This is because Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy mass-market paperbacks are no longer being made readily available to children in their homes at the critical age (during the summer between third and fourth grade)

Fascinating read.

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

That look when you first learn about the Islamic Republic of Japan launching 11 missiles.

“I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than 100-200 basis points down, tops”

IMHO a lot of this is now a soft version of what has happened with Russia and Putin. The problem with "touch the stove" is that basic recognition of the sheer scale of Trump's screwups means a shattering of the assumptions needed to keep business as usual going. There's nowhere left to hide if

The IMF, every 10-15 years.

Thank you for your service, @cpsc.gov

Props to @ametsoc.org for joining the chorus. "If implemented, [the OMB rule] would damage the nation’s ability to understand, predict, and respond to severe weather, drought, and other natural hazards with negative impacts on public safety and the economy."

Fantastic thread

Did the MoU establish a technical definition for “shooting in a more moderate manner?” Only way to know if the ceasefire is intact.

Not dystopian at all.

Clever setup!

Adm. (Ret.) McRaven is Not Impressed.

Air con. Because you’re a snob and deserve to die

Good stuff from COL Kloepper: mkloepper2025.substack.com/p/building-d...

Donald Trump is basically an LLM and I think about his tweets in roughly the same way as I do LLM output. there's no interiority behind it you're just trying to figure out how it ping-ponged in to that part of the distribution

I wrote about what was actually in that #Fable guardrail bypass research paper, and why it should never have triggered an #AI model export control. We can't export control our way to cyber resilience. So many tshirt ideas. www.lutasecurity.com/post/the-fab...

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

Conspiracy time! Does CBS somehow share the infra for the CSPAN feed? Did they cut it at Bari’s request?

Yesterday, stratus clouds flowed northward along the California coast, filling in bays as it passed.

Fukuyama: We have reached the end of history. History: It's 2026, and an official branch of the Ukrainian armed forces is tweeting about how drone striking Andrew Tate while he's clout farming with the Russian military would be fun, but is sadly a war crime. Get bent old man.

I'm starting to think that maybe Donald Trump does not have the command over the course of events that he has publicly portrayed himself as having

That last scene on the bridge in Saving Private Ryan. Gets me every damn time. “Earn it.” I don’t think we are

Forget about Hegseth. This is the real D-Day celebration right here.

My contribution to D-Day discourse is to tell you all that I just watched the movie Pressure and found it to be well done and enjoyable.

🌎⚡ A frontier (1.5°, 15-day) ensemble weather forecast in ~3 seconds, from a probabilistic model you can train in ~1 day on a single H200 GPU?* Meet U-Cast, our new #ICML2026 paper. 🧵

"One incapability is easy to assess: Almost none of these would-be antiquarians are able to read Greek or Latin." www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-...

This is something I have never seen before on satellite. Clouds perfectly outlining roads. Just incredibly neat imagery of Houston, Texas this morning. Massive shoutout to Ethan Mok who discovered it (on Twitter).

one fascinating thing is that this is not a major blow to the Trump Administration; it is a major blow to the thing which Trump personally believes the Trump Administration is for, which is his personal aggrandizement.

Forget Wordle. Play small caged mammal on the run. www.ft.com/content/dad4...

Love a good metadata error

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

"average texan commits 3 crimes per year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average texan commits 0 crimes per year. Crimes Paxton, who is attorney general (??) and commits 10,000 crimes per day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

I’ll go with “cowardice,” though I’m guessing they would be at a very real risk of assassination.

"At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!" www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...

On the same Buddhist view, I am against being rude or cruel to AI systems not because they may be conscious, but because it will reinforce one's dispositions toward rudeness or cruelty.

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This is more of the same lawlessness we’ve seen elsewhere around the country. 

Our country deserves accountability. Our country deserves the humane treatment of every person here. In fact, our Constitution demands this. 3/4

Oh fuck yeah

Pope Leo on “AI alignment” — whose values will these systems be “aligned” with?

Someone should!

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

This is both the most and the least thought you could put into this youtu.be/vJ43DjwLPGA?...

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

the leopards are going to need their own ozempic bc of how many faces they’re eating

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

I kind of think settlements like this should be covered by the folks who voted for the party responsible. Need more feedback mechanisms that impose direct, obvious costs on folks who elect bad people. You want to elect someone who does performative cruelty? Ok, but you’re gonna pay a tax for that…