In other news, I recommend today's Daily Podcast, about the parents of a trans girl who just had to flee Tennessee for Connecticut in order to protect her. The parents are both Southerners and ministers, and had idea what "trans" was until they had to learn. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Picture is worth a thousand words and you couldn't pay for copy as good as this

Is the AI bubble about to burst? Probably not because high interest rates are keeping the bubble from getting too big. However, if the Fed were to accelerate rate cuts, the bubble could over-inflate and burst in a way that takes down the economy. And this is probably giving the Fed some pause.

They really all are the same song.

He desired desire. He was a desirer of desiring, who above all desired to let eels chomp on his flesh & for your children to die en masse of preventable diseases.

Much like USAid, if the rest of the world wanted to replace what the US has done for the last 80 years, they would have been doing it already

Cops are great

Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.

Jesus this prick. I gotta pay unreasonable prices for a seat that keeps getting smaller, get delayed with no recourse, hope the plane doesn’t fall out of the sky and now you want to police what I wear? Eat shit Duffy

it’s no coincidence that the biggest fans of capitalism are also the most selfish asshole pricks you know

In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

I updated this piece by clarifying her comments about Israel

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Physicians for Reproductive Health: "Today, the Department of Health and Human Services released a new “report” touted by known anti-trans clinicians and researchers known for historically supporting an anti-trans agenda." prh.org/press-releas... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ

The judge also wrote that the DOJ can't "use its administrative subpoena power to achieve what the Administration cannot accomplish through legislation: the elimination of medical care that Washington and other states explicitly protect.” www.autonomynews.co/doj-subpoena...

"UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE GIRLS "UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE CHILDREN thank you for your attention to this matter

This is why Evangelical Christians in particular, have remade Jesus Christ into an unrecognizable figure; not just the reddish haired, blue eyed, white man....but also someone who is okay with the 'prosperity doctrine' that people get rich on earth deserve it, and poor people ...deserve it.

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Combining a gambling company with derivatives markets. What could possibly go wrong? "FanDuel and CME Group Unveil New Prediction Markets Platform to Launch in December" www.cmegroup.com/media-room/p...

Have they tried explaining to critics that this is a Chicago Thing? Bequeathing your elected position to a family member or close friend is a deeply-held tradition.

What investigation. He was good buddies with the world's most famous pedo. Just cut bait. What the fuck is wrong with you? You have a deep bench of old rich white assholes from Harvard that could fill in for Larry and you wouldn't miss a beat but instead you do this. Lol

We said the same during the Iraq war and then they just rewrote history and everyone gave them a pass

Everyday a new example of how Trump is a deranged, despicable man. If Biden or Obama had talked to Fox News like this, the White House Press Corps would have complained and it would have been all over the news for weeks on end. But this below is after telling Bloomberg's reporter, "Quiet, piggy."

*Every single* institution, organization, and individual who caved into Trump already looks worse for having done so. And every one that stood up continues to look better.

So the so-called intellectuals who spent the last 8 years writing "Has DEI gone too far?" columns were all sleeping with each other or sexually harassing or assaulting junior colleagues?

a journalist asked a question about a fellow murdered journalist and there is simply no way to read Trump's response as anything other than a threat

“When you’re a good man you move on her like a bitch and grab’em by the pussy.”

This job market is absolutely terrible and it’s going to be much worse once the AI Boom goes bust within the next year.

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

This is exactly what happened.

I will say again that it has been just *beyond* hammered home for me that not only do we not live in a meritocracy, we live in an economic and sociopolitical order that actively rewards avarice, incompetence, unkindness, dishonesty. And tbh that makes me feel better about my lack of success.

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

AOC has a better shot at 2028 than Newsom does, that prick already threw in his lot with the rightwing podcasters and the transphobes. Reactionary centrists can whine about "purity tests," but fact is Dem contenders now must have spine & principles. Candidates without that will struggle in 2028.

Every day there is a new bit of racism from the Trump administration.

For over 150 years, trans people have used courts to change legal sex. While writing Before Gender, I found what may be the first case in the US: a formerly enslaved trans woman in Georgia in 1869. Her story shows that trans people found legal support long before the word transgender even existed.

Convicted Sex Offender: "news?" Larry Summers: "hot young econ babe likes when I compliment her clothes but won't fuck me cause Im married"

The nyt has “decided” the era of elitist-enabled predation is over (and even seems a bit wistful about it) It’s just one more way the nyt enables elite impunity: The club of predators has closed, it tells us, nothing to see here But the pedophile protection racket run by the WH tells us otherwise

Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭

It is positively dumbfounding to me that literally ANYONE still has Alexa in their homes, neverminded that they're lining up to buy literal surveillance sunglasses

“Young men are lonely. How about if Alexa becomes their friend?”

Epstein was convicted in 2008. This dump of emails shows him *over a decade later* in constant communication with damn near everyone with any degree of power. There are emails from 2019, 11 years later, over decade later.

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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...