I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵

I never had a teacher believe in me like this.

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

Look at S22: that’s who you are doing a disservice to if you don’t try and make your pedagogy AI-robust: honest students who actually try. You are actively harming them in material ways if you keep assigning shit that is easily completed with LLMs, which is most take-home assignments.

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

the thing is we know what it truly looks like when the media swarm feasts on a president, because the mainstream media did with biden over afghanistan and his age. with trump its a hands off, kid gloves approach because he's the guy who gets them book deals and more. bought and paid for jackals.

The reason he makes so many people mad is because he's more consistent than them

kinda spitballing here, but I do feel like being the sort of guy who loves being a marine and killing people and who gets nazi tats because he thinks they're badass probably is comorbid with being the sort of guy who does nasty things to women, and that denying this association don't make sense

This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.

mad to think a sport's simplicity and ease of access to almost every kid in the world is a bad thing about it

But arts and drama aren’t MANLY jobs like British Steel and Jaguar Land Rover. They can’t do a photoshoot in a hard hat at RADA

It’s cool and not at all telling that a senator can just disappear for weeks at a time and no one knows whether they’re functionally dead or not. Tremendous situation we’ve got here.

i don't love the nature of social media pile ons asking to denounce tbh because they add so much more hostility. but ALSO if you look at the things Noam Chomsky said to Epstein about the Epstein accusers in those emails, you understand why people on the left make such a big deal about rape culture

pathetic. if you’re gonna pull a weekend at bernie’s situation on us, commit. film a tiktok of him sitting at his desk with a pen in his hand. put some sunglasses on him and put him in the front seat of a car with the windows down. let’s see some shenanigans!!!

This is a solid and even-handed article. I'm glad it makes 3 important points: 1. Many kids are riding high-speed e-motos and not e-bikes 2. The e-bike panic has the potential to hurt riders who depend on these bikes 3. Kids want to and deserve freedom of mobility without cars!

When was the last time anyone asked what the urban working class thinks? Never, because it’s not a group of rural white people who want the worst for everyone but themselves.

1. Trump tries to make everything about Trump 2. Every time he succeeds, the thing dies immediately from his rancid vibes

King has always had not great politics in a shitty Dem way, but this is a real step into the abyss

The only thing I feel about Mitch Mconnell is joy in the absolute horror he felt when he realized that everything he fought for also ushered in anti-vaccination a thing for which he is deeply deeply opposed.

If you're a dude who's insecure about using a sewing machine, just call it your tactical benchtop thread injector.

I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is a Democratic Party primary for a flippable Senate seat amidst rising fascism

Back in my day, we had little coins called pennies. "Give me five pennies for a nickel," we'd say. On one side was a picture of Abe Lincoln and on the other side was another, smaller, picture of Lincoln.

he can't define it. not just because his brain is rapidly turning into room temperature rice pudding before our very eyes, but because he never could. none of them can. for reactionaries, 'communism' never had, nor has it needed, a consistent, meaningful definition. it just means 'bad stuff.'

The have reversed the logic of democracy: they are no longer accountable to us; we are accountable to them

So this genius CEO expects xbox to have ~12% of the world's population playing xbox every single day? It's time to end CEOs, man. They get paid way too much to be this fucking stupid. We don't have to live like this.

Hi, trans people have been studying the movement since it emerged in 2016/7 and their success is down to a) a huge amounts of money from organised christofacsists b) the particularly incestuous nature of the UK media class and c) the "left" folding like a wet paper towel coz they too hate trannies.

This edit of a new and older trad wife is perfect

the way Harada describes Sakurai is gonna make me fucking cry laughing dude

Anyone else's dreams become weirdly mediated by software? Like, I won't have a dream about JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but I'll have a dream about watching a YouTube video essay about JoJos. Or, I won't have a dream about it happening, but about me scrolling on here reading about it happening.

all of this has happened before, and will happen again capitalism is just like that, an endless cycle of rich guys taking as much as they can until it ruins everything for everyone else, and everyone else bands together to change it to a more equitable model, and then boom and bust again

Florida insurers be like

Only men who worship violence thrive in war, which is why the U.S. has a rich tradition of awarding the Medal of Honor to Quakers and Pacifists

Almost all right-wing conspiracy culture stems from them being incurious and averse to critical thinking, so they encounter something like this, skip right past the idea a sneaker company could do a varying tread for different areas of the foot, and determine it's the Matrix/illuminati/Jewish plot.

never not thinking about this tweet when i look at erling haaland

Not exactly creative, but when I was copywriting marketing language around an open source moderation software that censored racial and ethnic slurs, the client said I couldn't use the term "hate speech" as some people might find that term offensive or insulting.

Dreamed last night that I had a big presentation to give for a pastry company quarterly meeting and my only idea was a cartoon character named "The Streusel Gobbler" whose catchphrase was "no child will touch my streusel and live to tell the tale"

This kinda reiterates why physical media is so important. Because if all our history books become digital, they can change records of the truth on a whim.

Whenever members of Congress are unable to cast votes, they should be required to file illness or injury reports, just like pro athletes, detailing their condition and expected return date

Me, a wizard: Where hast my scrying orb gone? I cannot seem to find it anywhere in the tower... perhaps this is a cruel trick from my dark warlock rival! My Capricious and Gluttonous Familiar:

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

One of the most frustrating parts of Donald Trump is his ability to take any moment, anywhere and make it about Donald Trump. I’m sick of thinking about this fucking guy.

"Mamdani always wears a suit" is a great example of how you can turn something unremarkable into a beloved bit just by committing to it and repeating it

People are similarly reluctant to concede that, perhaps, Ivy League schools that churn out the likes of Zuckerberg and Trump and Musk may not have the right solutions for how to stop perpetuating the harms that they cause.

Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.

When the government claims TMX is mega profitable (Tim Hodgson keeps saying $1 billion a year), remember that we BOUGHT IT for $34 billion. So it won’t be profitable for *34 years* at this rate, and that’s if oil demand doesn’t decline! (It will!) It very likely will NEVER be profitable:

Still zero for ebikes, zero for transit, and $2b for oil refineries.

It’s a really funny runner how every issue in American history that apologists claim “no one” knew was wrong has a corresponding Quaker going “this is wrong”

Corollary to everything I'm saying here. On the flip side there are frequent surveys that indicate a correlation between educational attainment and liberal/left wing views and this often gets essentialised to "right wingers are dumb and leftists are smart" which misses an important point:

This is a prime example of why right-wing populism slides so easily into antisemitism. You need a populist framing of "the people" versus "the elites," but you can't frame the elites in strictly economic terms, or else you end up with leftism. Hence you need another way to define "elites."