It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

In his keynote speech to Harvard graduates this week, @thedailyshow.com host Ronny Chieng said "Fuck AI!" Turns out you can talk about AI in a grad speech and not get booed. Watch our episode on these AI grad speeches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0E...

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I think a lot of people who obsess over Disco Elysium should spend less time litigating its legacy and play another game, like Norco, which is a masterpiece that not enough people played.

Anyone could do it

finally finished this one 🧡 #commission #BossRushFriday 🪅🦜

everyone's an adult what even is happening lol. we turned into such a child civilization, having imbibed only the media and philosophy for children and anyone who remembered the adult world has long since died. eternal adolsecence.

Ambrose Bierce is Mark Twain's Wario

Caves of Qud

I do not feel represented by my government. Just saying.

In fifty years when people look back at the past decade or so, the big world-changing technological innovation won't be the chatbot slop machines, it'll be mRNA.

On this day, 1865: the last Confederate flag, a white dish towel.

Imagining some different worlds and what it might take to get to them.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. I'm not a huge decorum guy but I do find myself nostalgic for the version of confrontations between states that did not feature emojis

If Congress doesn't impeach this guy they're basically abolishing themselves

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Here are federal employee responses, sorted by dept/agency, to the question about whether their organization's political leaders "maintain high standards of integrity." Results are abysmal. In no agency do even 20% of respondents say their top leaders have integrity

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, younger generations aren’t ruining industries, they simply can’t afford to participate in them. Billionaires have their own planes and their own vacation homes. The travel industry relies on regular people having free time and money to spend vacationing.

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart

One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

This is why you can't afford RAM anymore

Disheartening to learn that after 18 years, founder Ken-ichi Ueda has left iNaturalist, citing irreconcilable differences in the direction of the company. kueda.net/blog/2026/01... He has a Patreon while he figures out his next move: www.patreon.com/cw/kueda

my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.

“An AI scientist, for example, could figure out how the human brain works, or deliver any gene to any cell in the body.” Yeah and a magic pony could shit bricks of 24k gold and piss a highly concentrated solution of pure heroin.

This is slavery.

i recognize it's just a performance arts center and we've all collectively stopped giving a shit but changing the signage of the kennedy center is explicitly prohibited by law

Repost if you're tired

Jones' announcement likely sets up a rematch with Tommy Tuberville, who defeated Jones for U.S. Senate in 2020. Jones said Alabamians "want their next governor to be someone who treats this state with grace and dignity, and not just like a rest stop on the way to the Florida beach."

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

how do the End Times Left Behind crowd not clock this level of obvious Antichrist behavior (i wonder, having grown up as an End Times Left Behind crowd kid and young adult)

I'd like it if things chilled out nationwide while I run some errands

The thing about PBS is that LeVar Burton was to me what MrBeast is to kids today.

9/11

I grew up in rural South Carolina with a single mom who worked multiple jobs. At times, we relied on Medicaid and SNAP—like so many others. My heart breaks for those now wondering if that help will still be there. Imagine having all that power and choosing to make people’s lives worse. Shameful.

I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.

somebody should draw up articles of impeachment over this immediately. I don’t think it’ll happen because we’re too worried about a rally-round-the-flag effect that won’t happen and it’d be a coalition splitter for that reason. but it should

It’s not simply doing this, or doing it without congressional approval, or doing it without explanation of risks, or doing it without declaration of war, or doing it on behalf of an ally mid-genocide. It’s the fickleness that suggests what’s to come. Rule, war, death by his whim.

this is what Hakeem fucking Jeffries should be saying

They cut everything to the bone. People's kids are going hungry. National parks are under threat. All under the pretense of necessity. And then millions are spent on this? A party no one came to? Restoring every DOGE cut and employee line is my #1 demand for whatever elections come next.

we’re reaching insane levels of caring about meaningless shit

This is only a slight exaggeration: they basically don’t think that subject matter expertise is real because every scientific discipline uses symbolic math and programming as tools at the highest level, so therefore people good at those things understand everything and don’t need anyone else.