my confidence that these people are going to lose is rising and my estimate of the amount of damage they are going to do on the way out, especially as they realize they're losing, is also rising

MIT boasts a $27b endowment

OMG FUUUUUUUUCK YOU CNN. It's not an "accusation." It was tried on court and he was found liable.

The further Putinisation of America. For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.

Backstory: we originally wrote this paper in response to 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak, but by the time it worked its way through peer review that outbreak had largely subsided and the paper was rejected as no longer timely. We shelved it until the next relevant outbreak, which happened to be mpox.

NPR’s science correspondent @ngreenfieldboyce.bsky.social is among those who was laid off. 😒

I'm fine with this response to Budget Goebbels Stephen Miller. Pearl clutchers should go live inside a cave and write an essay about civility.

ICE is shooting pepper spray and attacking press right now at Delaney Hall.

Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)

he is monstrously corrupt, right wing, a lecher, a cheat, and is now embroiled in a scandal where his office gave sweetheart deals to pedophiles

Fuck peace I want justice.

still think Ds should make a massive investment in libraries, post office, public universities as a way to jump start civil society and cut unemployment.

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

its often thought Germany invented airships but Ferdinand Vond Zepplin discovered them when he set foot in a British house and his sheer German precision repulsed the house into the sky. This technology would later be used to invent the helicopter, which flies using the Earth's hatred for it

QUEEN

Talarico: I’m an eighth-generation Texan. I’ve been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment. And if all they have on me is lying about me being a vegan, I feel pretty good about our chances this November.

Van Hollen's essay in the New York Times is noteworthy, and so too are the reactions. Here are some of what his colleagues are saying: Tina Smith:

BREAKING: SPLC seeks to have indictment tossed, arguing DOJ is engaged in an impermissible — and unconstitutional — vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Something never discussed in the "vibecession" debate is that the country lived through a huge expansion of the welfare state and then saw all of those programs taken away. It has long been conventional wisdom that taking away social programs leads to huge backlash. Nobody applies that to COVID.

Hundreds inside an ICE concentration camp are on a work and hunger strike at Delaney Hall in New Jersey and other hunger strikes have been announced in New Mexico and Southern California. In Tacoma, WA, over 100 detainees announced the formation of the 'Union of People Kidnapped by ICE.'

notably massachusetts simply added a new top bracket with 4% extra, inflation-indexed what "top bracket" means, and let 'er rip many, many "tax the rich" proposals here on the west coast seem like they're competing to be the earth's cleverest tax and are clearly much worse ideas than this

“Please stop. I don’t want an AI summary of my Google search. I don’t want an AI summary of the text message from my friend at work. I don’t want an AI summary of the email I’m about to read. Please just stop.” 💯

Today we announced the most ambitious housing plan in our City's modern history. We're building 200,000 affordable homes. We’re overhauling code enforcement. We’re cracking down on bad landlords. We’re creating tens of thousands of good-paying jobs.

Circumcision Tylenol

always funny when the most 37 year old man alive's clips get posted to the everyone's-37-years-old social media site and all the 37 year olds rush to agree with him (as i, a 37 year old, do)

It is Something I guess that Pope Leo has a more intelligent take on ai than Richard Dawkins.

the difference between the pope and the tech bros is that Leo reads the sources he cites

LEAR How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child!

Suzanne Vega releases “Luka” 39 years ago this weekend. She said she once received a fan letter about it: “Dear Suzanne, Luka is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time. There are no words 2 tell U all the things I feel when I hear it. I thank God 4 U, Prince”

I thought this serial killer documentary had a really effective creepy soundtrack. It was my dryer.

so… does this mean the peace deal fell through or what

I feel like Katrina was a live demonstration of how much Louisiana hates New Orleans

faking an assassination attempt so you don't have to go to a wedding sounds like a curb your enthusiasm episode

Our media did its best to normalize it, but Musk’s armed private security used force to stop actual members of Congress from entering government buildings they had clear lawful authority to enter on live TV. The literal definition of treason was treated as an afternoon news update. People 💯feel it.

something I don't see mentioned enough in discussions abt consumer sentiment is that people watched Elon Musk and the Hitler Youth completely dismantle several agencies and destroy thousands of livelihoods on a whim, and that is a terrifying concept even if you aren't a government worker

Oh my God John Fetterman fell in a large hole. No one is sure how to get him out of the large hole. He's not cooperating either

This is pretty shockingly evil. Wild (if not surprising) that Washington does this while maintaining that Cuba is a threat to the USA.

The year is 2067. "Bluesky is dying, and I know why: It's because my penis done broke," writes Arbuckle F. Fuck, writer for Harper's Magazine and Hog Farm. The userbase is upset, not because of Arbuckle. We're used to his bullshit. We've come to appreciate Harper's quality hogs and expect better.

okay so we’re doing discourse about twitter versus bluesky today, which means tomorrow is *checks notes* fighting the mods again, everyone get your ban-worthy posts ready

Tillis was quite literally the pivotal vote for Hegseth

helen lewis has an article in the atlantic today begging everyone to read discworld and I am going to suggest she start by rereading monstrous regiment and think about how that might apply to trans issues

Even before DHS existed I felt the word "homeland" was super-racist-and-xenophobe encoded, so I'm sure it was reassuring, just to certain kinds of people

Y'all, we can go back 20-ish years and find people saying that "homeland security" was a jingoist, racist mess of a name. It was never a neutral turn of phrase.

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This is great. Kind of an insane thing to do one day after his huge finale show, and very funny. Plus ratings already beat Whiskey Friday wth Tony Dokoupil.

Conversation with my brother, a guy who worked for DoD, NASA, and JPL. Went to MIT. Has been coding since the 80s. Helped get AOL off the ground and developed Google's original search algorithm. Was on the original Android development team. I bring up his CV because he knows his shit. And yet

This is punishing innovation.

When I was a kid I thought there wouldn’t even *be* commercials in the future, because “the computer” would just know what you want and give you options. And now that it does I absolutely fucking hate it.