I'm a Neocon again. Invade El Salvador. @rivertam.bsky.social

Isn't this just polynomial time reduction explained with crayons lol

Well done UC Berkeley. Well done Human Rights Watch. Well done CECOT survivors. Well done 60 Minutes.

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

By the way over the last 7 days the top search trends in America by volume outside football topics are * Jake Paul * James Ransone (RIP) * Greg Biffle (RIP) * Epstein files released * Avatar * Powerball numbers dec 20 2025 * Andrew Tate * Tylor Chase * The Housemaid * Bowen Yang * Vanity Fair

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

This most recent episode exemplifies what I'm talking about. The memo she wrote justifying her spiking the CECOT story is the kind of thing that could have actually worked *if she'd been on top of things to intervene early in the process*.

Becoming slowly Arnade-pilled as I realize that these guys who went straight from prep school to Harvard to full time DC punditry just fundamentally don't view people outside their social circles as real people with real lives and real concerns

I liked the trailer for The Odyssey but it should have had a part where Odysseus turned to the camera and told us exactly how to translate polytropos into English

Didn't pritzker lose the district 2018?

Ok but there were a lot of people on the left outraged over the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad, and I know this bc they all posted on BlueSky about it

Right, the biggest flaw with WAR is that it's being applied to binary election outcomes. Casten's seat is probably D +7-9, the marginal value of him being D +3 vs R +3 is very low. It's like insisting sac flies are low EV when there's a runner on third and no outs in the bottom of the tenth.

Also, "wins above replacement" is not endogenous in politics. Members in safer districts are expected to take riskier positions.

IL-06 2016 - Clinton 51-42 2016 - Duckworth 50-44 2018 - Pritzker 50-45 2018 - Casten (vs incumbent) 54-46 2020 - Biden 55-44 2020 - Durbin 53-41 2020 - Casten 53-45 2022 - Duckworth 55-43 2022 - Pritzker 53-44 2022 - Casten 54-46 2024 - Harris 51-45 2024 - Casten 54-46

Just popped over to Twitter and they're deep into a fight over "Heritage Americans" and if it's acceptable to gesture vaguely at one of your 512 ancestors or you have account for all of your greatx7 grandparents or if the designation is based on whether your last name sounds anglo enough

a note from the CBS reporter behind this story to her colleagues tonight

The best way to revolt is to leak the segment.

I want to be clear: 60 Minutes has mot been as relevant in the past 15 years as it has been on the CECOT story. It has been leading coverage since MARCH.

Women dye their hair blonde because it makes men lose their gd mind

Let the diners die www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

BlueSky seems to think that this was a request for celebration and the Streisand effect is it backfiring. Someone risked their job to post this because they want you to know.

The thing about Vance is that he has none of Trump's natural comic energy. He is profoundly awkward when attempting to make a joke. It's not just a physical thing either - his Twitter humor also falls very short.

"LLMs can't do anything" is a fringe dead-ender position in a world where people are already using LLMs for everything from home decor suggestions to writing wedding vows. "LLMs can't produce novel insights" is an argument for a hypothetical world where the average person needs many novel insights.

What’s very funny about @rivertam.bsky.social ongoing bit about Bari Weiss’ incompetence is that she can’t even kill a story in a quiet, competent manner

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

I really enjoyed Twitter until sadly posting under my real name led to Nazi death threats. It doesn't quite feel the same here but it is as good as I think it'll get.

Honestly one of the reasons I like BlueSky is I enjoy being yelled at by stupid tankies more than I enjoy being yelled at by stupid Nazis. But if you post under your Real Name, the death threats are a lot harder to deal with obviously

maybe I’m being too optimistic given, well, everything but I just don’t think this guy running an explicit white nationalist campaign is going to have anywhere near the juice his boss does he is a repellent man with a repellent message and people are tired of it all

The history of "Judeo Christian" terminology is actually pretty fascinating. It originated as a social justice ("woke") term in the 1920s and 30s as a way to include Jewish and Catholic immigrants and push back against Protestant nativism (including the Klan). But ofc now it's used differently.

Perhaps the vice president should have considered utilizing the services of the vast law-enforcement apparatus at his disposal, rather than googling conspiracy theories on the Internet.

Rand Paul on Erika Kirk and Marco Rubio endorsing JD Vance: "I think there needs to be representatives in the GOP who still believe international trade is good, who still believe in free market capitalism, who still believe in low taxes." Karl: "And that's not JD Vance?" Paul: "No"

Should have been stopped when it was clear Tate couldn't defend himself

Sewers? The things that drain wastewater from data centers powering the plagiarism machines?

People on BlueSky will really be like 'you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart' and then whine about how Pepsi gave Walmart preferential wholesale pricing

Why don't they simply build the whole plane out of popular positions

Don't siege Leningrad, win it immediately by adopting popular positions

WHY DOES ANNA SAY ELSA "SET OFF AN ETERNAL WINTER EVERYWHERE" WHEN ITS BEEN LIKE 24 HOURS SINCE THE SNOW STARTED AND ANNA CANNOT POSSIBLY HAVE SURVEYED THE ENTIRE KINGDOM? DRAMATIC MUCH??

Matt famously hates underperformer Jared Polis

If BlueSky had polls I'd poll Come Clean vs Why Not

The look of a man who already got paid his $92M and now gets to punch Jake Paul in the face for the fun of it

This is a nesting doll of stupid. Bob is wrong that "it's fine", the photos of dinner example is also stupid, "if rude criticism stops you from making art, you shouldn't be making art" is stupid, and the idea that people use AI because they want to "be artists" is also stupid.

Centrist pundit who insists conservatives have an obligation to come to BlueSky to cure libs of their bullshit

Jake Paul signing up to get punched in the face by professional boxers when he has a net worth in the 9 digits is the ultimate refutation of homo economicus

Logically if you're gonna see the job market get bad for CS grads it's gonna get bad for Stanford CS grads *last*. Like you'd expect to see UCSB comp sci grads living on the street and instead their first five names I saw for 2025 grads were small tech company, Meta, big tech company, Boeing, Amazon

James Creighton: I'm going to create a type of dad that is so toxic