AI fail du jour: In reality, NHDT is not chiral. Its dipole moment is zero. The classical ball-and-stick model is chiral, but the molecule doesn't care about that. It's up to you to make your models conform to reality; you can't bend reality to conform to your models.

I also reported this to the White House media bias offender tip line. Probably not the bias they were looking for. www.foxnews.com/video/639056...

The bogus coverage is *still* up on the Pox News site: www.foxnews.com/video/639055...

GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk made a criminal referral of Hutchinson to the Justice Department in recent days, the sources said. He accused Hutchinson of lying to Congress in her summer 2022 testimony when she alleged Trump was aware of the potential for violence on January 6, 2021.

Dirty Money Ciscomoney received more financial support than any House Republican from retiring Rep. Tony Gonzales, who faced crumbling support over an affair with a staffer who later set herself on fire. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

AI fail du jour: Every word the bot said is wrong. For example, H.M.J. Grouès, during the many decades when he was called Abbé Pierre, did not dress as a monk, and was not the leader or even a member of any monastery. Abbot basically means father, and has been applied to non-monks and even laymen.

1) Gonzales has "decided not to seek re-election". 2) But says he won't resign his current seat. (We shall see about that). 3) Gun-nut Brandon Herrera will become the nominee. 4) The Texas 23rd has a Cook PVI of R+7 so I reckon it's in play. www.npr.org/2026/03/06/n...

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a news conference that her office is already looking into 17 cases, including one where Bovino threw a smoke canister at protesters on Jan. 21. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Somebody from CNN should ask Lindsay Graham, Markwayne Mullin, Brian Mast, and Anna Paulina Luna: Suppose North Korea dropped bombs on the US capitol and obliterated your workplace. Would you consider that an act of war? Reference: xcancel.com/acyn/status/...

Silver lining: If we're going to have fascists, it's better to have incompetent fascists. I call them the 1/3rd Reich. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p... dropping the cases «drew the ire of Trump and his top aide Stephen Miller»

I despise clickbait headlines. The body of the article doesn't support the headline; it argues that the bombing was either deliberate *OR* gross negligence and neglect of duty, i.e. failure to obtain reliable targeting information. (It's a war crime either way.) www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

1) Innnteresting. 2) This makes the firms that settled look incompetent, craven, and foolish. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Another scoop for Bellingcat. Any of several governments could have put a stop to this eons ago. One wonders why they didn't. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...

We were told Iran's nuclear facilities were "obliterated" many months ago. The announcement is still on the WH web site as of Feb 28.

So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE. And this is what they called it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

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AI fail du jour: The chatbot says one thing, and then ten seconds later it contradicts itself. I've seen good AI. I've invented and developed good AI. Alas, this chatbot is not good. Really not. They're draining the planet's resources for this? For this?? Why????

He seems to be threatening the Court. But that's fine. As long as you don't say anything unkind about Charlie Kirk, you're fine.

DHS successfully—until now—covered up the murder of a third US citizen on Texas' Padre Island, the sort of thing that can only happen in GOP-ruled Texas. ICE agents shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, last year, but DHS covered up the whole incident, Newsweek reports.

I have to recalibrate the "No Kings" slogan. Turns out it's better to have an honorable king than a dishonorble president.

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

My first choice would be to have fewer bad guys ... but insofar as we are stuck with these bad guys, the silver lining is that they are stupid and incompetent. The original Colbert segment has 3.6 million youtube views. The Talarico interview has over 6 million. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisa...

AI fail du jour: In reality, a graphite square drawn on paper is some number of kΩ — not "per square cm" or anything else. The edge-to-edge resistance is independent of the size of the square. This is well known, and should be obvious based on high-school notions of series-parallel circuits.

Marco Rubio, born to immigrant parents, Doctor of Laws from Miami University, should know better. Either he's very stupid ... or he's just lying, and thinks we are too stupid to notice.

I reported this to the white house "media bias" tip line. Probably not the sort of report the white house wants to get. But bias is bias and lies are lies. I call 'em like I see em. mailchi.mp/mail.whiteho... Watch out for those false herrings.....

Yikes. Unhinged fascist cancel culture. James Talarico is running for US senate from Texas. The #pussygrabber is panicking. For good reason. References: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7D... www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

* Several days ago Homan announced that the Minneapolis operation would end soon. * I haven't seen any reports that calm has returned to the city. It might be too early to celebrate. Watch what they do, not what they say.

OK, I'm confused. * FEC filings say Ciscomoney's "affiliated" PAC raised less than $38,000 in the 23-24 cycle. www.fec.gov/data/committ... * Opensecrets.org says that PAC raised more than 10 times that much. www.opensecrets.org/political-ac... What am I doing wrong?

Some teachers are worried that students will use AI to do the homework. I have to wonder: If AI can find the answers, maybe you're asking the wrong questions.

AI fail du jour: 1) Here's a working incantation for defining symbols: \def\treble{{\begin{rawhtml}𝄞\end{rawhtml}}} which maps to 𝄞 (the treble clef symbol). 2) The AI code will obviously never work. 3) HeVeA has a built-in \rightarrow, so even if the AI code worked, it would be stupid.

AI fail du jour. Did you know about the Wikimedia Foundation's navy? It's amazing what you can learn from the AI chatbot.

DoD blacklisted 33 universities, including all but one of the 8 ivies, and all but one of the USNews top 10. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p... I wonder why Dartmouth and University of Chicago didn't make the list. They don't strike me as less woke than the others.

«Working for the Justice Department used to be one of the most competitive, prestigious jobs you could get as a lawyer» Now you just DM some choad named Chad. asharangappa.substack.com/p/excising-t... Not sure she has the answers, but denazification is an important question, which is horrifying.

1) This is a remarkably careful, dispassionate article. 2) IMHO, if targeting Minnesota is not an impeachable offense, I don't know what is. 3) It mostly backfired. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Incidentally, the WSJ story IDing Jared has Trump whisperer Josh Dawsey bylined and NYT match has Tyler Pager. So this story is coming from the White House, possibly to get ahead of it.

I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at [email protected] to let them know what you think of this.

They needed 12 (out of 23). They got zero.

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

A federal judge blocked the Pentagon’s effort to demote & censure Arizona Senator Mark Kelly over a video in which he urged service members to reject illegal orders, finding the military’s First Amendment limitation clearly does not extend to retired members. www.courthousenews.com/pentagon-shr...

Cravenly capitulating, and lying about it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It's shocking that the goons got a magistrate to sign off on this piece of trash warrant application. joycevance.substack.com/p/fulton-cou...

The poster child for unreasonable search and seizure. www.npr.org/2026/02/10/n...

You-know-who is demanding that Penn Station and Dulles Airport be renamed after himself.

"the judge ordered the affidavit to be unsealed by the close of business on Tuesday" which should be innnnnteresting.

AI fail du jour: Hilarious writeup from Martin Rowson. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#Naziferatu ... profiled by the BBC (Anthony Zurcher) today. His relentless, combative style at the policymaking helm of the White House has set the #pussygrabber's hardline immigration agenda in motion, and he has developed a growing influence in expanding US power... www.bbc.com/news/article...