Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

Trump and Rubio using human rights violations in Cuba to gain financially. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Effective altruism" is just another condescending, pseudo-intellectual rationalization manufactured and promoted by the wealthy in a pathetic attempt to make the virulent sociopathy of their greed seem like something other than the disease it is. To wit:

"NPR tracked down equipment and found that some of it was auctioned, donated or thrown in the trash... NASA donated hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of radio communications equipment to Capitol Technology University without the knowledge of the scientists who used it"

Trump threatens to cut off all trade with Europe if Canada associates closer with the EU

You can read all the details in my write-up, which also shows exactly where in this public dataset you can find all of this micahflee.com/flock-camera...

As of today, both the House and Senate have passed this idiotic bill. It now heads to the president's desk.

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." -- Dante Alighieri, who died #OTD 1321

U.S. 20-Year Treasury Bond Auction just saw the lowest foreign demand ever recorded 🚨

Again, all of this renewed obsession with THE DEBT is a media/elite precursor to obsessively covering Dem proposals on everything in 2029 through the lens of WE CAN’T AFFORD THAT, after not asking a single question about how we can afford DOGEing the govt & losing a war under the far right party

CBS News Exclusive: New photos reveal widespread damage at multiple U.S. positions across the Middle East caused by Iranian attacks.

I don’t care whether Iran has nuclear weapons. They aren’t any worse than all the other countries that already have them. And tbh I’d be happy if they could defend themselves after ~110 years of being fucked over by British oil interests.

Ed Sheeran’s tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts — including his touring band — abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage.

Our vote is under attack. So don’t wait until Election Day. Check your registration. Know your polling place. Make a plan. VOTE EARLY. They’re counting on confusion, delays and people giving up. This is not the election to wing it!!! #GetReadyToVote

I'm happy to share my new paper "A new conceptual framework for host-microbe symbiosis" If you've seen me give a talk in the last 5 years, then you've seen me talk about this. It's been a journey. academic.oup.com/ismehm/artic... #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky

We're going to get The Running Man as a real show before the decade is over.

Anybody who thinks, oh I'll just give this abuser what he wants this time and that'll protect me, you're just not smart. Sorry/not sorry. Find a new profession if your job is like, political strategizing and you think scapegoating a vulnerable minority population is gonna attract Democratic voters.

I do not understand the folks furious at trans people for responding in anguish when the party that they've been told would protect them treats their existence as negotiable. I do not understand thinking trans folks have political power and responsibility where candidates have none.

Occupied territory is occupied territory, so… www.politico.eu/article/kaja...

while claiming to the public he opposed it. But Kushner's big gift was brokering the nukes deal on the Saudis' behalf, while supposedly acting for the White House. It might be the most consequential act of proliferation in decades, and it contradicts all Trump's claims going into the Iran War.

Live Updates: Supreme Court Rules on Trump’s Restrictions to Voting by Mail www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...

Would I choose to get into it with the author of the ‘My Man’ threads? No, I don’t think I would.

“The $5,000 is gonna happen. 100%,” Trump said. Experts have pointed out that the $1.25 trillion it would cost to give $5,000 checks to every adult American through tariff refunds is more or less the equivalent of the revenue that the new tariffs are projected to bring in over the next decade. 🤔

Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers has received nearly $4,700,000 from 7 donors who appeared in the Epstein files since 2023. Rogers has also previously said that some individuals named in the files should be protected.

College football fans who tuned into ESPN's College GameDay this Saturday were forced to encounter the alarming visage of Texas Senator Ted Cruz. To make matter worse, he monopolized nearly 10 minutes of air time in order to stump for the Protect College Sports Act. defector.com/the-protect-...

With AGI overwhelming the news again, I repeat: There is no path to intelligence via LLM. But an LLM botnet choking the internet, or someone using a local model to attack aging infrastructure, are both real risks and too late to prevent. Pay no attention to the bogeymen, the harm is here today.

Don Jr's extravagant 3-day wedding was bankrolled by Russian oligarch and Putin crony Umar Kremlev, per @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Rob's #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Mamas&Papas, so here's an osprey pair I saw on their nest out at the wetlands. #Photography #Birds #Ospreys

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

Trump: "Zelenskyy has to do one thing -- he has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. He's causing a shortage of diesel fuel. This isn't done by the Middle East, this is done by what's happening with Russia and Ukraine."

“The reasons for US unwillingness to step in to help Saudi at this moment, when everything in history indicated it should, are probably down to military degradation … So what we are seeing is a weakening US, having to abandon its key allies, as its flounders running out of munitions fighting Iran”

🧐 Prior to the infamous Oct 7 attack Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/w...

A thing a lot of people don't understand about the Trump years, *particularly* from January 2021 onward, is that what's basically going on is that Trump is contesting the ability of the U.S. government to exercise power over him Which is a challenge to the Leviathan And he's winning

How to understand the trade war that the 🇺🇸 have launched on 🇨🇦? This video explains the timeline, the hows and the whys, the possible losses and gains. Important not only for Canadians and Americans, but also for our friends around the world who will be impacted by new trade deals. 😊 30 minutes. 🍁