On Watson: "His gut, he felt, was a stronger guide to truth than empirical research or logic" Donald: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

The Trump of science

The Economist, where “America” means white rural conservatives, or first generation conservative suburban immigrants, but never the residents of the largest cities in the country (which add up to a crazy percentage of the population).

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Just remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.

Exactly like guns

Historian here. Nothing bad has ever happened when armed people with military training can't get fed and/or paid.

I’m with these ladies. I’m utterly uninterested in using it for things like “organize my notes.” Huh? Organizing my own notes is part of my thinking process. I can’t imagine outsourcing that. I can’t wrap my head around why anyone would even want to.

An idea: what if Members of Congress who are being paid taxpayer dollars *not to show up to work* were to give their pay -- or a chunk of it -- to food banks to help feed people being denied federal benefits during their shutdown? Could be a nice non-partisan way for Members to come together.

why on earth should he avoid antagonizing skeptics? No matter his successes, they will racistly vilify him. Bringing a baddie into the operation would just offer opportunity for sabotage. WSJ still doesn’t understand what happened. Or pretends it doesn’t.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Not interested in arguing about the toxicology of caffeine so here are the ChatGPT numbers:

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

NFT NFT NFT NFT NFT

We do not need to mine the deep sea.

The pope has signed on to the STS agenda.

Update: after lightning fast replies in the first set of exchanges, dead silence after my last reply

Sometimes I block people not because they’re offensive, but because they have dumb takes. Depending on my mood, I might even block because of a single dumb take. This isn’t about fairness. It’s about treating the block like my front door lock.

The pope has signed on to the STS agenda.

Strong agree. As I wrote in my book, keeping calm and carrying on preserves the status quo

The only people gung ho about AI are AI companies, Republicans, and the tech press. Should tell you all you need to know about how worthless it is. The reason you think AI is popular or inevitable is because the press says so. It isn't true. They made a bad bet and are trying to force you to eat it

More jobs like this. Not fewer

Cannot get out fast enough

Running a neurodivergent household is just like a constant scavenger hunt. Everyone is losing things constantly, and I just stash replacements and unexpected prizes around the house and let entropy and ADHD do the rest.

Big name German newspaper asks for headshot. Me: huh? Why? Paper: we’re publishing an article abt your move to Aix. By [colleague who knows me but didn’t bother reaching out for accurate information] Me: I’m not moving to Aix. Send me articles for fact checking. Also, shocking arrogance

just thinking about billionaires panicking because all their money couldn't stop mamdani and that warms my heart

Breathtaking I say this every week, sometimes several times: just when you thought they couldn’t… ah fuckit, we all know the rest

@aptshadow.bsky.social This seems right up your alley. As my daughter said when I read out the headline

Was reminded by a friend that air traffic controllers are working without pay right now.

"Black people just move to a Blue State" is such out of touch bullshit. And what about the Indigieous folks or the Chicanx folks? We just leave them behind to suffer while we have to deal with the passive aggressive anti-Blackness that Blue states are known for?

Richest nation in human history

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Nick Fuentes says people better be careful about calling him a Nazi "because if I'm a Nazi, then there's millions of young people that are following a fucking Nazi." Um, yeah, that's exactly what we've been warning about!

I am going to try to make this simple for people who are still having trouble understanding the nature of performativity. The first picture is extremely wealthy people actively seeking to maintain an oppressive status quo. The second picture is people who will arrest and/or harm you for existing.

Is Tesla the Jonestown of Late-Stage Capitalism? Discuss

Today would be a great day to release the Epstein files.

If you buy anything at all from Tesla, you are endorsing a corporation that chose to give a trillion dollars to this man:

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I have tasted the sandwich that was lobbed at my bulletproof vest and which you probably spent your hard-earned money on forgive me it smelled delicious so onion-y so mustard-y

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

The pic is stunning. So is the alt text!

Harvard's right-wing student magazine defends itself from charges that it invoked lines from Hitler by insisting that it did not intentionally use Nazi language, but came upon this "blood and soil" thinking organically. In other words, it's how young conservatives see things now. Take that in.

War criminal Netanyahu wants his forever war. So just like his partner in crime, the orange shit stain on the world Trump, he can stay out of prison. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

Anyone out there still taking the NYT seriously?

I knew it was bad but this piece still took my breath away. It’s worse than bad.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

The legacy media missed the boat on Muslim representation on an historic Election night in Trump's America. www.youtube.com/live/rb9_yqj...