David Futrelle

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

2026, man

www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

‘yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can’t work with minors rn’

First time I saw The Apprentice, I thought, "Hopefully someday I will be informed of this man's every bruise or skin condition."

I'm in The Nation, talking about Anthropic and the politics of killer robots Check it out!

If you're a subscriber to My AI Obsession (which is basically defunct at this point) I want to remind you to a) check out my latest piece in The Nation and b) to check out BROTOPIANS, which is my new newsletter about antidemocratic techbros and which isn't defunct.

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Billionaire-Owned Newspaper Rails Against Billionaire Tax BREAKING NEWS! The newspaper owned by the world's third-richest man thinks it would be a very bad idea for the government of the country that enabled him to become so rich to take back five percent of...

New BROTOPIANS post!

www.brotopians.com/billionaire-...

so is typing

A big salad is too much respoonsibility

Garbage In, Carnage Out The harrowing lessons of the Pentagon's recently dissolved partnership with Anthropic

I'm in The Nation, talking about Anthropic and the politics of killbots.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Texas AG Paxton Declares Therapists Affirming Trans Youth To Be Illegal And Child Abuse The declaration echoes his 2022 efforts to target parents of trans youth with child abuse, and may force conversion therapy on trans youth in the state.

1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration:

Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure.

Its a horrifying escalation.

The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.

transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Trump: "Finally, we honor one more American soldier, a fallen warria of world. Of wars. And really, terra.”

The President, folks, as Americans are being killed for his useless war.

“It’s not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead.”

Sam Altman @sama · 21h I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA. melissa “cancelled student debt” byrne @mcbyrne · 20h Will you turn off the tool if they violate the rules? Sam Altman @sama Yes, we will turn it off in that very unlikely event, but we believe the U.S. government is an institution that does its best to follow law and policy. What we won't do is turn it off because we disagree with a particular (legal military) decision. We trust their authority

"we believe the U.S. government is an institution that does its best to follow law" not a history buff I take it

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Iranian intelligence has a huge advantage since they can just check polymarket to see what the US will do next.

Demonstrators have begun marching through downtown Chicago, the front of the column flanked by bike police.

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 1.6k adults):

Approval of Iran strikes: -10
Approval of Trump's handling of Iran: -15
Should Congress approve wars first: Yes +31
Will intervention make Iran better/worse off: Worse off +20

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WSJ confirms the U.S. is involved in the attack on Iran: “The U.S. participated in the attack and was also carrying out strikes, a U.S. official said.”

Hey! I'm in The Nation and on The Left Hook podcast, talking about Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein So, as you may have gathered from the headline here, I have a piece in The Nation on Brotopian philosopher-king Peter Thiel and his weird (or maybe not-so-weird) bromance with Jeffrey Epstein. [W]hat...

So I went on Wajahat Ali’s The Left Hook podcast earlier this week to talk about my Nation article on Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel. And also killer robots. You can find links to both in this post!

www.brotopians.com/hey-im-in-th...

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

“Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm.”

Whitey on the Moon: Elon Musk Edition Elon Musk has always been the most ambitious of all the Brotopians. While his colleagues may dream about building largely unregulated and tax-free cities in Honduras or Venezuela or Nigeria, Musk has ...

Elon Musk's plans for a city on the moon are at least as stupid as his plans for a city on Mars, and maybe more so.

www.brotopians.com/whitey-on-th...

What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy.

I'm in The Nation, talking about the weird bromance between Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I think the last few years have really proved that you can’t trust someone who really enjoys emailing other people

ahh, matt forney, wonder what he's been up to.

not that i'm going to try to figure that out. i've read enough matt forney for one lifetime

Fall Eras in Order of Greatness According to Me

The Brix Era (1984-1989)
The Post-Brix Era That Also Includes Brix Briefly (1990-2000)
The Pre-Brix Era (1979-1983)
The Still Hanging In There Era (2003-2010)
Preview of Suck (2001-2002)
The Suck Era (2011-2017)