Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

So I bought a condo in an 1880s Baltimore brownstone and before we moved in I employed AI to try to guess whether certain features were hardwood/full wood panelling vs. soft wood that was always meant to be painted. The AI guessed wrong about... basically everything. (cont.)

He. Did. What. Now?! 😮

Merry Christmas

ask any Trump voter, have Stephen Miller babysit your kids overnight. who's taking that deal? nobody

Were all these journalists who desperately want to run interference for Weiss/Nuzzi/etc. this generous to Claudine Gay?

Ladies and gentleman, The Atlantic!

The new Amazon AI feature that uses screen real estate to like... summarize what you're seeing in your usual search seems really dumb and pointless.

Anyway the problem with a permanent vibescession caused at least in part by social media posturing is that while it might screw Trump in the short term it really screws the politics of generosity and solidarity in the long term. Believing times are bad makes people more selfish.

It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too. Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.

Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression

What is described here is systemic, incessant torture. CECOT is a torture prison that Trump has publicly praised. Weiss didn't want us to see it.

Deportations surged in early December. Current pace is about half of Trump's stated goal of one million per year.

it’s probably really important for anyone reading about the offshore wind stuff today to know the military already spent many years addressing these issues and those reviews are well documented, can be filed in court

"Shelley Bain, a 66-year-old program specialist, checked her email and saw she’d been fired at 4:30 a.m. She made a cup of coffee and calculated. She was losing half the retirement income she’d counted on. She is legally blind, so it would be hard to find another job."

The counterpoint to this take (which is true when considering incomes and labor market outcomes and becomes less true when you expand from there) is this graph, but of course I would say that:

One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.

Look, either 5 million people suddenly decided to crawl out of nowhere and enter the labor force, or people are lying to the survey takers

My fucking kingdom for an interviewer to say just once “I notice that you and other Republicans rarely seem to know about things the president did or said, why is that?”

I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned. Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.

Black unemployment in November was at a four year high due to federal government cuts and falling private sector labor demand

This is extremely important

Wow www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Excited for conservatives to re-invent wokeism because their co-travelers are getting a little weird even for them.

Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.

This is appalling. Again, Trump and ICE have had the option to deport Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica for weeks and weeks. They won't explain why they refuse to do this. But we know why: Because they've decided it isn't dehumanizing or cruel enough. newrepublic.com/article/2043...

Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been identified as the man who disarmed one of the Sydney attackers. Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.

I guess I should read this before commenting but oooof. Is WSJ manufacturing consent to overturn birthright citizenship by panic-mongering about an ironically Musk-like billionaire?

In retrospect not actually doing the cancel culture that exists in a kind of guy's head was a mistake, intense social stigma is an important, load bearing bit of social infrastructure

Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!

I haven't played Clair Obscur so I thought for a second that the designer showed up at the game awards dressed as a French stereotype and then I realized it's a cosplay.

I think the new Apple UI looks ok on the phone but is a total mess on the Mac. This 'bubbles within bubbles' desktop style is ugly and the way lines collide with it seems chaotic to me.

I see that the Atlantic is still, well, the Atlantic.

Stop printing lies in the newspaper. There need to be consequences for printing lies in the newspaper. He literally says and believes exactly this, several times per day and on camera.

Good accountability mechanism honestly.

Can you make $200 billion annual revenue selling direct to consumers? Netflix has revenues of $40 billion. Not sure OpenAI works if it doesn’t have a killer business application.

Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social

Maybe look up what a “right” is Batya? How did these dumb-as-rocks dipshits get so much cultural power?

This should read “automakers cheer for policy change that will probably eliminate all American automakers by 2040”

Ok look I can explain - for my wife’s birthday I rewrote the lyrics to “Mermaid Party” and sang it to her and I had to listen to the song a lot

Hard disagree. The official BLS jobs numbers are still the most reliable data we have, and it's not close. And there's no way the Administration has (yet) fiddled with its data. I promise to let you know at the first whiff of interference.

we're seeing a reduction in labor demand driven by small businesses in aggregate this is mostly but not entirely being matched by falling labor supply due to lower net immigration but vulnerable groups of workers are bearing the brunt: unemployment is much higher for Black and young workers

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."

If the early excerpts are anything to go by, it seems unreadable even for hate reasons?

Just finished watching season 1 of the The Chair Company. Really simple question I hope someone can provide some clarity on: what is this show about?

"The strength of these [social insurance] programs is salient in moments of broad economic uncertainty, such as the one many Americans are currently facing." NEW from Megan Rivera on the benefits of social insurance programs to the U.S. economy and its workers ⬇️

The rumor that Kevin Hassett might be fed chair should shave 10% off the markets.

Affordability is dominating the discourse. What I don't like about the conversation is that it focuses almost entirely on prices—as if the only way to make life affordable is to make things cheaper. But affordability is determined by prices *and pay.* 1/

Elon Musk is all the evidence you need that we should have ceilings. The existence of mega-constituents with the power to buy and corrupt democratic institutions is a threat to the entire project of democracy.

i have also contacted senators’ alsobrooks & van hollen offices directly & ask other marylanders to do the same @indivisiblemd.bsky.social all of the disappeared need our voices to rise up