“Correcting a false belief is not like correcting a math error. It requires something closer to what clinicians call grief work. The person must let go of a version of reality that has been sustaining them…” That’s one doozy of an asymmetry! “Make stuff up” vs basically “extended complex therapy”?

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Being mad at Canada for the smoke is like going on vacation in Cancun and being mad at Mexico for your hangover and sunburn.

I feel like I’m standing next to a campfire

Doctors say that cyclospora can cause explosive diarrhea. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and brings raccoon penises home for "further study" says that cyclospora cures autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

I can't breathe the air, I can't eat lettuce, I can't afford gas, and my kids have measles. But at least now our soldiers will have enough testosterone.

Summers are really becoming a drag.

Love how the government's trying to scapegoat Taco Bell but meanwhile everyone's all, "Nah, we've had Taco Bell diarrhea. This one's different."

@andrewhickey.500songs.com listening to your Q&A i think i was struck the most by your pointing out just how different USAians and Brits really are, despite similar languages. It's cliche but really, we are culturally so different...

For any authors who find themselves stressing about bad reviews, I have a recommendation. Look up reviews for a book that you consider to be a beloved classic. Notice that at least one person (probably many people) loathed that book and wrote several paragraphs explaining why, in great detail.

I spoke with Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes today and I can assure everyone that even as a zombie, he's still an asshole.

The entire piece fails to question the headlines premise.

I want to be part of the Make America Again movement. Fin.

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

Aaand now no power until early Monday morning.

Id love it if the power were restored before we try to sleep in this heat again. At least the basement isn’t too creepy.

Certain parts of the Detroit suburbs are notorious for power outages--tons of trees, old, above-ground infrastructure I suppose. For some reason, our street has never been too bad--few outages, and always very brief. Until last night.

Welp I guess we have to look into a generator.

Apparently the hospital has changed its sliding scale insulin orders to make it mandatorily based on carb counting? Fucking dumbass douchenozzles. I’m so glad I’m not a Hospitalist anymore. Hope they don’t kill my chest pain patients.

The sun has set and its still 86 and humid

It’s so fucking hot

This is very much a “mensch tracht got lacht” kind of week.

If Nina Totenberg accidentally published her pre-write before she was supposed to and blew Alito's retirement announcement, I am going to die laughing at my desk

Voters who vote for racism. Voters who vote in spite of racism. And (non)voters who won't stop racism. All of them have the same effect.

To be crystal clear here -- the nun was **wearing her habit** and walking to Sunday mass when ICE arrested her and hauled her off: apnews.com/article/nun-...

The majority of my country is real fucking sick of the evils of a minority of people And historically with humans, that usually doesn't end well

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

Here's what the media won't show you: three formerly incarcerated Black men who are now authors. You can learn a lot from their stories. This BLACK-owned online bookstore has their books in stock ✊🏾📚 #booksky #blackbooksky #blacksky

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Must see in Rome?

Still chuckling every time I see "hard" Left used to describe Democratic Socialists in the U.S. Just complete political illiteracy.

As the former President of South Korea serves a life sentence for his role in a failed insurrection, his wife just got sentenced to 7 years in prison for bribery. The US could learn a lot from South Korea what accountability looks like for power-hungry, corrupt grifters. youtu.be/nAUksLhLSKs?...

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

Holy shit, why is Popehat suspended?! @moderation.bsky.app BRING BACK POPEHAT!

But of course the core tension is that there are probably an order of magnitude more antisemites than there are living Jews that exist. Which creates an obvious problem.

We need to figure out how to get @kenwhite.bsky.social back! Free PopeHat! @bsky.app

Where's Ken White??

Gonna have dinner with this fine centenarian tonight.

Wait till they find out about meningococcus

Here is work showing some of this effect. It is important, however, to see the form that this takes ‘in the wild’ in terms of the erasure of actual women-led scholarship in LLMs by multiple modalities, so I intend to run some bibliometrics myself and put the results out. arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740

Listen as a New Jersey judge orders a newspaper (New Brunswick Today) to delete a security video the school district wanted deleted from the internet -- and orders the newspaper not to write about it *at all.* This is a prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment.

I once again marvel at the ability of capcacin to pass thru the gut essentially unaltered. 🔥

We went from crushing overt bigotry to hearing that only overt bigotry was actual bigotry to hearing that overt bigotry isn’t bigotry at all.

Vance just admitted we are paying Iran $300 BILLION in reparations. After losing the First World War, Germany paid US$5 billion (22 billion gold marks) in contemporary currency. Adjusted for inflation, that was still only around $90-95 billion in today's dollars.