i have nothing to say about graham platner. please respect my privacy at this time.

Trey Gowdy still looks to me like he should be menacing William Shatner from the wing of a plane

This is the most American thing I’ve seen all day. We can be better people and a better society by understanding our history.

on our townes van zandt shit

I bet being a low information voter feels incredible, like going into a Chinese food takeout place and pointing at the picture of the entree that looks the best.

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

For most of human existence, such radical change only happened if society was destroyed by war, disease, or local depletion of key resources. Between 2500-1800BC, southern Britain maintained about the same material culture, technology, trade links, burial practices, etc. No wonder we’re weirded out

Oh is that how it works? One candidate is such a corrupt criminal that his own party tried to purge him, a crook who pardoned a pedophile and is loathed wide and far. But he plays the man card and now it's "front and center" in the race? "Sorry, folks, the crook said we have to talk gender!"

At the very least, Texas seems very preoccupied with spending an unsettlingly large portion of its life trying to convince everyone it is super butch. I mean, Texas, look, if you LIKE the big dumb hat, wear it, but if you’re wearing it for me, it’s not working, y’know?

1. OK, so this is the ninth book in this very pulpy space opera, right? But it actually mostly takes place in an office building, and is about the protagonist having a midlife crisis and nervous breakdown. I am in absolute fucking awe of how good it is, and can't describe it without sounding insane.

I am just posting this massive thread of mini- book reviews for future reference

cool cool what else is brett ratner known for

In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”

WIFE: remember the time you talked shit about that restaurant that has now become one of our favorite, most reliable dinner options? ME: oh you mean the time that we dialectically overcame a past era of contradictions through protracted struggle?

Trump repeatedly bragging about being asked to take the dementia screener is like a work colleague bragging about having to take daily court-ordered drug tests.

1/3 Today, 40 Associated Press guild-covered employees across the U.S. who accepted buyouts left the newsroom for the final time. We’ve been told layoffs will be coming, with no clear timeline. In solidarity, our members in office, at home, and in the field wore their union red today.

Somehow Elon Musk has binged Iain Banks & not realized he’s Jolier Veppers.

this is the most anti-free speech administration in modern american history. not even arguable. and it is censorship of the most anti-democratic kind, focused on criticism of government & trump in particular.

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

I believe the last popular folk song in America was “Abraham, Martin, and John” by Dion.

Once upon a time, when film editing moved to computers, Final Cut Pro on a Mac was a revolution in inexpensive professional post production. And the user interface was super simple. Anyone could learn it. So a lot of producers decided they don’t need a professional editor. Short 🧵.

Thanks. I'm the Michael Mann who predicted Heat, not the one who directed it. My Erdos-Bacon number is 6. I challenge the Director Michael Mann to do better!

Yay, we are pirates now.

And on the basis of this -- a pure policy disagreement about which he was demonstrably, wildly wrong -- Roberts dreamed up "major questions doctrine" & thereby rendered US law one big game of Calvinball. You just can't exaggerate how low, how scummy, how dumb, how fraudulent it all was.

Another way of saying this is that the regulations would have had a cost of zero. They would not have required the power sector to do anything it wasn't going to do already. Roberts said it would be the most expensive reg ever (because he heard that on Fox). But it cost nothing.

Trump slowly evolving into dril

Eastman’s disbarment was immediately condemned by other Trump 2020 allies like Sidney Powell and Jeff Clark. But one of the key witnesses against Eastman at his bar trial hailed the ruling as “a just end to a story of injustice.” www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

President Manbaby lashes out at the Pope by harming children.

The original house of Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis (1903-1970) house is permanently preserved and on display at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax, Canada 🇨🇦 #WomensArt

A+ headline. defector.com/president-ex...

It is a software program that predicts what word should follow the next, based on millions of things that real human beings have written. Nothing more.

well today fucking sucked

JD Vance Sent to Voicemail as He Calls Donald Trump on Speakerphone from Hungary Rally people.com/jd-vance-sen...

"And are the tales themselves mad?" "Not really, but they've seen some shit."

Oh no not the lapel pin burn

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

So I guess part of the reason AI is such an energy / resource sink is the performance of routine functions in wildly inefficient ways.

neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632... Look at this detailed analysis of Anthropic's leaked "100% generated by Claude" code, just pigshit awful absolutely unmaintainable garbage

Not only is it not a ban, the president doesn’t have the power to ban them anyway

Peace makes plenty, war makes virtues of vice. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimo_Ko...

yep, this is a case of hegseth wanting a whites-only military bsky.app/profile/nanc...

still pissed at a certain pundit who was incredulous when i said that these people are segregationists

The citation style for the UK National Archives is amazing. KB9, file 40, no. 4.

whatever that is, it's not law

They are trying to make citizenship an actual, literal White Privilege.