Capitalism is breaking down, or fascism is emerging from its capitalist larval stage.

They may do, and everyone will have a worse time as a result.

Does this actually help anyone anywhere? For Americans it will cause price increases and hardship. For Canadians and Mexicans it will cause unemployment and hardship, and there will probably be retaliations that will cause price increases and further hardship. It seems China’s in the best position to come out of this OK, since they already sell stuff all around the world. They’ll take a hit but not as big a hit as the countries in North America.

I guess maybe it helps Russia with the ongoing project of undermining the USA and its allies from within.

He also declined to immediately rule on Jones’ request for a temporary restraining order to disqualify the Onion’s bid, and said “whatever was status quo pre-auction remains status quo” — essentially allowing Jones to remain broadcasting from his flagship platform, Infowars, for the time being.

“Firing folks a week before Thanksgiving is not what we do, but it sounds like that’s not what occurred,” Lopez said. “Folks are continuing to work.”

It sounds like the judge is a little too concerned not to cause discomfort to Alex Jones and his Infowars employees. It doesn’t sound promising for The Onion.

Weakening the USA’s defenses seems to be a consistent theme with Trump.

Rightwingers don’t believe in any problem until it directly affects them. They won’t understand why we have modern medicine and health regulations until they personally feel the effects of having taken it all away. And even then many of them still won’t.

And it won’t stop there. We’ll be suffering the consequences for a long time, both of the fascism and of the dismantling of climate protections.

Sorry, should be fixed now. Google seems to have changed what happens when you share articles from their news app on Android.

That’s what they mean by the FBI being “weaponized” against them: it’s doing the job effectively and rightly identifying Republicans as crooks and spies.

It’s an abdication of journalistic responsibility, this refusal to contextualize and explain. It’s all just repeating the surface of what people said today, without any attempt to communicate what’s at stake and why it matters. This is the journalistic equivalent of the useless manager who does nothing but forward emails.

This seems like a potential actual good use of AI. Can’t have been much fun to train it though.

And is there any risk of people turning these kinds of models around and using them to generate images?

And time for the USA to ban vaccines and infectious disease research, thanks to RFK Jr.