Richard Probst

Henri Bergson wrote that humanity’s task is to fulfill “the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.”

[Richard Probst @rprobst]

@EliotJacobson Hot take: Just when human population starts to fall, AI personalities will start being created in volume. The total number of “persons” on Earth will continue to grow exponentially but the percentage in human bodies will shrink. The timing lines up perfectly.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

NEW RULE FOR DEMOCRATS:
When they go low, we go whatever level Hunter Biden is at.

[Richard Probst @rprobst]

@MiaMichaels77 Prove it! Prove that the worm is dead.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I don't know about you guys, but watching Hunter Biden slay trolls with sharp wit and self-deprecating humor this week has made this site bearable.

Thank you, @HunterBiden.
Congrats on your sobriety milestone.

Give 'em hell, brother.🙏💪

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

At 4am, Senate Republicans gave the greenlight for the IRS to drop ALL investigations into Trump and his family.

That means if Trump is evading taxes, we’ll never know.

I have a bill to make this illegal. And I won’t stop fighting to get it done.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly terrified that #EvictTheTrumps is going viral globally, and it’ll convince more countries to do Albania-style protests against their governments to demand all his real estate properties be shut down so they can’t be used for sex-trafficking.

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

US news stories in 2025: we're cancelling all the programs monitoring Incredibly Contagious Butthole Rot in foreign countries, what a waste of money

US news stories in 2026: okay for some reason there are now cases of Incredibly Contagious Butthole Rot popping up in the USA

[Stuart Buck @stuartbuck1]

How it started / How it's going

[MMLady @LadyBleuLady]

@JayinKyiv Steven Seagal, Candace Owens and Trump’s ballroom commissioner appear at Russia’s top economic forum

Cook started by showing audience members and fellow panelists his “dacha” – a Russian style cabin or country cottage – in Atlanta.

https://t.co/bqmZ0m3qOI

[🏴‍☠️Maddox🏴‍☠️ @realmaddox]

This is an insane story. The DOGE whistleblower who said that login attempts were made to the NLRB from Russian IP addresses minutes after DOGE got access had his brake lines cut and photos of him walking his dog from a drone taped to his door after Musk attacked him on Twitter

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

He wanted to look tough. He posted a painting of himself surrounded by oiled-up shirtless men in tiny shorts waving pompoms. Safe to say this did not land quite the way he intended.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland. https://t.co/jmm86WQNcY

[Richard Probst @rprobst]

@JoJoFromJerz Yes

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Wait a minute — Iran (who Trump said has no military) bombed the shit out of Kuwait last night in retaliation for us striking them in a war Marco Rubio just yesterday, told Congress was “over”?

Do they think we’re all fucking stupid?

[Rutger Van Esselstyn @RutVanEsselstyn]

@RonFilipkowski

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is the latest Trump corruption to push back on.

He's gotten the attorney general to exempt him from the tax laws that govern everyone else—including other presidents.

Bill and I released 30+ years of tax returns and were audited a few times! https://t.co/6JiiVjIv3F

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

🚨 CALIFORNIA: TODAY is Election Day! Because of our top-two primary system, if Democrats stay home and split the vote, Republicans could literally lock us out of the ballot in November. Do not let the GOP exploit the math. Polls close at 8 PM! 🗳️🌊 #VoteBlueCalifornia

[Richard Probst @rprobst]

Darwin showed there can be design without a designer. LLMs are showing there can be thought without a thinker.

After 167 years, some people are still having trouble with Darwin’s insights. How long will it take to get over this latest “disthronement”?

[roon @tszzl]

you dont have to believe in existential risk or job loss for this to be scary: ai is real, you can replicate human thought in machines. it is redefining what it means to be human. even if they are strictly corrigible tools that do what we ask, this can be traumatic

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

California, it’s primary day!

Democracy is under attack across the country but in California, we’re protecting free and fair elections.

Get out there and exercise your freedom — and right — to vote. Drop off your ballot at any ballot box or vote in person today.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Sen. @JeffMerkley to Rubio: You have expressed that no one died as a result of the shutdown of USAID. I want to note that it's estimated that over 500,000 children have died from that shutdown. I hope you ponder that as we strive to rebuild programs related to malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, HIV, nutrition, and Ebola.

[Myk is going to Vibecamp @mykola]

This really is nuts. Like I don’t fuck with economics and even I can see that this is nuts.

This is Elon Musk’s checkmate, if this goes through the way it looks like it’s going to then he’s managed to push his risk onto the American people while profiting personally.

Like it will be in everyone’s direct material interest that he succeed in all of his various fascist enterprises.

We live in a completely corrupt oligarchy now. All pretense gone.