So who's gonna pay for this "A.i." error?

No one?

No one, right?

All right then.

Burn it all down.

my takeaway from spending time thinking/writing about this is that we describe the information environment as broken but i think that’s wrong. i think it’s working as intended! making ppl feel a specific way and then offering a supposed salve in the form of the very thing that made us feel insane

The internet now implores us to binge as a default behavior: to watch whole seasons of TV at a time, to watch every football game simultaneously in quad-box fashion. We’re prompted to keep talking to the chatbot for answers or companionship; to let the AI agent accomplish task after task until we have built a website in an hour; to obsess in relentless, completist fandoms or go down rabbit holes. Total bombardment is partly a surrender to the internet and its logic and algorithms—a kind of attentional death in which a person is no longer overwhelmed because they have given up. You could also see it as an attempt to hold their footing as the zone floods with shit. Because everything is happening too much, too fast. More. There is a cost to all of this—a flattening of every event, feeling, and piece of art, commerce, joy, and suffering into the same atomic unit of attention, all of them easily replaced by what comes next. The worst, most shameless people in the world already understand this and use that cold logic to their advantage. You do not need to justify a war if you believe that, ultimately, people will lose interest in it and move on to the next outrage.

there is a cost to all this www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The abiding feeling of 2026 is that too many consequential things are happening too fast for most people to follow, let alone understand. The United States invaded Venezuela in the night and captured its leader, Nicolás Maduro, 69 days ago. Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent 66 days ago; Alex Pretti was tackled to the ground in Minneapolis and killed by agents of the state 49 days ago. The last tranche of the Epstein files—millions of pages documenting Jeffrey Epstein’s dizzying connections to many of the most famous and powerful people in the world—came out 43 days ago. It’s been 22 days since the Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump’s tariffs. On February 4, a pseudonymous account believed to belong to an Open AI employee snarkily commented that “Anthropic has the same level of name recognition among superbowl viewers as literally fictional companies.” Now the company is embroiled in a massive fight with the Pentagon; its CEO is on the cover of a forthcoming issue of Time. Yet most of these events have been pushed aside to make space for a war in Iran that the administration has hardly attempted to justify.

the pace of awful news has outstripped our ability to give it the attention and duration it all deserves

An infographic titled "president Trump is reshaping the media", reposted from his truth social account.

Donald Trump is now just openly bragging about interfering in the media. He's the president. He's running a truck over the first amendment here.

She was in jail until her attorney proved she was far away from the crime using her bank records. This is the kind of shit they’re supposed to check before they go arrest people. She lost her home, car, and dog. They left her stranded after she was released. AI/LLM regulation is long overdue.

Congressman Keith Self • • Follow X 1d• The Sharia-Free America Caucus has grown to 48 members spanning 22 states-and we're j... See more DEFEND SHARIA-FREE AMERICA CAUCUS Co-Chairs: Keith Self (TX-03) & Chip Roy (TX-21) Whip Tom Emmer (MN-06) Andrew Clyde (GA-09) Pat Fallon (TX-04) Russ Fulcher (ID-01) August Pfluger (TX-11) Mary Miller (IL-15) Craig Goldman (TX-12) Tracey Mann (KS-01) Monica De La Cruz (TX-15) Andy Harris (MD-01) Pete Sessions (TX-17) Eric Burlison (MO-07) Brandon Gill (TX-26) Mike Ezell (MS-04) Michael Cloud (TX-27) Addison McDowell (NC-06) Brian Babin (TX-36) Mark Harris (NC-08) Wesley Hunt (TX-38) Pat Harrigan (NC-10) Eli Crane (AZ-02) Michael Rulli (OH-06) Andy Biggs (AZ-05) Josh Brecheen (OK-02) Paul Gosar (AZ-09) Scott Perry (PA-10) Nick Begich (AK-at-large) Mike Kelly (PA-16) Barry Moore (AL-01) Sheri Biggs (SC-03) Aaron Bean (FL-04) Ralph Norman (SC-05) John Rutherford (L-05) Andy Ogles (TN-05) Randy Fine (FL-06) John Rose (TN-06) Cory Mills (FL-07) Mike Kennedy (UT-03) Mike Haridopolos (FL-08) John McGuire (VA-05) Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13) Ben Cline (VA-06) Byron Donalds (FL-19) Morgan Griffith (VA-09) Buddy Carter (GA-01) Riley Moore (WV-02)

In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.

They are being explicit about turning corporate media into state propaganda.

JUST IN: Judge Shah in Illinois has blocked the Trump admin from yanking $600m in public health funds from four blue states, saying it appeared to be a “contrived” and illegal effort to punish them for sanctuary immigration policies storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Insurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soil Before the 2024 election, a cadre of MAGA loyalists met over brunch to plot ways for Trump to use the military domestically.

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.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "This technology disrupts humanity's train, largely Democratic voters, and makes their economic power less, and increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working class, often male voters. These disruptions are going to disrupt every aspect of our society."

I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is.

People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

My Year as a Degenerate Sports Gambler Practically overnight, America made wagering on a game as frictionless as checking the weather. I was determined to understand the consequences—for my country, and for myself.

Ubiquitously advertised betting available through the computer you carry in your pocket via apps designed and managed by ruthlessly efficient data scientists and programmers seems like a mistake. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for. The demand that we see for that..." - Sam Altman

These bros are not okay.

The intermittent work, productivity monitoring, and surplus of AI-vetted contractors means that workers are effectively always on call, often work overtime, and are paid for only the minutes they are typing. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Americans can all rest easy knowing that while this fresh Mideast war may lead to asymmetrical terror attacks throughout the world and on U.S. soil, and household budgets will be strained to a breaking point by doubling the cost of filling a gas tank, the suits at Exxon and Texaco will be just fine.

BREAKING: Bipartisan group of Senators call for an independent audit of the Justice Department’s protocol when redacting the Epstein files.

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.

The problem with this “sacrifice for our freedom” language is that the Trump administration cannot articulate a single half-plausible reason it did this, didn’t bother to explain to the public it was starting a war in the first place, and has changed its explanation for why three times in a week.

The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

Receipts:

KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly?

BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing!

K: You don't think it's hyperbolic?

B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up

Trump has now conducted 42 boat strikes, killing nearly 160 people.

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.

He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

This is a danger to us all.

"War crimes are fun" - The President of the United States of America

Nearly 6 hours since a GOP congressman said “Muslims don’t belong in American society,” not a single member of Republican leadership in the House will weigh in.

Just to corroborate: Speaker Johnson hasn't responded to me about this, either.

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC X.com The American Embassy is being evacuated in Riyadh because of sustained attacks by Iran against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is my understanding the Kingdom refuses to use their capable military as a part of an effort to end the barbaric and terrorist Iranian regime who has terrorized the region and killed 7 Americans. Question - why should America do a defense agreement with a country like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that is unwilling to join a fight of mutual interest? Americans are dying and the U.S. is spending billions to dislodge the terrorist Iranian regime that threatens the region. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia seems to be issuing statements and doing things in the background that are marginally helpful, but unwilling to participate in military operations to end the reign of terror coming out of Iran. Hopefully Gulf Cooperation Council countries will get more involved as this fight is in their backyard. If you are not willing to use your military now, when are you willing to use it? Hopefully this changes soon. If not, consequences will follow.

1. Is Lindsey Graham the U.S. Secretary of State now?

Is he coordinating these threats against a U.S. ally with the White House?

Now he is demanding that a top U.S. ally enter a regime-change war?

And then threatening, “Hopefully this changes soon… if not, consequences will follow.”

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