"Every time a convention hall is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate!?"

Just want to register my strong disapproval of the profane language used in my home country.

My latest newsletter is about Thomas Chatterton Williams, who can't stop blaming racism on the left.

hows this going bro

Endorse!

can we talk about how this admin spends so much time saying 'whoa whoa whoa a policy is NOT illegal just bc it has a disparate impact on Black people' and at the same time is like 'whoa whoa whoa a school has Black students? must be an illegal admissions policy!' ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Make hating Nazis normal again.

Trump and the Ellisons are going to throw America's soft power into the trash because they hate the fact that they do not know how to wield it. And if you don't think another country isn't going to pick that right up? You are crazy.

The Kennedy Center board has filed an emergency motion to stay at the DC Circuit and it is bonkity-bonkers. For the first time, they say they amended the bylaws to strip all funding from the center if it removes Trump's name. No Trump KC, no money. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Pre-ordered! 🙏🇻🇦🔫

Check out my latest @today.yougov.com newsletter, with a survey where we ask Americans how much power they think 40 different societal groups have — and how much power they think these groups *should* have: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/how-much-p...

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Paul Krugman: "We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes. And Elon Musk is basically a human Ponzi scheme."

"So this very much looks like a deliberate war crime. It's an attack I fear the USA will regret for a long time. It is no different than Al-Qaeda deliberately targeting civilians. If the US gets attacked in return, it will only be served what seems to be official American policy on a cold plate."

Why? Other than Republican conspiracism there is no actual problem with taking the time to accurately count votes. The general election is in four months!

Everyone gave up on caring if we're being scammed by an abhorrent little nerd. Everyone just wants to be on the right side of scam, the one where people are getting rich. The question isn't "Does it make sense he has this wealth?" but "If I pretend to believe so, can I get some of it?"

Todd Blanche nomination will test whether the Senate will green-light the new model of the U.S. Department of Justice as an undisguised weapon wielded against the President’s enemies.

content creation and image/video-based social media has melted people’s brains and everyone looks and sounds the same and it’s gross and boring

General Zaroff set his sights too low

now that's a fucking Space X IPO headline

“He owns 11 homes” cannot be repeated enough

Serial misconduct by AUSA Sheri Mecklenburg. Fire and disbar. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/12/f...

Halfway through @premeemohamed.com’s new fantasy spy novel, and I cannot stress enough how good it is. Premee is one of the best in the game; there are things in this book I have never encountered in the genre, and my reader’s heart is DELIGHTED. You know what they say, preorders light the way! 💜

A good read by @bafriedman.bsky.social It's main thesis is convincingly refuting the need to consider an operational level between the strategic and tactical. A level I always struggle to understand. And how this aids in creating efficient staffs.

Here's what it will *actually* be like.

how is this the real world

The SpaceX IPO made Musk a trillionaire If you made $100,000 a year, it would take 10 million years to make a trillion dollars $1 million a year would take one million years to make a trillion $1 billion a year would take 1,000 years Nobody should have this much money, but especially not a Nazi

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

*bravely* I might do my job now

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

one of the most comprehensive surveys on children’s use of AI--conducted March 18-26, 2026, among 9-17yr olds in the US (N = 1,204)--has been released www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/defaul... highlighting key findings 🧵 "Nearly 9 in 10 kids age 9 to 17 (86%) use/interact with AI"

The commodification of love and partnership ... It's like they are shopping for a car or a computer, except here they are looking for a baby-making machine and a house cleaner instead. "Matchmakers Are Being Paid $25K to Find Trad Wives for Rich Men." #dystopic. www.wired.com/story/matchm...

SpaceX market cap $2.1tn Microsoft market cap $2.8tn SpaceX revenue ~$20bn Microsoft revenue ~$300bn Incredible.

Very exciting things happening over here

We're minting a trillionaire today and telling ourselves that a company that provide niche services is worth more than the State of Florida. Meanwhile, the Strait of Hormuz is closed and the global economy is still suffering from a grievous injury the full consequences of which are yet to be seen.

It's great that the cage fight at the White House - an almost fatally embarrassing thing in its own right; try saying the phrase out loud - is happening during the NBA Finals, the Stanely Cup Finals, and the Men's World Cup. Unless he dies at ringside, it might be the 4th sports headline on Monday.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Musk's gutting of USAID killed hundreds of thousands, possibly millions. He has used his net worth to stoke hatred against people he dislikes and to fuel white supremacy. So no, I don't think he is uplifting humanity.

the amount of research people are currently doing--in a lot of fields!--that relies on the semantic relationships in LLM manifolds comprising a veridical model of semantic relationships in the real world is, like, you know, maybe take a methodological breather here

This is why I'm baffled that risk-averse US universities--where many students already struggle with poor mental health--are telling faculty we need to "integrate" the suicide machines & giving free accounts to students. There are going to be some tragic, preventable deaths & some monster lawsuits.

Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.

I, along with two colleagues, wrote about the extremist influencers who have profited off of—and in some cases, seemingly try to guide—Trump's second administration. They were, in some ways, the real winners (pejorative) of 2025. Latest for @splcenter.org: www.splcenter.org/resources/re...

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

There is no form of age verification that isn’t privacy invasive, counterproductive, and creates unnecessary vulnerabilities.

Trump's forty-fifth claim that the war is over meets with skepticism in some liberal circles.

Also the world's first trillionaire directly responsible for the deaths of potentially millions around the world due to the illegal destruction of USAID

New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests

The trillionaire mark is just a milestone. Musk already had enough money to personally buy a whole company or single-handedly influence a presidential election. But we should consider what it means that one man has amassed so much wealth and power — and the speed at which he is doing so.

Spent last night thinking and learning about housing and homelessness from @jerusalem.bsky.social, saw a headline this morning about a 55% increase in homelessness in ABQ since 2007 per the latest PIT counts, and then I get this notification this morning. And there just aren’t fucking words.