The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (part of 2013 NDAA) repealed the prohibition that kept the U.S. government from using propaganda on U.S. citizens. I voted against that NDAA. Recently, I offered an Amendment to reinstate the prohibition, but Speaker Mike Johnson blocked the vote.

Prediction: In less than 90 days, all channels that we thought were safe from spam & automation will be so flooded that they will no longer be usable in any functional sense: iMessage, phone calls, Gmail. And we will have no way to stop it.

If you can’t take up for children who were sex trafficked, who can you take up for? The answer: no one. You’ll defend no one if your political capital is at stake, and you need to be purged from our party.

Happy birthday to Andrew Robinson, who played Garak on Deep Space Nine and voiced him on Lower Decks. He also directed one DS9 episode and two episodes of Voyager, and he wrote the novel A Stitch in Time, which tells the story of Garak's past. #StarTrek

🚨#BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security has sent legal requests to Google, Reddit, Meta, and Discord for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and identifying data of accounts that track and criticize ICE

AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet

Nobody, and I repeat, absolutely nobody should ever upload their medical information into an AI platform. I am telling you this as a former intelligence officer.

We could have a utopia where robots do most of the labor. Instead we've got a dystopia where AI programs push human employees to work like robots.

People will be like "I can't believe they made star trek woke" and then you tune into 90s star trek and there's a transgender worm walking across the transgender carpet in the gay communist space station

Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. -- Dr. Carl Sagan

Trump recycles George W. Bush’s Iraq war WMD propaganda, warning that Iran is planning to strike Europe and the US with nuclear weapons Many Democrats stood and applauded after staying seated all night

New research shows top AIs push nuclear war in 95% of simulated war games. newscientist.com/article/251688…

The U.S. is literally launching a global fight to prevent nations from protecting their citizens' private data. And they're simultaneously telling everyone they shouldn't use Huawei because of privacy concerns...

Cigna just sent my dead wife, who succumbed to cancer last August, a DENIAL letter for a test to help diagnose her tumor markers. WTF is even going on with medical insurance companies? She left this world 6 months ago BECAUSE she couldn't get proper treatment. We don't hate

Anthropic said no to creating a Wile E. Coyote version of Skynet with autonomous drone swarms and AI mass surveillance Hegseth responded by torching the whole Pentagon patronage system, banning all contractors from doing business with Anthropic The imperial center cannot hold

PSA: Bombing a country on the other side of the globe won’t make the Epstein files go away, any more than the Dow going above 50,000 will.

🚨BREAKING: A clip of Donald Trump from 2024 is going mega viral: “I can tell you you’re not going to have a war with Iran with me as president.” Truly curious if any MAGA voters are willing to admit they were played.

BREAKING: QatarEnergy just declared Force Majeure. Three words that mean: we cannot deliver, and legally, we do not have to. This is no longer a supply disruption. This is a contract collapse. Force Majeure is not a precaution. It is a formal legal declaration that an

China is way ahead on AI adoption. A school in Beijing has repurposed old macs to run personalised AI agents 100% locally using EXO Labs The macs were previously used in their film studies lab, for video editing. They have ingested their entire corpus of school data: