Funding cuts mean MIT has to suspend its "Good Will Hunting" programme, which over fifteen years elevated one hundred and eight janitors to tenured roles in the mathematics department, at a cost of only two buildings being forced to close due to toxic and unsanitary conditions.

in three weeks they have fucked this up so comprehensively that returning to a facsimile of the previous status quo is now the goal

“the nazi tattoo doesn’t make him a nazi” ok what does. in your head.

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

We must believe in a world to create that world

Titanic Museum time. Deck chair.

[eurorack enthusiast] *plays a chord on piano* "I bet there's a way more expensive way to do this"

This my Maritime list. Curate according to needs bsky.app/profile/did:...

Also want to be clear...i don't want more "breaking news" i want more sickos who are like 'i've spent the last 19 years thinking about only liquid natural gas and how you move it and here is a thread about the current sittuation'

Waffle House would actually make sense as a checkpoint you could fast travel to and heal at

awesome news, now my writing will sound even more weird 😈😈😈

It’s a myth that sharks can smell a drop of blood in the water from a mile away; that’s only true of Isaac Chotiner.

when people like Bondi testify privately, how many times do you think they have to remind them there are no cameras to play to? it can’t be zero

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

"Where is Strait of Hormuz?" "Strait of Hormuz how get around?" "Strait of Hormuz, alternative?"

Every public restroom hand dryer is either a hurricane or the soft breath of a defeated ghost. There is no middle.

"Declaring that no quarter will be given" is specifically prohibited by Art 23 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, which means it is a war crime under US domestic law by virtue of the War Crimes Act (18 U.S. Code § 2441).

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

What’s happening here is that the 30% of the country that wants, like Mike Johnson, to impose its right wing religious values on the country using state power is falsely accusing the 1.3% of the US population that is Muslim of wanting to impose their religion on the country using state power.

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

the ideal amount I would like to think about measles is zero and I resent that I had that once and no longer do

even heartbreak feels good in a place like this indeed

Good thing everyone involved is only in a position of power because of merit

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

A man on the street just saluted me and yelled “hello soldier, it’s good to see you back home safely.” I am wearing a camouflage Utz Chips trucker hat.

mom and pop operated NAS shop. everyone in town knows john and marla, they run the last local cloud storage business. fifteen fifty a month gets you an honest 24 terabytes. pretty good deal and marla keeps a bottle of tanqueray behind server rack 44 if you happen by

i actually understand how important the strait of hormuz being closed is because i've seen star wars: episode i: the phantom menace (1999)

the 'jesus was fictional' stuff backprojects *our* cultural beliefs about the importance of Jesus into the 1st century AD. 'there was a local teacher/preacher in Palestine called Josh' was not an unusual thing!

we need to address the end of good-paying jobs for melancholics, like lighthouse keeper or fire tower watchers

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

An opinion that makes you a fringe radical in this country is that the life of a person who is not an American citizen is not an abstraction, and is worth just as much as that of an American citizen

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

Normalize asking American tourists where they were on January 6th

One of the side-effects of the way we talk about this technology is that human intention and human judgement get drained out of situations we're they still, in fact, decisive.

This reporting is frustrating. It's vague on the specifics of how AI is actually used in these contexts and manages to frame human decisions as technological inevitabilities.

This is somehow the most haunting bit of in-game lore I have ever read.

Every day I understand more and more how this costume was fooling people

price elasticity of demand isn't real. it can't hurt me

they’re just begging for a car chase

If Charles Dickens were alive today it’s the sort of line that would be in one of his treasured novels

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

How to win in November

i hope someone at Microsoft realises how badly they fucked up when regular people are actually considering switching to Linux, the family of chores operating systems

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

kalshi sounds like a hippie cereal and not a pocket-accessible den of iniquity

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse