At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Recent sales history on Reverb of a pedal I bought for $200 in like 1998. WTF, nerds. Any guesses?

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

/ps If somehow twin studies never happened and we started here: among siblings, genes account for 10% of the variance at the most abstract level, and 2% on the ground, people would have shrugged and said, that sounds about right. The whole modern nature-nurture debate wouldn't have happened.

You mean selling fetus optimization to dumb rich people isn't the legit business it sounds like?

lol

An Arizona man is facing felony charges for threatening to shoot up a gay bar to avenge Charlie Kirk. He was convinced the shooter had "transgender ideology." Fortunately, he was stopped, but this is on the media for running with the erroneous WSJ reporting. www.azfamily.com/2025/09/19/p...

"The multi-millionaire pundit with a column and podcast and network who comes to a university and says some students don’t belong there is the free speech hero; the students in question who protest the pundit and say he or she shouldn’t be there are villains."

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Weird to watch in horror as the US Constitution gets diminished every day and then remember that here in Canada, any provincial govt can suspend your Charter rights as long as they really really want to. This is considered the sophisticated constitutionalist position. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead. We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

Sanctified emblem of the American right.

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

Umberto Eco: "Universal Fascism" (link in ALT)

This has really crystallized for me the fact that a great many MAGA Republicans have invented their own new religious movement, which has absorbed Christian symbols for legitimation purposes, but stands far outside Christianity in order to literally sacralize their politics and deify politicians.

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

Didn’t the Soviets build Bagram?

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

And in the arbitrary and capricious Trump World, you can ask the Secretary of Puppy Killing, err, DHS for a waiver. But companies like Tesla are the ones that will get the waiver, universities won't, and know not to bother trying.

You can teach at a university on a J1, but you CAN NOT be hired for a tenure track position on one, only just be here for a couple of years. Tenure track can only be H1B or existing green-card.

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

2/ do I think that I’ll mostly agree with @sykescharlie.bsky.social or @radiofreetom.bsky.social or @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social or @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social or @igd.bsky.social if we survive this assault on our liberties? No. But let’s get to a future where we can freely argue over it.

1/ I really want to urge people to understand that relatively minor differences: too far/not far enough left; abundance vs monopoly; bad headlines or blind spots in last few MSM cos doing good work; your ideal candidate vs not that—all irrelevant compared to uniting against authoritarianism.

"Claim scientists [whose VC pitch we keep print uncritically as if it's real news]."

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

What is the journalistic value of just printing a political candidate's claim that crime is way up? It's a factual question (it's not way up, except in the fevered imaginations of suburban Facebook groups). www.montrealgazette.com/news/local-p...

I only read what Steven Pinker says about academic freedom, so I am assuming all of these people are STEM researchers and economists fired by graduate students who read too much Foucault.

We've crossed the Cruz horizon.

Second half barely started and Canada scores again. 31-7. This is amazing.

Ray-Ban marketing meeting of experts in coolness: "What if we partnered with the second most despised dweeb on Earth."

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

The fact that you can be a scientist and have absolutely zero clue about how what you do is part of culture and society, 70 years after Merton and 50 years after Latour, never ceases to baffle me

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Judge:

This ☝🏽 💯 If 🇨🇦 created a thriving research environment by investing in tri-council & ditching the PJT focused approach that kills investment in long term programs - we would ATTRACT international talent vs bribing them to move here; to only leave later when they see there’s no sustainable funding!

Weird article to write without mentioning the Constitution.

In that sense, the modern celebrity is often an ambulant mannequin or advertisement, which is very distinct from these men, whose sense of taste was a reflection of them as people.

Même si les scientifiques répètent depuis plusieurs années que la lutte contre la crise climatique impose une sortie des énergies fossiles, le gouvernement de Mark Carney a déjà fait valoir son soutien à l’industrie. www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...

The counterclaim seems to be that Kirk didn’t mean he personally wanted stone gay people to death, just that he thought it would be a good thing, and that that’s just another opinion that ought to be an acceptable part of mainstream policy discourse

New York Times: "Trump Administration Wields Its Full Toolbox to Bring Media to Heel." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b... AP: “Trump’s moves against the media mirror approaches by authoritarian leaders to silence dissent.” apnews.com/article/trum...

We still occasionally get good things.

Morality lectures from a guy who moved $57M of church money into a trust to avoid payouts to Catholic church abuse victims.

A research environment so great, you brag about bribing people to join it. Canadian science policy in a nuthsell.

Remind me again what counts as "political violence" we are all supposed to abhor.

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