This is unpleasant to watch, but it's also why he keeps fucking up regime consolidation.

What

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

I certainly disagree with that because my ideology is of a leftist who wants to improve society and isn't that concerned with excessive government coercion as ipso facto bad. The thing I object to is presenting "we should just let people piss on the subway if they want to" *as* leftism.

Lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether use of a VPN (foreign or even in the US) may expose you to surveillance by the NSA. www.wired.com/story/using-...

The labor movement is not anti-tech. We’re anti-greed. We’re against tech being used against us, without our input or consent. The decisions we make on A.I. now will impact us 50 years down the road. That’s why we’re fighting for guardrails—to protect our jobs and our freedoms.

flatly refuse to read further. an unholy thing

hot take: Iran letting a few ships through while blocking passage on the rest is a show of force; proves that they control the strait and are normalizing paying for transit

“May your house be live on CNN.” -legit curse used around the world

America in a nutshell but everyone thinks it doesn’t apply to them.

“When Americans do not have to confront the ways that our government attempted to exterminate Native peoples and their cultures, we are more liable to view westward expansion as our historic destiny.”

New paper finds that "inclusionary zoning" in NYC increased rents, especially rents in zones immediately next to where IZ applied, and my view is that the paper provides evidence that IZ actually accelerated displacement and gentrification in this instance. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yep, and both are complete psychos lol.

tattoo man bad

ending car dealerships would cut the heart out of Republican suburbia a million little fiefdoms for the biggest asshole in town, spreading poison all across the country

Not a single prominent Republican will respond to the most basic gutter racism coming from the leader of their party.

Okay, fine, whatever. There is no difference between Jane Austen and your Bulbasaur/Deadpool slash fic and everything above a fourth grade level is completely inaccessible unless you have fifty billion dollars even if you have an internet connection and a library card. You all win.

what's wrong with Platner's politics is something that's wrong with *progressive* politics, a kind of dumb guy conspiracism version of neo-Brandeisianism people saying he's another Fetterman or Sinema are not only mistaken I think but not addressing that the call is coming from inside the house

pivoting a magazine to BDSM coverage on the grounds that it would be easy to get subs.

Wake up Dr. Postone, new concretization of the value-form just dropped

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

they're calling it the greatest refutation of realist theories of international relations in history, folks, the greatest and most beautiful "golden" refutation

There are a lot of smart implementation people gravitating to the Mamdani administration right now. For example, @lukef.bsky.social, who wrote this piece, is the leading government delivery innovation for NYC now. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...

And it means they spend more time with a pen — not a tablet — in their hands at school.

Jourdyn Koviack never stopped searching for her childhood pit bull, Forty.

excuse me?

god i just want left wing that likes building things and doesn't think 'ban everything we don't like' is good approach to emerging issues, is that so much to ask

The digital sphinx: Can a worm brain control a fly body? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.20.713233v1

What an abstract! "The resulting digital sphinx produces highly realistic fly walking - yet it is biologically meaningless. This exercise teaches us nothing about either animal"

if anything like this actually comes to fruition it is inarguable that donald trump started and comprehensively lost a war in less than a month this is an absolute body blow to the idea of american hegemony

like no shit our fine finishing schools are not going to produce the revolutionary vanguard

It compounds The internet will change the world but you should be ashamed to use it. Video games can teach but you should be ashamed to use them. Phones, wearables, Wikipedia, Linux, ... Now we distill all of that into a frail robot shaped thing and it's all okay now?? Wild they got boomers onboard

even setting aside the intended effect of campus crackdowns: one difference between now and two years ago is that half or so of them are gone, having received their four year degrees, and "students" (2026) and "students" (2024) refer to two largely different populations of people

No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

"imagine a school where every movement is accounted for" FUCK OFF with this shit. first nyc schools bans phones so students can "live in the moment" and then they turn around and use this shit to track our bathroom breaks like a fucking amazon factory.

Per current discourse on #wizards and #wizard fiction: Seems a good time to menttion that if you're looking for other-series options, you can pick up the first nine #YoungWizards novels as #ebooks in a bundle. (Unless you're in the UK: we can't sell to you due to Brexit...sorry.) bit.ly/YWNMESET

GODDAMNIT REPUBLICAN PARTY ONLY ONE SENATOR CAN ASCEND TO DAEMONHOOD OF KHORNE PER WAR, NO MATTER HOW MUCH OF A QUAGMIRE YOU MAKE OUT OF IT.

Like insofar as we have a Moralistic Crisis here I do think we simply do not present being a good person as compatible with being sexy, interesting, or compelling, and the habits of the Daves of the fandom space here means that entire franchises get taken over by the transgressive countertextuals.

I mean that's part of it? But some of it is also just the fixation on transgression and the belief that being a good person is boring and basic, and a whole bunch of weird knda unhealthy memeplexes.

yeah, i think its really annoying because its the other side of the moralizing part, which is fans just not being able to accept that they have fetishes rather than moral causes

My resignation letter

On this 115th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, we remember the victims – who were primarily young immigrant women. We also carry forward the lessons of this painful moment in NYC's history. Reckless, unchecked greed resulted in mass catastrophe. (1/3)

Best Years Of Area Man's Life Apparently Never Going To Happen https://theonion.com/best-years-of-area-mans-life-apparently-never-going-to-1819566489/

the nypd upholding their long tradition of scumbagging

when you raise gas prices you're killing the american dream for the 300 million people in this country for whom their only chance is to get hit by a Lamborghini and an eight figure payout

Synchronization properties in C. elegans: Relating behavioral circuits to structural and functional neuronal connectivity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.23.713580v1

The Famine Times and the Scattering were the necessary steps of the Golden Path

It should have happened decades ago (would have been nuclear but that's fine).