I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

This is culturally really dangerous. Functioning societies depend on most people mostly following the rules even when they could probably get away with not doing so. That breaks down very fast once a critical mass decide that makes them saps and suckers.

I wrote about the end of the U.S. Forest Service and the arrogance of trying to kill something like a forest: defector.com/the-trump-ad...

Pretty much ALL of the language we use for genAI anthropomorphises it. We can’t help it; we evolved believing language was a process of consciousness, intelligence. We don’t have normal, everyday terms to describe something that produces coherent language without a mind.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

This is a no-brainer.

The ads are quickly becoming my favorite part of the Onion's emails

yeah plus they'd probably be on myspace instead

Every now and then I open up the live feed from Artemis II just to see what the astronauts are doing. Last time I opened up the feed, there was a woman with out-of-control hair and a man sipping his juice pouch. They’re just like us, except way cooler and with a much better view, lol.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t... BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

Well done. #NoKings

Have you read this? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

how the breaking news alert finds me

Shout out to all the guys with charts who told me there was no way we were undercounting while I watched nursing homes and hospitals refuse to test and send my friends’ elderly relatives home to die of “respiratory illness” to keep their official numbers down.

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

@tmiranda23.bsky.social I agree the new Goose song has Sunday vibes.

“We are being undermined by a clown show of greedy billionaire priorities that are not of service to the parks or country.”

What’s wrong, Congress? You’ve barely even touched your checks and balances

me every single day

@tmiranda23.bsky.social You sound great, and we’re happy to have you back! 🤩

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Children are being abducted, deprived of medical attention, emotionally & sexually abused & given foul water & spoiled food. Do something🚨 I'm hoping this idea will catch on: If you have a projectors, consider casting videos depicting #ICELawlessness on your home, on churches & other buildings.🧵⬇️

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Here is a deep dive inter hormone therapy shortages, which is not an isolated issue, but part of a larger issue of serious medication shortages. vajenda.substack.com/p/why-is-the...

People keep debating whether Epstein is more tied to Russia or Israel without understanding it's the same people: dual Russia/Israeli citizens involved in organized crime. The modern roots of this operation, going back to the 1980s, are detailed in the excerpt from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT below.

What the rich—and people generally—fail to appreciate is that wealth is generated in large part due to infrastructure, services, and an educated populace, generated and maintained through taxation. Taxing the rich is not “taking THEIR money”, it’s getting them to pay back for the support they get.

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump's gratuitous smear of Danish soldiers who fell in service to America have the entire nation in a state of outrage, continuing now for many days. American media ignore this.

Ahem

America is outraged after ICE killed two white people in Minneapolis. I understand why folks are feeling afraid and angry right now. But I need you to understand something just as clearly: this is what Black America has been living with for generations. open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

Here's another deep field image from JWST. There's something pretty amazing hidden within it, which I'll talk about next. But open up this image and lose yourself in this almost impossibly vast view of our Universe. The six-pointed features are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy.

"Armed man in bank has tried to claim money that he doesnt usually have. Here's how he sought to expand his checking account."

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

One of the reasons poverty is associated with being overweight in the USA is that oreos and soda pop cost a fraction of what vegetables and milk do. You can easily spend $6/gallon on milk but a 2-liter bottle of pop is usually a fraction of that.

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

Nah. “chillaxia” Love the days between Xmas and new years, suspended time like being in an airport, nothing to do, just exist ❤️💚😊

imo the actual threat to capital-A America is not the Trump administration but that the Trump administration's behaviors will not be disincentivized enough flip-flopping back and forth between breaking things and fixing things every 4-8 years means eventually it'll stay broken

Robert Kennedy Jr. must be impeached and removed along with the likes of Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, and Tracy Beth Høeg. It’s life or death. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Let’s talk about the size of trucks & SUVs in the city. My column on the virtue & status signalling of vehicle bloat.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone Remember to thank farmworkers

GOD’s RANKING OF BEST STAR WARS: 1. Andor Season 2 2. Andor Season 1 . . . 3. Original trilogy (fan remaster, no CGI Jabba, nearly impossible to find) Thank you for your attention to this matter.

C'est complètement inutile, mais JE VEUUUUUX !!! 😍 #TakeMyMoney #TheSimpsons

Rule of law in 2025 has rapidly been redefined as rule of Trump