They’re probably counting on people eventually forgetting what they did. People can forget quickly.

If you snitch on a transgender person you’re admitting the existence of transgender people. To the camps with you!

It’s sickening how this regime is persecuting trans people.

Nothing inevitable about it. That kind of thing only happens when you’re defeated in war, taken prisoner by your enemies, or when your entire country sees and regrets the course it has taken. Bush and Cheney faced no consequences, and Kissinger faced no consequences, because no one in a position to bring that about wanted to. Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich and the rest will face no consequences unless Israel’s apartheid regime falls. And that looks unlikely in the near future.

They’re still preparing, gathering names for the day when they have enough force:

https://truthout.org/video/journalist-reveals-fbi-is-offering-a-bounty-for-reporting-anti-trump-thought/

I don’t think it’s AI. It looks like bad human writing. An AI wouldn’t use clunky non-idiomatic phrases like this:

He noted that the area of the pipe break is part of museum spaces that will undergo a major renovation…

Also, A LLM would be unlikely to say a flood led to a burst pipe when it has lots of examples of writing where the causation is the other way round. A human having a brain fart might make that mistake though.

I suspect this article was written in a hurry by someone whose English isn’t great.

Even more efficient: humans do the specs and the implementation. AI has nothing to contribute to specs, and is worse at implementation than an experienced human. The process you describe, with current AIs, offers no advantages.

AI can write boilerplate code and implement simple small-scale features when given very clear and specific requests, sometimes. It’s basically an assistant to type out stuff you know exactly how to do and review. It can also make suggestions, which are sometimes informative and often wrong.

If the AI were a member of my team it would be that dodgy developer whose work you never trust without everyone else spending a lot of time holding their hand, to the point where you wish you had just done it yourself.

It also means introducing censorship of all messages and movements that don’t support fascism.

to ensure that all public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction do not contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living (including persons living in colonial times), and instead focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people.

It all sounds so goddamned Nazi. Because it is.

It means you must not say that anyone except straight Christian white men has ever done anything good for the country.

Maybe if we send Trump enough poutine we can get this thing over with quicker. Send him 12 servings per day!

Canada’s being sneaky and allowing weapons sales to Israel via the USA. It gets to look virtuous while still receiving that sweet blood money, and the Liberals like it this way.

https://www.readthemaple.com/liberals-fear-closing-arms-export-loophole-would-anger-u-s/

Archive: https://archive.is/GldMU

If ID verification is required but not practical for small independent websites, these laws effectively make it impossible to run an independent website. So only big corporations can serve content on the internet.

Fortified with vitamins and cancer.

There’s evidently a concerted international effort to end anonymity and privacy on the internet, disguised as protecting children. It would be worrying at any time, but it’s particularly alarming when authoritarian fascism is also on the rise pretty much everywhere. ID verification (sold as age verification) is a major step towards making it impossible for political dissidents and victimized groups to organize resistance or read uncensored information without being put on a list, to find, support and defend each other, or to travel freely.

No problem. I appreciate it when mods give warning and a chance to fix the issue instead of just deleting.

Sorry - updated the post.

The only surprise is that the reported estimates of deaths remain so implausibly low. But I guess once you genocide enough people, the survivors can no longer count how much genociding you’re doing.

They happen to have more oil than any other country in the world, but I’m sure that has nothing to do with it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/4/venezuela-has-the-worlds-most-oil-why-doesnt-it-earn-more-from-exports

Deduct. And the USA is taking the world in completely the opposite direction from where it needs to go.

Kelly told troops “you can refuse illegal orders,” and other lawmakers said they needed troops to “stand up for our laws … our Constitution.”

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“Kelly’s conduct brings discredit upon the armed forces and will be addressed appropriately,” Hegseth added.

Days after the video was released, President Donald Trump accused the lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” in a social media post.

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Troops, especially uniformed commanders, do have a specific obligations to reject orders that are unlawful, if they make that determination.

So he told the troops to do things everyone agrees they are sworn to do, and Republicans complain he’s bringing the military into disrepute and call for his imprisonment and execution, and the Dept of Defense (War?) then pursues ways to achieve this. I guess the USA isn’t doing that whole constitution thing any more.