Up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom.

I’m a Jewish New York kid, but I acknowledge that the Pope throwing out the first pitch in a White Sox-Cubs Game 7 and then watching the game from behind home plate would be among the greatest events in sports history.

FUCK YEAH

Git is stupid, needlessly hard to use, and never should have become industry standard

Folks, he's the one who cut the funding that he has restored. Is this difficult to understand?

Many things to do today, wish me a lack of surprises

No social media

But yeah, uh, if you’re not Jewish, a lot of stuff that Jews do is going to seem weird to you. We often hide it well, but — surprise! — we’re a radically different culture from Protestantism and we have a bunch of pageantry and nature worship and elaborate ritual around bodies. We’re fun!

The March death of a Haitian asylum seeker who was detained at Arizona's Florence Correctional Center was related to his severe, untreated dental problems, according to preliminary findings from the

perfectly expressed

If active collision avoidance fails in LEO, collisions start within a median of 3 days, because so many Starlinks have been allowed to clutter up the sky: outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/ No malice required. Just an accident.

The last actively-serving judge appointed by Gerald Ford. Wow.

The legal theory the DOJ is trying to use to persecute trans children and their families is so bullshit it is contradicted by the black-letter law of the Act they claim to be enforcing. The reasons the crusade against trans kids is evil are multitude, but this blatant legal farce deserves coverage.

TIL “quashal” is a word, which I am finding somewhat delightful

It looks like the story was updated to clarify that he didn’t use the robot while it was docked, but it was while the patient was “splayed open.” That suggests the patients chest cavity was exposed and they were anesthetized longer than need be, which are pt safety concerns. Good news is…

Years ago my university asked faculty for suggestions for commencement speakers. I immediately suggested Keith Richards. I have never again been asked for input on this topic. But I still maintain that Keith would be a banger of a commencement speaker.

Holy shit.

The amount of tired I am on a Wednesday afternoon does not bode well for the rest of this week

Last night at a new restaurant the first two waitstaff were a trans woman and a person wearing an N-95 and I had two appetizers, and entree, and a dessert, all delicious and gluten free. I do in fact think this is correlated.

This is promising, in that the House supports a lot of mission the White House wants to cancel, but the numbers are still below the 2026 budget. I'm curious to see how this will get hammered out with the Senate. This is for the FY 27 buget, BTW.

This is how Elon expected his Twitter purchase experience to go

Not sure it's the fault of Bluesky or anyone on it that some people/institutions chose to stay on the fascist hellsite long after they should have, sensibly, left it. Likewise I don't particularly care if the rest of the world acknowledges this place exists, I'm here for the hangout with my pals.

IDK I find it really weird that there's this retconning of "early Zionists moved to Israel because they wanted to kill Palestinians" instead of "early Zionists moved to Israel because they felt a religious connection to the land and/or wanted to escape persecution and did not consider Palestinians."

AOC named what's happening correctly. Too many people are willing to launder white nationalist, antisemitic rhetoric as long as the speaker opposes Israel. The result is a larger audience for Tucker Carlson, Greene, and the people moving in their direction.

It is 100% true that the line between refugee and colonizer can be blurry and the way to navigate that is to stop acting like there's a specific part of the planet that everyone is assigned to and instead just condemn violence and oppression in all forms

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Not being funny, but this sort of thing is why I just dont trust any of you to be telling the truth when you say the mods are out to get you

The dues we pay to live in a civilized society.

This is definitely my position, I don’t think that the current customer-facing gen AI models can be ethically used. That doesn’t mean the technology itself is inherently immoral, but those iterations of it, IMO, are.

I will never not be angry at the democrats and the voting public for not prioritizing the court system when they knew this was coming

I have reached the “shove stuff in a closet and close the door” phase of pre-guest cleaning.

Attn @barbylon.bsky.social

When people say "Big Tech is run by a bunch of sociopaths", they are correct! Because being a sociopath who can handle absorbing the unfiltered, unavoidable rage of huge portions of the userbase is one of the only ways to psychologically survive long enough for your Tech to become Big.

Again: can we not? Aaron ran the election integrity team at Twitter, which had nothing to do with either account.

The key is they AVOID MAKING ACTIONABLE POSTS. And when they occasionally fly too close to the sun, they eat their 72 hours in Alfcatraz without a fucking word and no one notices.

This is another thing where people rate identical behavior as much more severe when it's done by people they hate, btw. I would put $100 on being able to find a "they blocked me so here's the screenshot" post in the account of every single person who complains about it.

I keep getting ads from Kroger saying something like “clearly, since you are listening to this podcast about improving your life, you care about making good choices.” Reader, I am listening to a podcast about a Jacobite lady smuggling her condemned husband out of the Tower of London in drag.

The fact I've literally never seen a user accurately describing the facts of a situation I did know the background of means that while I don't automatically believe a given T&S team did nothing wrong in a controversy, I absolutely and unquestionably automatically assume the user is wrong about it.

Past incidents have "burned a lot of goodwill" because people do not tell the truth about their interactions with T&S, period. Ever. I will very willingly stand up and say I've never seen it happen once in 24 years. bsky.app/profile/raha...

No one should have to worry that their house is going to be bombed because they took a job. And the people driving this harassment campaign absolutely and without a doubt are deliberately engaging in coordinated harassment that is rapidly approaching if not already at "stochastic terrorism".

It all comes down to this. People think it's okay to call the bartender a pedophile, ultimately over a lot of things *someone else did* (the head of T&S is not the person making individual moderation decisions!) That is absolutely not fucking okay, period. Ever. bsky.app/profile/raha...

Even if actual moderators were 100% perfect, never made mistakes, and perfectly evaluated every report against the platonic definition of policy, the *perception* of uneven enforcement would still exist, because the narrative is set by people who are incentivized to minimize their own conduct--

(The appeal function of Ozone is such dogshit that it being moved to a CRM system is actually way more likely to catch specific agents having a higher reversal rate. I cannot emphasize enough: Ozone is dogshit. Like everything else, they thought they'd have more time to fix it before this scale.)

--where people consistently, reliably and regularly rate violent, threatening, or harassing rhetoric as much more severe when aimed at them or people they like than when it's aimed at people they dislike or disapprove of. Then add confirmation bias and the fact people only see a fraction of actions:

It's not that mass-reporting makes a site take action, it's that mass reporting with pure human review and dogshit batch handling creates the conditions where normal human variability in assessing a report will occur. Add to this the extremely well-documented phenomenon--

Emergency kitten- tiny tantrum edition Baby T has seen the headlines and has all the feels 1/

Once you get to the point where the coordinated harassment campaign is circulating a story about pedophilia, that absolutely exceeds the "you have to allow more anger against site employees" rule. This is, word-for-word, the harassment playbook that got Yoel Roth barraged by credible bomb threats.

I personally would have started handing out suspensions no later than six months ago! This long ago exceeded the severity of job harassment at which I had to make friends with my local FBI office back in 2005. And, critically, the worst offenders are absolutely cognizant of what they're invoking.

First, Myrtle is a self feeding kitten! She chomped her own breakfast and I am so pleased. Second, Aggie has fully embraced the sibling life and I am here for it. It makes me so happy to see her loving and playing with the other kittens.