One of the funny subplots with the laptop is that the intent was clearly to plant some CSAM on it to pin on Hunter and they did it so incompetently that it was obvious it was planted. So now they have a laptop full of CSAM and they're playing hot potato passing it off to someone else

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

I don't really talk about this, because I'm actually quite private about my personal life, but many many years ago Tony Head took me under his wing and showed me the kind of person I could be. It's not an exaggeration to say that I'm the person I am today because of the kindness he showed me.

Do people realize these are resale prices, not the face value price which seems to be ~$750 in the upper level & ~$2200 in the lower levels. The reason the resale prices are skyrocketing is because almost no one is selling! seat geek has less than 200 seats for the game available.

Maybe another way to put it is: most conservatives and RWers are in an existential battle with modernity for their values, and many liberals are not. So 4-8 years of GOP power are ideological warfare, and then they retreat to "hey now, what about discourse and debate", and some liberals buy it.

Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

A terrific actor, an essential part of one of the greatest TV shows ever, and from what I’m hearing, a really good dude. Rest in Peace, Anthony Head.

This is just the exact same argument and graph people made a decade or so ago to complain that Unity lowered the barrier to game development too much and now Steam is flooded with slop and asset flips. “Welcome to the age of everyone making games no one plays”

"I wish the next president would eliminate student debt" [the monkey's paw curls a finger]

Some times there's just so much smoke that you can't see the fire until it's right on top of you

'we fly tiny death robots around on very long, thin strings so that the signal can't be interfered with' feels somehow *more* science fiction to me than wireless drones? something about the concrete strangeness of it.

Even worse, hundreds of these parasitic worms have discovered in the US capitol and in state capitals across the country

Just incredibly funny that Jeffries keeps forcing Republicans to take these votes despite being in the minority.

Two versions of CBS News on display yesterday: 1) Scott Pelley fired for pointing out that Bari Weiss is murdering 60 Minutes on Trump’s behalf. 2) Weijia Jiang announces the new date for the White House Correspondents Dinner featuring Trump.

The best way to deal with Kalshi et al is to make it explicitly legal to do “insider trading” on its markets. Make people feel like chumps for participating in a rigged game and it’ll wither on the vine. Anything else is woefully insufficient whack a mole

Look, if you want to solve the male loneliness crisis, it might not be solved the way you want it.

this is an admission that we can take his power away from him.

Having to physically restrain one of my 5yo sons to keep him from joining the increasingly large section of guys in the upper deck with their shirts off

The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.

The text alert said trains were delayed due to a vehicle on the tracks at Mount Baker Station, but I just assumed it was *near* the station on MLK. Not two stories off the ground!

Bilton is such a POS bsky.app/profile/just...

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Victimless crime tbh 🤷

Interesting study. People make a mistake comparing AIs to the performance of a perfect infallible human who doesn't exist. Are driverless cars perfect drivers (no) vs are driverless cars better drivers than humans (yes).

Jeffries doesn't get enough credit for how well he's operated in the minority, especially from the "DO SOMETHING" caucus. The minority leader should be *powerless* but here he is forcing the Republican majority to take vote after vote they don't want to take. It shouldn't be possible!

You don't hate political journalists nearly enough.

Tuesday is when you start depressing oil stocks so you can pump them up on Friday with "news" of a fake deal to sell off by Monday.

Comments and quotes indicate BlueSky's literacy crisis will continue for, at minimum, the rest of 2026

Just like a refrigerator, he's...

This kind of reminds me of WeWork's filings. Everyone thought they had unstoppable momentum too, numbers be damned. But having to put them down on paper spelt the end of its hypetrain.

"AI Hater label with an etsy shop filled with merch of characters they didn't create done in the style of a recognizable artist they're not compensating" is basically a cliche at this point lol There's obvious skill to that work (and I've bought a lot of it) but not a lot of moral high ground

A useful context that I wish the "are the White House's statements about Trump's health accurate?" included is the time he tested positive for Covid, went to an in-person debate with Biden, then didn't disclose he had tested positive until he was so sick that he had to be hospitalized

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It's fake but I'd absolutely buy Costco Grigio in this size

Next week, some of Erin's friends have organized an informal memorial to honor her memory. If you knew Erin and will be at the conference, please join us.

the comments and QTs every time a Democrat makes an banal post are good block material

Looking forward to watching the Backrooms movie in the most authentic fashion possible: through a shaky grainy handcam footage

It felt wrong and weird to hear M say “HIS Majesty’s secret service”

“Why doesn’t Batman just fund Gotham welfare programs instead of beating up the poor” Because Gotham has • corpse of an elder god • living elder god • Is built onto a cursed Native burial ground • portal to hell that’s a little open • portal to the afterlife that’s a little open • over 100 gangs

Love it when voters overwhelmingly approve things and they never happen

People keep saying "interracial cuck porn theory" when it's really just "cuck porn theory". Yes, they're incredibly racist and find a black man fucking their wives more "degrading"/"hot" but at the end of the day, they'll absolutely jerk off to a white guy doing the deed instead

Pedocon Theory

If I noticed a tool of mine was acting like this, I'd replace that tool. github.com/jqwik-team/j...

I wonder if there might be some phenomenon where Texas Republicans see this Senate race as a way to permanently dispose of someone they've never particularly liked personally.

Not a great idea to invoke the Trump/Musk program that killed hundreds of thousands of people

007 First Light having its controls tutorial be a cinematic training montage is just ridiculously brilliant.

The first units are already on the market!