RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

I’m old enough to remember being told that The Market Optimizes For The Most Efficient Allocation Of Resources.

What if instead of shutting more and more human brains out of the intellectual machinery of invention and discovery, we, instead, oh, I dunno, just, shit, maybe just, let more people participate in the wider intellectual machinery of invention and discovery? We Are Not Running Out Of People.

I don't understand how we're 3 years into this snake oil boom and people still don't understand that LLMS DON'T HAVE IDEAS THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS

ATTACKED

John Oliver has said this explicitly FYI That without local news he couldn't do his show (and to his credit, he's pretty good about crediting his news sources)

A book is not a book is not a book. J.D. Connor points to print, audio, and image. A book is now all these things and more. Understanding the differences and affordances of each takes time, but will pay off for the rest of your life, not only in school.

1. When I want them to read a codex, I want them to read a codex. We will compare print to audio to image. That's my job. I have almost no say over modality now. 2. Certain texts—particularly reference books—are MUCH more useful on paper where info density and nonlinear search are better. >

Universities are increasingly jumping on the "one price course materials" scam in which students all pay the same fee and have access to digital versions of their reading. Maybe this is a good idea in a world where the biochem text is $250. I hate it for specific reasons. >

Make a Bond movie casual You Only Live Twice, or Once, or Whatever, Don't Worry About It

I have news for Republicans: ***This shipping operation is going to "lose more money" than the USPS.***

Home Depot Introduces New 12-Foot-Tall Baby Jesus Skeleton https://theonion.com/home-depot-introduces-new-12-foot-tall-baby-jesus-skele-1851069460/

Same energy

We were told that deporting 25 million people would lower the cost of housing. 🤔

Call me a nerd, but yesterday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania cited my reporting in a ruling against the DOJ in a case challenging Trump-era actions targeting transgender people. A reminder that this work really does matter.

just feeling more and more like it’s journalistic malpractice not to lead with the fact that the instructor in question is trans

And now there's officially a Tornado Warning out for Santa Cruz County for this offshore mini-supercell thunderstorm, which is likely producing a waterspout over water that could move inland as a tornado near Santa Cruz. #CAwx

I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.

Me communicating with the new Japanese users.

Here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-f...

Remember when they called it a "war on Christmas" for people to say "Happy Holidays" this time of year? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Presumably the way to think about this is that a lot of the "space jobs" (as if this was real) would be in mining and perhaps the analogy would be jobs on oil platforms. But, like, how many people at "peak oil" even were employed in this way...?

We could just take every penny from billionaires and not even use it for healthcare, maybe just taken them on principle.

Would you believe me if I told you Mark Cuban didn’t want a peer reviewed answer to his question from the top medical journal

Mandatory:

I agree with you in principle, I just need a detailed .pdf that lays out the political and policy path you propose, accounting for all possible contingencies. No, I will not fund your research into this matter.

This is a good Nittel Nacht take.

Mark Cuban could fund liberal Fox News without even noticing that he spent the money. It’s telling he never has.

We pass legislation and people like you pay more taxes to help the society that props you up.

Aaah yes the old “You all do the work for me because I’m way too busy counting my billions of dollars to look up what universal health care plans look like myself.” I’m happy to take a day to do the web search on this, Mark, for the low, low price of $1,000,000.

Aaah yes the old “You all do the work for me because I’m way too busy counting my billions of dollars to look up what universal health care plans look like myself.” I’m happy to take a day to do the web search on this, Mark, for the low, low price of $1,000,000.

Aaah yes the old “You all do the work for me because I’m way too busy counting my billions of dollars to look up what universal health care plans look like myself.” I’m happy to take a day to do the web search on this, Mark, for the low, low price of $1,000,000.

how did this guy run an investment bank?

As American as apple pie.

Next Christmas they're going to bring us Zwarte Piet in the U.S.

staffer: you talked to the little girls? trump: sure did, real fuckin creepy just like you asked staffer: what

You all wondered where the nautical habit of counting soles aboard a ship comes from.

When they tell you who they are, believe them.

That fascist has a point

lol

It never dawns on them that we were right precisely *because* of our personal, moral and political values.

Knock it off people.

wait what?

WAKE UP, PEOPLE

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

I have news for Republicans: ***This shipping operation is going to "lose more money" than the USPS.***

Just a flatly appalling ruling. lbpost.com/news/educati...

As American as apple pie.