Minnesota State officials (BCA) had a SIGNED warrant from an independent judge to investigate the shooting. DHS DENIED them access to the scene and said they would investigate themselves. This is unconstitutional and any conclusion DHS comes to can’t be trusted.

#ReaderBot: Brian has 10 books left on his reading list. He should finish them all by Aug 23, 2026. [Brian's Reading List]

Outside of Fetterman (who's just an assumed yes) I think it's going to be very hard for any Dem Senator to justify funding this week.

Castro and El Camino, right now

Abolishing ICE is not nearly sufficient. State and local officials need to start arresting and prosecuting these kidnappers and murderers.

A few years ago when I was studying for Jeopardy! I realized why it was so hard to study sports if you don't know ball. Then some other stuff happened and I decided to write about it for @defector.com : defector.com/are-jeopardy...

We have a new global standard, please consult this chart for conversion purposes

@theslides.bsky.social From my dad's slide collection. Mom in front of a NIKE Hercules SAM at the University of Kansas (KU) early 60's #coldwar #NIKE #SAM

wait so who the hell were these guys

PETA is not an effective organization. While American fashion turned away from fur in the 90s—in part due to collapsing prices following overproduction before the 80s stock market crash—in the late 00s, mink fur production went back to 80s levels until the mid-10s.

Just want to make sure that people understand, this guy isn't saying this because he's ignorant or stupid, he's saying it because he does not believe we should live in a free society. That is the entire Republican Party. They do not believe in living in a free society.

someone in discord once asked me to try to summarize jfk's assorted medical problems from memory

Second try, it's beautiful, anything is possible

The people carrying out Trump’s illegal orders think they’re untouchable. They’re not. Trump won’t be in power forever to protect them. Accountability is coming. We will bring them to justice. That’s a promise.

Anthropic made a very conscious decision to not do any kind of image or video generation unlike OpenAI and XAI, which 1. cuts off a potentially really ugly legal liability tail, 2. is much cheaper to train and serve, especially without video, and 3. makes the product far more enterprise-friendly.

The Cheers oral history in Vanity Fair (I believe) had it as the last TV series written by people who didn't grow up watching television. I've never forgotten that.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Chicago pope has done it again

#ReaderBot: Brian is a quarter through Gelman, Hill, and Vehtari's "Regression and Other Stories" and should finish in around 20 days. [Brian's Reading List]

Hard agree. I'm increasingly just zero sympathy for the cowardly chauvinists who can't handle places where lots of different people get along together.

No good right now

Coordinated a beer drop by a white friend to deliver a 30-rack of Hamm’s to a Hispanic friend’s doorstep because his wife wouldn’t let him leave the house to go buy more beer for fear he’d be brutalized by lawless armed masked federal paramilitaries. This is Minnesota community. We take care of us.

The fixed loophole: "Under current law, the fact that a car window was broken is insufficient to convict a suspect of auto burglary—prosecutors must prove that the door was locked, which requires victims to be physically present in court to testify[.]" calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202...

good recent numbers on this here - 1 in 4 people (perfect fraction to count as both 'lots' and 'not lots') fall into this 'scroll news' bucket - 2 in 5 for young people - 2 in 3 of all scrollers, scroll by it incidentally; no age interaction given www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...

stuck bouncing back and forth between these faster and faster. do we, like the guy on the left, not see anything done, because the only thing to do is the thing on the right? can anyone think of another thing, that will change ice now? make clear that what ice does today means prison time later?

“One thing you may not see in Santa Clara is the 32-foot donut, because Santa Clara doesn’t allow that unfortunately,” [Santa Clara venue co-owner Ausaf] Masud said. “Let’s see how big we can land off a donut for Santa Clara.”

"what's possible within the system", versus "the wider environment in which the system is embedded" backofmind.substack.com/p/was-the-gr...

i dont understand this bit in money stuff. if you're selling to a shark, presumably collecting that same 2c spread on each individual sale, how are you harmed (other than the opportunity cost of "you didn't hold") by selling all the way up to $1? where does "buy @ K-1, sell @ K+1" break as K grows?

"ROS" reading group seminar, noon today, DM for the Zoom link! The book is easy enough to understand that you don't have to have read it in advance to get stuff out of our group's discussion, if you want to drop in. #statsky #mlsky

My notes on Chapter 3 of "Regression and Other Stories," plus the problem set: github.com/bgawalt/ros/... The purple line represents malicious compliance.

one thing this plus doonesbury was very good at was learning how long political careers can be. gephardt ran for president in 2004, the first one i could vote in, and i spent so much of it knee-jerk thinking "that's the guy from the 80s the aliens abducted."

I grew up in Fairfax Co, VA, so we got the Washington Post, which had (has?) a monster comics section. Three daily pages, like eight pages on Sundays. I'd thought that volume, times my love of doodling, was why comic strips made such a difference to me. Guess it was sufficient, not necessary?

"He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them."

David Lynch's experimental shorts (VHSrip) : 135s

if i were a federal judge, this would upset me quite a bit. if i were a real fed cop, it would upset me to see widespread counterfeiting of the magic paper that means "we are real fed cops, don't try anything."

it's easier to just say "the l1 penalty makes it sparse" without *really* laying out why, but i think it's worth the explanation

this is a very good sign

This worked like a charm. First time trying/needing "AI Mode." share.google/aimode/D2R27...

Quick attempt at fixing the colours

Good post, my favorite/most-emphasizable part is this. I can read and write Markdown easily and confidently over SSH in a terminal, and that's unique. I can do quick edits in Vim without having to load up a whole web browser.

taking this excuse to circulate: my 2nd grader asked during CAR-LAR yesterday how far punters can punt. i went with my gut and said, if you let them off the chain, totally outside any game conditions, just pure distancemaxxing? they can all hit 150 yds, easy. right? too high, too low?

working on some new ideas for moon phases

Drew a ninja turtle for him to color (he's shading it now)

this costly signal gauntlet is a fascinating way to limit downside "you ripped us off" lawsuit risk while still accepting over-the-transom manuscripts. a risk i only learned about due to judd nelson's plot kicker offer exposition in "airheads" which i can't find anywhere online right now.

The plan, which is right on track, is new PRs like four or five times a month, so I promise not to post each one. But this one's fun; 170lbs, "the Towers of Hanoi"

All the lies they're telling about Renee Good are in service of an even bigger lie: that individual human lives have no intrinsic worth and are therefore theirs to dispose of. publiccomment.blog/p/the-poison...

“'I was doing exactly what Minneapolis protesters were doing — observing, documenting and exercising my rights —and an ICE agent decided to charge at me with force when I was complying and not a threat to him at all,' [county resident Yesenia] Campos said at the Thursday news conference."

because i just worked this out i share with you: you can turn add any bsky feed to your RSS reader, the perfect way to subscribe to comics, by adding /rss to the end of the profile URL. like for this one: bsky.app/profile/beet...

Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam on the pepper-spraying of and apparent federal vehicle driving into protesters last night at the ICE field office downtown. “Unlike the Trump administration, we believe in laws, facts, and due process.”