Daddy's home!
Someone seriously needs to scoop him up and let him do this kind of stuff again once he's loose from CBS. Hopefully Paramount doesn't own all of the IP related to The Colbert Report...
I'm putting a feeler out there to see if anyone is interested in joining TIV as a fellow linkblogger and helping me turn this into a collective of like-minded linkblogging individuals.
The way I've viewed the site is basically a way to talk about what's going on in the world via links, as well as sharing cool things I stumble upon.
I've long had this idea that The Independent Variable would eventually become a more collaborative linkblog à la Boing Boing—or maybe having the occasional guest editor/curator à la Kottke.
Now that we're on Ghost, and
“With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people,” he added. “It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”
In honor of the “bastion of free speech” and the debater who was so skilled he only ever debated with college students, we are going to… ensure no one can ever speak a negative word about Trump, Kirk, or any of their allies
Two days ago, Slack reached out to us and said that if we don’t agree to pay an extra $50k this week and $200k a year, they’ll deactivate our Slack workspace and delete all of our message history.
What a class act they run over at Slack and Salesforce. A week’s notice to go from $5k a year to $200k a year for a non-profit when it probably costs Slack pennies on the dollar to host their data.
Context: Antifa is a decentralized, leaderless movement that’s opposed to fascism and is loosely defined as far-left.
I’d love to hear him try to name a single individual in this so-called “major terrorist organization.”
Anthropic recently declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement agencies because the company refuses to make an exception allowing its AI tools to be used for some tasks, including surveillance of US citizens, said the officials, who spoke to Semafor on the condition of anonymity.
Apparently, a tech company has at least a couple of vertebrae left in its spine. I’m sure those will be gone soon, though—cause they already essentially offer their services to the government for free.
