Jordan Mann

A man throws books onto a raging fire with a crowd nearby.

Nazis looking through a pile of books from a ransacked library.

A crowd gives the fascist salute in front of a burning pile of books.

Almost everyone in the US has seen these photos at some point: Nazi book burnings, seared into our national psyche as the quintessential expression of fascist tyranny. But few people know what books they were burning, beyond the fact that many of the books’ authors were Jewish.

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A DUDE THINKING SOME SERIOUSLY DEEP THOUGHTS.

THE BEST HOODIE OF ALL TIME

MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MACHINE. A "CUTE CATBOY" AND BEANS.

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Yes, a school was bombed. During the day. Repeatedly.

Yes, at least 150 children were killed.

Yes, the USA did it.

Yes, AI was involved.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Notwithstanding that the extractivist class in the Canadian west will see the war in Iran as an excuse to demand more pipeline infrastructure, we continue to ignore the crisis of global warming.

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

China should be advancing their solar project in Cuba and expanding it at great speed unfortunately they don’t seem to care that much. They could make the whole island energy independent ready if they wanted to within a year probably. Especially if Cuba kept producing its own oil

Benjamin De Kraker O @BenjaminDEKR Follow OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How?

The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk") 1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders 3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK" 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage: - Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats - 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone - Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."

I’m starting to think the people who are excited about “AI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives

at least 70% of the AI hype that’s bottom-up — eg, excited users — is people who never learned how to actually use their computer suddenly realizing the computer can do things for them

Not my first, but I LOVED that game! It was pretty hard so I struggled to get very far in it but I'd play it just to listen to the soundtrack sometimes.

Saskatoon freezing killings - Wikipedia

I've been seeing people excitedly share how cold it is going to be in Minneapolis tomorrow and relishing how ICE will deal with it, as if ICE won't choose that day to do some starlight tours.

People will have to be even more vigilant, over a wider area.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...

Neil Stonechild and the Starlight Tours - Unmaking Saskatchewan (podcast) 00:44:35 - On November 29, 1990, the body of Neil Christopher Stonechild, a 17-year-old Saulteaux high school student, was found frozen in a field on the outsk…

Saskatoon is my city. I really wish we were known for something else, but unfortunately this really happened. It was practically official police policy for decades.

I highly recommend this podcast about Neil Stonechild's death by the police: www.listennotes.com/podcasts/unm...

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

lots of people misremember the Y2K bug as a media hype story but in reality nothing happened cuz people actually stepped up and fixed shit. if it happened now we’d be fucked. maga would tell people Y2K is fake news / people would refuse to update their computers because they “did their own research”

When American libs call Maduro a “brutal dictator” what they mean is he won’t hand his country’s resources over to US corporations.

We owe our unshakable solidarity to the people of Venezuela against the shameless, nakedly criminal actions of US imperialists in kidnapping a sovereign nation’s elected leader on fraudulent charges for transparently ideological reasons. The lawless terror of US hegemony threatens the whole world. 🇻🇪

For the record, "I'm not that upset because Maduro was bad" is the culmination of a decades long propagandizing against Venezuela. That attitude is exactly what they want.

The FBI Faked an Entire Field of Forensic Science For more stories like this, like Slate on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience.

Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.

They admitted it.

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With everything happening at CBS, I think rhetoric about supporting alt media can give us a false sense of control. We have to grasp the reality that news outlets have always been on the side of the institutions. What we’re seeing now is a logical outgrowth of the US’ political instability 1/

Crunching the numbers on postal banking in Canada - CCPA Among the many proposals to transform Canada Post, one stands out: postal banking. It’s a program that could contribute to solving multiple policy problems at once—help support our postal service with...

Canadian postal bank could be transformative—both to the post office, and to Canada’s monopolized financial sector. By @rromard.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli
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A while back I said that I support trans rights for two main reasons:

1. Basic human rights and decency etc
2. If they come for trans folk that means they'll go after other people with atypical brains next

and, well... sucks to be right

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Terribly stupid idea that will satisfy faux-populist urges to dunk on public servants while simultaneously making the lives of public servants and the service itself so much worse.

Goofy stuff.

An easy way to explain luddites:

Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.

And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.

That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

What does the green party stand for at this point? The budget is a huge boom climate change and cuts social programs, tramples on Indigenous rights, not to mention fuels the military and RCMP to dangerous new heights

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

AND it's insanely expensive and environmentally destructive to run! Where's the benefit AT ALL to this?

The 2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan is already delivering results: new temporary foreign worker arrivals have fallen by about 50 per cent this year, and new international student arrivals are roughly 60 per cent lower than in 2024. Asylum claims are also down by one-third so far in 2025.

Not sure what kind of plaudits Carney is expecting for bragging that asylum claims are down.

It's grotesque. Ghoulish. Trumpian.

You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...