Seems like he's probably not going to give up the president thing in favour of a career as a full-time MC.

Awful, and entirely unsurprising

@mcuban.bsky.social You seem really focused on the issues of public and single payer healthcare... Let's make a documentary where you travel the world to see what works elsewhere, and take that knowledge back to US experts to talk through?

The traditional Christmas sandwich table

Ignoring family on Christmas Day because there's a new episode of Jet Lag out...

We have a big problem: the media and punditry are overrun by people who are driven almost entirely by a desire to appear "openminded" and "contrarian." In order to burnish that image, they seek out conservative takes to endorse, carefully choosing ones that don't seem too MAGA (and thus gauche).

I suspect this country is comparable, I know so many people who have practically no disposable income after rent, utilities, and basic groceries

This isn't real. I mean it's not *much* worse than what's really in his Truth Social account, but this isn't there.

This is fair, but also the general consensus among commentators was that Trump wouldn't (or couldn't) do half of what he suggested. That it was bluster for the base and hyperbolic wish casting. They imagined 2020 redux, where he'd be handled by real political operators and restrained by officials.

this is why you don’t shout “WE’RE PARTISAN HACKS” at the top of your lungs, because when it comes to debunking what is probably a fake letter nobody believes a damn thing you have to say

The cashier at Target should be able to work full-time and afford their bills with a little left over. That’s not radical.

About the card Jeffrey Epstein purportedly sent to Larry Nassar: * The postmark is from Virginia, not New York where Epstein was jailed * The return address is incorrect and doesn't include his register number * FBI sought a handwriting analysis. Don't know outcome. www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...

Okay, I have to say, this doesn't really seem like Epstein's handwriting. It was postmarked after his death, which doesn't prove it ISN'T real, but DOES mean anyone had the info to write it. And the postmark seems to be from VA. Someone writing Nassar pretending to be Epstein, I think.

This is the most explicit "Trump is a gross perve like me" document I've seen yet.

This is an automatic Content ID block. It will match almost any upload of the story (and probably also small excerpts used in other videos, even in a strongly defensible Fair Use context).

What would it look like for the NY Times to be "dealt with and stopped" by the government for "National Security" reasons, I wonder? I assume we'll never learn, that this is just more impotent bluster... But who even knows anymore?

Mr 20 gave me an alcoholic ginger beer. I assumed it would be a nicely brewed ginger beer with natural alcohol. It's not. It is a ginger beer flavoured soda with generic spirits added. It is harsh and sad.

If I had Bari Weiss’ job I would basically do it the same. I would watch news reports and then say “not enough sources” only instead of giving them Steven Miller’s phone number I’d be like “here is Maria Bamford’s email, I want her on record, in several funny voices.”

Just watched the 60 Minutes CECOT story. Aside from just more lies, it's hard to imagine what comment from the White House would bring to it. And responsible journalists wouldn't include those obvious lies anyway.

And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV. There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.

Was this rendered in a computer game from 2003? And why is it shooting the waves?

Just saw a guy drive past in a BMW SUV with the number plate KEPTMN — can't help but wonder who picked that plate?

When Bari Weiss wrote about the national crisis of “woke private schools,” all of her sources were anonymous students, parents, and teachers who agreed with her premise—and she ran the story without getting a school on the record, for “context.”

My kid is 14. He uses discord to talk to friends when playing Minecraft and dnd. He has no interest in FB or instagram or TikTok, but a social media hard-cap of age 16 would limit his social life unnecessarily with no benefit. Ffs, direct policy at platforms not users. Or ban boomers as well.

I'm planning to brave a trip to Costco for a few Christmas food things... Me: I think I'll aim to be there around opening time, it was apparently pretty bad yesterday afternoon. @melbailey.bsky.social: Okay. Get anything you want. Me: 👀 Mel: Food! Just food!

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Bari Weiss apparently spiked Sharyn Alfonsi’s 60 Minutes segment on CECOT for political reasons. Here’s her email to the news staff. Sharyn Alfonsi has more guts than every single beltway reporter.

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

This is accurate. I can use AI to massively speed up some parts of my work, but only because I'm able to intuit when it's gone wildly off-base, which it does with confidence indistinguishable from when it gets things right.

I continue to no understand how these things are allowed at all. There are SO MANY edge cases they're unable to handle, and their failure mode is disruptive at best, and sometimes outright dangerous.

This post, and the screenshot it references, hint at one of the biggest flaws of AI as a "research" tool — it only "knows" what it's been trained on. Namely only things that have been published to the internet in a way it can process. This is also why it can only "create" things that mimic stuff.

(standing in the NARA reading room, “feeding” a raft of unpublished government documents into AI somehow, as the archivists are definitely applauding me, telling it to find the important stuff) “Look at me, I’m a historicalian!”

I'm in the lounge where Mr 14 wanted to turn the air conditioning off but didn't want to walk across the room to the controller. I said, "Air conditioner, turn off" out loud while using the app on my phone to turn it off (out of his sight) He said, "oh, huh" I may have executed a brilliant prank!

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

"Nobody seems to have the cilantro gene in Mexico" yeah because they genetically selected away from it. Because it's a weakness

Me: *Buys great present for @melbailey.bsky.social's upcoming birthday* Also Me: *Forgets what time @melbailey.bsky.social finishes work and leaves it near the front door*

Quick stop at Bunnings..

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

I want to believe the whole thing is just this with the word "Clinton" visible every now and then

The US is an awesome place to visit. So much interesting stuff everywhere. It genuinely sucks that the current President has made it such an uninviting and, frankly, dangerous place to travel to.

Elon owns a lot of rockets, and frankly this seems in line with his bullshit

When I was a kid you could get a penis for six hundred bucks. And they threw in the testicles for free, because they valued the customer. Inflation is ruining the country!

First look at ‘NODDYLAND - The World of Pud’🍴 Coming to Disneyland Paris in 2027 and Disney California Adventure Park in 2028.

Feels like there is an "allegedly" missing here...

I'm going to watch the shit out of this!

It honestly doesn't seem that hard to get - investment in public infrastructure and resources empowers private productivity. People who are more stable can do more and spend more. It's endlessly frustrating that modern governments are, regardless of party, captured by neocon anti-spending ideas

Amazing to see the Pud Cinematic Universe finally coming to audiences!

Forgot my glasses again this morning. Another day ahead of trying just a little bit harder to look at things

No one is creating penises for children, you shriveled testicle of a man!