"Jesse Butler, 18, faced 78 years in prison, but judge reduced sentence to community service and counseling" 😬

I don’t think it’s inappropriate to have some news stories about migration issues but it is very odd indeed for BBC 6 Music, a station essentially targeted at hipster leftie middle-aged people, to be majoring on asylum seeker stories as much as it does.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

It’s like the techbro version of the story about the guy trapped on the roof of the car in the flood who keeps rejecting offers of rescue, saying God will save him. “You had expert scientists, renewable energy tech that could be deployed at scale, regulatory schemes that could have cut emissions …”

"The denunciation of scandal is always an homage to the law." - Simulacra and Simulation

Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice. They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

But seriously folks, these "moderate" evangelicals are the worst enablers of Christofascism and whitewashers of evangelicalism, and the liberal establishment and legacy media just keep painting them as "heroes" for clearing the lowest of low bars religiondispatches.org/seeking-broa...

Wowwwwww what the HELL

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

Zohran Mamdani: “Cops shouldn’t be able to maim and kill innocent people with impunity.” Cops: “This is intolerable, we have to leave NYC.” The biggest case of telling on themselves I’ve ever seen.

It's not really a coincidence that the people who freak out the most about Mamdani are also the people most feverishly opposed to anything, anything at all being done to punish Israel behavior that virtually everyone agrees is bad

"Did Women Ruin the Workplace? Hosted by Ross Douthat" what's the point of satire anymore

In November hares come to wood edge. Most say this is for cover, for food. Yet more than one old countryman has told me they come to pay tribute to the wood itself, to have one last dance with the Moss Maidens before their cold sleeping. At twilight they feed and mutter omens. - #CLNolan

I’m sorry to compare anyone to Trump, but for real, the refusal to invest in nurturing successors and mentoring the new generation of leadership because you insist on remaining the Main Character until you literally drop dead of old age is maddeningly bipartisan

Nancy Pelosi secretly being queen of the stock market and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vocally opposing elected officials profiting off the stock market feel like intrinsically connected facts that quietly explain their instant bad blood the minute they became House colleagues

yeah nobody wants you around their kids because you're an asshole

Everything Rich Azzopardi has said to the press since Tuesday night is specifically designed to make him look like an even bigger asshole than he is. This guy should never get a job in politics again.

To be sure, @hellgatenyc.com has had our differences with the Cuomo campaign. But when Rich Azzopardi told us this story was Pulitzer material, we took it to heart. As Hell Gate's finance chair, I have signed off on the $75 prize nomination fee. Now we wait. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

"I was wondering if maybe you could put directly in the newspaper that I'm mad?"

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

I won’t lie, I am pleased to see all of these clowns very publicly demonstrating they are bullshit artists and shitehawks in ways where nobody needs to tell the public that they are being bullshat and insulted. Are there less potentially disastrous ways they could do this, however.

I could go on but I’ll instead say: this is IMO considerably worse and more wildly irresponsible than that time Suella Braverman joined up with the Sun and the Mail to urge Robinson’s idiot crew to riot in central London, to “protect the Cenotaph”.

Stuff from crackpot activists that cropped up on my TL this morning is wild. Do you think the public will be horrified when you tell them that stewards were twitchy because you went to the home end as away fans, then made a big show of being away fans? Have you been to a football match before.

I’d add: if press and politicians were this happy to make bright red, roasting-faced fannies of themselves over football - a topic the public understands far better than they do - then should we conclude that they’ve been reliably honest about other, more complex matters.

It’s genuinely incredible to see politician, media figures and activists utterly humiliating themselves in front of a public who well understand what football hooligans are, how football matches are policed and how the press has always talked about football fans.

The person arrested is part of Nick Tenconi's seig heiling Turning Point UK mob, and also affiliated with holocaust denier James Harvey's 'vox populi' media. I don't think they were looking for an honest good faith debate.

wild how we have a whole political and media class who will comfortably admit they view phrases like "allahu ackbar" - a fairly common phrase used even by non religious Arabs like how non religious brits still say stuff like "Jesus wept" - as exclusively indicators of terrorism and "islamism".

What’s happened here is that, by sticking to their guns and refusing to be intimidated and shitehoused, the club and police have thankfully prevented Parliament and the press inciting rioting and running battles in the streets of a major city.

The public can see that it’s absolutely extraordinary and insane for government and press to go hard as fuck to protect the freedom of fascist foreign football fans to riot in Britain. You look like idiots and lunatics at best, and anyone paying attention will see you’re something a lot worse.

As we knew. And as the idiotic politicians should have realised.

“Why should anyone feel secure about the right to marry when this Court has proven it doesn’t believe in precedent?” Jim Obergefell told me. www.advocate.com/news/kim-dav...

This is a tremendous talk, and made my fingers itchy to draw.

The correct headline here is "Trump administration begs courts to let him keep starving children and elders"

the funny (not funny) thing is this is a fundamental bit of knowledge that black and brown folks in the US carry with them—often because we’re the ones against whom this is often ‘weaponized’

Read this with open mind it ultimately doesn't say much. "LLMs do some things well and other things poorly compared to human brains." Ok. I'd like ONE of these articles to take next step and argue what rights LLMs should have if you believe they think/are sentient www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

People are already organizing where you live. Find your people. Abolish ICE.

The Supreme Court's 2023 code of conduct is not only a lower bar than that of the lower courts—it's unenforceable. "As long as the ethics standards for judges remain lowest at our highest court, there is little way to compel the recusal of justices with conflicts of interest, short of public shame."

hey that seems corrupt af

Every time I see shit like this, I can place good money on the guess that the person doing the moralizing was a fan of Game of Thrones and usually win that bet.

Cornell agrees to include Bondi's anti-DEI/anti-trans memo as a "training resource to faculty and staff" (see: www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...)

Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024. Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion. American capitalism is off the rails.

Higher education did not cover itself in glory when faculty members chose to be silent in the face of persecution, all to help keep the "reputation" of the university, and themselves, intact.

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Yes, that is the part where the government makes it look as though there was some serious civil rights claim against Cornell that needed settling. It's a $30 million settlement of a pure nuisance lawsuit the government didn't even file. It's sad. And paying it is enabling propaganda.

But I am really struck by the rapidity and scale of the government's retreat from its much more extensive and destructive list of demands that it tried to impose on schools at the start of this mess. It would be far better if Cornell and other schools simply said "no." But still, a notable shift.

There are bad things here, including the transparently bad-faith mess about reporting students races + SAT/ACT scores to the government so they can falsely accuse Cornell in the future of illegal race-based affirmative action (a move that imperils perfectly legal class-based affirmative action).

But basically this agreement reads to me like one where the administration recognizes they are losing and are desperate to sign any deal to notch a win. Many of the most dangerous elements from the Columbia and Brown deals (and the proposed deals with Harvard and UCLA) are missing from this one.

On the other hand, Cornell agrees to what looks to me like $30 million in funding for futuristic agricultural stuff to benefit farmers (i.e. what Cornell already does), plus $30 million in actual $ paid to the feds. UVA paid $0, so in that respect this agreement exacted a larger ounce of flesh.

The incredible shrinking attack on U.S. universities continues. Cornell has signed an agreement—but unlike the UVA agreement, instead of pledging to follow the gov't's highly questionable July "guidance" on discrimination, Cornell simply agrees to hand it out to faculty as a "training resource"!