Musk just called his robot program, Optimus, "an infinite money glitch" for the wealth it will bring Tesla and urges his shareholders to hold on to their Tesla stock. One way or the other, we'll likely revisit this quote in the future.

"Looking into a mirror that makes you insane" is the sort of story that has been told in countless iterations for centuries and yet here he were

the great thing about Musk's comp package being heavily incentive-gated is that it guarantees a decade of systemic financial fraud at the heart of the market. good job everyone

BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!

“If I don’t look at the suffering, it’s not happening” in one perfect photo.

As civil rights groups warned 7 years ago.

Idiots

Tesla is a Future Shock cult for the most gullible people in human history

Confirming WaPo - CBO systems accessed in ‘security incident’ possibly tied to foreign hackers: www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

🧵 I'm trying to finish out a (slightly) overdue piece about how it's a waste of time to analyze Trump foreign policy through standard frameworks like "national interests," "geopolitics," "realpolitik," "grand strategy," and the like.

"I unequivocally reject identity politics" i scream, right before selecting my five gallon cowboy hat for my Fox Business interview.

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

apparently preferring the study of extremism over terrorism is a spicy approach - even violent extremism has better explanatory power than terrorism all these thoughts thanks to @jmberger.com’s work on defining extremism

Someone needs to make a spotlight to shine the Sandwich signal.

It takes a lot for me to be horror-struck by anything a major media outlet writes or does these days, given the absolutely appalling state of journalism, but after what I have seen from the NYT, the Economist, FT and Condé Nast today, I just want to say,

Don't Take Your Sandwiches to Town

great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"

real psycho shit

Automated calipers are, of course, big tech's end game.

A lot of Mamdani critics complained that anti-Zionism was a core part of his platform — it wasn’t. More significant is that he didn’t have to twist himself in knots to defend Israel, which contributed to his core being pitch of being an authentic leader.

this is key context for the arrests all over the country: your government is using your tax dollars staging a raid to make propaganda at risk of everyone I the line of fire, and that's everyone

Friends, “Furious Minds” is out! @lkatfield.bsky.social wrote an important book - one that truly is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the rightwing intellectual scene, the defining ideas on today’s extremist Right, and the ideological traditions they draw on. Please read:

Will Sandwich Guy strike again?

a hugely important legal precedent has been set today

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

There is literally like infinity money going into solar and batteries. Most of the fight being put up here is NIMBYism, culture warrior stuff, coal producers using the state, private/state utilities making things hard. Like Trump just cancelled one of the biggest solar projects

Stunning story by @jesspish.bsky.social: He became the most famous sheriff in the U.S. after his hunt for his wife's "real killers" inspired a $60 million 1973 blockbuster ($430 million in today dollars). It was all a lie and his hometown can't deal. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Awesome! I canceled Spotify when they gave Joe Rogan that big fat contract and I sent them a little note explaining why. Nobody cared, of course but maybe in the aggregate they'll start to listen...

I have canceled my Spotify subscription until the ICE ads are removed. Streaming hate is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/9hUJhN2u

AI summaries has got to be one of the biggest concerns about professional AI use: 1) people love summaries and will assume accuracy; 2) AI summaries often look authoritative (even citing sources); 3) if you take time to check the sources, they often don’t say what AI says in the summary

I was thinking about Zohran’s transition team and today’s anti-feminist piece in the New York Times, and my mother’s book on the first generation of women to work in the city government in New York City. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Shades of John Chrysostom

[New Paper Alert] Online toxic speech as positioning acts: Hate as discursive mechanisms for othering and belonging socialmedialab.ca/2025/11/03/n...

This, too, is gender.

The old adage that 'you can't beat something with nothing' has never been more important than in this area. "We can't know the answer to your question" is at a fatal competitive disadvantage against "*I* alone know the answer due to my unique genius/freedom from hidebound, corrupt convention," etc

A core challenge of epistemology—especially political epistemology—is that the final, all things considered answer to hugely important & consequential questions is often: "we don't know, and probably can't know." A desperation for such unavailable answers drives demand for snake oil substitutes.

Are these people on drugs or

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

Imagine having the brand, history, platform and reach of The NY Times and asking whether Women Are Actually The Baddies.

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

lol Trump literally ran on fixing everything on day one and has spent the last few weeks telling us he ended 8 wars.

“HOW ELON MUSK IS BOOSTING THE BRITISH RIGHT: For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.” news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show. $META @reuters.com www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society! We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology. Thread below 🧵

ICE deported him anyways. They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica. Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own. What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this? He died a few weeks after deportation:

More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years. We hear of a few, but most barely make the news. Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel. He was in perfect health when ICE detained him. He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.

Coal has been dying for decades. In a truly capitalist free market system *it would just die*. But you have old men with weird models of “real work” fucking us.