Ban all safeties.

🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨 I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity. I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!

BEWARE: Surveys that allow anyone to "opt in" are vulnerable to those who create many accounts (using VPN to bypass IP limits) & use automated tools to generate bogus responses (such as saying "yes" to question about being licensed to operate nuclear submarines). www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Who's going to be at IDeaS in October? Alternatively, who's going to be in Pittsburgh in general?

I'm excited to speak at #VB2025 later this week! I'll be diving into TAG-124, a group whose services are leveraged by a wide range of actors, from cybercriminals to state-sponsored groups. Hit me up if you are in town! www.virusbulletin.com/conference/v...

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I mean, how relevant is it that the U of A is a Bari Weiss project, and the new (right-wing) owners of CBS are reportedly planning to hand the news division over to her? Is CBS rotting this fast? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/b...

Incredibly angry reading this www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Every municipality needs to understand that data center jobs do not exist. There are no people in data centers. When people need to go to data centers they usually come from some big tech company HQ, or from some contractor hired to shove servers into racks. They are built by nonlocal specialists.

Mark Zuckerberg’s company faces backlash after rowing back promises to create between 300 and 500 new jobs to man its subsidiary’s new data center. www.wired.com/story/louisi...

[email protected] does an admirable job capturing the feeling of spending a lifetime in tech culture only to end up here.

Good movie, best Republika song.

Periodic reminder the NFL could have more televised games a year and more injury time to heal by making it a 19 week, 17 game season.

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :) > neal.fun/not-a-robot/

Holy shit. The administration might be evacuating the ICE facility we've been protesting for weeks. If this ends up happening, it's a huge deal. Protests matter. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

Please enjoy this incredibly rich text @erinbiba.bsky.social

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

Slow Horses is back in three days. That's something.

Rapture theology - that the holy will be beamed to heaven before a period of tribulation - is a concept younger than the steam-powered locomotive. It's neither widely accepted as a Christian doctrine nor widely believed outside the United States.

At the end of the first quarter of play, the Patriots and Steelers are still technically NFL teams.

I mean, it's pretty clear I have too many followers. Everyone, pick one person who follows me and tell them to stop.

Cava is sort of an assembly-line Mediterranean bowl place. They're national, but founded in and most popular in the DC metro. So, if you're out of the beltway and wondering, this wouldn't be like a steakhouse bribe. This would be more of a Sweetgreen bribe.

a related thought: Homan presumably found out it was a sting in early 2025. did he claim the Cava Cash on his 2024 taxes?

I just unfollowed you! (and followed you again.)

I mean, it's pretty clear I have too many followers. Everyone, pick one person who follows me and tell them to stop.

Cava is sort of an assembly-line Mediterranean bowl place. They're national, but founded in and most popular in the DC metro. So, if you're out of the beltway and wondering, this wouldn't be like a steakhouse bribe. This would be more of a Sweetgreen bribe.

Luke Fickell is less a football coach with a funny name and more just some guy with a funny name.

She was kicked out of show business because her brand was a parasocial relationship and it became clear she was a terrible person to her staff and the show’s guests.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Assuming CDC formally adopts ACIP's recommendations, CVS tells me it will provide Covid vaccines without a prescription in all 50 states and won't require even self-attestation of a qualifying condition — "it’s up to the individual patient." No confirmation from Walgreens or Walmart yet.

I'd be shocked if Starbucks baristas knew their moms' favorite drinks, let alone a random podcaster's.

People can and should hold reporters to a higher standard than Robert Kennedy Jr.

I mean, the bar to suspend someone with pay should always be lower than the bar for deportation.

So, there was a major anniversary for the movie Hackers and I forgot to post that one Urban Dance Squad song. I regret the error.

Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.

hey so this is insane

“Get Smart” premieres 60 years ago tonight, on NBC. “I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”

Inside a tumultuous summer at xAI, in which Elon Musk's demands to make Grok less "woke" and more viral led to chaos: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...

So, there's a group of people who say "This is not America". They pretty clearly mean that while America has long been a wildly imperfect representation of a noble ideal, we're now an imperfect representation of an ignoble one. There's a pedantic backlash against that phrase. It's...silly.

This was one of the points made by @pkrugman.bsky.social when he left the Times - the editorial page had a ton of pundits, but he had become the only policy analyst.

This is great news for people who want a COVID shot, but terrible news me, who now has to include like another entire chapter in my dissertation.

Disney's L'Affaire Kimmel, from A to Z -Station owner Nexstar's move forced Disney's play -Late night's weaker economics make it hard to defend -Disney has been in similar straits, with Bill Maher in 2001 -Hollywood feels chill in re: free expression variety.com/2025/tv/news...

They are now coming for milspouses. Have known of several families that had to move off the installation due to the conduct of a family member. The BIG difference was that conduct was always criminal, not protected speech.

Disney didn't watch Andor

News organizations are independent stakeholders from the state - they have different goals than the country they are from. The essence of a free press is the questions it asks do not reflect the state's interest.

Naming issue: You have a prominent state group widely known as Sandworm. You can't name something unrelated Shai-Hulud.

Sneakers is delightful in part because Robert Redford lets himself be an average-ish guy in over his head. Of his great movies, it's the only one he isn't a mythic figure.

I think the broader public doesn't understand that the military can't simply use lethal force whenever it wants. authorization is meant to flow down from the top and has to meet certain legal standards