The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

i wrote a piece 8 years ago about how so many of the men who shaped the 2016 election cycle where hillary clinton was the nominee had themselves been swept up in sexual harassment, assault, etc scandals. their private behavior absolutely affected how they covered the first major party woman nominee

Not only was the Eggnog Riot a real thing that actually happened, but it featured Jefferson Davis making a drunken fool of himself and being granted leniency for it. An inadvertent metaphor for the undeserved grace he and other Confederates were given in the years after the Civil War.

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“Hmm…I wanna get drunk, but only a little bit, and I’m also really jonesing for something with the same texture and consistency as pancake batter.” ~Guy who invented eggnog

Christmas beer with matching glassware for the win! (Christmas Bomb! (2025) from Prairie Artisan Ales) #Bskybeer #Beersky 🤘🎄🎅🍻

Believing that an LLM’s regurgitated text slop is better than absorbing a book’s contents the old-fashioned way is kinda like believing you’re a biologist because you swallowed a copy of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Update to a prior post! 💪

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

I’m an atheist, and I’m still apoplectic on behalf of my religious friends and family members.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Nothing about them without them ⬇️⬇️⬇️

My pinned post, eloquently expounded on. 👏👏👏🧵

I do not advocate telling anyone — not even Elon — to perform the action in the first response. Not even in jest. The second and third responses, however, are both on point.

The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.

The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.

"It's only then you realize while you're talking about organizing and committees, the extermination has already begun."

I haven't been in the pediatric trans healthcare system since 2019 and I can barely look at these headlines without wanting to puke. Can't imagine the fucking damage this is doing to trans kids today.

“But the chatbots are ‘always hallucinating,’ he says. ‘It’s not a malfunction. A predictive model predicts some text, and maybe it’s accurate, maybe it isn’t, but the process is the same either way. To put it another way: LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth.’”

🎄🎶 It’s the most wonderful tiiiiime of the year 🎶🎄

Same to you, @cortezmasto.senate.gov and @senjackyrosen.govpeeps.us.

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To a letter, the vast majority of people I’ve encountered who actually treat retail and service workers with the respect they deserve have previously worked in either or both of those industries. And it’s because WE KNOW.

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How about a nice pointless tweet thread? OK.🧵 So, Trump said some ugly & horrible things about Rob Reiner on Truth Social. I have been watching with fascination as several Republican policymakers -- & even commenters on Truth Social! -- reacted with horror. It has brought to mind ...

What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.

Apart from the fact the leader of the right mocked Reiner, one small difference is that Reiner's day job was making movies that people loved, while Kirk's starting point was creating enemies list of professors to be fired or harassed. These are not the same things.

I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Sounds about right.

DREIDELLLLLS IIIIIIN SPAAAAAAAAACE!

Philip Rivers in the huddle

When Jesus returns, but he isn’t white.

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

“For a few seasons, beginning in 2017, Reno 1868 FC made the Biggest Little City feel like a rising soccer hotbed, with fans proudly wearing cobalt blue, silver grey and light gold attire, chanting inside and outside Greater Nevada Field. Then, abruptly, it all stopped.”

A throwback #caturday picture to our first Christmas with Pippin last year, when he was small enough to fit in my Santa hat. He was not amused.

The phrase “all hat(s) and no cattle” springs to mind.

Democrats are like your abusive aunt/ mom/sister That claims everything she does is trying to help … but it’s more about managing you and proving they have access to you than doing anything fucking useful And when you point out their harmful they start crying

I spend exactly as much time thinking about the number of white people on Earth as I spend wondering if I eat too much garlic. (The answer to both is “no time,” just to eliminate any potential confusion)

Your default position in pretty much any dealings with the Trump administration should be “fuck you, make me.”

Twenty million Americans have a completely new chronic illness from a pandemic our government said was over in mid 2022, before the two highest waves even happened. And now they are ending the subsidies that allowed millions to afford healthcare. The rage I feel could birth a new galaxy.

In this week’s newsletter I wrote about AI and why it feels so alien to so many of us. www.leahreich.com/maybe-the-a-...

“There’s something mortifying about this spectacle: a grown man, supposedly a paragon of rational thinking, scratching around in primeval religious texts to terrify himself with superstitious prophecies, which the people around him entertain because he’s wealthy and powerful.”

it's always amazing to me how people whose entire way of life and economic well-being depends on the university in their town are also, somehow, incredibly mad that they have to share that town with that university's students