Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.
Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
I think it's funny that the fresh wave of AI scams targeting authors aren't even really preying on a desire for wealth and status but instead, very simply, the fantasy of "a person reaching out to say something nice." Really gives a barometer of where we're at right now.
#OtD 10 Mar 1952 Fulgencio Batista led a coup in Cuba. Backed by the US, business, his government killed thousands in anti-Communist purges. He was eventually overthrown by the revolution in 1959 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8220...
these people are irredeemable and should be [redacted]
Excellent piece in @theguardian.com featuring @mattseybold.bsky.social, @dorazhang.bsky.social and others (including a shoutout to against-a-i.com) on AI in the humanities classroom.
#OtD 10 Mar 1919 Leo Jogiches, Polish-German communist, key figure of the Spartacus League & KPD, and lover of Rosa Luxemburg, was murdered while trying to investigate the assassinations of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8216...
More and more convinced that the technocratsβ assertion that βAIβ will take all of our jobs is a projection of their fear of a general strike.
This is amazing
It takes five minutes to leave a comment. Please help save our forests.
By the way, if someone is serving for the United States military, it is a bit old fashioned to say "thank you for your service", perhaps try instead: "you are a traitor to the human race."
βHaitian security forces with support from Vectus Global, a United States-licensed private military firm, have carried out antigang operations using quadcopter drones strapped with explosivesβ
Americaβs business is Death
not like in a dramatic eschatological way or anything; it was a snowmobile accident in the upper peninsula
i killed God
game character is at the bottom of what looks like some stone steps, close to some trees. they are saying: this looks like a tree from far away, but it's just more of that computer generated crap. this comes from the point and click command 'look at the trees'. down the bottom of the screen is a face portrait of the character and the point and click commands: walk to, look at (highlighted), take, use, talk to, swallow, give, push. to the right of this is mostly blank boxes for inventory.
harlan ellison: i have no mouth, and i must scream, screenshot, macintosh (1995) www.mobygames.com/game/617/har...
Here, hear it from the man himself.
Environmental Activists Say the FBI May Be Investigating Them
I can't compete with this.
#OtD 9 Mar 1914 women battled police in Glasgow during Emmeline Pankhurst's speaking tour of Scotland. They used jiu-jitsu and barbed wire concealed in flower bouquets, and one woman fired blanks from a revolver stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1092...
Hang on a minute
Switching to Gatsby Standard Time so I can be borne back ceaselessly into the past
death to america, of course
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill herβand itβs somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
It's March is for Draculas, and this year we're covering Brian Lumley's "Necroscope", starting with our FREE SHOW for the month - great for all Draculisteners!
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#hppodcraft
yall gotta stop giving the amerikkkan ppl the benefit of the doubt
a real "ah! well. nevertheless..." thing for sure
he'd absolutely get away with reinstating the draft, btw
Halfway through the submission period for Agita 1: Bad Science. You still have a week to finish that story (or dig it out of the trunk) and send it in before March 14. And there's an extended period for marginalized authors, March 15-21. Details at agitamag.com/submissions