This is the article that made me realize how insane the orbital data center idea is. The problem isn't that the technical challenges are insurmountable. It's scale. Orbiting the equivalent of THE ENTIRE ISS would get you.. three server racks worth of GPUs. 200 whole chips. taranis.ie/datacenters-...

not beating the new gilded age allegations

the white house UFC stuff evokes such a strange flurry of emotions in me. like, clearly a disgrace on so many levels but also so incredibly stupid that it makes me laugh. also when i saw the thing light up the other day i was like...'thats kinda sick' but also like obviously an outrageous disgrace

Holy shit, these people have no idea: The people launching the pogroms against immigrants in Belfast are loyalists, i.e. loyal to the British crown. They hate the concept of being Irish.

"I love the inflation." Yet another tailor-made ad for the Democrats this midterm season.

It’s not “your” hemisphere, Hegseth

I try not to post naughty words bc I would rather people avoided my posts due to substance, not form (keep it quasi-professional/people read at work/no need to offend unnecessarily, etc.) But I think swear words in an official proceeding should be verbatim. 🤷‍♀️ bsky.app/profile/mere...

Similar to the bullshit DHS claim that activists had been trained to hit immigration officers with their cars. It was immigration officers who were intentionally ramming people with their cars. They were deflecting by projecting.

you can't reason with people who believe that the only legitimate vote is one cast by a white man and that all other votes are illegitimate. like @chadstanton.blacksky.app said "voter fraud" is a dogwhistle for "people other than white men voted". election denialism is just racism with a fancy name

Republicans have stopped accepting the results of elections that don't go their way because they've realized they don't have to. They've learned that if they get enough of an echo chamber going that the rest of the world will have to accommodate whatever they're repeating, no matter how stupid

The first grand jury proceeding in the Broadview Six case began with a *textbook example* of forbidden prosecutorial vouching. Misconduct from the start. Just incredible stuff.

Exactly! Black Lady Sketch Show had it down. youtu.be/MSElx7C1vLY?...

This is not ok. This is the stuff that makes societies unravel and devolve into chaos. Everyone partaking in this should be treated like a traitor. These are not Americans.

What's happening in the NFL is extremely abnormal. How did the Washington Commanders go from a 77% chance of winning to just a 1% chance? And don't give me any bullshit like "oh, see, the Bears scored a TD and FG in the fourth quarter." That's just what they want you to believe, maaaaaaan.

You can't make this up: House Republicans just snuck a provision to help private jet owners avoid state and local taxes into a major AIR SAFETY bill! Instead of working to prevent another mid-air collision, the GOP is more concerned with making their wealthy donors even richer.

Would be cool to find a way to keep geriatric House Democrats from dying all the time.

JD Vance knows all about being shady. So much so that he thinks everything is shady.

Fmr FBI Agent Michael Feinberg: "Something that absolutely chilled my blood was when both JD Vance and Stephen Miller told ICE officers and agents, 'You have absolute immunity in what you need to do.' That is the exact opposite of how I was trained."

👀 "CBS News boss Bari Weiss is likely to gain editorial oversight of CNN if and when Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved, according to a report." The goal is to control the media and turn them into lap dogs. nypost.com/2026/06/09/m...

I'm sorry but my first reaction to this was to laugh. This is the incompetent hack who managed to get Chia Pet ads on a CBS News broadcast that was widely feted in the media as this bold new approach to Doing The News. Sucks for any decent reporters at CNN (especially International) but... lol

CNN seeing the utter sh*t show Bari Weiss is creating at CBS and thinking, yeah, I want me some of THAT

The idea that this just happened to the Broadview 6 — forcing grand juries to indict by cajoling them in an elevator, vouching to the grand jury, and telling "no" votes to leave if they don't want to indict — is nuts. It's probably happening everywhere. And it means the law as we know it is dead.

Recap of the Broadview 6 grand jury: — WEEK 1: Government tries to indict protesters for impeding a police car. Jurors ask why the cop isn't being charged for driving into them instead. No bill. — WEEK 2: Government presents same exact argument. Jurors aren't having it. [continued in next skeet]

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

"GRAND JUROR: I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."

“Under the law??!!” is blowing my mind.

saying this after shitcanning half the staff and appointing partisan appartachik Bari Weiss as editor in chief is like "Putin Promises Territorial Integrity for Ukraine"

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

In the lineage of this classic:

Mike Lee is not just rage-tweeting about the DoD's new religion codes, he's now in a full meltdown manically replying to people demanding they read the Book of Mormon because he can't shrug off how his far-right brainworms X feed was full of people saying "lol Mormons aren't Christians, suck it."

The commanding heights of universities are not liberal spaces

significant parts of the Republican coalition are held together on the basis of “you don’t really believe what you say about us when it comes down to it because we’re all on the same team” and, well, turns out some of them actually do

Harder to think of a clearer example of "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" for this era than people using "generative AI" to protest the outputs and infrastructure of "AI"

Down at the Grebe Factory interviewing the new apprentices for the Western Grebe Taxi Service, I'll thread in stills/video as I process them As a primer, here's THE BEST WESTERN GREBE MATING RITUAL FOOTAGE OF MY LIFE Warning on this thread: too cute for doom Skip to :41 for just rushing. 🪶 🐣

MN Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Cowan Wright recommends dismissing case v Kirubele Adbebe (one of the protestors Pam Bondi used as a trophy) with prejudice, agreeing w/him that DOJ dismissed case to avoid her discovery orders. Whole report is worth reading. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🎬 Double Indemnity playing at the Wisconsin Theatre in Milwaukee, 1944 #FilmNoir #TCMParty #SummerOfDarkness 🎞🍿

Just been gifted by a friend “The Book of Barely Imagined Beings” by @casparhenderson.bsky.social Looking forward to a full geek out

Born #onthisday in 1868, the legendary Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Read about the remarkable photographs of his ill-fated final expedition and how this iconic visual record has helped to keep his legend alive: publicdomainreview.org/essay/r... #otd

This story has been consistently reported, but seems not to have really broken though - it’s ASTONISHING. An asylum policy that caters specifically and essentially exclusively to white people from a country in which they’re safe.

i always think 'what if i'm wrong?', 'what if this all just peters out?' whenever i publish something like this & then . . .

(The Atlantic) A maddening point of view dealing with misogyny. Suggest that you read the first five paragraphs if you have time. The minister and church that Hegseth relates to...explains much about what we see. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The lesson Hegseth draws for D-Day is that Europe has allowed too many Black people from Africa and swarthy people from the Middle East to immigrate to its shores, betraying its white heritage. Pure racism.

It's funny how the pitch for SpaceX is domination of the global AI business but the company's primary business (~60% of revenue going forward) is leasing its GPUs to Anthropic and Google at a discount because nobody wants to use Musk's MechaHitler AI.

It’s amazing to me how Tim Walz has dropped out of the conversation around the American left and positive masculinity.

This has been coming for awhile, and I'm relieved to see it.

sending love to all the other lesbians who thought Giles was the hottest man on this show does everyone know the story about how the musical episode came about because he randomly just did "Rocket Man" at Joss Whedon's living room piano one night at a party and the entire cast lost their minds

"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," Andry Hernandez Romero told me. "But in my heart, I'm American." He is the gay makeup artist Trump sent to the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador. Andry is in Spain now, rebuilding his life and haunted by his experience. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...

Reframe the question and it becomes very clear. If you hire a manager to run your estate can that manager burn down the buildings on your estate or chop it and sell it off in parcels? Pretty obviously not. The president doesn't own the country. He's hired to administer it for four years.

Q: Who are you? A; I’m a Mets fan. Q: What is your greatest strength? A: My ability to suffer. Q: What is your greatest weakness? A: My inability to stop suffering

I don’t particularly need a “vision of masculinity,” but if for some reason I were in the market for such a thing, I cannot imagine wanting to get it from a political party.