for him he was eventually repatriated to home office back in New York, where the tapes were unviewable.
…I told a friend’s kid the other day that when his dad & I were his age there had only been three TV channels…two didn’t have ads but you couldn’t record anything so if you didn’t see it when it played that was it…& some people only saw the pictures in black & white, still
…to begin with they looked at me like I was just “being silly”…but then their eyes bugged out a little & they said “really?” with an impressive amount of emphasis suggesting incredulity…so scepticism is apparently alive & well
…but I’m pretty sure they now think of their father as having lived through some sort of childhood privation that would be considerably wide of the mark in that particular instance…I imagine if I were to attempt to explain to them the levels of crime I might plausibly have entertained if I thought it might net me the quantities of lego a couple of generations of that family have led to getting funnelled under one roof I think their little head would probably explode…but it was pretty cute in the moment
…the PAL/NTSC thing & the way they parlayed that into an excuse to geofence unequal market prices out of “regions” for audio/video on optical discs was wild, though…CDs/DVDs out of the US were dirt cheap to those on an EU/UK regional markup…but in the US were grounds for hunting “chinese” bootlegs
…sometimes wonder whether less people would have gone the napster->torrent pipeline route & maybe even had some love for DRM if the opportunity had been taken to ostentatiously give up the premium on a fractured regional market for a global product…but…never say never, I guess…if the open source thing ever really tips into being about stuff we view as a public good the way we do communal infrastructure…stranger things could happen?
I know I’m a broken record on this but as always: The Nazi Party did all sorts of things that the general populace was in favor of to allow it to do the campaigns of terror, which were not as broadly popular. Trump has decided to be Hitler.ai so missed the boring “get the people on your side” bit first and it’s building a backlash that not only do I not think they understand the enormity of, I think nobody in Washington is remotely away of the currents of fury in the rest of the country that’s currently sliding away from the shoreline tsunami-style.
Anyway, Indiana gerrymandering itself into pretzels is only gonna make Virginia and New York do the same, and not that I think Kathy Hochul is great shakes or whatever but if a slimeball opportunist like Newsom and a dead-center apparatchik like Hochul look at the landscape and see good money on telling Trump to cram it with walnuts … that’s not real good for the future of your right-wing project.
I mean, they don’t even need 20! That’s what’s so crazy/hilarious about the GOP. They think they have a 1,000-year Reich; meanwhile they’re what +4 right now in the House? The Senate map is decent for them this year but potentially poisonous in ’28 and Trump — I’ll try not to shout — won by 1.5% and didn’t crack a majority.
Like the media plays along and they believe they won 60% of the vote and 49 states in the presidential … but none of that is even close to reality. The only place they have real secure power is the Supreme Court and if they keep pissing off the Democrats, I would argue that’s not nearly as secure as it used to be!
…so…while I’m catching up with things I thought when I couldn’t be typing…hard as it may sometimes be to credit when I sound like I assume I do…I do firmly believe all that really is more important than the way we get somewhat stuck talking about makes it seem…but there seems to be an issue where people who get that part can generally also get how the bullshit standing in for talking about it is pulling its shit & the ones that don’t apparently can’t get past the bullshit so you have to start on their home field to drag the sorry bastards in the direction of their own self-interests…& that’s hard because the people dragging them in the other direction did a bang up job of making them believe those people are protecting them from catching a fucking clue from people who aren’t trying to tell them what to think so much as asking them to let them show them how the stuff they say they want is on offer the other side of falling for the bullshit…so the day to day is mostly-to-entirely the bullshit coalface
…but…big strokes?
…even crazy that’s *this* fucking crazy doesn’t go as self-destructively all-in as they have or push hell for leather in the directions they are if it isn’t like rats that are trapped on the sinking ship…&…look at russia…you can front hard enough to make out you aren’t trapped getting fucked by your own fuck ups & fuckery…but…when your shit comes unstuck…you might be fixing to learn a whole lot about what happens to the materials your shit is built from under extreme loading in a number of dimensions?
…which is how come I ended up in a conversation with one of the folks that was kind enough to give me a meal to be thanking someone for on thanksgiving about how it might not be crazy to be looking down the line to a correction that puts things like actual amendments on the table to nail back some stare decisis & a right or two instead of all the “quieta movere”-ing these stomping clownshoes proportioned jackboot fanciers are fucking around with
…& I’d be down with a bit of that sort of finding out?
But I will also follow this up with: I’m way more concerned about Britain because your center-left (“center-left”?) party makes ours look like fucking Robespierre and the Jacobins. Good God.
Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning! Not that I disagree with anything you wrote, far from it. The Newsom (or, as the infallible Trumpenführer would put it, “Newscum,” nothing is more presidented than 7-year-old schoolyard insults) but what about the Getty money that funded his public rise.
And what about his ex-wife, Kimberley Guilfoyle, or whatever her name is. She dated (slept with; gross) Don Jr. post-divorce and is now the Ambassador to Greece. A pretty nice payoff to stay shtum. I can’t wait to read her memoir.
Right, “slimeball opportunist” — not someone who actually cares but who is very attuned to which way the wind is blowing. If he thought it was an advantage to get behind Trump, he’d have invited ICE to San Francisco and shipped cocaine to Donj. But he’s firmly going the other way and that says a lot!
As for ICE illegally and improperly using “non lethal” weaponry, what do you expect from mentally lazy, stupid and weak motherfukcers like the Proud (of what?) Boys and the Oaf Keepers who are ICE Agents?
Considering they follow utter losers like Mr “I shot out my eye” and “Don’t masturbate/I’m an FBI informant!” (don’t care to remember their fucking names.) It shouldn’t be a shock.
Don’t know if RIP touched on this because I’m too busy to work through the DOT, but this is *BIG DEAL*. The race is currently within a couple of percentage points and Republicans are shitting bricks and gibbering in terror. The good news for Dems is that even a loss is practically a victory if the margin is close enough. If Tennessee even comes near to flipping, Republicans are doomed in a year, absent major skullduggery which is currently not working out too well for them. And even fewer Republicans are going to be interested in redistricting if it means throwing away their safe districts on spec.
…sure he is…that totally makes it look like he could be that shape & still makes the shape he does in a suit or a golfing polo shirt…if tailor is a mad genius who loathes him as much as I do…but…you can still tell it’s fake because the back of his hand isn’t a massive bruise that looks like a biblical affliction
…I mean…they went on about how his scans said his heart was the bestest heart that ever heart-ed & he has…I dunno…the lungs of a younger man or some shit…but…if you don’t know why they put you in the MRI…you’re cooked…& they won’t talk about the shit the heart has to pump upwards to reach…paging chidi…you-get-how-that’s-worse-right?.gif
…so I saw at some point that there was a follow up embed missing somewhere up there from mark chabourn…so I stuck that in with the russian line about “you talking about us behaving in ways that have you looking at pre-emptive strikes like they might be defensive measures is escalatory, ackshully”
…but I only just noticed that there was a duplicate where the “other service providers” thing should have been followed by one about chicago PD stuff & slack & FOIA fun & games…I dunno…like it makes a difference?
…anyway…that’s two things that weren’t showing when the tunes showed up at the bottom but are now…because once I see that sort of thing it bugs me more not to adjust it, basically?
Chock full o’ nuts.
It’s the heavenly coffee
The thing about Britain is that jury trials are rare, even though they’re at least as litigious as we are. I think you have to request a jury trial; it’s not automatically granted like in the US. And, in a strange twist, barristers who have achieved a certain amount of…I don’t know what, I’m not British, but they can serve as judges. Loathsome Tony Blair’s lawyer-wife Cherie has overseen trials.
Mostly people show up with their lawyers and the Crown prosecutes (unlike in Manhattan, where nothing gets prosecuted, which keeps the crime stats low. You raped a woman at knifepoint on a subway platform? Third degree sexual assault, no bail, here’s your desk ticket.)
Where was I going with this? Oh, yes. In my corporate capacity I have had occasion to work with UK companies and the contracts ran into dozens of pages, even for the most minor and mundane things. The contracts always stipulated that disputes would be litigated in London. I would duly forward the contracts to our in-house counsel and say, “I love London! I know where the Old Bailey is! I’ll testify!” And she would say, “Oh no you won’t” and she’d strike out provisos and codicils and fax the contract back to whichever entity I was dealing with.
Which is to say that I have English friends, 60-ish at this point, and not one of them has ever done jury duty, because they are relatively rare. Same with their adult children. I, on the other hand, have done Federal grand jury (two days a week for months) and State grand jury (half days for a month) and have been called up to serve on several petit juries (those are the ones you see on TV, where there’s a back and forth between prosecutor and defendant’s lawyer, presided over by a judge, with 12 jurors desperately trying to stay awake.)
Well, Deadsplinterati, thank you for allowing me to process my journey through the American legal system!
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
…so, I didn’t have time to get into this earlier but…yes…at least mostly…& then some…few bits might be misleading…like…barristers don’t just *get* to be judges but once you’ve been the one thing for half a dozen or so years you can qualify to be a kind of judge…depending on where you do that side-gig between cases from chambers you might fight before the high court sort you wouldn’t be for a while yet that might be called anything from a master to a circuit judge to a district judge…though generally those are full-time a bit like a locum might be in the medical profession
…magistrates on the other hand are sort of volunteer “lay” judges who don’t have to have been a lawyer but do need to have been something respectable…there’s some things that make you ineligible but you get to take advice from people who *are* qualified lawyers & they handle stuff that’s different from, say, small claims court stuff…which has the district (or local equivalent) sort of full time judge that isn’t the old bailey high court sort
…I’ve done the jury service thing in the UK…though a fair while back at this point…couple of times…& in neither stint did I sit on a case that got to the point the jury’s services were required…which is to say I got selected for…all told…upwards of a half-dozen sittings of a jury & we heard parts of those when they weren’t sending us out to take 5 while they talked about “a point of law” lawyers-to-judge…basically anytime either side raised anything that seemed like something I’d need to know to render a verdict…but those all got pled out on a deal of some sort once both sides had their sense of how it was going to go…so I don’t get to vouch for whether or not you’d get to have those questions answered before you had to give your answer…or whether I’d have been stubborn enough to have refused to roll with the utterly specious reasoning by which my fellow jurors made out they would have reached their decisions…most of which seemed like they weren’t so much a verdict on what they’d heard in the court as they were an expression of how easily they saw themselves in the role of the accused or the accuser
…so…I think the thread at the top has the right of it & the problems aren’t the ones they’d need to be for their thing to be a fix…but…I might be fibbing at least a bit if I claimed to not have any idea of where the impulse might come from without it necessarily being “fuck your right to a trial”…which…last I checked…you do have to request the jury part of…& not so long ago not knowing that embarrassed someone people have heard of…so…you’re on firmer ground than more people it might apply to than you’d think?
…also…not really wrong about the full judge john dee/rumpole of the bailey being effectively a minority of the volume of legal proceedings by caseload…& hence most days in court not looking like they tend to on the telly
I was just shocked to learn that the devout Catholic/full of woo wife of the PM was adjudicating cases.
“Mrs. Britain, you are accused of killing your husband, Mr. UK.”
“But I can explain. My GOOP vaginal egg slipped out of my body during a sunrise yoga session and—”
“Say no more. Release this woman. We’d all do the same.”
Cherie is 71 years old.
…I’m having flashbacks to being in the states the time the spice girls were rolling stone’s cover story of the month
…at least then I could apologise & move swiftly on to stuff like “have you heard of jungle…or…well…some people call it drum’n’bass but really there’s kind of some differences…uh…how about breakbeat?”
…the blair stuff…I dunno, man…I mean…you can do the thing where a dan brown novel can look at least half-decent if you only compare it to other dan brown books…& cherie isn’t as wackadoodle as the woman she had as a life-coach kinda deal that I think I remember getting some of that tax-payer money…& at some point I think might even have been considered a competent brief by peers…but…by the time I knew who she was I wouldn’t have had her for my lawyer not so much even as especially if my life depended on it
…then again…I had tone down as a man too self-deluded to distinguish between being sincerely unable to see himself as wrong & what integrity mixed with the sort of convictions you can have courage in is supposed to mean…so…lotta historical confirmation bias tipping my way on that & I’m likely not giving the lady a fair shake?
Now I am having flashbacks to when Better Half was living in London and Spice Girls-mania was at a fever pitch! You couldn’t escape it. We went down to Brighton thinking we might get a respite but apparently gay men also loved the Spice Girls. That was a really fun time. He lived on the top floor of a six-story building in Bayswater, no elevator, and he was lucky to get it, being a “single” Black man and all. Only four channels on the small TV so he would buy black-market VHS tapes and we’d have movie nights. Sadly for him he was eventually repatriated to home office back in New York, where the tapes were unviewable.
…I told a friend’s kid the other day that when his dad & I were his age there had only been three TV channels…two didn’t have ads but you couldn’t record anything so if you didn’t see it when it played that was it…& some people only saw the pictures in black & white, still
…to begin with they looked at me like I was just “being silly”…but then their eyes bugged out a little & they said “really?” with an impressive amount of emphasis suggesting incredulity…so scepticism is apparently alive & well
…but I’m pretty sure they now think of their father as having lived through some sort of childhood privation that would be considerably wide of the mark in that particular instance…I imagine if I were to attempt to explain to them the levels of crime I might plausibly have entertained if I thought it might net me the quantities of lego a couple of generations of that family have led to getting funnelled under one roof I think their little head would probably explode…but it was pretty cute in the moment
…the PAL/NTSC thing & the way they parlayed that into an excuse to geofence unequal market prices out of “regions” for audio/video on optical discs was wild, though…CDs/DVDs out of the US were dirt cheap to those on an EU/UK regional markup…but in the US were grounds for hunting “chinese” bootlegs
…sometimes wonder whether less people would have gone the napster->torrent pipeline route & maybe even had some love for DRM if the opportunity had been taken to ostentatiously give up the premium on a fractured regional market for a global product…but…never say never, I guess…if the open source thing ever really tips into being about stuff we view as a public good the way we do communal infrastructure…stranger things could happen?
If I were Franklin’s author and publisher I’d sue the motherfuckers.
Everything is terrible. And yet!
I know I’m a broken record on this but as always: The Nazi Party did all sorts of things that the general populace was in favor of to allow it to do the campaigns of terror, which were not as broadly popular. Trump has decided to be Hitler.ai so missed the boring “get the people on your side” bit first and it’s building a backlash that not only do I not think they understand the enormity of, I think nobody in Washington is remotely away of the currents of fury in the rest of the country that’s currently sliding away from the shoreline tsunami-style.
Anyway, Indiana gerrymandering itself into pretzels is only gonna make Virginia and New York do the same, and not that I think Kathy Hochul is great shakes or whatever but if a slimeball opportunist like Newsom and a dead-center apparatchik like Hochul look at the landscape and see good money on telling Trump to cram it with walnuts … that’s not real good for the future of your right-wing project.
What should be concerning to them is that if +20 Red seats swing to the Dims.
All their gerrymandering don’t mean shit if the people are sick and starving but I’ve said that before and been horribly disappointed.
I mean, they don’t even need 20! That’s what’s so crazy/hilarious about the GOP. They think they have a 1,000-year Reich; meanwhile they’re what +4 right now in the House? The Senate map is decent for them this year but potentially poisonous in ’28 and Trump — I’ll try not to shout — won by 1.5% and didn’t crack a majority.
Like the media plays along and they believe they won 60% of the vote and 49 states in the presidential … but none of that is even close to reality. The only place they have real secure power is the Supreme Court and if they keep pissing off the Democrats, I would argue that’s not nearly as secure as it used to be!
…so…while I’m catching up with things I thought when I couldn’t be typing…hard as it may sometimes be to credit when I sound like I assume I do…I do firmly believe all that really is more important than the way we get somewhat stuck talking about makes it seem…but there seems to be an issue where people who get that part can generally also get how the bullshit standing in for talking about it is pulling its shit & the ones that don’t apparently can’t get past the bullshit so you have to start on their home field to drag the sorry bastards in the direction of their own self-interests…& that’s hard because the people dragging them in the other direction did a bang up job of making them believe those people are protecting them from catching a fucking clue from people who aren’t trying to tell them what to think so much as asking them to let them show them how the stuff they say they want is on offer the other side of falling for the bullshit…so the day to day is mostly-to-entirely the bullshit coalface
…but…big strokes?
…even crazy that’s *this* fucking crazy doesn’t go as self-destructively all-in as they have or push hell for leather in the directions they are if it isn’t like rats that are trapped on the sinking ship…&…look at russia…you can front hard enough to make out you aren’t trapped getting fucked by your own fuck ups & fuckery…but…when your shit comes unstuck…you might be fixing to learn a whole lot about what happens to the materials your shit is built from under extreme loading in a number of dimensions?
…which is how come I ended up in a conversation with one of the folks that was kind enough to give me a meal to be thanking someone for on thanksgiving about how it might not be crazy to be looking down the line to a correction that puts things like actual amendments on the table to nail back some stare decisis & a right or two instead of all the “quieta movere”-ing these stomping clownshoes proportioned jackboot fanciers are fucking around with
…& I’d be down with a bit of that sort of finding out?
But I will also follow this up with: I’m way more concerned about Britain because your center-left (“center-left”?) party makes ours look like fucking Robespierre and the Jacobins. Good God.
…fucking amen, brother
Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning! Not that I disagree with anything you wrote, far from it. The Newsom (or, as the infallible Trumpenführer would put it, “Newscum,” nothing is more presidented than 7-year-old schoolyard insults) but what about the Getty money that funded his public rise.
And what about his ex-wife, Kimberley Guilfoyle, or whatever her name is. She dated (slept with; gross) Don Jr. post-divorce and is now the Ambassador to Greece. A pretty nice payoff to stay shtum. I can’t wait to read her memoir.
Right, “slimeball opportunist” — not someone who actually cares but who is very attuned to which way the wind is blowing. If he thought it was an advantage to get behind Trump, he’d have invited ICE to San Francisco and shipped cocaine to Donj. But he’s firmly going the other way and that says a lot!
As for ICE illegally and improperly using “non lethal” weaponry, what do you expect from mentally lazy, stupid and weak motherfukcers like the Proud (of what?) Boys and the Oaf Keepers who are ICE Agents?
Considering they follow utter losers like Mr “I shot out my eye” and “Don’t masturbate/I’m an FBI informant!” (don’t care to remember their fucking names.) It shouldn’t be a shock.
Don’t know if RIP touched on this because I’m too busy to work through the DOT, but this is *BIG DEAL*. The race is currently within a couple of percentage points and Republicans are shitting bricks and gibbering in terror. The good news for Dems is that even a loss is practically a victory if the margin is close enough. If Tennessee even comes near to flipping, Republicans are doomed in a year, absent major skullduggery which is currently not working out too well for them. And even fewer Republicans are going to be interested in redistricting if it means throwing away their safe districts on spec.
Trump rushes to rescue GOP in surprisingly tight special election
…it is a big deal…&…I didn’t get to that
…not sure if that makes it sound better or worse, tbh?
I used to live in the 7th. That’s Blackburn’s old territory, and is one of the most wildly gerrymandered districts in the state.
Not the “nuclear option” I imagined & not the group I expected to do it?
https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/192200/europe-s-nuclear-option-threatens-trump-midterm-elections-approach
not sure the extra help is needed to destabilize the economy…..kinda feel like the whole thing is teetering as it is…
but hey…that at least is a threat what probably isnt getting ignored by the shot callers
You thought that ICE bonus was a great recruiting tool? I’m joining the IRS!
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/irs-agents-to-review-onlyfans-content-to-determine-if-its-pornographic/
…cf. the one about substituting “entitled assholes with computers” for “AI”…just…with the computers being an optional extra
Pretty obvious why these fuckers love AI, only way they can put lipstick on this pig…
…sure he is…that totally makes it look like he could be that shape & still makes the shape he does in a suit or a golfing polo shirt…if tailor is a mad genius who loathes him as much as I do…but…you can still tell it’s fake because the back of his hand isn’t a massive bruise that looks like a biblical affliction
…I mean…they went on about how his scans said his heart was the bestest heart that ever heart-ed & he has…I dunno…the lungs of a younger man or some shit…but…if you don’t know why they put you in the MRI…you’re cooked…& they won’t talk about the shit the heart has to pump upwards to reach…paging chidi…you-get-how-that’s-worse-right?.gif
So everything is rippling muscle except for his turkey wattle? Okay then.
getting harkonnen vibes from that pic
…think the .jpg cites baron trump…& it ain’t the kid…so…reckon you’d be right about that
Yup. From the original movie.
honestly….if your gonna compare him to anyone…..thats pretty fitting
It’s funny that such lazy shitheads imagine their dear leader looks like that.
…so I saw at some point that there was a follow up embed missing somewhere up there from mark chabourn…so I stuck that in with the russian line about “you talking about us behaving in ways that have you looking at pre-emptive strikes like they might be defensive measures is escalatory, ackshully”
…but I only just noticed that there was a duplicate where the “other service providers” thing should have been followed by one about chicago PD stuff & slack & FOIA fun & games…I dunno…like it makes a difference?
…anyway…that’s two things that weren’t showing when the tunes showed up at the bottom but are now…because once I see that sort of thing it bugs me more not to adjust it, basically?
I love this nickname! “HAGUEseth” but shit about to get real…
https://substack.com/home/post/p-180492181