Tom Molteni

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

No one was there taking pictures for the cover of Time Magazine when my army engineering unit was digging mass graves outside Fallujah for all the men and boys the marines killed after refusing to let any males leave the city, then treating everyone who remained as a combatant.

[Tom Molteni @TMolteni]

@barbarismcrit Klaasje, she who parties. Not sure Stella would be the drink of choice, given our times.

[🅲🅷🆄🅲🅺 @benigma2017]

How is this story not all over the place?

https://t.co/YLywtUnbbU

[Tom Molteni @TMolteni]

@ettingermentum @nkulw We should all be listening to Blowback!

[Tom Molteni @TMolteni]

@propublica @JeffSharlet

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. Everything I wrote in Copaganda is becoming more relevant as they manufacture bipartisan consent for authoritarian control. And it's important to me that all my work is accessible for free. I want to remind teachers: we have free copies of the book for your students.

[jake rhodes @jakebrodes]

One of the reasons I think everyone is angry and insane all the time is we gotta do something about these people but we’re not going to and they know it and we know it. So instead we just writhe.

[Tom Molteni @TMolteni]

@Learinminutes Or just do a taut line hitch... How dumb.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

This goes along with the post we retweeted yesterday.We've discussed this forever. When you make special legal tools for special threats you open up the door to using those new tools against anyone. Just change the definition of what they're doing to your special threat category.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

The White House just dropped a new “counterterrorism strategy” that quietly expanded the definition of terrorist by lumping cartels, ISIS, "left-wing extremists"… and "anarchists" into the same “threat” category.

The first page of text ends with the phrase:
“We Will Find You and We Will Kill You.”
That is printed above the president’s signature.

The language in the document is broad and open-ended. Once political labels become national security threats, the target can change overnight.

This is how mission creep starts:
Today it’s cartels. Tomorrow it’s dissidents.

[Tom Molteni @TMolteni]

@Mericamemed My girlfriend is a raccoon. Lost her the same way 😢

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

Changing your entire politics three times in as many presidential cycles and expecting no one to notice lmao

[Tom Molteni @TMolteni]

A real one.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Anthony Bourdain: "Listening to you people makes me want to go join the communist party. You're living off the labor of a repressed underclass."

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

You are directly feeding into the scare campaign to make LLMs seem many magnitudes more powerful than they are. We need regulation and a moratorium to stop the sprawl and environmental damage as well as the future bubble issues caused by these things going bankrupt.

But the kind of “deadly AI” these people are talking about is utterly fictional. The “blackmailing” story, the “breaking containment” story, these were marketing tricks by Anthropic summarized by people who don’t read the system cards. I wish Bernie would not have fallen for the marketing. To be clear we absolutely need regulation for the future and to stop data centers from being built, but let’s talk in terms of what is actually happening vs what the companies want (LLMs are not autonomous AI and do not “think” nor have they shown any sign they might)

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

Everything is shit across the board but I think if I had to name the single thing that has made me feel most insane in our present reality, it’s that no one powerful ever, ever, ever faces consequences no matter what they do. There are simply zero mechanisms for accountability.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

oh my god

[Kid Riles @kid_riles]

Take a good look folks.

These are the Minnesota boundary waters. Every Republican senator voted to allow a Chilean billionaire to mine it. The minerals will go to China.

This truly enrages me.
It should you as well.

Fuck, and I mean fuck…
The @GOP 🖕

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Trump flew Sharon Simmons from Arkansas to DC to make a fake Door Dash delivery where he used her husband’s cancer to claim his Jesus picture was signaling that he’s a healer.

You can’t make this shit up.

[Tom Molteni @TMolteni]

@GlobalHitman Rheinmetall and Thales sales go brrrrrt

[HITMAN @GlobalHitman]

This is a very half assed analysis.

If the price of production inputs goes up worldwide...

You think the US just shrugs it off?

US fossil fuel producers get a boost.. So what? what about everything else?