Miller asserts that Denmark can’t defend Greenland. Yeah, genius, that’s why they’re a member of an alliance pledged to defend each other. One we founded and led, which has worked to deter aggression for over 75 years.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Imperial Boomerang in action :-/

It's funny how many quotes there are out there about how men who act recklessly for the sake of power to tear down norms and institutions they perceive as weak and shackling are actually all just barbarous criminals.

absolutely astonishing how much the American press and public discourse is absent of any sense that this is actual reality rather than a mass entertainment happening entirely on our screens for our benefit

have you ever been in the middle of fiddling with a spreadsheet at work and a voice in your head suddenly goes MAN WHAT IN THE ENTIRE FUCK ARE WE DOING HERE, THE DANES ARE OUR FUCKING ALLIES, THEY BLED WITH US IN AFGHANISTAN AND SYRIA AHHHHHHHH then you just go back to fiddling with the cells

Folks in the US still like to treat the whole Greenland invasion stuff as sufficiently unserious to engage with, but it is sufficiently serious that NATO allies are actively deploying tripwire forces to deter the US. That is *already* a political and actual cost to them, and to US relationships

Again, I’m going to keep banging the lonely drum that the fact that we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations, poses a massive threat to national security & world order, & should immediately end this presidency.

Nobody tell them about microspikes, lol. You wouldn’t want that contract anyway, Kahtoola.

His Kenyon college commencement speech is a regular source of inspiration for me. I go back to it often web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www...

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

Bicentennial Phantom McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II US Navy - VX-4 'The Evaluators' - Point Mugu

The dishonesty of “conservatives” about the killing of Renee Good makes me want to quote Lincoln: “When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”

/8 A huge part of what makes it very hard to convict Jonathan Ross for murder was baked into America generations before Trump was President. That’s the primary factor that lets law enforcement kill with impunity, not Trump. Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.

Did like anyone normal actually watching the fucking video before they tweeted it out? Or is the administration staffed head to toe with such Milleresque psychos it didn’t even occur to anybody to say “holy shit we need to wipe this footage immediately”?

Too many Americans treat "we're the good guys" like it's some intrinsic quality, instead of something we have to live up to.

The question if a police shooting is justifiable is just 1 question to ask. 1st: this wasn’t justifiable. But for me the real question is was it inevitable. As police, we must do everything we can to avoid deadly force. Many times the suspect makes it inevitable. Not in this case

If you feel like you're losing your mind as this administration plays footsy with the idea of INVADING GREENLAND, then you're not alone. Let me be clear: America will NOT invade a NATO ally. My Republican colleagues need to join me in making that crystal clear.

I was listening to @thebulwark.com's Next Level podcast today and they were thinking through the chance that Trump actually tries to seize Greenland and there was a @jvl.bsky.social sort of 'I kinda hope he does it to drop the mask entirely' and I just cannot scream loudly enough: No, You Do Not. 1/

Oh fuck yes, now this is worth skeeting about.

LEGOs: Keeping thousands of kids busy away from their smartphones (and probably seeding another generation of aerospace engineers in the process).

Josh Marshall on the mistaken assumption that there is “a” reason why we attacked Venezuela. I have an odd perspective on this, since I spent ages fixating on the analogous question about Iraq. It started when I noticed that none of the books about how we went to war in Iraq mentioned a DECISION.

you think you’re being more informed or bearing witness, but what you’re doing is just satiating a need to feel information flow

its also why, imho, you should modulate your news consumption. there is a point past which more information won’t give you more than a weak “it depends” answer

Interesting word choice, Axios. I mean, it definitely feels like HHS is “seeking“ a surge in cases given the vaccine guidance…

The American officer corps not reconciling with how a guy like Flynn could reach the highest levels of American military intelligence is part of the reason we’re in this mess

I'll stick with President Washington's message. founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...

my favourite type of guy i accidentally discovered on youtube is “guy who owns a rolls royce jet engine and just fires that shit up on his property sometimes”

The load-bearing part of that is "effectively." Many tools (like CAD) are difficult to use AT ALL -- the unskilled are unlikely to be misled into thinking they have gotten good results. What makes current AI dangerous is that is so easy to delude yourself into *thinking* you're using it effectively.

Everyone thinks there are just gonna be these “insights.” (“Insight” being a term of art that means “someone else’s work product that will absolve me of all accountability as a decision maker”)

Great thread.

LA machinists -- we need 12 of these ASAP. 12x quantity to start, 7075 AL, dimensions 4.5 * 10.5 * 13.5. Dm me if interested in taking this on

“The night everything at DCA finally went wrong” sure looks like the kind of careful, meticulously-sourced story I wanted to read about this disaster. The level of background knowledge is clear. As is the understanding of the human toll. I hope it gets widely recognized in journalism circles.

I said “it sounds like you’re just feeding municipal vehicles to the hill” and the mayor of Montreal started crying

And this is the thing that really fucking annoys me, like, that’s all these guys care about, money, money, money, they should be taxed into oblivion

Good news: The number of people traveling to the U.S. illegally has plunged. Bad news: The number of people traveling to the U.S. legally has plunged. The common thread: Nobody wants to come here.

Straight up vandalism that is making us all less safe.

I don't understand how anyone could think this is defensible methodology. Not that there aren't lots of good uses for synthetic data, but this will absolutely be used in context where it is utterly inappropriate - as a *substitute* for surveys of real people, and, uh... no. Just, no.

Rob Reiner, a man who made such amazing movies that even the vilest people who love Donald Trump and hate everything Rob Reiner stood for politically are like, "whoa, too far man, you can't say that about the dude who made The Princess Bride"

My first take on the Michael Green "$140,000 minimum wage" discourse. open.substack.com/pub/kevinerd...

This guy’s not on bsky but the experiments are really interesting, and fit my sense that LLMs will reliably give good answers about things that only highly specialized nerds have ever written anything about, and do better the larger that community of nerds is and the more unique their jargon is. BUT

cannot stress enough how the leading quality i want in 2028 dem primary fronteunnwr is “vengeful”

Going to create a startup that maintains unhinged pro-MAGA accounts for potential visa applicants

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Turns out it didn't have legs

Committing atrocities is a loyalty test and binds you together with others who have done the same, severing other bonds of care and loyalty. The atrocity literature highlights this over and over.

one of the reasons that the STEM-humanitiies culture war is stupid is that there's a lot of interesting stuff there at the intersection of the two. like it's very sociologically interesting the way that programming languages are maintained, propagated, and evolve.

This is why you should act like everything a potential leader says is sincere. If they sincerely believe war crimes are good, that's disqualifying. If they say it insincerely, their lying is disqualifying.