I may need someone to talk me out of having ice cream for brunch/lunch.

So very much more gruesome, expensive, and vocal than a bullet.

And please thank lawyers doing this work. We’re carrying a lot of trauma for voiceless clients. We are tired. We have become experts in new law under the most dire circumstances. If you can, donate to immigration defense funds. They’ve been at it the longest and have the least resources. 30/end?

I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time. www.tom-cox.com/why-reading-...

As always. Prove me wrong.

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

It is incredibly difficult to find a wrong way to criticize Jeffrey Epstein, but hot damn, Fox News hosts managed to find one.

No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk. Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.

I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline. I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.

Barack Obama won North Carolina in 2008. Since then, Democrats have been trying to build a path back. But the real battleground isn’t just urban versus rural. #ncpol

I know the Democratic establishment is depressing, but I refuse to believe it’s “the guy who somehow launched a campaign with a Totenkopf tattoo is a sign of the future of the party” depressing

Roses are red, As are carnations and others,

Our language around class is such a joke.

What do those words mean then? What even is ‘middle-class’?

The much sadder & scarier truth here is that the reason he’s “not scared of a germ” has zero to do with blowing lines off the crapper. Rather, germs don’t scare the USA’s #1 health official mostly because Dr. Miasma here doesn’t actually believe that bacterial/viral pathogens cause illness.

Leave the man alone, he’s destroying horcruxes.

Dems could have just stuck with the righteous position on immigration -- "it's good! it needs to be somewhat better controlled, but it's good." -- & they would have been here to meet the public, looking like they know what they believe in. But no. Chased that way, chased this way, always chasing.

If I get measles effing around with you narcissistic professional victims who refuse to vaccinate? Let’s just say “radicalized” will barely cover it.

If you sell lottery to the public, in an hour you’ll see it for what it is: state-sponsored racketeering, preying on the have-nots. It’s financial assault, and gov’t shouldn’t be involved at all. In the 90s, Keno was controversial in Maryland due to frequency and location (bars). How far we’ve come.

Great article that documents how insincere NCGA Republicans are when they talk about their concerns for mental health services in these hearings about highly publicized murders #ncpol

This is really, really dark. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

"Surveys have found that nineteen percent of 18-to-24-year-olds qualify as problem gamblers, and thirty-seven percent of Gen Z gamblers self-report as having an addiction. A 2025 Siena poll found that forty-eight percent of all men aged 18-49 have an active online sports betting account."

NO.

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

Found the 90 deals in 90 days. Just not involving the US.

I am not religious but if you think about it packing a swimsuit for a work conference trip is basically the same as having steadfast faith in things not yet seen.

what I most appreciate about this update: when I first heard of this story I *do* recall thinking "no this isn't dumb enough" bsky.app/profile/tyle...

And they say MAGA can’t do comedy…

You know something we don't talk about enough? Open borders are just cool as hell. #OpenBorders is Neo telling the Machines he's going to "show the people what you don't want them to see ... a world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible."

Yes to every word of this piece about turning Life Itself™ into Monte Carlo Night at the Elks Lodge. If people wanna bet on stuff they should have to find a sketchy, leg-breaking bookie in a shady dive bar, just as the Gods of Organized Crime intended. davekarpf.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

That’s the stuff. Pure and uncut.

There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"

Flashback to how these same folks reacted to vaccine cards...

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

My sense of Minnesota today is that there’s less tear gas and the same amount of unlawful detention, destruction of families, loss of livelihood, people in hiding. There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.

Brawndo’s got what plants crave.

It’s interesting how we used to negotiate free trade agreements and now they’re just trade agreements. They are dropping the “free” from in front of lots of things these days: trade, speech, press, market, country.

North Carolina has a very serious problem with political corruption. The biggest single example of a blatant scam on our state's taxpayers is probably the private school voucher scheme. Once you find out how this system works, it'll blow your mind that this is legal. 🤯

The Hometown Holler made it onto FOX NEWS with our interview with Kate Barr.

This, my friends, is some truly timeless, top-notch, Grade-A, USDA Choice counsel from which we ought all learn something.

We should take these people as serious threats but not treat them as serious people. I know the satirists didn’t stop the nazis but no reason you can’t bring a gun, a pen, and a yo mama joke to the same revolution.

The economy produced roughly the same number of jobs in Joe Biden’s last full month in office as it produced in Donald Trump’s first full year in office.

Cringe, for lack of a better word, is good.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

shooting up contraband cancer mRNA vaccine behind the Cyber Arby’s in 2034. the Ring camera on the Wells Fargo across the street recognizes my shape using LIDAR and releases an HHS sanctioned Bobby’s Bullet Buddy drone that shoots each of my nuts clean off one at a time

mad props, speck, h/t, etc