The U.S. is functionally now a pariah state and must be treated as such until the cancer rotting out the heart of the White House is cut out.

The moderate position is indeed The Hague

I’ve said before, and I’ll say again, one of the most important findings of the Nuremberg trials was that the Nazi actions were illegal under both extant German law (& the Weimar constitution, which remained in effect) as well as international law. Anyways,,,

The members who did the "don't follow illegal orders" video absolutely need to immediately do a "hey these were the illegal orders we were talking about and participating in them can expect to face consequences to the fullest extent of the law" video

An administration driven by greed, cruelty, and frankly a sort of empty-hearted boredom. The death of innocents so they can beat their chests and line their already fat wallets. Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.

I don't know whether this counts as 2025 ending on a tragic note or 2026 starting on one, but Some things were once knowable but are no longer. Some things are coincidences. Time is inexorable. I think I'm going to have to believe the dead visit our dreams. Hug your friends. Send that message.

This reads me for dirt

sliwa correctly understanding that mamdani ran a very traditional campaign and thus surpassing the analytical ability of 80% if people who comment on politics for a living

Permanent ban then, wonderful

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

What you're telling me you don't crochet a perfect herringbone swatch then pick up random stitches really loosely along one side using blunt 4" machine screws?

can’t believe I haven’t looked into this before, but: is this gonna be the first Pope to have ever given a high five? Probably?

If my landlord puts a rabid raccoon into my home and doesn’t let me get rid of it, that’s not the same as me adopting it

A rare bit of good news: California is entirely out of drought, a real rarity over the past few decades, and a reminder that not everything bad lasts forever. A reminder to take a breath, refill our aquifers and build our defense for the fires inevitable return.

Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

Remembering how 2025 started, which was just way too on the nose for what it was.

here’s hoping 2026 is just one year

Everyone should have the same level of healthcare, regardless of income.

This is called resource consolidation, and if you're not familiar with the concept you should look it up and see what it immediately precedes

I dropped a really heavy bit of metal on my foot. I didn't know it was even falling so I didn't brace, and hooboy did it smart. Still does. Happy New Year's Eve!

Minnesotans celebrated that our state has the highest percentage of trans adults *anywhere in the country* - which is cool on many levels, and a testament to the work we've done on policy and the culture we've built here for care and support. 15/x www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

Many people have probably posted this, but

SHITPOST GAME: scroll bluesky until you get mad. instead of responding, roll a d6 and do the corresponding action: 1-2: X # of pushups 3-4: 5X # of squats 5-6: 2X # of mountain climbers X is the number of times you have gotten mad repeat until you are sick of bluesky

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

"Your eyes look like eye. In a skull." Tbf this guy was drunk at the time and known for never giving compliments (but being very proficient at insults -- friendly and foul), so we challenged him to try one per person. This was the best one of the lot. I was frankly flattered.

Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year

Objecting to people wearing keffiyehs is anti-Palestinian racism, end of conversation.

Some people were never really scholars. These are the people who are willing to abandon any semblance of professional responsibility.

Robert Plant lied to my spouse to his face last week (fair play though, no hard feelings)

Guardrails are a scam. It's not that they could work, it's that they cannot and never will for such models. By design. 1/n

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

My dad grew up in a time when measles was everywhere. Everyone got their GG shots when someone in their class got sick, and lots of kids got sick then never came back. Because they died. Fuck this ghoul. Also chicken pox fucked me up big time (shingles when I was 20 + 15yrs postviral illness).

I'd like to propose the following norm for peer review of papers. If a paper shows clear signs of LLM-generated errors that were not detected by the author, the paper should be immediately rejected. My reasoning: 1/ #ResearchIntegrity

Got this fantastically clever Christmas gift. It's a dedicated algorithm free music player that you can carry around without the distractions of your phone, and it can hold thousands of songs without needing an internet connection. The UI is so simple anyone can manage it. Fantastic

Also academia. 🧪 🐦🐦

Also, no way in hell would I explain or admit on a public forum 1) which gears, 2) which sand, and 3) the figurative distance to some very real cliffs and the chasms below. Things are happening. Don't lose hope, joy, spite, or the knowledge on how to fuck shit up completely legally.

[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

I keep thinking about this. so much of the present moment is depressing but this is truly the promise of technological progress

Here’s to 2026

Annihilation (2018) or Silicon Valley (2025)

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

Some other day we can talk about how Beinart is literally earning a living writing things that Jews of color had their Jewishness questioned over and other people, Palestinian academics and Jewish academics, lost their jobs over

Bizarre Ecosystem Discovered More Than Two Miles beneath Arctic Ocean

I used to say on Twitter, back when I was on there, “don’t retweet anything that you wouldn’t pay to promote”, as a way of trying to explain the value of algorithmic amplification. Instead, I learned a lesson about how much people really do want to subsidize and amplify things they pretend to hate.

At the risk of starting Discourse™, why would anyone expect Chomsky to apologize for these actions. He had never once to my knowledge, even admitted his theories were wrong even as he reworked them to be less wrong. It's like his whole thing -- and I work with generative grammars.

I wonder if my return-to-work project can be requesting a Linux office computer and learning how to use it @roryturnbull.bsky.social

Just thinking about the time a British colleague I was going to (briefly!) share an office with gave me German chocolate as a welcome gift and started speaking German to me after learning my last name and I had to say "um I'm not German, it's a Romanian Ashkenazi name". Still makes my stomach churn.

He did find Nigeria roughly on a map, but he did not save Christians from ISIS.

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade