We're getting our bathroom renovated. Our general contractor just told me that three of his big jobs have been paused because the clients are waiting until after November, just in case there's a civil war and/or martial law.
He's Filipino and he says this feels like the runup to the Marcos coup.
A beginning of a move in the right direction, holding that although search engines (rightly) aren't liable for the lies they merely point you to, they are liable for the false outputs of given by their own pet stochastic parrots: A German Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews [WIRED]
via Robert Reich, a serious warning from a couple of old-school retired congressional Republicans: Trump's Rolling Coup Is Already Underway
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/warning-trumps-rolling-coup-is-underway
Higher education at its best is teaching students how to think, how to feel, how to tell the truth, how to observe the difference between fact and fiction. And then take those skills and apply them wherever their career leads. —Nicholas Urie
Cory Doctorow enshittifies human existence. I may use his suggestions at work today.
The tyranny of evil men
TL;DR: Hegseth has been saying this shit for years, and he never gave much thought to what it meant.
https://www.fecundity.com/nfw/2026/04/16/the-tyranny-of-evil-men/
The civilization we destroy may be our own
There's a winning strategy in iterated games theory (I think).
1. Never strike first
2. Tit for tat escalation. Each time the opponent attacks, attack back
3. Immediately back down when the opponent backs down
4. Offer negotiation at every stage
This looks like what Iran is doing. The problem arises when the initial aggressor thinks they are all powerful and believes they have an undeniable right to win.
Cory Doctorow
P.D. Magnus
JA Westenberg
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