The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The ‘Gordon Brown sold our gold’ people ignore this stuff.

Not convinced that she is actually at university to learn ‘how to think not what to think’ if I’m honest.

New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

‘The Golden Fleet’ sounds like something which is going to get brutally destroyed in a fantasy novel.

Olivia Nuzzi what have you done

Somehow missed this when it came out.

kinda of a major oversight by elon musk not to plant his flag on the nuclear fusion scam before trump got there

Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.

Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population

A good guiding principle for the editor in chief at a major media organisation would be ‘When they make a movie about this decision will I be the hero or the villain?’

The degree of ‘over compliance’ has been a scandal for years.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

I have just discovered this is a genuine plan and not satire.

Not just about lying - but sometimes the crucial thing is figuring out what wasn’t written down and why.

Clever strategy, sir

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Hilarious that Tesla are doing a victory lap that they ‘kept driving’ when Waymos were stopped by the power outage in SF. Because every Tesla in SF still has a human behind the wheel. Because they aren’t actually autonomous.

The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.

Sad to be skeptical about this.

Quite an incredible life story.

"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth... "It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Remember: Type out "Trump" and put a space at the end.

As Labour announce they’ll ban trail hunting, man in Barbour jacket and mustard trousers accuses them of being out of touch with public: www.bbc.com/news/article...

White men in the USA- that horribly opressed group to which the President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Leader, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, richest person in the world, second richest person in the world, third richest - you get the picture…

I see a lot of people celebrating violence against Andrew Tate and Jake Paul and really we should be better than... Oh who am I kidding get Tommy Robinson in a ring with Oleksandr Usyk.

Also I can’t use an LLM to raise the height of my laptop on my desk. So there.

The funniest thing is that Trump is by any definition not a ‘heritage’ American. No grandparents born in USA and no grandparents who spoke English as their first language (Mother‘s parents spoke Gaelic). This is unique amongst US Presidents. (Obama’s mother’s family traced back to the Pilgrims).

Watching Gremlins (1984) with the eldest. I hate to point this out but early in Gremlins, It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) is on TV. We are now further away from Gremlins than Gremlins was from It’s A Wonderful Life. Sorry.

Over in the bad place someone has used AI to correct the perspective on a dire painting by Adolf Hitler which pretty much sums up what that place is now.

TBF the ‘massive redactions at the behest of dodgy AG‘ tactic worked pretty well for the release of the Mueller Report so it isn’t surprising they tried it again.

This is going to be my forever meme for people arguing with experts on the Internet.

Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers Me:

Ok I’m a bit disturbed that I’m now significantly older than Leo McGarry.

Privateering was first renounced at the instigation of the leading naval power of the nineteenth century - it is perverse and silly for the leading naval power of the twenty first century to open the door to it.

Not sure why this came to mind…

This really needs to be an attack ad. Just line up the people who were defrauded and then the fraudsters contributions to get a pardon.

Merry Christmas and seasons greetings to one and all!

Insane woman who made a fundamental mistake in her doctorate not hired for prestigious academic post shock. (There is literally no ‘minority hire’ who could have been more embarrassing - if this is true- which given the source...)

I’m not a trained Ancient Historian and I have negligible Latin but I know enough to know that you can’t mine the ‘Historia Augusta’ for ‘facts’ about third century Emperors. That is like using ‘1066 and all that‘ as a primary source for eighteenth century England.

I would like to re-up this as there are 4 more weeks to hand in an application for this PhD position on the "hunger blockade" @uni-freiburg.de

@theonion.com - this you?

Sid James is why this movie is sometimes called ‘Carry on trying not to explode’…

HOW WILL WE LEARNE THINGES? Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun? HOW ABOUT WE MAKE A MACHYNE THAT DOTH KNOWE STUFFE Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun? AND IT DOTH STEALE & HURT THE EARTHE Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun? YEAH THE MACHYNE

THIS

count him back in...

Broke: You can be an expert on Roman History reading primary texts in translation. Woke: You can’t be an expert on Roman history without knowing 100 years of historiography and Latin. Bespoke: Just knowing Latin is fine for medievalists but proper Roman historians need to be able to read Greek.

This is where I finally learn at age 60 that condensed milk and evaporated milk are not the same thing!