The Onion skewers mainstream journalism once again. “Quentin” is a 14-year-old assigned female at birth who now identifies as male against the wishes of his parents. His transition was supported by one of his unmarried teachers, who is not a virgin. He stole his parents’ car and drove to the hospital, where a doctor immediately began performing top surgery on him. Afterward, driving home drunk from the hospital, Quentin became suicidally depressed, and he wonders now, homeless and ridden with gonorrhea, if transitioning was a mistake. We just made Quentin up, and that’s okay. It doesn’t mean stories like his aren’t potentially happening everywhere, constantly. Good journalism is about finding those stories, even when they don’t exist. It’s about asking the tough questions and ignoring the answers you don’t like, then offering misleading evidence in service of preordained editorial conclusions.

The Onion

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible

The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about ...

Trump at 9-11 ceremony. Thoughts?

I saw an article headlined ‪"We can again be the country we were after 9/11: We flew the flag, helped our neighbors, opened our hearts, and supported our government." Are you kidding? We had a government that immediately took away rights and turned the Eye of Sauron inward. It came up with the ominous word "homeland" and stood up a disastrous Department of Homeland Security which is today stomping people on the head, kidnapping people by the thousands, trying to secretly deport planeloads of children in the night, renditioning people to foreign prisons and war zones. I don't want to be that fucking country. I want to be the country we were BEFORE 9-11, before a reactionary extremist trend took hold among conservatives and turned them all into engines of hate and fear. Before the Federalist Society successfully took over the SCOTUS, which was the cornerstone of literally all the massive corruption and criminality happening in government today. Good grief. Some people really remember the post 9-11 history differently.

Good grief. Just discovered this was from 9-11--2022 less than 5 miles from where I used to live. So tacky

Ho hum, another gun death in America

Irish man with valid visa kidnapped and kept in inhumane conditions for a month, had his subdermal piercings surgically removed while ICE agents laughed, barely fed or washed, crammed in like sardines with 100 men and 1 toilet...ultimately dumped in London. This is Trump's USA. An evil place run by a sadistic, violent death cult. Original:

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'

A Co Antrim man lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping — and then sent to a detenti...

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I listened to Tim Miller's podcast with The Economist journalist James Bennet. At one point Tim asked the perennial question of if a liberal president (he posed what if Mamdani) had done anything like what Trump does, would all the businesses and institutions just cave? Bennet claims "nobody knows." Bullshit. This is how the mainstream media pretends to not see evidence. There's an essential difference between liberals and what used to be conservatives (now a violent cult). Whereas liberals will attend protest marches when they're mad, the right is now a terrorist organization tightly controlled by an extremist media ecosystem. If a liberal president did anything Trump is doing, they would erupt in massive violent attacks, assassinations, and otherwise lawless mass violence in order to overthrow that president.

Man we are fucked if we don't see general strikes

"Imagine an AI system analyzing the social media history of a deployed soldier and his spouse. Within seconds, it identifies a vulnerability to jealousy and violence. At negligible cost, it generates a deepfake video of marital infidelity and delivers it to the soldier’s device. An hour later, the soldier — an experienced warfighter — is psychologically neutralized, driven to a catastrophic personal act. This chilling scenario captures the 21st century’s newest battlefield: the human mind." I included an almost identical scenario in a wide-ranging strategic #intelligence assessment of threat applications of #DeepFake #AI technology when that tech was still in early development ~10 years ago. I'm often intrigued by the length of time between some of my futures intelligence assessments and when they either occur in the real world or become widespread in the public conversation. Anyway, this is a good article about cognitive warfare. And I wish more people understood that for example, in the case of Russia, we have been at war for many years...it's just that only one side knows it's in a war. #disinformation

War on the Rocks

The Dialectic of Deception: John Boyd and the Cognitive Battlefield

Imagine an AI system analyzing the social media history of a deployed soldier and his spouse. Within seconds, it identifies a vulnerability to jeal...

I have no skin in the game for NYC's next mayor but this is glorious

Bluesky Social

Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social)

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presen...