After carrying out an armoured car robbery on March 6th, the Orbán gang from Hungary returned the empty vehicles to Ukraine's Oschadbank. They were damaged.
Orbán gang members did not return the $82 million in cash and gold they stole.
DOGE was nothing more than the revenge of the incels.
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.
Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
Not at all shocking.
A screenshot of a post from the X (formerly Twitter) account "Them Before Us." At the top, a high-quality stock photo shows two smiling men sitting on a rug with a young girl and a pug, all looking at a tablet together. Below the image is a bold title in large font: "'I Resent My Gay Parents'" The body of the post features an italicized quote attributed to a Reddit user: "I just want to start this with saying I love my dads so much, they’ve always been good to me and I’m really close with both of them. But I also can’t help this feeling of resentment I’ve felt for so long and I’m not sure it’s anything I can even vocalize to them so it just stews inside of me." The bottom of the post notes that the text was "(Originally published on Reddit)." The post has 16 comments, 37 reposts, 370 likes, and 364K views.
They're going to use the same tactic they used on trans people to go after gay adoption and surrogacy. Pluck anonymous posts from reddit and use it to build a narrative to push bans like they did with trans care and detransitioners.
How does a former energy exec not know the difference between light sweet crude and heavy sour crude?
After a lot of taste-testing, we landed on what we think are the best ramen joints in Denver. 🍜Check out the list and tell us if there's any you think we missed: https://www.westword.com/food-drink/best-ramen-in-denver-colorado-40832576/
If you avoided the Melania film in cinemas, you can now avoid the Melania film at home.
I wonder if this expertise from Ukraine was consulted before any other significant military misadventures recently undertaken by the Department of Defense.
the guy who told everyone not to panic about bear sterns is back with another banger
Young Liza Minnelli in black and white hugging an adorable medium sized dog wrapped in a blanket.
Happy 80th to Liza Minnelli! Here she is with her dog during the shooting of TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME, JUNIE MOON. You can pick up a Liza Old Man All Stars t-shirt in our merch shop for a discount all week long in honor of her birthday and new memoir: merch.ambientinks.com/collections/...
Ousted Aurora city councillor Danielle Jurinsky appears to have passed the time since losing her election last November coming up with Trump-style excuses. coloradopols.com/diary/222124... #copolitics
The series, which also stars Taylor Ortega, hits Netflix on April 9.
www.avclub.com/big-mistakes...
every “serious analyst” needs to get it through their heads that there is no plan and anything that passes for one can be tossed out at the mad king’s whim
A recently published study from a team of researchers in Europe attempts to measure the degree to which X’s algorithm is poisoning the brains of those who continue to use it. The study, which took place in 2023, randomly assigned around 5,000 X users to view either their algorithmic or chronological feeds over a seven-week period, and then measured the effects on users’ political attitudes and online behavior. For anyone who does not have a vested interest in the financial success of X, the findings are pretty grim. The researchers found that the “For you” tab shifted users’ political opinions toward more conservative positions on certain issues—for example, the then-ongoing criminal investigations into President Donald Trump, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They found that the algorithmic feed increased user engagement, promoted conservative-coded political content, and demoted posts from traditional news sources, which appeared in users’ algorithmic feeds 58.1% less often than they did in users’ chronological feeds.
Finally, and maybe most troublingly, the researchers found that these effects were asymmetric—that although turning the algorithm on changed users’ views, turning it off did not move views in the other direction. After the study, the chronological feeds of participants the study exposed to the algorithm contained 60% more posts from conservative accounts and 28% more posts from conservative political activists, relative to the chronological feeds of study participants who did not use the algorithmic feed. The researchers attribute these results to the types of accounts that users encountered in the “For you” tab and eventually chose to follow, thus adding those accounts to their chronological feeds, too. In other words, once the X algorithm moves you to the right, you probably stay there. And if you use the X algorithm long enough, even on those occasions when you decide to peruse the “Following” tab, you will probably see more conservative-coded content than you would have if you had never checked out the “For you” tab in the first place.
I know we all understood that the post-Musk version of Twitter featured more right-wing slop, but this academic study of the algorithm's effects is pretty astonishing: Just 7 weeks of using the "For you" feed made X users more sympathetic to Trump www.fastcompany.com/91507338/x-a...
it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"
Conservatives were on the record in January 2023 in the NYT saying explicitly that they targeted trans youth to be able to ban transitioning for everyone. They admitted it but then every dumb centrist was like "but what about the evidence on trans youth."
And here we are.
Of course
Israeli military drops charges against soldiers accused of sexually assaulting Palestinian detainee flip.it/Sa7Pjb
Stock market manipulation...
“when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money”
And by “we,” Donald means ExxonMobil, and by “make a lot of money,” he means off of you.
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
Yup, spot on.
A very valid warning, as someone who drove it for 17 years, just avoid it.
Sir, they already said they’re not coming. Stop trying to break up with them after they already broke up with you.
This graph is a load bearing explanation of our current politics. The years of lead (poisoning).
When Iranian news is more honest than American news, if a bit repetitive.
nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.
i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”
Lovely.
We didn’t have winter this year, so we are ahead of you.
