Alyx J

I speak Minionese.

[Brucky @danikkk_wqs]

AMERICAN AIRLINES WILL GIVE AWAY YOUR SEAT BEFORE YOU’VE ACTUALLY MISSED YOUR FLIGHT

the system is called AURA. it predicts who won’t make their connection and rebooks them in advance, even if you made it in time.

gate staff physically can’t reverse it once it happens. the algorithm got it wrong, and you’re the one dealing with the fallout.

this isn’t one isolated complaint. a Washington Post columnist, a media consultant, and dozens of passengers in a separate Miami incident all described the exact same thing.

the airline’s prediction accuracy is 90%. the remaining 10% are real people who lost their seat over something that never happened.

here’s what to do if it’s you: don’t walk away from the gate quietly. demand a written denied boarding statement, that’s your legal right, not a favor from the agent. it’s official denied boarding, not “the flight is closed.”

under DOT rules, you’re owed up to $2,150 if you were at the gate 15+ minutes before departure with a valid boarding pass. that’s not a courtesy from the airline, it’s an obligation under 14 CFR Part 250.

don’t settle for “just take the next flight” until you get what you’re legally owed, not what’s convenient for them.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Remember, this is the technology that RFK and Trump are trying to kill.

[ShitlibSupreme 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @ShitlibSupreme]

"Hello fellow Americans. We need to stop building data centers. They consume too much water."

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A Colorado cop stood on a woman's porch and told her there was "zero doubt" she stole a $25 package. His entire case was a license plate scan. To clear her name, she had to surrender her phone's location history, her truck's camera footage, and a neighbor's doorbell video.

Bow Mar, Colorado has about 900 residents. A Flock camera logged Chrisanna Elser's Rivian passing through town for 17 minutes on the day of the theft. That plate hit, plus a grainy doorbell clip of a much younger woman on foot, earned her a criminal summons.

The officer refused to show her the video unless she confessed first. "If you're going to deny it, I'm not going to extend you any courtesy." His bodycam also caught him bragging about the town's coverage. "You can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing."

She found the theft footage herself, posted on Nextdoor. The thief never got into a truck.

So Elser, a financial planner with no legal obligation to prove anything, built her own evidence file. Phone tracking data. Timestamped video from the Rivian's built-in cameras. A neighbor's camera placing her elsewhere. The department voided the summons, and the police chief wrote back "nicely done btw."

The state needed one plate scan to accuse her. Clearing herself took three independent data streams.

Flock runs cameras in 5,000+ communities and logs 20 billion plate scans a month. A Norfolk lawsuit found the city's 176 cameras had recorded one driver's location 526 times in four months. The network that wrongly accused Elser would have buried anyone driving a 2009 Camry with no cameras.

Her only defense against a surveillance network was the smaller surveillance network she happened to own.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

The common thread in all of J.D. Vance’s views, both foreign and domestic, is that the United States is in decline and some strong person must manage that decline. We should retreat from world leadership, bring home all the troops, recognize a tripartite system with China and Russia as equals, exert control over the Western Hemisphere, and diminish. China, Russia, and even the Democratic Socialists of America agree with that position. The rest of us do not have to. Decline is a choice.

https://t.co/i4e79uyQS5

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

"Bibi's cucks"
"be a good goy and do what Israel tells you to!!!"
"Operation Epstein Fury"

If this is real, it's extraordinary evidence of deep discontent among US service members. (Can anyone identify the type of aircraft?)

[Mikhail J. Clive - Author 📚🐯 @Tyras_Mikhail]

For full historical accuracy there will be two campaigns: a Nationalist and Communist campaign.

Nationalist campaign, you fight the far superior Japanese war machine and hold on against insurmountable odds, even as your countrymen are butchered.

Communist campaign, you hide in the mountains with Mao, wait for the war to end, then attack the exhausted Nationalists.

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

Police chief is furious that people are criticizing his decision to deploy Flock cameras in their town.

Argues they should turn the town into a mass surveillance police state so he can do his job.

Shows his true authoritarian nature by saying: "I ought to do background checks on half the people that made comments."

Chetek, WI

[James R. Webb @JamesWebb_16]

We no longer have a carrier presence in the Pacific…

The debate about the food aboard the Lincoln and now the George Washington is largely a red herring. Arguing about food substitutes an emotional argument for a stark practical one. The real issue is how the war on Iran is burning through equipment and people. I.e., now the Lincoln, along with the Ford, will most certainly undergo maintenance for an extended period because of the length of their deployments in support of the war in Iran. Those deployments will also hurt retention (this was a major issue during the Iraq War in particular; remember stop loss?) And the question is: for what? It’s not like they were chasing the Imperial Japanese Navy across the Pacific following an attack like Pearl Harbor.

Now the Administration, despite all the warnings about Taiwan and a China-focused National Security Strategy, is moving our only carrier out of the Pacific. This is a major strategic signal, coming on the heels of news that we’ve burned through other major capabilities such as interceptors, radars, stand-off munitions, and a large chunk of the MQ-9 fleet, among other things.

It is clear that the Iran war is not only detrimental to US national security, but a potential strategic blunder worse than Iraq if we don’t cut bait; and this is the conversation pro-war types want to avoid at all costs.

https://t.co/4Bl6wEhpxM

[BonkDaCarnivore @BonkDaCarnivore]

"Family members are raising the alarm and are worried about the conditions on the Lincoln"

Trump: "No they're not. They're liars."

"Do you think these soldiers have been mistreated and deployed too long"

Trump: "No. Not long enough. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some golfing to do".

Put it on a loop and run it in every battleground state.

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

this should be a five alarm fire for policymakers in canada

517 american companies started by canadians. $414 billion raised. almost 9 in 10 of them went to school in canada

incredibly, 216 of these founders went to waterloo…. and half of these companies were started in the last 2 years!

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

[Austin MacNamara @gremloe]

We're reaching a very interesting inflection point in the US when city council members are proposing public hangings of CEOs for treason.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Roblox banned Chris Hansen live on stage, mid-demonstration, sitting a few feet from the Attorney General suing the company over child safety. The ban took minutes. The Omegle-style chat game he was testing had already logged millions of visits.

The sequence is worth slowing down. At CrimeCon, Hansen logged into Ro-Meet, a random chat experience built to mimic Omegle inside a platform where roughly 40% of daily users are under 13. Within moments a stranger asked him to move the conversation to Snapchat. That request is the textbook opening move of grooming, get the kid off the monitored platform. Hansen asked why they'd want to leave Roblox. His account was then removed for "repeated or serious rule-breaking."

The account that got banned is the one that questioned leaving the platform.

Hansen only ran the demo because his partner Schlep legally couldn't. Roblox permanently banned Schlep in August 2025 and sent him a cease and desist for running sting operations against predators on the platform. Schlep says he'd spent over a year reporting these random chat games, including to people connected to Roblox's safety council, and that the version Hansen entered was a re-upload of one taken down days earlier after millions of visits.

Both investigators behind the Roblox predator documentary are now banned. The chat games they reported keep getting re-uploaded.

The legal backdrop makes the timing brutal. Over 170 lawsuits consolidated into a federal MDL. Seven states suing, from Texas to Kentucky. A $12.5M settlement with Nevada in April. And a Senate investigation launched by Hawley and Durbin on August 13, two days before this footage dropped.

A moderation system that can find Chris Hansen in minutes can find anyone. Where it points is a choice.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: US servicemen in the Persian Gulf have scribbled messages on the dust of an aircraft flap, per an image from the field sent to Trita Parsi.

The messages include:

"Be a good goy and do what Israel tells you to"

"Operation Epstein Fury"

"Peace deal #64 incoming... ALL THIS FOR THE HOLY LAND"

"LOVE ISRAEL I AM A GOOD GOYIM"

"BiBi's bucks"

"IY Flock Cameras."

A US serviceman adds "what people in the media don't understand when they compare past conflicts to this one, is this operation has no morale behind it. That makes a world of difference to service members deployed to undesirable locations indefinitely."

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Trump is looting the government for his own personal fortune.

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

Tennessee County Commissioner Joe Carr to Flock representative: "I don't think we can Make America Great Again without hanging your CEO publicly for treason. Your company is an enemy of the American people." 😃

[Superman @thesupermanmx]

Two economists mathematically proved that AI will destroy the economy.

Researchers from Wharton and Boston University published a terryfiying paper called "The AI Layoff Trap."

They mapped out the economic end-game of the AI transition, and it exposes a fatal flaw in competitive capitalism.

When a company replaces a worker with AI, it captures 100% of the wage savings.

But that displaced worker is also a consumer. When they lose their job, they stop buying things.

The company gets all the savings, but the loss of consumer demand is spread across the entire economy.

If there are 20 competitors in a market, a CEO only absorbs 1/20th of the economic damage their layoffs just created.

So every single rational CEO has a mathematical incentive to automate as fast as possible.

They can literally see the cliff approaching, and they still step on the gas.

It triggers an unavoidable Prisoner’s Dilemma. If you don't automate, your competitors will, and they will crush you on price.

It doesn't just hurt workers. It destroys the businesses, too.

The economy gets trapped in an automation arms race. Companies fire their workforce to stay competitive, until the entire consumer base is completely hollowed out.

At the limit, the paper concludes: “Firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand.”

And the scariest part?

The researchers mathematically tested every popular fix.

Universal Basic Income? Fails. It raises the living standard but doesn't change the corporate incentive to cut jobs. Retraining? Fails. Worker equity? Fails.

The paper proves that more competition actually makes the collapse happen faster. And "better" AI makes the damage worse.

The only thing that mathematically stops the collapse is a targeted automation tax, forcing companies to pay for the purchasing power they destroy before they automate the job.

[Doochebag @no_one_quits]

Now we’re talking.

"Quite frankly sir, I don't think we can make America great again without hanging your CEO publicly for treason."