Latest reminder that you should assume the following about any statement from Trump's ICE/DHS goons claiming to exonerate the regime of bad acts: They're probably lying.
https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/dabury-ice-school-bus-arrest-cnn-murphy-22414500.php
@dangillmor ...and yet, you used it. Why feed the till?
Taking away people’s healthcare: bad. Taking it away before an election: politically stupid. Thinking that saying “FRAUD” will fool people: something you only do if your brain is totally Fox-addled. IOW, a perfect encapsulation of Team Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/09/22/trump-officials-plan-cut-hundreds-thousands-aca-claiming-fraud/
All corruption, all the time in Trump world: "World Liberty’s Crypto Ties Enriched Trump as Investors Lost Out" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-22/trump-crypto-venture-world-liberty-made-big-money-as-plans-fell-short?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MDEyMjkxNSwiZXhwIjoxNzkwNzI3NzE1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTDQ1QUNWVFREMUkwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBQjUxRjdCOUYxODk0NjBCOEE2RDU3NUM5QUQzOUUzQyJ9.qXk4LCDo8jcpXqrAh9aTEgmhwnYZEffLztVWJdhc_qc
It was obviously a scam from the start -- and just one element in what is by far the most corrupt presidency in American history.
@SteveMcCarty Why would you give credence to the overmarketing of such an environmentally perilous technology by using it, and then treat its output as if it had the ability to reason?
This link, https://hcommons.social/@SteveMcCarty/117314510045002500, text needs rewritten to preface it with, "I decided to ignore the societal perils of supporting LLMs and treat the stochastic parrot as if it had agency and the ability to reason."
Groceries, housing and utilities topped both groups’ priorities in the Class Gaps Poll. Among working-class respondents, 10 of the top 12 priorities concerned costs, wages or jobs. Mindy Isser looks at what the findings mean for progressive politics. https://inthesetimes.com/article/working-class-politics-left-election-midterms-college
"The existential risk to humanity from AI, it's stupid people." - @davidgerard
I have owned a #Librem5 for almost 5 years. Every year it has gotten a little bit better in terms of funtionality. It is now at the level of really quite excellent. Not perfect, but a real, useable, fun, freedom-respecting device. #linuxmobile
153M drivers' licenses collected for ID verification are being sold on the dark web. Fight data collection!
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
Candidates are winning support by disavowing Big Tech, criticizing AI and promising to stop data center growth, Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas write.
They point to Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan primary victory.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/big-tech-artificial-intelligence-ai-data-center-protests
(Legal backstory: county GOP leadership has filed a complaint that Irene broke a technicality, & thus needs to be fired.
Irene did not, in fact, do any of that.
The only reason this has worked so far is the NC state board of elections is GOP-dominated. So partisan attacks get a pass there.
So she's bringing the legal battle to court. That will force the local GOP to bring their case into the open & that the accusations are bogus.)
US readers- I've been talking a lot lately about how "Yes, the GOP will try & take your votes. And YES, THEY CAN BE STOPPED"?
There's a great example here in North Carolina right now!
Our area is one of the GOP's testing grounds for new ways to steal votes.
Stop them here, you stop them everywhere. Help us help you!
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It's Bisexual Awareness Week, y'all! ✊🏻☺️ And don't you forget it!
Palestine is the world.
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@manchicken Well stick around we have episodes all the time lmao
You may also like our OH MY WORD, FUCK YOU series, which recently reatured the Michigan Department of Corrections.
“Tobias Lütke, Shopify: when the AI slop is bad enough the AI CEO notices – Pivot to AI”
> But if you listen to the podcast — which I don’t advise, it’s a neutron bomb of inanity — he’s not walking back a thing. This is not a redemption story, it’s a doubling down story.
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa