Oh hey, that's tangible proof that AI is actively making chud brainrot worse

https://www.404media.co/researchers-secretly-ran-a-massive-unauthorized-ai-persuasion-experiment-on-reddit-users/

I'm at the point that I simply cannot take "other nations bad" seriously anymore. Is North Korea a hellhole? Maybe! But every single goddamn thing American media says about foreign adversaries, America does a thousandfold. I'd honestly rather give the DPRK more benefit of the doubt than America.

I mean come the fuck on. "Imprisoned children used to fight fires" would be too on the nose if US media reported this about literally anywhere else. Yet this travesty, I think, is a uniquely American one.

And then there's orchids and getting reclassified to new families every 5 months.

TIL Mary Jane Rathburn aka Brownie Mary was known for illegally baking and distributing cannabis brownies to AIDs patients in the 1980s. Despite several arrests her defiant stance and grandmotherly image garnered public sympathy and media attention, helping to shift perceptions of medical cannabis. [source, comments]

Want an inspiring example of direct action? Here you go

Speaking of

BREAKING: Trump signs executive order to end taxpayer funding of NPR and PBS

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/trump-funding-npr-pbs.html