LA people - any place you would recommend for dim sum / dumplings (around Brentwood, Westwood, or Santa Monica)?

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

are we sure that’s not rebecca romaine

The written analogy is when the structure and content matters and the exact wording isn’t really that big a deal. The hard work - and the part o actually enjoy - is structuring the argument and outline and logic, not really the filling in the words in between.

While providing tech support for my FIL: FIL: What's that screen? ME: The terminal. You should never use it. FIL: Never? ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself? FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

TO ALL FEDERAL WORKERS: if you were illegally fired today and have information of wrongdoing or abuse of power by the Trump Administration, our whistleblower tip line is open. We want to hear from you. All whistleblowers are federally protected.

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

Journalist here I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04 Reposts are appreciated!

Judge Xinis shows her frustration at the Trump DOJ. "See, Mr. Ensign, this is the problem that I have." She notes that her order demanded a witness who could deliver answers on Costa Rica. "You come today with a witness that knows nothing about Costa Rica."

Am I allowed to invoke the power of this song across NY fandoms? If so, Go Tigers. youtu.be/B0sy7y54XAE?...

The “Do Something” grifters blaming Democrats for Republicans’ refusal to seat Rep-Elect Grijalva… Why do you think she hasn’t suggested some secret way to get sworn in? Why do you think you know so much more about the situation than she does? Why do you think as little of her as Johnson does?

like are you kidding me with this shit? I've seen you people at bars and restaurants. you all talk like sociopathic pirates. are you kidding me with this shit?

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

I want everyone out there who looks down on faith in general to take a very close look at all of the faith leaders who are working tirelessly and putting themselves on the line to make the world better. Not all christians are evangelical, many actually take the new testament to heart.

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

I dismissed this piece as soon as I saw it claiming that AI was 40% of US GDP. A) on its face that is absurd and you should question it by default! And B) I read the link. The quote is “40 percent of current GDP could be substantially affected by generative AI.”

I should not get this much mileage out of a single comic panel. And yet.

That’d be at the entry to Arlington Cemetery. I don’t know that I can think of a place less appropriate for a triumphal arch.

Dayen links to Stoller in this piece above and apparently didn't think any of that was worth a mention Matt Stoller genuinely helped authoritarians get elected by helping them pretend they were/are serious about antitrust reform and reining in corporate power

NYC-area friends— @nyuengelberg.org's "Conspicuous Consumers" symposium is NEXT WEEK! Thu & Fri Oct 16 & 17! I'm moderating a panel on "The Consumer Scientist," exploring patients' use of technical information, w patient advocates & scholars! Mini-🧵 follows. Other exciting panels! Free! RSVP below!

Which leads me to an absolutely desperate plea: is there anyone in Japan who can collect this bag (not from Oshima [probably from Kyoto]) for us and send us the contents?

Three years into the AI Wars and not a single company has been brought down by copyright litigation. By this time into the P2P Wars, Napster had already been obliterated. When will the people who were assured that copyright would destroy AI realise they were lied to?

The indictment may relate to mortgage documents James co-signed to help her niece secure a loan for a property in Virginia. This @mollyroberts.bsky.social piece explains why it appears to be a pathetically weak case. (Fixed the link, sorry!) ⬇️ www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

Now remember that Judge Newman did *worse* on this test than Trump apparently did.

Interesting.

All conspiracy theories eventually lead to antisemitism.

That chant is a banger. Now we gotta get it to the front lines on the Portland front, where it can be shouted by someone wearing an inflatable dinosaur suit.

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

"Hell Is a World Without You," (2024) No for real, almost this exact thing happening a few decades prior is what inspired that book. Even happens to be set in Central PA tbh

Important news for my fellow staunch #3A boosters. Our time has come!

I suspect coverage of this will focus on the “no shooting journalists and priests and protesters” part, but don’t undersell the last piece requiring uniformed federal folks to wear visible identification - at a minimum, a unique alphanumeric sequence.

Okay it is a *little* funny that Trump went to bat harder for Bolsonaro than Bibi over their respective legal issues.

Are you a lawyer? Do you enjoy working on small teams tackling big things? We’re hiring a senior counsel. jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

Hasan Piker is a piece of shit (not news) but using a shock collar on the highest setting (they're for alerting your dog, it should never get a pain/fear response) because it sets one paw outside of its teeny tiny dog bed as it tries to stretch while on multi-hour streams? Pure asshole behavior.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

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Jeffries to Lawler: "You're a complete and total embarrassment. You're embarrassing yourself and your district right now. And you're going down to defeat next year."

I don’t know that there’s a good one about where I’m from, but I know exactly how to pronounce voir dire if I’m in court in Texas.

As a fun reminder, the paper to come out with the first hard evidence that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs didn't come until 1980 *and* the Chicxulub crater wasn't officially identified as the source until 1990 (despite its discovery in 1978).

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

i want to keep writing about the relationship between grief/death/what we leave on the internet + AI so if you're a grief counselor, IP lawyer, mental health professional who knows stuff about the internet, AI researcher who knows stuff about implications of deepfakes... hmu [email protected]

LDN 889 in h-alpha, colorized. Bit under 4 hours of exposure time. app.astrobin.com?i=ggqww1

Pacman Nebula on sHO. Shot over 32 hours across the last five nights. app.astrobin.com/u/radiationn...

The system Bluesky uses, where machine learning classifiers take a first pass at image classification and humans deal with any appealed labels, is the industry standard for a reason. If you think a post of yours is mislabeled, tap the label to appeal it.

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.