The NJ Transit app should have an annual "Track'd" wrapup that's like - Here's how many times you took your most frequent routes - The locomotive you spent the most time with was #4218 - You were in the top 0.2% of making noise in the quiet car - You lost almost 17 hours of your life to delays, wow!

David Ellison appears to be mortified that CBS/60 Minutes is “going rogue” by covering the news and by keeping him “in the dark” about a segment critical of Trump. Because Ellison doesn’t realize that’s how it’s supposed to work. nypost.com/2025/12/10/m...

As said of old:

If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.

Reminds me of that time I needed emergency appendectomy & I was on morphine & the hospital billing guy came to my room to ask me to pay the copay upfront I was like dude I’m going next door to check the other hospital‘s price also what’s my name again Ps I’m an economist, ok w/markets generally

No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme. It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.

Eric Adams is an incredibly strange man

Which friends do I dislike?

If birthright citizenship goes, and a birth certificate no longer counts. How will you prove YOUR citizenship? Remember this when the court inevitably tries to split the hair or dispenses with all precedent.

It’s called Calvinball because God long ago predestined who would win

Welcome to the Far Future World of DUNE! Freed from the tyranny of thinking machines, the limitless potential of Humanity has been unleashed! Why, you can be: - A talking computer who kills people! - A witch who does eugenics! - A fish who takes drugs to go FTL! That's it. Those are your options.

What's great about this story is that the guy's son and his ex-wife both fucking hate him and don't give a shit about his whining.

How do you even evaluate these? traditionally with image model you could just say which one looks better but this new crop isn’t simply images, they’re agentic reasoning models that produce images. The image fidelity is a very small component of its quality

how many of us remember EVERY social media account we've made in the last 5 years? Even the throwaways, the joke ones, the obscure sites we don't even remember? This will be forcing millions to lie in their visa applications -- which is grounds for deportation.

On the internet, age verification doesn't know you're a dog.

Ask your boyfriend how often he thinks about Times New Roman.

Hearing Sir Paul talk about sex feels like having your grandpa do it now, but this whole Hamburg segment is a reminder of just how tough and tumble the Beatles were. They were basically a more functional version of the Replacements on speed, which I guess makes them R.E.M.

Freedom of the Press is irrelevant if fascist billionaires control all of our media.

I'm gonna be honest, I always think this kind of "literature actually teaches you essential skills to be a diving instructor" stuff is a real stretch. Poetic composition is a thing in itself; I do not think it is a particularly good way to learn empathy or communication.

You can just say “import python” at any computer and it will set up the environment for you.

I am tired of South Africans who don't understand the values or traditions of this country moving here and wrecking the place.

i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me

Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

This is what politics are going to be from now on, for the rest of your life.

Heating fuels in the USA. Bizarrely, liberal states in the NE USA prefer the most polluting choice, fuel oil, which also emits the most carbon dioxide.

Arguing about copyright with people online

Finally a "shadow" hearing. Been wondering since February why Dems never do this.

sitting next to a sweaty guy on a plane who just finished a workout at terminal 8 while wearing a shirt, tie, and suit

ok talarico must win

Who has made this 🤣

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory) Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

Silicon Valley 🤝 France in 1940 Fail fast

President Trump apparently did no nut November x.com/whitehouse/s...

The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent. It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.

That's not what they're learning. What they're learning is that the mass public hates lockdowns and the consequences of them, and it's politically easier just to let it rip. This is very bad, but it's not 'capitalism' at work here. It's a mass public with bad priorities.

the science is incredibly clear on this: the single most effective way to prevent the spread of airborne diseases, including flu and covid, is improving indoor airflow. nothing else comes close.

me: why does literally every AI tool glaze me, I'm just asking a question about documentation friend: That's a really perceptive question - I think it gets at the heart of the current problem with LLMs! If you'd like, I can break down the origins and implications of this particular problem

Saw them on my walk home today and felt angry that SCOTUS is coming for the birthright citizenship they died to get.

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.

Here’s the thing, emerging scientists aren’t going to flee to do science elsewhere…they just won’t do the science. We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.

Did not have Costco being the strongest American institution on my bingo card (I’ll take it)

“Salmon Sperm DNA (Don’t worry, I’ll explain later)”