You know, I'm really sick of hearing about Platner, but then I reflect on how many deaths the policies Collins has voted for have caused. A pox on both their houses.

Since I saw someone else caption their choices (top 15 TV shows, by instinct) with their country and it was interesting, here's the country of origin for each of mine, respectively US Germany Italy Germany US US UK Japan Italy Japan US US US Japan US

How does your brain know that a cat is a cat? Your brain is a category generator. A conversation with @earlkmiller.bsky.social about our new paper in Nature Reviews: Neuroscience. In Nautilus @nautil.us (thanks Kristen French!). nautil.us/how-does-you... #neuroscience @nature.com

Brunch exists solely to give white Protestants cover for eating lunch-coded food earlier in the day. They need it because they fear the power each of us has over our own destiny

the Batman: TAS approach. i like that!

the nanosecond my daughter sees her she's like "Dad shut up. my FRIEND is speaking and she has crucially important things to say. we are studying high five theory"

Oh my goodness, I read this to my wife (ironically, as our toddler was watching Ms. Rachel) and we could not stop laughing.

I wonder if this fact, which was completely known at the time, might have informed media coverage of Trump's/the GOP's lies about the JCPOA, from publications such as the New York Times? Instead, here is how the NYT sanewashed & stenographized all of this in...2018:

the greatest Bill Maher takedown of all time remains theonion.com/bill-maher-s...

It wasn’t just about the wasted space, of course. There was this sad, double-voiced nostalgia — malls were both a public space and a simulacrum of a public space. Malls were inauthentic third places made emotionally authentic because people instinctively manufacture community.

I think you should be able to collect a mushroom to allow you a one time increase in speed

Cassian Andor is a murderer and a threat to the Empire.

He sounds like he's down a LLM hole. Probably it is just people close to him sending him this stuff though, like one of those boomer chain emails about Chinese troops massing on the Mexican border.

Absolute long shot ask here but if anyone has been the victim of a romance scam/catfishing and is open to talking to a journalist about it shoot me a DM. (Also please repost this so it gets a broad audience)

“Will stancil”?? what are you talking about? It’s 1999. The Budweiser wazzup commercial is a phenomenon and the sexiest man alive is Richard Gere. A new millennium is near, nothing cataclysmic to american innocence could possibly be on the horizon

Andor asks, what if 9/11 was done by these two people

LLMs have been widely reported as left-wing biased. The finding has shaped policy and debate — with Trump banning "Woke AI". Our new paper challenges this story. It's not that the models are biased. It's that they think the auditor is. 🧵 w/ michelleschimmel.bsky.social‬arxiv.org/pdf/2604.27633

She had a rocky start, but the idea Kemi is a bad leader is increasingly hard to stand up. She's beating every other leader in head-to-heads. Her personal net approval rating is amongst the best. The issue is not her, but that she's dragged down by the Conservatives' record.

Getaloada this #BrokenTimes headline. It poses a question, answers the question with data, but then speculates a different answer this time, for its bête noire, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

when I was in undergrad I felt that professors who ran discussion-based classes were lazy. but now that I’m a professor I realize it’s much harder to facilitate a generative discussion than to lecture.

“Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz,” says Bill McKibben.

ISAAC CHOTINER: So, the food bowl. It's empty, you say? CAT: That's right. IC: And has it ever not been empty? C: Not that I can recall, no, it has not. IC: Fascinating. And this bit of food caught in your whiskers, where would you say that's- C: Now hold on, this is about the bowl, not

This is a point @arbitorian.bsky.social has made and I thoroughly agree with. The Kin (and maybe also Tau but more directly the Kin) are narratively important because they make concrete that the Imperium really doesn't actually have to be that way, straightforwardly better things are possible.

Addendum: a joke here could be that it requires a society of clones and robots for marxist-leninism to unironically work.

At the end, they represent a wholly different direction humanity could have taken and a total rebuke of the IoM’s religio-fascism.

Long March fleets, or th Urani-Surtr Regulates (URSR, dyslexia!) being more closed than other leagues and supposedly housing the first Votann. I mean, “Luck has, need keeps, toil earns” is just a fire way of restating “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs”.

Hypercapitalist while they’re absolutely dripping with left-coded (and not so coded!) lore. Going off of both the codex and the lexicanum page, they have both a bottom up social organization (kindred —> league) while relying on central planning , all actions and decisions are made with the 2/

Totally! I think it stems from everybody taking the Tau “for the greater good” as proof that they’re communist (because of course such calls for collective benefit aren’t represented at all throughout the political spectrum) while the Kin’s pragmatism and resource acquisition are seen as 1/

we're kind of at the point at which its a marvel he's even doing the "equal opportunity alpha" thing

It was really easy to claim I/P had nearly no bearing on affordability politics a few months ago. Very hard to do that now!

the nyt is just newsmax for people who can pronounce prosciutto

IT'S THE WRONG TROUSERS GROMIT

Teach modern knitting techniques w/ knit & pearl. When the 👀 😍 from that gets them to believe I really am from a land w/ exciting advanced knowledge, teach pasteurization, hand-washing, & dietary treatment for gout. Once they see thise work, try my darndest to teach that lead & mercury are poisons.

Talking to the rest of us must be perplexing when we will simultaneously be really familiar with their world and completely detached from it. Any random European might well know who Stacey Abrams is but have never heard of Hannah Montana.

I once was walking home and a guy was talking loudly on his phone. "How are they going to charge me with murder if they don't have a body? How? No, they're not going to find it. Trust me, they'll never find it."

man, nobody has opsec. you can go to DC and hear people talking about stuff on the next table that should be confidential!

Traveling back in time to tell a medieval peasant that dragons aren't real but dinosaurs are, or were, except they died, and they're a totally different thing actually.

it is racial discrimination to try ensure that the representation of a minority group is roughly in line with its proportion of the state’s population. it is equal protection to allow a state to obliterate a minority group’s representation.

this line from alito’s opinion, that the question before the court was “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act should be added to our very short list of compelling interests that can justify racial discrimination,” is truly orwellian

Ah but she's worth every penny www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

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This week on the blog! Delving deeper into Carthaginian armies, we're looking at how Carthage got its Numidian cavalry and *enormous* amounts of Iberian infantry (and some cavalry too). Over a third of Carthaginian manpower in the 2nd Punic War came from these 'vassals.' acoup.blog/2026/05/01/c...

And look, I'm a history undergrad too. But I don't think having read a lot about Hayek and Oakeshott would qualify me to use algorithms to replace all human political interaction.

If you see this, post a bird!

this is my ministry. make hobbies leftist again bsky.app/profile/noam...

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

If I have one philosophical commitment about consciousness, it’s this: no one has ever encountered a quale, and the search for qualia has always been a snipe hunt.

I can’t keep up.