Erik Gunn

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3332):

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m. The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.

The Jan. 6 plaque honoring police was just installed in the Capitol — at 4 a.m.:

Three years since Congress ignored its own deadline, the memorial plaque recognizing the service of law enforcement on Jan. 6 is finally on display in the very building they defended from a mob of Trump supporters.

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

This is an extraordinary reporting job by 2 Charleston journalists, meticulously fact-checking the Epstein victim who has accused Trump of abusive behavior.

Bottom line: Many details of what she told the FBI check out, though none relate directly to Trump.

www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Good point. I actually think “tawdry” part could be the least of it and an excuse even if silently understood in the highbrow media. What national media refuse to do well, if at all, inevitably comes down to power maintenance in one form or another. Urgent question is: Who knew, buried what when?

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign Thousands of authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman have published an “empty” book to protest against AI firms using their work without permission. About 10,000 writers have contributed to Don’t Steal This Book, in which the only content is a list of their names. Copies of the work are being distributed to attenders at the London book fair on Tuesday, a week before the UK government is due to issue an assessment on the economic cost of proposed changes in copyright law. Continue reading...

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

I had a relative who started giving people ball point pens when her dementia got really bad, don't know what made me think of that just now

What Heather said.

There. Is. No. Plan.

“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say.
Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing.
These people are fools!

When DOGE needed executive power it was USDS, a previously-excellent government tech shop that DOGE parasitized for this purpose. When it needed to avoid responsibility it was a vague "policy agenda" containing no real people.

Category error! I'm sick to the back teeth of comparisons to humans. It's so rife even colleagues do it. What's next?

> I compared a rock and a person, and challenged them to stay still the longest and the rock won! Wow!

Things thought up by the unhinged & those who wish to dehumanise for profit.

As we have long suspected, the NYT is committed to not understanding anything about writing’s critical connection to human agency.

Or perhaps should I say, “Commitments were made to misunderstand the point of cognition and communication (leaving hundreds dead)”

Holy crap, imagine what it takes to ask people to compare three-sentence passage devoid of any sort of context or deeper meaning, and trying to argue that the results are indicative of anything at all

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm"

@thelancet.com

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

FIU Turning Point USA chapter president steps down over racist group chat The Miami-Dade County GOP party secretary, meanwhile, is fighting calls for his resignation.

www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

A bright red cardinal sits on top of the Sideview mirror of a car

The Cardinal jumps down to look at himself in the mirror

The cardinal begins furiously attacking his reflection in the mirror

“Look at that bird”

A Play In Three Acts

Nikkei is down about 6.5%

Real patriots ride the train.

Autistic girls much less likely to be diagnosed, study says By age 20 diagnosis rates for men and women almost equal, research finds, challenging assumptions of gender discrepancy

Something to take into account on #InternationalWomensDay: Females may be just as likely to be autistic as males but boys are up to four times more likely to be diagnosed in childhood, according to a large-scale study. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

At this rate, canceling EV tax incentives will seem as wise as refusing to sign the Beatles.

Worth emphasizing that the rapture is a mostly American Evangelical Christian phenomenon but because of the way that American popular culture rounds Christians together we get people assuming that Catholic priests are anticipating it and uh they are extremely not.

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

Again, white commentators, please see the Black Americans and Hispanic Americans who have been talking about their Christian faith for years. This white saviorism is so offensive. For goodness sake, the Rev. Jesse Jackson's memorial service was just the other day.

The justice in the picture is not running, however. She was the right wing incumbent who decided not to seek a second term.

Despite the algorithmic parts, we live in an era of unrivaled connectivity and community when we have already made those bonds. It is possible to call a great of people in a great deal of places and have a clear conversation or share or receive data. The enemy wants to get in the way of you doing so

Helluva way for the president to refer to dead soldiers — soldiers killed in a war he started.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A black and white picture from around 1900. It shows a short passenger train at a station going away from the viewer, just behind and above there is another train passenger climbing up a bridge about 20 feet (6 meters) above. Further in the background a mind train crosses a high metal trestle.

I hate when model railroaders keep squeezing in more track and more bridges into a scene. So unprototypical.

(Lead, SD)

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.