More people got measles this week than Nuzzi’s book

Relatedly: I am continually enraged when I think about all the public resources — and public servants' time — Trump has consumed throughout his lifetime. Another recent case: better to clog up the court system and waste grand juries' time than to risk angering the Tinpot Tyrant.

Once again, Musk demonstrating what it means to sound rich* and confuse that for smart. *Because he has the leisure to encounter all these ideas but doesn't really understand them, and he faces no consequences for being so wrong because he's insulated by all that money.

Thanks to every mainstream media org that ran a “RFK has some good ideas, actually” piece.

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

Transcript GRANDFATHER 00:00 As a grandparent, and I experienced something firsthand today that I will never forget in my life. And that is, uh,we were called here to uh see if there were ICE agents who had the audacity to come and try to arrest and kidnap people leaving church on a Sunday morning.

I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.

Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/

Just need to be clear that the US Air Force almost caused a major commercial flight catastrophe because they are flying over Venezuela with transponders off

A renewables-only future feels increasingly plausible.

thinking about this again today as the snow falls and I'm making plans to brew ten gallons of ale inside my warm house

Volunteer fire departments make up 85% of the departments in the country and private equity firms are gouging them on software that helps them, uh, do firefighting.

Someone not in US academia might be forgiven for not knowing that OU was a leading "land grant" school - a serious, legitimate R1 with history of serious contributions across a wide range of disciplines, Anthropology to Zoology. That sadly ends now.

I know there are plenty of suburb people who are good at community care, but for the people it doesn't come naturally to, it really allows for the muscle of community to completely atrophy. It's a bummer to hear him talk about how he relates to his surroundings sometimes :/

Sometimes I find myself having to explain the concept of community to my dad. I shoveled my block this morning which first of all, was not hard, and also my next door neighbor is a senior citizen, it's a no-brainer. He was like you shouldn't do that, you're being too nice. (1/3)

I feel you, screaming chicken who is also the statue of liberty

me when you like my little posts

I think a big part of it -- theatrically embracing obvious falsehoods -- is mocking liberals, mocking people who value principles (like honesty) above factional advantage. They do it because it pains us, because we care.

At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.

I pick up my mail each afternoon in the faculty lounge -- at an Ivy League institution, no less! -- and I've never heard anything discussed there that's been picked up by the Democratic Party. Stop repeating Republicans' lies about your own party. In fact, John Podesta -- please just stop talking

The starting teacher salary in Hillsborough County in 1969 was $6,000, vs a PCPI of $3,189. The starting teacher salary in Hillsborough County in 2023 was $47,500, vs a PCPI of $63,640. Yes, the social and class status of teachers has changed wildly over the past half-century.

also not lost on me that many of the same people who say stuff like "we used to be the party of the factory floor" are dinosaur Clintonite or Atari Democrat shitheads. When did the "used to be" start?

E.g it took me a little while to find a post about this on this platform (I saw more details on Instagram earlier) bsky.app/profile/anti...

I’ve gotten a few replies like this today and I just want to point out 1. None of them have come from Palestinians 2. Violent antisemitism predates the existence of a Zionist movement, which began in Europe in an colonialist environment 3. These comments themselves conflate Judaism with Zionism

Q: How much do you need to spend on mattresses for it to get mentioned in a DOJ press release about your $11 million crypto theft? A: $638,000, which I did not realize was a plausible mattress budget

The story that Grok is getting the fake name from is from a website that didn't exist until 2hrs after the shooting and appears to have propped up solely to publish that specific fake story. "Glitch" is a flat-out lie.

Also, the footage of mass shootings is literally *inspiration* to people who are deep in those anti-social online spaces where mass shooters congregate.

Sunday Taquitos #6: “Your papers, please.” Art by Ivan Ehlers.

Autoplaying mass shooting footage on social media isn’t “news”. It’s advertising.

the year is 2031. streaming services have all collapsed, but not before driving all record stores and labels out of business. the only way to access new music is through a shadowy network of 2000-10 era mp3-sharing blogs that escaped record label notice by putting links on the comments

'Sora cost $20 a month & subscribers can generate an unlimited number of AI videos... this costs (Sora owners) OpenAI "at least $5 per 10-second video"'. Journalists, please ask more questions about how this tech could ever in a million years make a profit?

Something I do want to point out is they used city RIPTA buses to transport students safely out of the area. A bus system that many people in our city government have been trying to gut. Buses are a public good that need to be protected.

Americans forgot or moved on from Charlie's death like a week after it happened and CBS really thinks Americans want to hear from his wife this bad? Lmao. I know they're in the toilet for Trump, but I didn't realize they want to bankrupt their entire news org too just because lol

Hawk Tuah bleed on that neck

right there in the constitution it says no one can be mean to me because of my dogshit takes

Sometimes I wonder about how the White folks process still having their jobs. I've been reading a lot about McCarthyism, which has my brain primed to think about the people who stay once people politically repress their colleague out of a job. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

law enforcement & military pretty much uniformly (ha!) eliminated the sam browne belt in the 1960s due to the many, many safety hazards associated with it (the New Jersey State Police being the one exception of which i know)

This analysis shows how changes to the Twitter/X algorithm tanked my engagement there, and boosted the attacks and trolls exponentially. It was the original rage bait experiment, in my opinion.

As an avid observer of algorithms I think I’ve figured out part of what happened here. FB now explicitly looks for and directs posts you’re opposed to into your feed, to rage-bait engagement. So now my posts are being actively boosted into people’s feeds of who reject climate. Ha! 😄😵‍💫

I am not trying to build a mass audience. I am trying to take care of an intentionally delimited audience. I will knock you over the head to make my mentions the most uncomfortable place you’ve ever decided to be an asshole.

So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.

I’m not a techno-determinist when it comes to the role of technology in terrorism, but every product of digital technology has been enrolled into a critical function of the social construction of a world that promotes white supremacist terror as its first-order social, cultural, and political life.

I have thought this for a while, & that an obvious advantage for tutorial-system universities like Oxford is that it’s quite hard to use AI to cheat your way through an hour 1:1 or 1:2 in person with an expert, or in supervised exams. Which is why it’s so stupid of them to have partnered with OpenAI

Again, even though the Japanese government leading up to 1945 committed terrible atrocities, none of us think that Japanese internment was caused by the Japanese government. It was caused by American racism.

what trump is doing to the somali-american community is deplorable.

The president interrupted his Christmas remarks because he was confused about whether or not the woman five feet in front of him was his daughter who, he has repeatedly said in public, he would very much like to fuck. Anyway, Merry Christmas!

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