“Famous” — or, in the vein of that one cite to Ted Kaczynski — “better known for other work”?

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison

i don't know when we all gave ourselves terminal lawyer brain but we have to claw back the ability to say "that is obvious bullshit, it's anti-constitutional, and doing it would obviously demand instant removal from the supreme court"

that's not a thing. the supreme court can't "decide whether to uphold" a constitutional amendment. shut the fuck up

Typical shameless, mealy-mouthed framing from the Times here. Citizenship doesn’t “elude the grasp” of people in the final stages of naturalization! It is being taken from them by sadistic scofflaws. Why can’t you say that?

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

They’ve nullified the 14th amendment once already, they don’t care what the constitution says, only what their political allies want it to say

My kingdom for a golem possessed by the soul of Thaddeus Stevens to be let loose at One First Street and allowed to do his work.

I’m not saying I’d automatically vote for any politician pepper-sprayed by ICE, but it’s pretty fucking close. This is the second great civil rights battle of the 21st century and it’s pretty reasonable to expect our electeds to enlist.

oh, no thank you!

that's a lot of coke there bud

it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse

They should do MyChart Wrapped

What a great headline

Puff pastry by yours truly 😇

The soft launch of our house cider, “Goodman’s Own A to J ‘Proper Scrumpy’” was very successful.

Beef wellington: one of the greatest Thanksgiving centerpieces to play the game.

Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide

This is a level of blood libeling of immigrants (and their citizen children, being lumped in as 'illegals') comparable to the demonization of Tutsis in the time immediately preceding the Rwandan Genocide, or the libels against Jews in the buildup to the Holocaust. Their intentions are clear.

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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Zohran is cool and awesome and I’m thrilled for him and all of us but at my core this is who I am: the Jewish guy who shows up to be a world class hater in support of his friend

It’s always one dumb bitch and Chat GPT telling each other “exactlyyyyy”

Gotta block them all! Block early, block often! bsky.app/profile/did:...

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

They’re the same story, told properly.

The reality is that the US Department of Homeland Security has been openly seized by unapologetic white nationalists who freely indulge in neo-Nazi rhetoric and use their huge and growing paramilitary army to mount massive attacks on communities of color in the US in a campaign of racist oppression

The least consensual rollout of the most unethical technology of my lifetime continues apace. May their GPUs melt.

Happy Petrov Day to those who celebrate. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov made the correct decision to not trust a computer. I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World. 1/11

This is spoken of in the context of media and business elites but I’m struck by how this set of assumptions undergirds the way many of us are subsisting under Trump II. (They are indeed delusional assumptions, to be clear.)

I think they think (1) they're actually keeping themselves in control by doing nothing and (2) that the bottom possible can't fall out and (3) even if it does they can escape any consequences, and all three are delusional

de mortuis quidlibet.

Horst Wessel.

And this has made Trump's major defining feature, his refusal to ever admit he was wrong, his instinct to always double down, a kind of superpower. The media agrees a scandal isn't a scandal if the scandalous individual can't be stopped and doesn't care

I'm sad to report that Rainer (Rai) Weiss passed away yesterday at age 92. Rai developed the design for LIGO, he and Kip got it funded, trained countless researchers, and received the 2017 Nobel Prize. Rai always had time for students and treated us as equals. May his memory be a blessing

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)

If it’s a group of stars, the simplest solution is to rename it the Vingilot Cluster, if we are doing the full Silmarillion.

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

...we *should* replace all those Confederate statues with Pikachus.

OK now everyone who has given Mamdani shit over something he never said has to publicly explain how this quote by a member of the Israeli government makes them feel www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mi...

cheez-its sandwiching mini marshmallows.

Okay, then we don’t have to give them power. The simplest maxim is “to those whom much is given, much is expected,” yet our modern society seems to actively hate the idea we or those we like owe anything to others.

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

when the nice indie software begins telling you to "supercharge your productivity" and a sparkle icon appears

I don't think NYT should know peace until they divulge the full chain of decision making that led to the laundering of Nazi propaganda against a leading anti-fascist politician the same day fascism was codified in Congress.

well, there it is. it took them nearly 15 years, but republicans have enacted a partial repeal of the affordable care act, removing healthcare access for tens of millions of people (cynically kicking the lion's share past the midterms), and creating an american secret police force in the bargain

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Well, Well,Well, Not So Easy To Find A Government That Doesn’t Suck Shit By King George III