Basic Glitch
I write a blog that focuses on public information, public health, and policy: https://pimento-mori.ghost.io/
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News@lemmy.world•Grandmother Faces Trial in Alabama for Wearing Penis Costume to No Kings Protest
551·7 days agoHe demands to know how she could possibly justify such an obscene display: “I would like to hear how you would explain to my children what you’re supposed to be.”
I would like to hear how you would explain to your children if they ever cross paths with the man this grandmother was protesting, they should probably run as far away as possible. You know, because he’s a fucking pedophile.
Talking to a colleague over his two-way radio after the encounter, Babb described what happened. Gamble was dressed “like a freakin’ weiner,”
Babb asks where the zipper is and, as he peels off the penis suit, asks Gamble for her name.
She replies, “Aunt Tifa.
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News@lemmy.world•JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs
8·10 days agoAt this point I feel like it might be easier to just ask “What is he not trying to distract from?”
America may run on Dunkin, but your boyfriend looks like he’s excited to get hopped up…
…I apologize. I’m going through some things. I’ll just show myself out back and finish the job.
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News@lemmy.world•Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion
182·12 days agoAn AI chatbot can also be trained to pull users back from delusion. Alexander, 39, a resident of an assisted-living scheme for people with autism, did this after what he believes was an episode of AI psychosis a few months ago. “I experienced a mental breakdown at 22. I had panic attacks and severe social anxiety and, last year, I was prescribed medication that changed my world, got me functioning again. And I got my confidence back,” he says.
“I still use AI, but very carefully,” he says. “I’ve written in some core rules that cannot be overwritten. It now monitors drift and pays attention to overexcitement. There are no more philosophical discussions. It’s just: ‘I want to make a lasagne, give me a recipe.’ The AI has actually stopped me several times from spiralling. It will say: ‘This has activated my core rule set and this conversation must stop.’
Fuck mandatory regulations like this are so badly needed for AI. Far more so than this age verification bullshit being shoved down our throats, but the people who own and control these fucking AI bots are also the people who:
A. Lost their minds to sycophantic echo chambers long ago by buying social media networks in the name of “freeze peach” and banning any dissenting opinions.
B. Know that their entire business model depends on the sycophantic echo chamber keeping users engaged and spiraling into delusions that make them push away all human contact
C. Oppose any and all regulations for AI, but insist on legalizing invasion of privacy in order to micromanage and control the lives of individual citizens.
People need to be able to hear pushback. Not every conversation or experience should be a sycophantic mirror stroking your ego and ramping up your delusions.
One of my closest friends started using AI a few years ago for work related things, and now is completely dependent on it. He used to be one of the most caring and considerate people I’ve ever known. Not to mention one of the most intelligent.
He’s started to slip from reality a few times and then come back. As of now he seems to be in a complete spiral and oblivious to the reality of what he’s doing by isolating himself, and cutting everyone who cares about him from his life. To me the path he’s on clearly ends with him waking up to reality one day and wondering how TF he got there.
He’s convinced everyone else is the problem and seems to always spin his recollection of events to paint others as the villain. To say it’s heartbreaking feels like the most ridiculous understatement. It’s like watching a slow moving train wreck and being unable to actually stop it from happening.
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News@lemmy.world•Democratic rising star extends ‘love’ after Hegseth pastor prays for his death
12·15 days ago“If it really isn’t a violent religion, then why don’t the non violent members take some responsibility and call out the violent terrorists who commit so many atrocities in the name of the religion?”
Talarico said on X: “Jesus loves. Christian Nationalism kills. You may pray for my death, Pastor, but I still love you. I love you more than you could ever hate me.”

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politics @lemmy.world•At Pentagon Christian service, Hegseth prays for violence 'against those who deserve no mercy'
13·15 days agoDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth, hosting his first monthly Christian worship service at the Pentagon since the Iran war began, prayed Wednesday to have “every round find its mark.”

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News@lemmy.world•ICE Agents at Some Airports Begin Checking IDs in Security Lines | It was unclear whether having agents helping with screening passengers would improve wait times. Some travelers expressed worries.
12·15 days agoSo with a draft looking more and more likely every day, how soon do you think they’ll be openly patrolling airports in order to keep Americans from escaping?
“Be a man! If you don’t want to go to war, have your dad get a doctor to diagnose you with bone spurs.”
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News@lemmy.world•Teenage-Looking ICE Agents Spotted at LaGuardia Airport, Recruitment Practices Under Scrutiny
39·16 days agoThey like em young, dumb, and full of naively believing the game is zero sum
Believing that life is a zero-sum game may help create the very scarcity and hostility that the zero-sum mindset expects from the world. To create a different reality, perhaps we must first choose to play a different game.
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News@lemmy.world•Conan O’Brien kicks off Oscars on ‘serious’ note: ‘These are very chaotic, frightening times’
7·24 days agoI mean tbh I don’t give a shit about the Oscars.
I do like Conan a lot though, and it pisses off that authoritarian pedophile and his lap dog at the FCC for people to openly talk about reality. So I give it 2 thumbs up.
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News@lemmy.world•Conan O’Brien kicks off Oscars on ‘serious’ note: ‘These are very chaotic, frightening times’
70·25 days agoConan O’Brien told the truth because he knows Brenden Carr can’t cancel him.
He didn’t even really say anything partisan. Literally he just acknowledged reality. Apparently that really upset some people for some reason.
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News@lemmy.world•The billionaires made a promise -- now some want out
14·25 days agoThe roster includes Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, and Elon Musk — some of the most powerful people in the world, and yet, in Peter Thiel’s words to the Times, it is a club that’s “really run out of energy . . .I don’t know if the branding is outright negative,” Thiel told the outlet, “but it feels way less important for people to join.”
I wonder what (or who) else this roster of billionaires all have in common? 🤔
Also: Peter Thiel: Why Monopolies Are a Good Thing
Those seem to be two conflicting ideas… It’s almost like this guy has no fucking clue what he’s talking about, but people keep listening to him and amplifying his bullshit because he’s part of some club that signals anytime he opens his mouth important things are being said…
“I have a law degree from Stanford.” & “Academic elites are destroying society.”
“My dream was always to be nominated to the supreme court, but they rejected me when I applied for a clerkship.” & “I believe traditional government institutions must be toppled.”
“I fear regulations of technology will lead to a single one world authoritarian government.” & “I plan to use my monopoly to create and control that one world authoritarian government, but it’s different because it’s a private business and nobody but me and my pedophile friends had any say in it taking control.”
Or if you just want it all boiled down into Thiel’s greatest hit:.“I’ve come to believe that democracy and freedom are incompatible.”
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News@lemmy.world•Conan O’Brien shocks Oscars crowd with Epstein joke in opening monologue
6·25 days agoWhat comedians do you find funny?
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News@lemmy.world•Conan O’Brien shocks Oscars crowd with Epstein joke in opening monologue
22·25 days agoWe asked 100 people, “If Trump didn’t fuck kids why won’t they release the files with his name in them?”
You said: “Because he did fuck kids.”

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News@lemmy.world•Conan O’Brien shocks Oscars crowd with Epstein joke in opening monologue
12·25 days agoI only watched the opening monologue but thought it was pretty funny, especially for the Oscars. I chuckled a few times, which is more than I can say for the few previous times I’ve attempted to actually watch the Oscars.
I thought it was funny when he joked about Sean Penn getting an erection at gun point and Paul Thomas Anderson deciding they should keep that in the movie. Sean Penn not seeming to find that very funny made it really funny.
I just think it’s insane/sad that we’re living in a world where literally just mentioning the crimes of your pedophiliac authoritarian dictator and his pedo oligarchs can be considered “shocking.”
Like if this was happening at any other time in history that would be a throw away line on even the most tame late night talk show. But we can’t even live in a world where we acknowledge reality right now bc Trump will just sick his dollar store Charlie Brown on anyone that hurts his fee fees.
Do you remember how often and for how long we heard jokes about Clinton getting a BJ from every late night host on network TV? Yet even mentioning the elites at Club Ped (without even naming any of them) is somehow pushing the limit?
I was just telling my husband my very first memory of Conan O’Brien on TV was watching one of his “In the year 2000” sketches. The line was “DNA analysis will reveal the stain on Monica Lewinsky’s dress to be mustard… From Bill Clinton’s Penis!!!”
Still think of that scene to this day every time I eat mustard.
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News@lemmy.world•Conan O’Brien shocks Oscars crowd with Epstein joke in opening monologue
4·25 days agoConan is the thinking man’s Carrot Top
Edit: To be clear that is said with love. I’ve had a crush on Conan since I was in highschool.
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News@lemmy.world•VA announces forced guardianship plans for homeless veterans
3·26 days agoThey have been hinting at doing this for a long time. I’m kinda surprised they’re starting with veterans though.
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News@lemmy.world•Conan O’Brien shocks Oscars crowd with Epstein joke in opening monologue
6710·26 days agoOh shit! How could he say something so edgy and controversial?
Of course the audience was stunned. It must have been quite the shock to the senses. Having an ice cold glass of, literally just facts, splashed into the face of America.
I bet Brenden Carr is so pissed he can’t travel back in time and cancel the Tonight Show when it was still funny.
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News@lemmy.world•Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas
2·27 days agoI’m sure it will be any day now. As soon as they get Antifa off the streets. Priorities.
Not like they’re going to try and rebuild the justice system and all of society so that eventually everybody but the pedophiles ends up locked away…
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News@lemmy.world•Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas
16·27 days agoSong faces a minimum of 20 years and a maximum of life in prison, according to the US attorney for the northern district of Texas. Arnold, Evetts, Morris, Rueda, Batten, Elizabeth Soto and Ines Soto each face between 10 and 60 years in prison. Sanchez Estrada faces up to 40 years.
Just out of curiosity, has the DOJ ever gotten around to charging anybody in the Epstein files other than Maxwell? Bc there’s like millions of files.
Like even just one single pedophile? Just to make the streets a little safer? Surely if they can make all this complete bullshit stick they can make something from those files stick, right?
I’m sure they’re more than motivated and will be getting around to it soon. It’s only been 14 months and they probably just got a little distracted.
They had to take care of the much more dangerous members of a made up organization. Now that that’s all cleared up and out of the way, I’m sure the hammer of justice will be swift for all those names that show up over and over again in those files…




















The woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13 provided several verifiable details about her life in interviews with the FBI, according to a new report. The woman detailed her alleged abuse by Trump and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein over four interviews in 2019, the Epstein files revealed. The interviews were initially kept secret by the DOJ.
This could not be more ridiculous. Pedophelia and sex trafficking are literally being normalized to levels of “locker room talk” in 2026. Nobody is facing justice. We’re basically just legalizing pedophelia for the wealthy, which apparently we’ve always done, we just have to accept it as official now. And maybe that was the point of Trump focusing so much attention on pedophiles in the first place?
However, a grandmother wearing an inflatable penis costume to protest captain pedophile while he holds the highest office in the United States is the real danger to children. Got it.
Straight to jail with you granny.