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• On the post: Fox News Viewership Increases Belief In False Conspiracy Theories About Immigration

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2026 @ 06:00pm

  I guess it's good to have all this empirically confirmed but I can't say I find it all that surprising. Were we expecting there to be a big hive of nativist paranoia among recent non-white immigrants or something? Obviously this is a right-wing media phenomenon, they've been pumping this stuff for years and years.

• On the post: Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2026 @ 01:02pm

  All true but I suppose that in order to get fable back online, Anthropic has been told to re-weight it so it spits out that 2020 was rigged.

• On the post: FBI Raids Offices Of Ohio Voter Registration Group That Fought GOP Redistricting Efforts

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2026 @ 10:08am

  Having the state police investigate dissident groups is an entirely normal part of the kind of country that most Americans said they wanted to live in.

• On the post: RFK Jr. Is Very Mad About Reports That He’s Checked Out Of Most Of HHS’ Work

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2026 @ 08:42am

  Fortunately, this time around, that won't happen because we're all guzzling raw milk and blue food dye, right?

• On the post: RFK Jr. Is Very Mad About Reports That He’s Checked Out Of Most Of HHS’ Work

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2026 @ 08:41am

  For the rest of us, absolutely.

• On the post: The SpaceX IPO Sends Elon Musk And Trump’s Starlink Cronyism Into The Thermosphere

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2026 @ 08:14am

  Right, but you have to remember that the TAM for Starlink is the entire human population and the TAM for the AI tools in general is like one-third of the global economy. /s for sarcasm, but legit in the marketing materials.

• On the post: RFK Jr. Is Very Mad About Reports That He’s Checked Out Of Most Of HHS’ Work

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2026 @ 02:00am

  Justify? People like him don't justify, they just claim the bad stuff never happened at all. He was already partly responsible for that Samoan measles outbreak before becoming secretary.

• On the post: RFK Jr. Is Very Mad About Reports That He’s Checked Out Of Most Of HHS’ Work

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2026 @ 01:58am

  "So, the open question appears to be whether RFK Jr. is a bumbling fool who isn’t in full command of HHS…or a bad and fairly dumb liar." It seems to me that the right (or wrong?) man could be all of those things at the same time. If the worm ate the part of his brain responsible for that part of his memory, maybe he just legit forgot that he'd ordered his diary sealed.

• On the post: The VCs Who Screamed That Biden Would Kill Powerful AI Models Seem Quite Chill About Trump Actually Doing It

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2026 @ 07:19pm

  All true but in practice the dream of "an exploit only we will ever know about" is apparently irresistible.

• On the post: The VCs Who Screamed That Biden Would Kill Powerful AI Models Seem Quite Chill About Trump Actually Doing It

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2026 @ 04:51pm

  I'm old enough to remember that movie!

• On the post: The VCs Who Screamed That Biden Would Kill Powerful AI Models Seem Quite Chill About Trump Actually Doing It

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2026 @ 11:22am

  I have a vivid memory of Andreessen, I'm sure it was, on the Joe Rogan show claiming that he had inside info the Democrats were planning to take computer science out of the public sector the way they did with nuclear physics in the Cold War, and we all had to stop them. The worst part is, this isn't even that. It's just the administration keeping favorites and punishing Anthropic for not playing ball.

• On the post: Flock Is The New Tool Of Choice For Cops Who Love Stalking Their Exes

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2026 @ 10:22am

  It's extraordinary that Flock actually tries to take credit by saying "Well, at least this way, you can look up the records and SEE when they're abusing power!"

• On the post: Opposition Mounts To Trump FCC Plan To Kill Burner Phone Anonymity, Ramp Up Surveillance

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2026 @ 09:45am

  Given this administration's priorities one could argue that clamping down on anonymous communication is a feature, not a bug. I don't know why we'd be surprised, really.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2026 @ 05:41pm

  If that anonymous commenter is to be believed then how should I be evaluating SpaceX's TAM of a quarter of world GDP.

• On the post: Michigan Lawmakers Want To Ban Chinese-Tagged Vehicles From Even Visiting The State. You Know, For Privacy.

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2026 @ 01:37pm

  The worst part is I hear that some of the spies drive our cars now. How are we supposed to know who they are????

• On the post: American Diabetes Association Fucked Up Real Bad Trying To Placate Trump Administration

  

  Daveshistory ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2026 @ 01:01pm

  Winston Smith was supposed to chuck that down the memory hole to avoid this embarrassment.