Marx failed to consider that capitalism might consolidate into state-backed monopolies. Lenin failed to consider that those state-backed monopolies might grow their profit margins through brutal imperialism. Why does my head hurt? Why is my nose bleeding?

You know, I think Anderson Vanderbilt Cooper is going to be okay.

my WASP ancestors: If we let Catholics run for office, they'll just do what the Pope says! me, now: God damn it, you fucking heathens, just listen to your fucking Pope!

Rendering people documentless is about constructing them as targets for deprivation and violence

If we have to pay to rent movies again on a subscription service, we should just reopen Blockbuster.

No. Thank you.

Did the senile old fascist say senile old fascist things? I can't believe I missed it!

I'm less worried that AI will enable effective mass surveillance and more worried that the bullshit machine will be used to draft kill lists based on loose correlations of perceived "behaviors".

Sometimes the author’s name is a little too on the nose.

Oh, right! This whole war on Iran kinda hinges on keeping the Sunni Arab states on side. The "Greater Israel" stuff really isn't compatible with that.

The hard part about reading statistical theory is that I'll read some majorly dumb shit and then look up the guy who wrote it, and it's always some senior professor with a career that no one reading this can even imagine.

He know he's dying, and he knows he's going to extra hell when it happens.

A lot of reporting on local law enforcement “refusing to work with ICE” is somewhat dishonest. You really cannot reduce deportations and detention without reducing policing and arrests, which requires a wholesale reexamination of the whole criminal system.

explanation, not excuse: If they imposed "consequences" on part of the Trump gov't, they'd be relying on another part of the Trump gov't to enforce it. This would escalate the constituional crisis in ways that could erode the power of the judiciary in future administration.

update: Trump has turned military officer retention bonuses into a humiliating gameshow.

TBH, I thought this before the tariff ruling. Pay me for my work so I can stop satellites from colliding!

The Supreme Court:

I am loosely shopping for a computer, and nobody has anything good to say about Windows 11. The blue screen of death is back!

Pokémon Go pack the court.

Why am I still on Twitter? The answer is in the replies to this post. Left Twitter doesn't make excuses for this bullshit. Polite Liberal Bluesky does.

jobs that make money now: gambler, professional lie creator jobs that don’t make money: healthcare worker, educator

This aged pretty well.

‘Voter fraud’ is practically non-existent and composed almost entirely of ‘regular people making a mistake within a needlessly complicated process’ and Republican party operatives trying to prove it’s possible and getting caught.’

I like solar panels and guillotines.

All I know is that I'm waiting for the AI bubble to burst before I buy a new computer. Also, I won't buying one with Windows 11. Apparently, that's a nightmare.

short answer: Yes.

You know that South Park episode where they annually bully a young celebrity into suicide as a human sacrifice? I'm pretty sure that's what NBC is doing to Ilia Malinin.

update: I have sent my source files to Statistical Science. I should have galley proofs in a few weeks.

No, I don't think I will attach my gov't-issued ID to my thought-crimes. I think I'll log off if it comes to that.

ACAB includes this lady on Bob's Burgers

Words are squishy. Math is less squishy. But it's not zero squishy.

The future of the Democratic Party is the guy who trashed a homeless encampment for a photo op. Is that better? Is that worse? Doesn't matter. It's what's happening.

It's not going to be all naturalized citizens. Just certain ones. You know the ones.

Extremely displeased knowing how short the distance between killing a captive 7-yo via ***dehydration*** and the rationales behind the things I work on actually is

Are we talking about Liberals? Or are we talking about people whose strategic ideas cannot be safely stated in publication or online?

ICE is a plague on humanity and must be abolished.

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

no joke here, just a reminder that the ultra wealthy do not see you as human but rather as a resource to extract for profit

Today, God willing, I get my computer back from the repair shop and send the source files for my paper to Statistical Science.

One reason I think we should dismiss AI hype tout court is because the people pushing it are 1) blatantly lying about it’s current capabilities and 2) often trying to keep a bubble inflated.

A.I. needs to watch its back, I'm coming for its job. Borrow tons of money with no chance of ever making it back? Kid shit. Lie that I'm good at stuff that I'll never be good at? Doing it now. Always be 5 years away from meeting my potential? Buddy, that's my life story.

"This is Romanía. Speak Romaian." - some Greek guy living in Anatolia in the 800s CE

Man, STFU.

Latest paper just got accepted: Fluke confidence and meta-plausible inference

Alright, this shit is extremely dumb. Let me explain why we can't go to Mars (yet): Human beings cannot survive three years of microgravity, or rather, we can't survive coming back to gravity after that long without it. That's it. That's the whole reason. There are two potential ways around this:

This is like when Zohran won. I’m just happy Robert Kraft is having a bad night.

What "faith"? MFer, you are the devil.

In the game of football, kicking matters.