Next, the Feats of Cognitive Strength!

excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend

Me, this weekend.

Impossible to overstate how exciting field conferences are for academics. We spend 11.95 months a year with people only understanding 5-15% of our jokes and references, but then for three glorious days 😍😍😍

Let them eat 24 Karat Gold.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

At least on social media, one reason people are "like this" is: the internet removed even the smallest frictional costs for blurting out whatever stray neuron is in your brain. Used to be that even to send a letter, you'd need paper, a stamp, etc, and in the time it took, the impulse would pass.

It's in no way a solution to our current problems, but try to do something nice for someone you don't know today or this week. It'll make you feel better. Just try it.

A case against book banning.

Look, people say a lot of stupid things, but this is pretty noteworthy for its stupidity.

Me on <6 hours of sleep.

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

1. Release the Epstein files! 2. The Epstein files are sitting on my desk and I will release them very soon 3. There are no Epstein files and the case is closed 4. There are Epstein files but they are forgeries created by Obama and Hillary so if you like me you will never talk about them again

The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

<In a Steve Reich voice> From Chicago to the Vatican!

Reposting for myself

Oof.

Girl, same.

Brilliant.

An attempt to annotate this excellent thread of excerpts from the Declaration of Independence with recent headlines.

Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now

Heaven Enacts Retaliatory Tariffs On U.S.-Bound Miracles

Real whiplash watching the Trump message go from “we’ll fix everything on day one” to “suck it up buttercup, this is gonna hurt.”

it's remarkable how quickly "tren de aragua" went from something i had never heard of to a crisis so urgent centuries-old safeguards of liberty and due practice had to be cast aside, even at the acknowledged cost of some innocents getting pressed into indefinite detention and enslavement.

This is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.

Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

“If everything goes right, none of you will be able to afford food, housing, or retirement ever again.” theonion.com/trump-says-r...

I’d like to announce my forthcoming US history book, covering a decisive but tumultuous era in that country’s history, titled “The trade policies of the United States: 10:30 am to 1:30 pm on Friday, March 7, 2025” It will be 400 pages.

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

hey guess what trump's numbers about social security are total horseshit www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Make it so! fortworthreport.org/2025/03/04/f...

Define “illegal protest”

Whose land, Howard? Whose land?

She's eating what now? www.usmagazine.com/entertainmen...

Your now-regular reminder that the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...

'Did you even say thank you?'

Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

If only Ukraine would’ve been nicer…

This is more horrifying than Helsinki.

Ok, this is good.

I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

Sign me up.