Well, it’s not AI, it’s real and very embarrassing…..

“Among the disputed topics were whether jurors have children, connections to UnitedHealthcare, prior experiences with the criminal justice system, views about violent crime investigations and relationships with law enforcement.

good time for my country to be hemorrhaging science and engineering PhDs

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That's why I'm easy I'm easy like ditching MAGA variety.com/2026/music/n...

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It's not even as if Trump is actually trying to balance the budget. He's spending money as if it was going out of fashion! He's targeting poor people because he's an utter bastard who doesn't care about the USA or its people.

I keep trying to understand the logic behind threats like this — after months of reporting on the tariffs — and I realized there's no logic. It's just pure intimidation, spite and bullying; then genuine surprise at the disastrous results, months of chaos, and even worse approval ratings.

Beyond scary.. abcnews.com/Internationa...

Theres a long history of Nazis decamping to Argentina, so I'm sure he'll fit in just fine

Mamdani: "Govt efficiency — these are words that somehow have been understood as if they are R priorities, when in fact they're priorities of anyone who believes in the public sector. Any yet, Elon Musk used it to cut as many jobs that were as critical as possible for so many of the neediest people"

For this job managing the staff of a TV news show, they're going with someone without experience in management, TV, or news. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/b...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

As they aggressively weaponize federal law enforcement, President Donald Trump’s attorneys general are quickly amassing ethics complaints — and they don’t appear poised to stop anytime soon. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Yeah. We've noticed.

The Houston Chronicle has endorsed James Talarico — “The choice is obvious. Both Republicans & Democrats should prefer a servant leader over a self-serving crook”

🚨 Stephen Colbert’s emotional finale pulled 6.7 MILLION viewers… but the CBS show replacing him reportedly collapsed below 1 million in its debut. Now critics are calling the ratings disaster a complete humiliation for the network. 📺💥 #StephenColbert #CBS #LateNight

Maternal work and children’s development: A review | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Yikes www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/g...

It’s great when corporate pr statements read like the most banal supervillain lines in a very mid movie or series.

I want you to hear straight from me about what happened at Delaney Hall on Monday and what I saw inside the facility. ICE out of control. GEO Group profiting off of human misery. People living in inhumane conditions. Let me walk you through it.

Trump’s “Great American State Fair” is already falling apart. Artists are publicly backing out after saying they were never told it was a Trump-affiliated event. Morris Day and The Time withdrew, and Young MC says he’s out after learning of the political connection.

Peter Thiel is trending, so of course we're going to re-up this excerpt from Jonas Staal's brilliant book "Climate Propagandas" "For Thiel, the impending flooded world of climate collapse is not a catastrophe, but raw material for new geo-markets to emerge."

Seriously. Read this article.

I love my job and enjoy living close enough to go home for lunch, but man, sometimes it's really hard to go back to the office. 🪶

if only this worked

Bondi told CNN she was diagnosed after leaving the Justice Department.

A Federal Reserve survey finds more Americans going hungry now than during COVID. 10% of households are missing meals because they can’t afford it, & nearly 16% relied on food donations. In Augusta, GA, food banks have 2-to 3-mile lines and people sleeping in their cars. www.npr.org/2026/05/27/n...

Well, again, "AI" is just a marketing term encompassing multiple disciplines swept up in the rubric because there's money to be made in it. People saying something is "AI" and pointing to systems that robustly existing before The Great Marketing Rebrand need not be taken seriously.

CBS is leasing the time to Allen so they get paid no matter how badly the shows fare in the ratings. I wouldn't say CBS literally doesn't care how many people watch these shows or not, but, uh, at the very least, it's low on their list of priorities at least for the two years of the contract.

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Oh cool, my story Data Ghost made it to the notable list on the BASFF this year! (pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...)

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (4?) with askew pigtails is standing at her garden fence with her trusty (rather bedraggled) plushie racoon at her side. A pile of pinecones on the fence before her. Roaring to passers-by: "MAGIC PINECONES SALE! FIFTY CENTS!" (1)

A tiny human (2?) is showing a sales lady the bracelet she's wearing. Sales Lady says: "They're pretty colours aren't they?" Tiny Human says proudly: "Dad gave it to me so I wont tell anyone about his secret girlfriend." Sales Lady and Mum are now giving each other VERY strange looks indeed. (4)

Marco Rubio: "Let me explain this in simple English: Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.” That statement would have so much more gravitas if Rubio's own country wasn't also run by religious fanatic lunatics.

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

With Alt Text but I also do not understand why people become writers if they don't want to write. Like I didn't become an exterminator because I am afraid of rats. I don't knit because I don't like knitting. This isn't hard.

If Trump wants to be on US currency, he has 1 job to do 31 U.S.C. 5114 - explicitly states that only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on U.S. currency wapo.st/4fM4Hei

Bluesky isn't a bubble or an echo chamber, it's a garden. You plant some seeds and pull some weeds, you tend to it with care, and you make it into a space that pleases you when you come to sit in it a while. Other people can plant and tend to their own gardens, if they like. This garden is yours.

Elon Musk is publicly reframing xAI’s massive Anthropic compute deal as short-term and cancellable, despite SpaceX’s own S-1 filing describing payments through May 2029.

Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM [Discussion]

I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due

Trump may not have attended his son's wedding, but now we know his wedding present: $600 million of your tax dollars to one of his companies. The Trump family grift knows no bounds, and neither should our resolve to stop it. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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This is a detail that is not covered nearly enough. FOX continually highlights the same 16 detainees with criminal charges to paint the picture that what ICE is doing is the right thing to do. More reporting needs to be published about the high percentage of illegal holds of non-criminals.

I toured Auschwitz and remember very clearly a sign talking about the number of calories a prisoner received. That was absolutely the first thing I thought of when he said this. Some day there are going to be similar plaques about the atrocities at these places.

This “calorie standard” language is sinister as fuck. Basically we’re feeding them enough to stay alive but nothing more.

💀💀💀 "Exodus as stars pull out of Trump-linked 'Freedom 250' festival: 'Artists never told'" I knew Morris Day and the Time and Young MC would never do that shit. They were never even booked. 😂 Sad. Maybe, we can have Lee Greenwood sing "Proud to be an American" on a loop. Be best!