Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.

If you can't be bothered to read, why are trying to be a scientist. Baffling...

anyway fuck censorship. we should all get weirder and worse

I think there's just a fundamental divide between people who can see LLMs for what they are – a fundamentally toxic technology that can only ever generate negative outcomes; a machine for lying at scale – and people whose brains shut off because the computer is talking back to them.

These people seem to think the reason why race science disappeared at institutions was because it was considered taboo and not because it doesn't stand up to academic rigour

This. No TT/non-TT/VAP job will be offered to an int'l candidate, since it requires an H1-B until the green card is issued. This process takes at least a couple of years.

It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

People who are willing to compromise the bodily autonomy of one group will do it for all other groups until it doesn’t exist at all and they won’t care because they never actually believed in it in the first place

virtual keyboards are unusable, physical keyboard supremacy

seems like a good time to mention that DeleteMe is a great service to protect your personal information online. it's a little pricey, but imo worth it if you can afford it.

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

There are a whole lot of media and television executives currently operating with conviction that the potential consequences of the present will outweigh the accountability of the future. And no matter what happens, they cannot be allowed to be correct.

I keep asking myself, if convenors are throwing in AI, as in "teaching students how to use it", what are they throwing out of their courses, and why?

im getting really tired of everything being bad bc like 12 ppl can't fill the hole in their hearts despite being billionaires

haven't been asked to review a paper in a while so if you're an editor looking for a psycholinguist who works on discourse...👀

when you frame it this way, there are unmistakable parallels to the reaction after the murder of united healthcare's CEO. the CEO class hiring more security and removing public-facing information. the unnecessary demonstration of force and power once they had a suspect in custody. sweaty indeed.

on top of isolating them, this advice seems like it would steer young men away from social situations they likely don't yet have the skills to navigate, and as a result would delay the emotional growth they need to achieve to cope with life later on. honestly it's really sad.

How do Americans typically react when they hit a paywall on a news site? 1% pay 11% try to get the article for free 32% give up 53% look for info elsewhere

so the cake is a lie

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up open.substack.com/pub/mikelove...

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

I'm seeing some people post this and not realize this is PART of the radicalization. Building an audience from reasonable sounding videos and converting them into the pipeline. Weiss is doing this now as I get The Free Press ads about things like "low tech parenting" and workout fads.

The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves. The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.

Refusing to do something just because bad faith assholes on the right call it cringe just ensures that those bad faith assholes control the narrative.

So lemme get this straight. Dude-fluencers are telling young men they shouldn't be hanging out with their friends until they make their first $10M. But *feminism* is getting blamed for the supposed male loneliness epidemic?!

it's amazing how prevalent the idea is that a bigot who calmly says "no sir" and "yes ma'am" is more civil than a kindhearted person who tells nazis to fuck off

You can tell that trans women are women because we get blamed when random white men do crimes

I think this is right, and also a very natural extension of what is called "data-driven decisionmaking". Which is to say, tools for people in power to avoid reading, thinking, studying, building relationships, talking to people, or navigating conflict/disagreement

hell yeah, haters unite

“The odds of fatal injury increased by 44% for people of all ages struck by an SUV, compared with those hit by a passenger car. Among children the odds of fatal injury increased by 82%, and among children under the age of 10 it increased by 130%.” www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

You can use ChatGPT instead of your own brain to write your paper if I can talk about ChatGPT instead of you in your letter of reference

this old car looks like a roly poly bug

Article fresh off the print (no paywall)! The tl;dr is in the quoted thread. We advance a measure of replication distance to capture differences btw an original study & its replications. We also discuss how statistics needs to go beyond ideal assumptions to serve science better. #metasci #sts #stat

“A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge, similar to how we’ve seen happen in the past.”

lolsob (cc @davidgerard.co.uk) arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/e...

i dislike when a video game decides to make an enemy an ally, especially when that fucker was a tough fight. i don't forgive them.

I propose that whenever a public figure dies, we should limit their obituaries and memorials to the words that came out of their mouths and fingers. We should remember them by what they gave to us.

In late June, Google quietly scrubbed its pledge to hit net zero by 2030 from its sustainability website as it goes full steam ahead on hyperscale data centers and generative AI.

Assassinating bad people is still wrong. You don't have to lie and say they were a good person for it to be murder. Come the fuck on.

There's a certain type of 15 year old who built an identity around consuming media and believes they are therefore owed free and immediate access to media forever. The same people also reach for high-minded justifications when they offer to pay artists with "exposure". Get a library card!

Happy five year anniversary to defector.com!!!

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

the "tax the billionaires" political refrain is Good Actually in part because it is a call for the people at the top to actually be constrained by rules informed by the public interest, a virtue that fingerwagging correctives about how much revenue such taxes would *really* generate doesn't address

A bit of a personal crusade on my part, but I like to remind people that Steven Pinker submitted expert testimony in 2007 in support of Jeff Epstein's legal defense that led to the infamous non-prosecution agreement. They were also "frequent social contacts".