more here www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

Who's this? Mediocre intellect, nepo baby, wrapping anti-scientific positions in populist language and "questioning the establishment," found a political patron who values loyalty and flattery over expertise. ... Talking about Trofim Lysenko ofc! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_...

Eva Silverstein, a physicist at Stanford University, co-authored a 2021 paper that has inspired several recent reformulations of string theory.

Some reporters are just incapable of understanding that not everyone who pivots is pivoting towards the middle. She’s pivoting in a way that allows her to be the chosen candidate of Nick Fuentes. She’s using you!

So umm... Recent news has been making me start to think that maybe, perhaps even, NYT journalists might be a bit too cozy with some of their richest and most powerful subjects.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

The entire pundit class has convinced people for so long that their “analysis” was somehow necessary and valuable when in reality it was just a con game to manufacture consent for bias-confirming “strategies” that only benefited the capitalist class and guaranteed pundits career security.

AWS having a massive outage on Diwali just feels fucking racist.

as soon as there's evidence the shooter's identity isn't easy to weaponize things magically become complicated

How 1975 is the movie Night Moves (1975)? There is post-coital fondue

Unpopular opinion: I think as a society we overcorrected a bit on suppressing shame. Not in all areas mind you, but in some like lacking basic human empathy or not even pretending to have some, we should shame people a lot more for that.

I am serious if you moved to Austin during COVID it's time to leave. If you are considering a job offer in TX, reconsider. Single, married, male, female, heteronormative or LGBT it doesn't matter anymore, it's not worth it.

Listen to American Shrapnel, a podcast by John Archibald one of the best journalists anywhere in the country (based out of Birmingham, AL) Apologies for the Spotify link, but seriously this is a hell of a work of journalism. open.spotify.com/show/1AEV9Sg...

This shit builds, and the end... (ಥ﹏ಥ)

Corporations are people, except when it comes to personal responsibility.

i think cuban understands the situation like the democrats and republicans are competing businesses who each run their own federal government, and not that the democrats are currently a powerless opposition inside the single federal government that exists bsky.app/profile/chri...

i think about the Vitamin approximately once a day. this is the best way i know to communicate what it feels like to exist

Such sad news. Bill was a tireless advocate for and practitioner of fearless public media. His curiosity was boundless and he believed deeply in journalism's power to serve democracy and enrich people's lives. He was so generous in talking to me about the need for a new public media system. RIP.

I am old enough to remember when the GOP used to at least pretend to admire good people like Fred Rogers.

I guess you could say the people who thought Andrew Cuomo ran a better campaign than Zohran Mamdani were sequestered in echo chambers and out of touch with what people offline wanted out of a candidate

I know plenty of ink has probably been spilled on this, but I feel like America's sports obsession with all games (even regular season) having a definitive winner says a lot about our culture. The idea that so much effort can be expenses without a definitive outcome just seems to break our brains.

“DEI” wth a hard R

RIP to Bernard Kerik, a man whose life stands as proof of concept re: what Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant would have been like had it been a six-season series on FX.

So weird to me, like every other day I see a headline like "Kanye's Wife Bianca Seen Nearly Naked..." Just seems as this point we should all just assume she's always nekked. Like lmk if she puts on a sweat suit or something.

And to compound it, the resources that SHOULD be going to talented individuals are being funneled into this Sunk Cost Machine in an attempt to replace said talented individuals.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

vaccines are miracles! we should talk about them like sci fi cyberpunk implants. you know what's more impressive than titanium bones? Immunity to the diseases that wiped out entire chunks of generations in every period of history previous to this one.

Depends on the day

"'If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck,' you see where I am going with this?" ... "It's a socialist duck hologram!"

begging for money on the internet after calling a child racial slurs? these are gutter people raised in gutter families with a rotten, rancid culture

Whoops!

Small nitpick I realize, but it sucks how we get a full-on fascist in power we don't even get ANY trains, much less ones that run on time.

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I don't know much about federal facilities in Wyoming, but this particular building popped out to me, lol

The Cybertruck is the perfect symbol. Ugly fashwave design forced on us by an oligarch, despite the objections of experts. Poor quality and utility for its stated purpose, constant maint. nightmare, that puts those who embrace it and those who reject it in danger as pieces come flying off at speed.

Sucks that wfh while CEOs and middle management types are champing at the bit to go BTO[!!] is that if you are a good worker who is present and working 40+ hours a week while remote, you feel extra implicit pressure to be available 24/7 lest you be seen as slacking and doing "Costco run Fridays".

gonna just keep this response on hand for the next several years

I had a weird dream that was a replay of this last election but Democrats ran like the most normal 40 year old white guy ever, and they still lost.

You ever finish taking a really big dump, and think to yourself, finally I accomplished something today?

Besides, if they're serious about pushing atProto & really want this to be social's email or rss, then it's natural to tell problem users "your presence distracts from our goals & wastes our resources, but your exit would prove our thesis: go start your own instance. Too bad if everyone blocks it."

Got blocked by someone for saying that Bernie winning the primary in 2016 would have probably saved us from the nightmare we live in now, and I never even voted for him in a primary. I realize now just how many people want change and don't care about labels or ideology that much. I mean block away.