its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Just signed up for a year, looking forward to good journalism that also gives Bezos a 🖕

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Reminder, here is how Skeleton is scored: - the bones are their money - so are the worms - the bones equal dollars - they will pull your hair up but not out - all they want is another chance at life

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

JUSTIFIED “FUCK ICE” CHANTS #AEWDynamite

The Georgia Democrats didn't just destroy Derek Dooley they buried him 100 feet under the earth.

This is a phenomenal breakdown, and should be required reading for everyone in the Democratic leadership. And while the situation may not be as dire here as in the US, I 100% extend that sentiment to the NDP in Canada as well

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

The NFL’s billionaire owners literally can’t lose when it comes to making money. On the field? That’s another matter. buff.ly/hQpJNcL

Chotiner shot that man right in the face with his own gun and he never heard the *click*.

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

I am dragging my anchor

NETFLIX: can we please change the name of Detective Hole so our English-speaking audiences don’t make fun of this show NORWEGIAN CRIME AUTHOR JO NESBØ: nø

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

Sincerely love that the chuds think this is all based on folks in Minnesota reading the works of Uncle Ho, rather than being built on the same social structures that organize the annual spaghetti fundraiser

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

That may be the single dumbest penalty I've ever seen in my life, what were you *thinking*

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Last week, I asked my 20 undergrad students who had checked out a physical book from the library and only 2 raised their hands. So today, we went to the library to change that. Here’s what I learned:

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

This is a fascinating take on the exam process and just generally working with students in the age of GenAI constantly being shoved down everyone's throat: ploum.net/2026-01-19-e...

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

Chuckling at the people in the U.S. who consistently shit on people who live in "red" states... Well according to others in the world, the entire US is now a "red" state. Not so easy to overthrow authoritarians, is it?

“Give us a chance to give [Trump] a way out of this that comes to the right ending. … I don’t know if that’s possible.” - @durbin.senate.gov to Danes in Europe. Can the Senate Dems sound any more limp, facile and impotent to Europeans across the Atlantic?

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Copy/pasting from mastodon: Federal petition requiring Canadian media to be majority Canadian owned (like current Telco requirements.) www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Twin Cities Leather (and adult toy store Smitten Kitten) have stopped regular operations to become a staging and delivery space for food and supply donations- they are requesting monetary donations to keep them afloat without any income www.paypal.com/paypalme/kpa...

voteyesornoai.com/vote/results lmao at these results

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

a start

This. I am done returning to the status quo of what got us here. I want universal healthcare. I want a maximum wage tied to the minimum wage. I want omnipresent, cheap public transit and walkable neighborhoods. I want Supreme Court and police reform, and I want the rich to pay their fair share.

from Tony Statovci (tonystatovci on tiktok/youtube and other socials, assuming also @tonystatovci.bsky.social though not active on here yet)

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

there was a news editor in brazil who thought news were getting too dire and ppl and decided to create the “good news day”, an annual event dedicated only to good news, and that day was also september 11th 2001. cracks me up everytime i think about it

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

Only watched Red Zone today, which of course gives a limited view of a game, but where the hell was the Bears run game today?

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

thinking about how, in the Russian history elective I took in HS, every time a tsar was facing domestic weakness the teacher would turn to the assembled students and ask "so what is it time for?" and we would chant "stunning territorial annexation!" and she would respond "well, DUH, girls"

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize