Back on my Prescient Quotes from 1950s Psychologists beat: In authoritarian families, per @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's Richard Christie, "there is a tendency toward coexistence, or alternation, of absolutism with extreme relativism and cynicism in the realm of values."

Attacks on Stephen Miller getting far more specific in this Daily Mail (why are the best right-on-right hitjobs always laundered thru the UK?). 1) He ordered confrontation w/protestors b4 CBP murdered Alex Pretti. 2) He countermanded Trump order not to focus on farmworkers.

Yup, not ever! Also, we *lived* for the drinking fountains that actually had built-in coolers. (80% of the fountains in my school did not; you had to go up to the 4th floor for the good one.)

INBOX: I'm told that columnist Jim Shaw has been forced out of the Fargo Forum, North Dakota's biggest newspaper, after criticizing the Trump administration. Two of his final columns are "Our local leaders oppose free and fair elections" and "Cramer, Hoeven and Fedorchak ignore the Constitution".

It may or may not be true that whether or not you race to use AI heavily right now will determine whether you’re part of a future wealthy elite ruling class or are left behind in poverty and powerlessness. But if it is true, this strikes me as a deeply immoral future worth fighting hard against.

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

THE CHILI FINGER LADY!! A legend here in San Jose, CA. I still go to the actual chili finger Wendy's every so often. They are extremely nice there and have great coffee.

It cannot be long before Trump’s retinue of sycophants, enablers and justifiers, in government and in the media, start telling us, "I never liked the guy", "I tried to restrain him" and "I was only obeying orders." So be sure to keep the receipts.

Tired of Platner. Maine voters will have to decide. But fwiw, I don't trust him and the claim that it was all in the remote past doesn't convince me. Here's a timeline thread of red flags from 2007-2026: 2007 - Nazi tattoo 2008 - Trolls people with Blackwater hat

Millennials know all about these, Mike. It's called a participation trophy. I still have my golden statue from dance class in 1987.

The other notable thing here is the tech exec's narcissistic assumption that "writers and idea-generators" WANTED his crooked LLM to "deliver" AI slop. Also, the "we under-delivered" apology sounds like something you'd send to hotel guests. Guests you robbed blind and whose identity you stole.

"The proto-fascist... shares the most commonplace of the vulgar cliches about Jews, foreigners, reformers, homosexuals, intellectuals, and he admires strong men, business men, successful men, manly men who have no tender side or allow it no play." — Richard Christie, American psychologist, 1954

"The proto-fascist... shares the most commonplace of the vulgar cliches about Jews, foreigners, reformers, homosexuals, intellectuals, and he admires strong men, business men, successful men, manly men who have no tender side or allow it no play." — Richard Christie, American psychologist, 1954

This all day (and night). The problem is that nighttime freedom doesn't play well with my 40something tendency to shoot bolt upright at 5 in the morning.

Not an expert here but this doesn't sound very Christian to me.

a lot of incredible* moments in this interview but just look at this jagoff saying "we under-delivered for [the experts to whom we attributed things they did not say without their knowledge or consent]" *literally, not credible

For once Stephen is on point. It's abundantly clear what skill level Trump is selecting for, and the results speak for themselves.

The ubiquitous big beards are something else. It's as if they all subconsciously want to hide.

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

I've said it before: I genuinely consider it a moral imperative that people my age and up bang the drum about what the Internet used to be so those younger know that there's nothing inherent about what it is now. The Internet doesn't have to be this; its culture can and has belonged to people.

"The world is held together...by the love & the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, & look around you...You could be that person. You could be that monster... you have to decide, in yourself, not to be." James Baldwin

“Once people learn how to build small groups without harming each other,” Crawford says, “it begins to seed and resuscitate a collective ability to function as a healthy whole.”

A lovely conversation with @svobodster.bsky.social about rebuilding healthy community practices in the Boston Globe today Thank you Elizabeth!

This entire piece hinges on a (willful?) misunderstanding of what Christian nationalism is, which is the idea that a nation should be *compelled* to be Christian and practice Christian doctrine which is not remotely what Talarico believes

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Joseph Duggar is allegedly a pedophile too. That family producing multiple child predators makes me question whether Jim Bob is abusing children or grooming his sons to be predators, over and above the Bill Gothard and ATI of it all.

oh god I found the 1980 interview, you can hear smarmy young Trump boasting about destroying the historic Art Deco Bonwit-Teller building and talking about faith, family, love—the parts about how we should invade Iran to make the world respect us start around 36:00 youtu.be/YKV0-EmtZG8?...

Nigel Farage has reportedly promoted neo-Nazi events and repeated extremist slogans in personal paid-for video messages online, while pocketing hundreds of pounds in doing so

I've been getting quite a few questions from press, etc. and so wrote up something a little bit longer here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

1. Over the last few days I have received a set of queries about my research. The first one I thought was legitimate, and I was planning to answer when the second arrived, and then the third, from the same sender. Viewed together, they’re clearly LLM generated.

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it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

"We must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!”

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This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them. It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.

For those who've studied the Holocaust deeply, these letters and drawings are so reminiscent of those Jewish children created in the Terezin transit camp. A selection of these was published under the title "I Never Saw Another Butterfly."

Backtracking doesn't erase the ghoulishness, it only confirms it. I'm starting to think I should have read a lot more sci-fi when younger, to better prepare for this dystopia I never imagined we'd face.

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show - www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

Misconception about authors: We find a publisher for our first book and then they will be our exclusive publisher forevermore. Reality: They might publish many more books of ours. Or they might never publish another. Personally, I have five different publishers (so far). I contain multitudes.

Who's the better writer? An original human author or the bot that stole writings from a near infinite pool of authors and paraphrased it in a way that seems human?

Poof! Now do the politicians.

1. Major news out of San Jose State University. The University has REJECTED Trump's demands to ban trans people from bathrooms, dorms, and other facilities. This comes after Trump threatened them for once having a trans student athlete. Subscribe to support our journalism.

They both seem fairly credible to me, based on recent reporting that confirms some of the details in Doe 4's story. (And the independent existence of each allegation helps bolster the other's credibility, too.)

This 37% zone where Trump has settled is close to the percentage of people who are authoritarian (about 1 in 3, per social science studies)

I say this every year, but: The uni students I'm teaching are thoughtful, intelligent, will make everything they encounter better. With a new addition for 2026: They deeply hate AI.

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

It's stunning how ignorant the DOGE bros were who were sent into agencies. Justin Fox cannot even articulate in his own words what his "present understanding of DEI" is: he can't even formulate a coherent sentence about it. I wouldn't hire him for basic tech support. #NEH youtu.be/jomaMvItnew?...