“nobody is insider trading off his death so it almost certainly didn’t happen” really sums up the state of the world in 2026 huh

BREAM: Is the FBI investigating the ICE agent who shot Renee Good? BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

From October, if you haven't read it yet www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

BREAKING NEWS: We are opening a formal investigation into the shooting involving federal agents in Portland today. Our office will take every step necessary to ensure the rights and security of Oregonians are protected. #orpol #breakingnews

The New York Times states it plainly in display type: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

I’ll provide an update on today’s shooting shortly: www.youtube.com/live/-VhtJ2w...

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Congrats to everyone who's been replacing their core skill sets with an all-consuming dependence on these things, I guess.

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

This year's gingerbread is the Vera Rubin Observatory! @vrubinobs.bsky.social

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Diederik Stapel was a massive watershed moment in psychology. However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers. The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS. retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...

People catastrophizing about a precedent where no one can mark anything down anymore for being wrong when the real precedent is trans people not being able to do literally any job without an army of bigots launching a harassment campaign against their employer.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

But also we’re terrified of the subway

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

What are we doing here?

A modern Hachikō story: This man tweeted a Follow Friday for the band Foghat every week until he died

I'm losing my goddamn mind.

There's nothing like a month of chronic pain to make you have undying respect for people who have been putting up with this shit for years.

It is truly horrifying what is being alleged against the Trump administration in the Ghana case. Here is from an affidavit filed in the case today: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

the democratic party sagaciously intoning that the world's richest man killing millions of people around the globe by depriving them of their medical care is a needless distraction from kitchen table issues

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

every democrat who does not speak out about this enables it. what the administration is doing here is a large-scale tactic to isolate trans people and strengthen future attacks on us. the gains we have made are built on visibility and public knowledge of us and our needs.

'Deliberate erasure': State Department removes anti-LGBTQ+ abuses from annual human rights report

It is very likely that if your main focus is comfort and safety, you will quickly drift onto a path that is hand in hand with fascism. That is where we are. Better to make active choices now. It is better to have clear in your mind what your priorities and beliefs are before someone is knocking.

WASHINGTON (AP) - US Air Force says it will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service.

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Du Bois on what these assholes were really like

Stack Overflow contributions have been *tanking* of late, and it’s pretty reasonable to assume that this is largely due to LLMs disincentivizing people from asking or answering questions there. blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overfl...

using AI for art is like if you were a fan of a simulated football team and the only information you got was the score and the stats. the whole part that involves joy is removed.

Definitely using the novel Ji (@alexji.bsky.social) mass-based dwarf galaxy classification scheme moving forward 🔭

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-... This sub-program is a full seventh of the entire call volume routed by 988. Normal 988 operators are great at what we do, but many people prefer, and may be better helped by, operators with specialist training. Children will die if this passes congress.

The contrast and absurdity is so brazen. They're literally raiding Home Depots to find whatever guys are there to get work as day laborers. People eager for work. And the ICE agents has zero idea who they are or any criminal background.

After 17 years, I have finally watched Taken. It is the funniest nonsense movie ever created. I cackled with childlike joy when his ex-wife's husband one-upped his crappy birthday gift by straight-up giving his daughter a pony. Art in its truest form.

Finally a show about Boolean logic operators

This is especially important: “We call upon our fellow institutions of higher education in the United States to declare their willingness to facilitate the immediate co-enrollment of Harvard’s international students, including formal acceptance of transfer for immigration purposes.”

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

we’ve finally invented a technology that lets CEOs do even less work

We've had three suicide attempts from bridges here on the NH Seacoast in just two weeks. A lot of people are not ok, especially right now. If you're feeling suicidal remember you can call 988 anytime of day. It's free and confidential. www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/l...

Okay so imagine this, you have no opinions, you have no skills, you have no wants or desires, you are a smooth orb of nothing and our subscription service helps make sure you still cast a shadow that resembles a human being. Sounds sick right?