low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like. we forget these things at our peril

christmas on bluesky

TERFs and scientific racists share a conviction that they have deep insight into the genes of every person they pass on the sidewalk. they can tell your essential nature, your purpose in the world, and who you should be better and worse than, just by looking

when people hear the word "autonomous" they jump straight to science fiction, but here in reality there isn't a single robot that doesn't require some level of human oversight and maintenance

“And Emperor Palpatine, who did NOT die!”

"You there, boy! [slurpy inhale sound] What day is it?"

This is the *charitable* read

I have thought about it for all of 5 seconds so I don't have an opinion on this besides thinking that "gig work to close the door on a waymo" is hilarious

it's an inconvenient truth that US federalism is one of the biggest structural blocks on Trumpism and if much of Bsky had its way it would be gone

My father in law has done his traditional Christmas Day Facebook post to remind us of the true meaning of the day: Reminding us of the greatest Christmas of all, December 25th, 1989, when they shot that bastard Ceaușescu

What the fuck was Merrick Garland doing all day?

Be merry, be merry.

Non-Christians do not, simply do not, consider Jesus their saviour, and the government cannot tell them to do so. That is an act of direct aggression and threat.

It really is about the notes you don’t play

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Retrospectively I can see that *John Wick* and *Sailor Moon* were both early expressions of a homegrown form of Hijabophobia that was beginning to shape and color Bosmer life...

Clearly some kind of left-wing weirdo, to suggest such a thing.

Phone calls home help maintain the connection when loved ones are separated maintaining that connection can translate into a softer landing when being released. This is just cruel and bad policy if you truly want people to be rehabilitated, which we know they don’t.

BREAKING: unconfirmed reports from Christian theologians that God and sinners *may* have reconciled.

“Making incarcerated people pay for communication has a regressive effect on their well-being, on their improvement in prison, and after they are released,” says Wanda Betram, a spokesperson for the Prison Policy Initiative.

Merry Christmas, new calendar heretics!

merry christmas to everyone, except christians who we start persecuting today for real

Okay didn't do a workout but set up and pedaled for a couple minutes on my new indoor setup with the kickr snap.

always loved A Christmoos Story

Put the little trees up because it's Christmas Eve

The stock structure of Facebook should be illegal.

“On a slow news week,” she says—the week the Justice Department also dropped the Epstein files—to dismiss anyone who had a problem with her decision to “both sides” a gulag

idk alan, “are you now or have you ever been a pedophile?” feels like a substantially different kind of question!

Merry Christmas from Damascus 🇸🇾🎄

We're watching A Christmas Story, and it's always so funny what the kids don't understand. They don't understand what a bully is. They asked what "punish" means. They asked what a bad word is. What a bad grade is. Maybe we've sheltered them too much lol

Pope Leo on Christmas Eve: “On earth, there is no room for God if there is no room for the human person. To refuse one is to refuse the other.”

I bought my wife an O. Henry book for Christmas and it turns out she just sold her eyes.

That fascist has a point

This is your annual reminder that “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (aka “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”) has the same meter as — and therefore can be recited to the tune of — “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

One such refutation appears in my paper under the heading “The FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands.” I spend several hundred words explaining that that didn’t happen.

The authors quote from an article I wrote in 2023, refuting false claims about government jawboning of social media platforms. One of the claims I directly push back against is the persistent lie that the FBI demanded Twitter censor online speech. knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...

Genuinely appalling that Princeton would publish this, much less that they're still promoting it. On the face of it this would seem to be at least plausibly defamatory.

"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!

You have to respect his dedication to writing the same article over and over again regardless of context, relevance or accuracy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

no — i do not think the ellisons hired bari weiss to 'dismantle public trust in cbs news.' they hired her to go soft on trump so they can have an easier time getting mergers through. destroying public trust in the org is a byproduct

its genuinely wild how it seems like everyone in news media forgot about 2017 and how their "trump bump" actually happened tbh

Me to Aimee today:

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

Ron Howard voiceover He didn't

A million pages is conservatively 400 bankers boxes.

one little thing that really rankles about the reporting on this story is how they say she "cited" the bible. no she didn't! she alluded to it at best

whenever a European wants to bash america, a country I cherish...shitting on