Jason Merrin

Writer, director, potato, llama

[Jason Merrin @jasmerrin]

Excited to finally share what I've been working on the last few months! Thank you to @AJRBrothers for trusting me with such a personal song. Always proud of the work we do together.

[AJR @AJRBrothers]

Wanted to give you one last little surprise for the year. Here’s the My Play official video. Go watch it and get lost in the world ✍🏼 https://t.co/s2BIVJhFd8

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Elon Musk spent $290M to elect Trump. Now he wants to spend up to $200M to buy a Senate seat in Texas and keep Republicans in control of Congress.

That’s not democracy. That’s oligarchy.

End Citizens United. Ban super PACs. Get billionaires—from both parties—out of elections.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

More: https://t.co/6dWARBndaU

[emilie @emiliepfrank]

genuinely what the fuck man

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

New data reveals that there have been 7,400 foodborne illnesses in 2026.

That is 5x more than the yearly national average from the last 5 years.

[Jason Merrin @jasmerrin]

@AliciaStella

[FactPost @factpostnews]

7 people have died after being infected with Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria that contaminates water and seafood.

The Trump administration cut mandatory public health reporting of Vibrio vulnificus last year.

[ed 🇺🇸 @ed_dems]

Its actually crazy how normalized blatant racism has become because the right wing coined the term “woke”

The President is literally spewing dehumanizing hatred and everyone just goes on with their day???

Where tf is the outrage, where are the oh-so-righteous Republicans???

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

When you refer a whole people as if they were one person, you are wrong in every way. Our president is a racist. If you support him saying this, ask yourself some hard questions because those answers are who you are.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

This is how the Nazis talked about the Jews in the late 1920s.

[MECCA @iH8Meccavellii]

This shit is legit upsetting start to finish… like how u gone try and ruin this lady career for tryna figure out how her son died. That is so evil

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Police in Wisconsin used Flock to track a man who traveled to Michigan, where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisc., where it is illegal

They then used his travel as part of the probable cause justification to search his car for weed and he was arrested https://t.co/RYD9y6rp7h

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Today in “‘billionaires will leave if you tax them’ is the myth created by billionaires so you won’t tax them.”

[rick carlisle @4theluvoftennis]

everyone needs to get more pissed

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

This is the kind of stuff Americans think happens in Russia, China and Iran

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

it is unconscionable that two innocent Americans were executed on camera by federal agents in the same week and there will not be so much as an investigation, much less a trial

ICE have been given tacit permission to literally get away with murder

[Jayperior 🔜 COLOSSALCON TX @jayperior]

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[Jayperior 🔜 COLOSSALCON TX @jayperior]

BOUNTY LIGHT VOL. 2 IS FINALLY AVAILABLE!!
Physical Standard/Variant Editions and Digital PDFs are now listed on the ko-fi shop~

196 B/W pages, including 6 chapters, bonus 4-koma comics, concept art and more!

Shop link in the reply:

[onion person @CantEverDie]

yeah ai political ads have to be banned immediately or we have to take away the right to vote for people over the age of 50. its one of the two

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world-caliber