Bill Cassidy should be required to have this shit framed and hung where he can see it every time he sits at his desk this is the bargain you made, asshole you knew better and you did this to the rest of us anyway

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I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.

Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance. Trans people and their human rights are under attack around the globe. The Vagina Museum stands defiant against these attacks. We are a proudly trans inclusive space, even as discourse grows ever more toxic.

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

Mark Epstein: "You know, they used to fly in each other's planes. ... They say Donald was on Jeff's plane like seven times, but... have they checked Donald's flight logs from those days to see how many times Jeffrey was on [Donald Trump's] plane? ...

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

Indeed. They have summer and winter courts for a reason.

Now I have the idea of fae realizing humans automatically click the "I read & agree to the terms & conditions" button. They would own every human within 2 weeks. So...do fae own Google? Is that why they removed "don't be evil" from their bylaws? That's not AI, that's fae still learning glamor.

If anyone is now feeling inspired to seek out fae tech stories, "A Local Habitation" (October Daye 2) by Seanan McGuire has passages like this:

Clearly they haven't seen the Fae license agreement. Thank them the wrong way and they might own your baby.

I would argue the fae aren't open source, they are closed fairy circle

fantasy novel where the fae are introduced to the concept of open source and it causes one million problems for everyone

"In my timeless realm," whispered the queen, "there is an infinity of IFs, any IF you can imagine and more! - and we care not for THEN."

“.. the chipmaker reminded investors that there’s a big difference between an announcement and a contract.” @cnbc.com $NVDA www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/n...

"It’s hard to overstate how unlikely it is that a business with almost $200bn of annual revenue would grow at a rate of over 60 per cent. Yet such are the fantastical finances of Nvidia." from an excellent FT Lex note www.ft.com/content/bd6f...

Why is South Park is covering tech politics better than every major US newpaper, magazine and cable news network combined?

The Washington Post, everyone!

It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer… I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

Larry Summers to retire to spend more time with the family that he was doggedly trying to be unfaithful to

I’m really enjoying the downfall of Larry Summers. He deserves every humiliation he is getting. And those if you know me know I don’t say that about people. Gift Link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

I have found the best pigeon.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

Cormorant #birds #photography

Personalized gold bars from the Swiss. Used jumbo jet from Qatar. Huge amounts of $$$ from crypto. The amount of corruption in the White House is at unconscionable levels. We need some real serious ethics across the federal government.

Woop! I have been "selected to participate in Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)'s Kindle Translate beta" which is Amazon's new AI-powered translation service, and apparently they'd "love to hear" what I think about this! Well, they're going to hear it. Whether they will love it...

Epstein survivors have been fighting since 1996. THEY are the reason anything has come to light.

Tressie have you seen the new robots with boobs but no face? They don’t hide it at all. “He also admitted that the company would likely be able to sell more robots that are ‘good looking’ and ‘more intimate.’”

Sex. They want sex robots.

Oh my goodness. My friends at the local animal shelter where I volunteer just sent me this photo - they had a memorial tag made for Fergus and hung it outside. 😭

The common good is a set of shared commitments. To the rule of law. To democracy. To tolerance. To equal opportunity. To upholding the truth. We cannot have a functioning society without these shared commitments.

Anyway is it just me or has the rate of GitHub outages been ticking up significantly over time

Remember when the Internet could go for weeks or even months without a major outage? That was cool. It's almost like we've unlearned how to do this right. In the past couple weeks: AWS, Azure, Cloudflare… git at GitHub is currently down.

I just saw a US Senator compare buying healthcare to buying shampoo so please forward my mail to the bottom of Lake Superior

in the beginning, god created rock and roll, but the angels played fat power chords and tasty riffs that were too fucking sick for heaven, and lo, lucifer was sent to shred in hell

they also own krispy kreme, stumptown coffee, and einstein bros bagels

If you have more than 10k followers mutuals should be able to hit a “you’re being weird” button and once it gets to 50 clicks in 24 hours it sends you a pop up like “your friends are concerned. Maybe log off”

Sigh

'You are enough.' Transgender Iowa student's family speaks out about bullying after suicide www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...

If you cannot at the very least call your students by their correct name and pronouns (correct=what student says is correct), you are not cut out to be a teacher and should find another occupation. Seriously, teachers owe their students that minimal level of respect.

“Elite” is a pretty contested term and seems to shift between referring to a fairly small group to referring to anyone with a college degree and white collar employment. But Larry Summers really is a useful exemplar. There’s people like him that just get to sit at every single table somehow.

Does anyone remember that creepy essay a few years ago about how mentoring a student has an inherently sexual component??

Is there a single pedophile they won't protect?

How on earth is a female student going to get an equal education in this class, having seen in writing that he recently used his position to attempt to extract a "relationship" from a female colleague, and sought advice from a convicted predator about how to do so?

Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students

Maya in 1933: "I met the publisher responsible for Der Stürmer and its publication of Jewish crimes. They told me how they they didn't want Jewish crimes recorded as German crime so they set up the publication to ensure accuracy to the Volksgemeinschaft."