Coming soon: a calendar date I can’t help but associate with this little-known but outstanding cross-genre band active from mid 80s to mid 90s. You say anarcho-punk, someone else says free jazz, someone else says art punk, I say no wave. This band should be more well known. Any guesses?

Greenland is happening. Not a joke, not trolling, not a distraction. He has already made up his mind and nobody who matters in the inner circle will try to talk him out of it. Some of them want it precisely because it will destroy NATO. There are no adults in the room. They really mean to do it.

Every trans suicide is a murder.

YOU ARE LITERALLY THE GUY RESPONSIBLE FOR CONFIRMING THE PERSON IN CHARGE OF THIS!!!!!!

Genocidal shit www.propublica.org/article/kaku...

A competition to design small, efficient neural models may provide new insight into real brains—and perhaps unite disparate modeling efforts, writes @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/computationa...

New research investigates whether hearing a voice can influence how a person's face is mentally represented. The study was conducted by Matteo Masi and Marco Brambilla of the University of Milano-Bicocca. Read more in #SPPS: https://ow.ly/Z0WT50XRaNy

It's ACORN all over again

Brief memo re: integrating the university academic aims and LLMs

Good morning to everyone who doesn’t want to annex Canada, Columbia, Cuba, Greenland, Mexico, or Panama, and just wants universal healthcare.

Young protesters have burned down a Revolutionary Guard Basij base in Tehran’s Punak area.

No, in fact, these sustained attacks were termed programs by Israelis. (otherwise not a term I’d use on my own) Yet, although there are similarities, this is in the Negev.. they’re ostensibly Israeli citizens, these Bedouins. Some performed incredibly heroic acts saving lives on Oct 7.

The Bedouin of Tarabeen A-Sane’ protest the ongoing attacks on the village. Israeli police have repeatedly raided the village of Tarabeen a-Sane’, attacking and arresting residents. This is after Itamar Ben Gvir visited the village incited hatred against the residents. 📸 Avishay Mohar

The Glamour of Teaching. January 3, 2026, 2:26 pm.

The corollary to this is acknowledging that the only people who can stop this are <Republicans> in Congress, & everyone - especially journalists - should stop giving them total free passes every day & asking them nonstop why they aren’t fulfilling their oaths & upholding the law or the Constitution.

The House Armed Services Committee also was not briefed, I've confirmed.

[Jeffries voice] invading venezuela will not help reduce the cost of living for hardworking american families

As much as we don't want WWIII: This Time It's Even Stupider, this seems suboptimal

One of rock's most essential sidemen, John Paul Jones as bassist use space and precision as a complement to John Bonham. His synth colors deepened on IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR. Happy birthday. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/r...

Here's a script. (Thanks Celeste!) I'd add a call for the rep to impeach Trump and support efforts to remove him from office.

Well, so much for my "I will not stress eat over political matters" resolution.

Well, I've never stopped the caffeinated coffee before 6 am before today.

Damn, they’re going to hold a show trial aren’t they.

Leaders want to extract every bit of wealth from the earth and people - while the getting hasn't collapsed yet - and I just want to wake up at a non-indecent hour and do my Wordle without grinding my teeth to nubs.

fucking insane

Feels kind of silly to have the UN housed in this country.

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

A lot of the mainstream commentary and analysis seems to be breaking up on the rocks of this unavoidable fact. There is no way to assess the situation and predict what comes next because there is no organizing logic for what is happening.

I'm sure this has been said but...Wake up, honey, it's World War III.

Charlie Chaplin had everything so right in 1940. Trump is more stupid than Adenoid Hynkel.

Early reaction from members of Congress to the strikes on Venezuela. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), a Trump ally, wants answers: “I look forward to learning what, if anything, might constitutionally justify this action in the absence of a declaration of war or authorization for the use of military force."

House Republicans need to do something now. This is on them. Representative Mike Turner (OH), what are you going to do? On Dec 23rd you were supportive of boarding the Venezuelan ship. What now?

What's the good of "stopping" all those wars if you're just going to start another one?

The rules-based international order was always a euphemism for what the US government was prepared to back with force, but kidnapping a foreign leader does suggest that DJT needs to watch much less television. This is the scheme of a Batman villain.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Napa cabbage at 88 days in the hoophouse. Into our salad bowls tonight.

Passive voice for police; active voice for code.

Our forthcoming book on authoritarianism and partisan sorting will get into similar issues

A fascinating new paper by Amanda Royka and colleagues explores why monkeys fail false belief tasks. A natural explanation would be that monkeys wrongly assume that other agents share their own knowledge. Royka et al. find that this is NOT the case... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

i know how stupid this is but if official dem accounts decided to make these assholes internet famous by calling them perverted freaks it would end this daycare harassment campaign and im telling you i know how stupid that is…

Disaster

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Yep lol

Good jumping off point for beginning studies in the cognitive science of region ( religious studies, neuroscience, anthropology, social psychology, neuro sociology) www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDqE... www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

“What kind of joke are we all living in now?," Jack White posted on Insta. "All of Trump’s lackeys and bootlicks like this elected official are cowards that would never talk this way to anybody like me or you in person. Trump really lowered the bar when he brought his scourge to this government.”

guys there was a massive chemical spill in texas and no one but local stations is reporting it

Don’t get me wrong, he also objects strenuously to a shifted emphasis from “Western history” to [gasp] “global history.”

The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid. I’m not making this up.