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FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed, and ordered their immediate removal.

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

US forecasts blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome and atmospheric river all at once The United States is getting slammed by a stretch of weather extremes, from flooding rain to record heat and late-season snow.

Happy Friday the 13th.

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For third time, judge orders release of Palestinian woman whose detention at North Texas ICE facility gained national headlines On the first anniversary of her detainment, a judge has ordered Leqaa Kordia's release on bond for a third time.

The process does not end here. Political prisoners and their families will need ongoing support while they appeal, letter-writing campaigns, etc.

Follow @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social for updates. This is the facility where Leqaa Kordia has been unjustly imprisoned for a year.

Israel planning massive ground invasion of Lebanon, officials say "We are going to do what we did in Gaza," said a senior Israeli official.

Israel planning massive ground invasion of Lebanon

We are a failed state.

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."

Just saying it right out loud now.

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A woman in a mask Headline: Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask? Story from Jerk Wingley and Terramin Defishunsee Photo from Adobe

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

How rich is Elon? With a record $839 billion fortune, Elon Musk is richer than the “poorest” 693 billionaires on the planet combined. He’s $54 billion richer than Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison and Warren Buffett combined.

Look at this.

There is not one good argument you can make against taxing billionaires.

The difference between $839 billion and $792 billion is meaningless to Elon Musk.

But the revenue we get back could be the difference between millions of people having or losing healthcare.

Antisemitism and violence against Jews HAS GOTTEN WORSE over the last several years. And anyone suggesting otherwise is a fucking liar who is either a hateful bigot or who has nefarious intentions or both.

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center

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What a world

The Preschool Teaching Assistant Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist” When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, with it, a sense of reality.

When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, with it, a sense of reality. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/14IuY-

Israel’s renewed war on Lebanon is about more than just Hezbollah After violating the ‘ceasefire’ 10,000 times, Israel is once again pounding Lebanon as its enduring thirst for war drives ever expanding ambitions.

I agree with @ayoub.bsky.social that “Israel’s territorial ambitions and drive for total domination far outweigh any commitment to long-term regional stability.”

ADL condemns Zohran Mamdani for hosting Mahmoud Khalil at mayor’s mansion ‘Gracie Mansion belongs to all New Yorkers. Public office must never be used to legitimize hate,’ an ADL spokesperson said

fuck the ADL

The voice that won over Ira Glass hasn't changed much since 1992. It's more subdued than it was in riotously funny essays like "Me Talk Pretty One Day," but the wry wisecracking, the deliberate bitchiness — those qualities are still in evidence. Still, in "Cash and Carry," when Sedaris critiques the phrasing on a homeless man's cardboard sign ("It should be 'Help one of the homeless,' I wanted to tell him. Otherwise it sounds like you’re going to take whatever you collect and distribute it to other people in need."), I sympathize with the guy's response that he hopes Sedaris burns in hell. His essays often derive their humor from catty, judgmental moments like that one, and so it's notable that this is the first time I can remember reading one and being firmly on the other person's side. The tone may not have changed, but Sedaris's positioning inarguably has. The very bitchiness which once made his voice feel so fresh has become a commonplace in humor writing; writers from Tina Fey to Samantha Irby have surpassed him in their own fluent versions of it. Watching him uphold it now with such determination feels like watching your dad try to squeeze into the leisure suit he last wore in 1971. Sedaris spent so many years assuring us he was an incurious curmudgeon that he seems to have talked himself into becoming one, at least on the page.

i wrote about why david sedaris’s writing leaves me cold now
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Million-dollar earners have already stopped paying into Social Security for 2026 The Social Security payroll tax is capped at $184,500 in 2026. Some high earners have already stopped paying into the program for the year.

Million-dollar earners have stopped paying into Social Security for 2026 share.google/2h7xzZGsbhVL...
#taxtherich

This is cursed.

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimer’s Disease By watching Alzheimer’s-related protein clumping unfold second by second, researchers have uncovered new clues about the role of metal ions.

This amazing scientific advance may one day lead to either more effective treatments or dare I say perhaps a cure.
This is why it is vitally important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimer’s Disease share.google/Vm0hfSMfkGIc...

I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened

The Next Costly Battleground in the Conservative War for Total Parental Control This story is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...

A new Wyoming bill would allow parents to sue for financial damages and attorney’s fees if their kids are exposed to ideas that the parents don’t like.

I would go. I say this as someone who loves nothing more than staying home. But sometimes pushing myself is good for me. Be optimistic (I am not inclined to optimism). You can always leave! (What I tell myself to get myself to go.)

Thousands of lawyers urge Keir Starmer to rethink plans to cut jury trials Government facing prospect of most serious backbench revolt yet over proposals for England and Wales Plans to curtail the number of jury trials in England and Wales have been described as “unpopular, untested and poorly evidenced” by thousands of lawyers who have written to the prime minister. The letter to Keir Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions, from 3,200 lawyers, including 300 senior barristers, comes as his government faces the prospect of one of its most serious backbench revolts since coming to power. Continue reading...

Thousands of lawyers urge Keir Starmer to rethink plans to cut jury trials

A reminder that when Christian Zionists and Christian Nationalists in the West talk about Christians, they are not talking about the Christians of the same holy land that Jesus himself came from. They don't give a shit about us.

A dramatic image with bold text about Idaho House Committee's passage of a social transition ban, set against a grayscale domed ceiling background. Transcribed Text: BREAKING Idaho House Committee Passes Extreme Social Transition Ban HB 822 is alarming government overreach that would allow Idaho politicians to decide how youth dress and act.

BREAKING: An Idaho House Committee passed HB 822. This dangerous and unconstitutional bill would require trusted adults, such as teachers and counselors, to monitor children for signs that they are not conforming to gender stereotypes. Learn more about the bill: buff.ly/7kw0CXu

CNN reports blackened rain in Tehran | CNN Thick black clouds and oil‑saturated rain are shrouding Iran’s capital this morning after major airstrikes hit refineries and storage sites south and west of the city. CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen reports....

Message from the White House: As we create an environmental disaster and douse a civilian population with "black rain" after killing girls in a school, we would like to wish all of you a happy international women's day.

#Satire

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Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

(Published Oct. 2025 with @readfrontier.bsky.social)