ABC reports that Mike Flynn’s reward for committing crimes for Trump will be $1.2M. abcnews.com/US/doj-pay-t...

I used to sit in the front row with this lady and her kids at the Barclays Center for RAW and SD. She never said a word to me but always came across as if she was better than everyone else. Her kids were nice though and we would make small talk. #WWE #wrestlesky

Hmm...this is a question. Gaiman unquestionably far worse in his private life to people he personally knew and had relationships with. But given that Rowling seems to have decided to put all her money into being a bigot, she's probably worse in a public sense.

Not to keep bringing up the fact that I mainlined the Xanth books in fifth grade but I mainlined the Xanth books in fifth grade.

and obviously you SHOULD NOT WATCH THE SHOW. I all-capsed that because watching it, at this point, is obviously an immoral act. but what I am saying here is: in addition to being moral by not watching the show, you are also not going to be wasting your time on what is clearly a tired retread

That's a "Clooney's acting income is a rounding error on his Casamigos money" number.

This is genuinely a bombshell. All courthouse arrests should cease immediately. There should be a Congressional investigation & civil rights actions for every illegal abduction of immigrants trying to follow the rules and appear in court. (2/2)

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

Being the brain-drain destination was of questionable moral valence but was an unalloyed material benefit to us. Absolute idiot shit.

If I knew viewing Guernica would put money directly into the pockets of a still living Pablo Picasso, who had announced publicly that he would be using that money to terrorize, harm, and kill women, not only would I not go view Guernica, it would fundamentally change the meaning of Guernica as art.

On my first read, I think the decision provides clarity on contributory copyright infringement. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

We have to stop him. This has to be an epic flop or they're going to let him adapt the Silmarillion. People will die.

The postliberals want us to be a monarchy, and somehow went directly for the "idiot failson who precipitates imperial decline with debauchery and dumbass wars" stage of monarchy

"please understand this entire 7,000+ word post as one primal scream issued into the void at the careless, unnecessary folly of the decision to launch an ill-considered war without considering the obvious, nearly inevitable negative outcomes which would occur" acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

absolutely incredible. Trump might have done more damage to American imperial power than anyone ... ever?

it’s the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the site of which — it’s easy to forget — is an active classroom building our Lilly Sabella went there to talk to professors and students about what it means to study on the same floors where the fire took place

Two years ago I was thrilled to get an email asking to lend my design expertise to a new app for the MTA. Today that app launches after months of work by the great MTA digital services team! This is an app built by and for New Yorkers. Check it out and send feedback so it can get even better.

It’s also Iran adopting Trump doctrine—If it’s near Is we control it + we get to set a vig on any trade that happens.

This is arguably the worst-for-us result from a military intervention we have undertaken, right next door to the second-worst. (Worst for the target probably Cambodia/Laos or occupation of the Philippines?)

Sitcom with major gay couple who adopt: huge success, cultural touchstone. Kevin Sorbo in "Paul A. Postel: TRANSHUNTER": Releases to 15 screens, every ticket "sold" comped to church group outing, DVDs free giveaways at Trump rallies.

this goes for so much of the right wing ecosystem. the same guys who scream “DEI hire” would sink to the ocean if they weren’t kept afloat by their far right sugar daddies

"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude. Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice." But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs". Am I losing my mind?

Trump had business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds The special counsel’s team found Donald Trump held onto documents so secret only six people could legally review them, and believed his reason for doing so was personal financial gain. www.ms.now/news/trump-c...

Turns out Fox News viewers are perfectly happy with Fox News and maybe some Newsmax if they're feeling spicy!

It turns out when you publicly signal that you are courting a different audience but don’t have good ideas to attract them, you lose some of the old audience without adding the new one. There’s no capitulation bump.

really? I like borscht and I don't think it breaks my top ten.

Int. Day. A boardroom in Burbank. Three suited executives sit around the table facing a large screen that says SORA. Two techies, both roided to the gills with lips bulging-full of Zyn packets- they look like Gomer Pyle's head atop mannequins made of grapefruits, share a laptop.

Here we fucking go. The wheels are starting to come off. Next! Next! NEXT!

I think there’s another possible explanation here that white masculinity is based in domination, which leaves little room for true intimacy and consensual relationships. They trade away their fulfilling relationships in their pursuits of power.

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

Cause of death: money and litigation pit. And thank goodness too.

I'm given to think of the early experiments in evolutionary design, where you'd evolve circuits that worked by induction across a gap or walking models that relied on breaking the physics/collision simulations. Just going to be black box after black box after black box.

I have a coworker who used to work at a place where they 100% vibe-coded everything and: four months. They got four months worth of work done, and then the AI was unable to contribute to its own codebase without breaking an existing test. At the time he quit, they estimated 6 months worth of cleanup

I'm not a coder, I'm the non-coding half of a two-person software business, but by nature of this I'm fairly knowledgeable about how this all works and it is a MESS. have you heard about "technical debt"?? vibe coding is basically a machine that creates technical debt at the push of a button lmao

Well yeah they are. I imagine spending six years suing the two biggest corporations on the planet with varying levels of success can get damn expensive.

Thad castle forever an ally

Seeing ICE detaining people at airports is so sickening and so are the details about the LGA plane crash. Just a fraction of the money they’re using to brutalize families could be spent on rehiring air traffic controllers, who they fired so they could brutalize more people

ICYMI: Hyundai Translead is creating nearly 2,500 new full-time jobs in Will County. Another win to add to the list of businesses expanding and relocating to our state.

Climate/renewables arguments aside, this is the president's administration paying a foreign company to invest in states where Republicans are in charge rather than ones where Democrats are in charge -- using tax dollars to punish people who didn't vote for his party.

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At this point I don't wonder how much insider trading is going on. I wonder how much policy is being made with the purpose of insider trading on it.

They agreed to under Obama - but Trump tore it up and when they offered to agree to with him this year he bombed anyone he could make a deal with as well as any credibility he could ever again have negotiating with them and now he just lies & lies & the press reformats the lies as headlines.

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I thought they were supposed to help out in some nebulous way. But they are just going to stand around menacing people huh?

Best case he's talking to some rump splinter warlord with control over like four hundred square miles. Worst case he's being comprehensively Potemkined by his inner circle. Intermediate cases are baldfaced lying or demented hallucination, with the former (frightfully!) somewhat preferable.

Could a good thing be made even better? More than two dozen current and former elected officials across all levels of government think so.

I hate it here.