This is peak AI mania: identify a task that has long been well- and cheaply-handled by human beings, pay to use an LLM (which is ill-suited for the task), and be completely shocked when it goes disastrously.

huh. www.npr.org/2026/05/18/g...

Whether it’s Donald Trump stealing $1.7 billion from the treasury to share with his friends or Hillary Clinton using a private email server to share risotto recipes with her friends, there’s plenty of inappropriate sharing on both sides.

Someone should ask Bill Cassidy whether it was worth torching his entire reputation of supporting children’s vaccination & medical care for poor people at his clinic by confirming RFK Jr as head of the entire U.S. public healthcare system just to come in THIRD in his reelection primary.

Cancel culture has gone TOO FAR

HEY! I was *Watching* that!

I have been lectured to my entire life that the greatest sin in politics is to look down on these cosmically ignorant fuckwits, or to hold them accountable for their decisions. We're just supposed to flatter their Illusions and dutifully repair all the shit they destroy.

Me whenever there's a home repair

Resting Rural Face

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

Allowing an unauthorized person to compromise voting machines is just expressing "a different viewpoint." Great to know.

The fact that president trading stock is reported matter-of-factually, no big deal, shows what a clusterfuck we're in.

BofA: A blended average of wage, fuel & commodity costs implies the Food at Home CPI could accelerate to 8%

“.. appearing to bend to demands from President Trump — and ignoring pleas of other Colorado elected officials and the prosecutor behind the election data-breach scheme conviction.” @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2026/05/15/t...

On the bright side, Democrats could redraw many other states to counter GOP gerrymanders in 2028. It’s too late for new Dem maps in 2026, but it looks like a blue wave will be big enough to flip the House anyway. Redrawing maps is crucial for keeping the House winnable in 2028 and afterward though

You hate to see it

it's the 23 year anniversary of when bill clinton got a haircut

WASHINGTON (AP) — Emails show FBI Director Kash Patel's Hawaii trip included a 'VIP snorkel' session at a Pearl Harbor memorial.

General Tso is an example of someone who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.

Pretty on-brand that stonks are soaring while big companies everywhere are cutting jobs and consumer sentiment is at an all-time low. The stonk market is just an indicator of how much bigger the wealth gap is growing with each passing day.

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

SPC will be running its own config of the REFS once HREF retires (SPC REFS). It incorporates the HRRR since it’ll still be around, and removes members that have undesirable convective characteristics due to their convective schemes. It stops some of the bleeding, but it’s going to be a big change.

RIP Jason Collins

My 3rd grade teacher keeps replying to my stories with a cartoon old woman with fiery eyes

"this would be really bad and so, ipso facto, it can't happen" is the assumption underlying the entire Trump era and it's sort of bleakly funny to see people clinging to it even as the train is jumping the tracks

Incredible

hows the prices goin

Constitutional calvinball

Under President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle. A crisis in Arizona offers a warning for America.

They’re like emergency responders who put on their siren and rush to the scene whenever Black people are trying to get representation

When given the options of "true," "false" or "not sure," and asked whether each of the incidents "was staged," a majority of respondents said they thought each event was either staged or were unsure. n.pr/4nrbbRJ

West Virginia Republicans tried to remove all five of their Supreme Court justices in 2018 over alleged corruption (two were convicted of federal crimes). Republicans successfully created three vacancies and flipped the court’s majority

A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

These two things are completely unrelated, so don’t even think of trying to make a connection between them

Is David Shor's polling still showing why Trump won?

More like Funnels, TX

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Amy Klobuchar is neither fit for the Trump era nor the post-Trump era.

In Nebraska 😂

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

One especially infuriating part of this ruling is that past GOP gerrymandering may have enabled it. Democrats narrowly lost Virginia’s House in 2021 using the prior GOP-drawn map. That gave the GOP the power to appoint two justices under Gov. Glenn Youngkin—one of whom was in the 4-3 majority here

Jim Crow is applauded. Fighting back against it is punished. Same as it ever was.

5 years ago I hemmed and hawed at the idea of adding 4 liberal justices to SCOTUS but now I'm looking for a presidential candidate who will treat it as a top priority.

Consumer Confidence Diverging for Low- and High-Income Households www.apollo.com/wealth/the-d...

Oh my god. Indycar what are you doing

The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse