Really nice sermon at racial justice shabbat this morning from Rev. Marianna White-Hammond from New Roots AME Church on moral imagination and not turning away in the face of the injustices of our time.

In response to NATO demands, Denmark agreed back in October to acquire 16 more F-35s ($4.6b) for its fleet. In multiply ironic ways, I would expect Trump to say something like, "those are 'ours,' give them back."

Stephen Miller whining about Star Trek like all the other chuds in the comments, only for some reason, he gets a thousand media hits for it.

Is Ponies just schticky inverse The Americans?

You'd think these cats never ate.

Is it states rights or not states rights? Jfc

I come from an environmentq where that piece of foil is clean enough and large enough to go back in the drawer.

Good for the success of the pizza place but Barstool Sports is still the MAGA of ESPNs and Dave Portnoy is still a poor millionaire's Elon Musk.

One day, my kids are going to look at my personal book collection and say "we get the coffee books, but dad had a curious fascination with mid-20th century roadside architecture/commercial archeology."

"Trump take teeball (for white supremacy)" is quite the policy.

So, the Census numbers might benefit the GOP from an apportionment perspective, but might be disastrous for the GOP from a demographics perspective? Interesting.

She gave the trinket, not the prize. This is very difficult for a great many people.

How the hell is anyone getting work done

This administration is an exercise in "post hoc egro propter hoc," resulting in "look what you made us do." Great way to run a country. /s

How you enshittfy shitty.

We asked for an edit button, the ability to go private, and better moderation... we got cashtags.

I basically said I've got philosophical objections to using a high-probability word calculator to foster parasocial relationships, which might not make me the right member to review. I suspect it will eventually go to full board. Still curious how others handle AI, HSR, and IRB.

Curious from researchers out there: I'm on our university IRB and was asked to review a protocol regarding an AI chatbot for therapy. I could evaluate the protocol on merit, but I have an inherent "conflict of ethic/value" over these tools, not the least in vulnerable contexts. wyd?

Whatever was the "free world" that the US was "leading?" We ain't it anymore.

A text exchange with an old McGill roommate in Toronto:

"Almond Basket." 😂

This is what happens when you don't live in a reality that recognizes "there's more of us than them."

I'm concerned because there's someone in town who's decided to run for school committee on that. We're talking low-turnout medium-sized town election where the 20 folks who reacted positively to a FB post endorsing the candidate could be the difference.

Hard not to think "parental rights" is CRT for white supremacy. (archive link archive.ph/sZQhF)

This is a step in the right direction. News of this unethical study elicited outrage from scientists. Guinea-Bissau has one of the highest burdens of hepatitis B in the world. 90% of babies exposed at birth develop chronic infection. 🧪 www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

God bless the folks who can narrowly stick to their professional brand on social media.

Me in 2009, being presented with the Stanley Cup. Such a wonderful gesture of respect.

As I've said, how much of hockey-- particularly in the US-- historically is white folks who have a lot of money for an expensive sport and can send their children to private (segregated) schools to hone that sport to elite, NHL level? What type of political orientations would correlate?

Curious from researchers out there: I'm on our university IRB and was asked to review a protocol regarding an AI chatbot for therapy. I could evaluate the protocol on merit, but I have an inherent "conflict of ethic/value" over these tools, not the least in vulnerable contexts. wyd?

Hard not to think "parental rights" is CRT for white supremacy. (archive link archive.ph/sZQhF)

The history books for this era will be overstuffed, certainly, but they should make room for an acknowledgement that Dr. Steve Brule is criminally underappreciated.

This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.

Yeah, per the rest of the thread as well... There's a great deal for whom basic civics missed the mark.

Every CDC scientist involved in this should be held responsible for crimes against human rights

MAGA’s Jewish intellectuals “lent their prestige” to the movement, “certain the hateful rhetoric was meant for someone else”—but “now that it has landed on them, they want credit for noticing the stench,” Franklin Foer argues:

I just keep thinking about this...

Another civil war due to white supremacy because this country failed to reconcile with its original sin for two reconstructions.

God bless the folks who can narrowly stick to their professional brand on social media.

i think i’m fully in on “the white house is run by thirtysomething chuds who think grand strategy games are real life”

I just keep thinking about this...

A text exchange with an old McGill roommate in Toronto:

My daughter had a bowling party bat mitzvah with a "dress for comfort" code and now, almost all the b'mitzvah invitations coming down the pike are basically "wear jeans."

Bull Moose is back! progressforus.org

Seven months ago, the weekly weekday midday ICE protests here in Burlington, MA got 150 people in attendance. It's slowly increased. Today, it was 950...

This should be reason enough.

This thread is pretty good.