All these people are ready to go full John Brown and we have people like Elizabeth fucking Warren still making deals with the enemy and bragging about it. AOC is reading the room pretty well but most of the rest of them are falling flat on their face.

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

👏ALL BALLISTIC MISSILES ARE HYPERSONIC👏 THE FUCKING V-2 WAS A GODDAMNED HYPERSONIC WEAPON Using the Oreshnik for MIRVed conventional attacks is an expensive waste (except insofar as it contributes to R&D, testing, & training).

“The incredibly fresh produce scares me!”

But if you grant that "everyday people" are fully formed humans with values and beliefs and ideas, it becomes impossible to reduce them to a handful of petty, material needs that can be invoked to persuade them.

In my dark and gritty reboot Carousel will be a gauntlet of bike lanes, children playing, and, finally, an animatronic Obama announcing property taxes are going up 0.00001% to give teachers a pay raise.

OPINION: People get confused about "high" stakes in writing (fiction). We can argue about whether "blow up the world" is overdone or "bake a cupcake" is nothingburger. For *characters*, the metric is "HOW FAR will they go on behalf of those stakes," or "how well has the *author* convinced us" etc.

If you acknowledge that the richest man in the world is a Nazi is has all sorts of unsettling implications about the moral valence of success and the arc of society, so it's easier to just ignore it entirely.

All the centrist/conservative Democrats who wanted to allow Abrego Garcia and everyone else Trump sent to CECOT to rot in a slave camp should be embarrassed with themselves and think deeply before saying anything about anything.

elon musk had his brain melted by right wing twitter slop and illegally shut it down. six figure body count plus a new strain of ebola is ravaging africa as we speak. the discourse is about whether they hired enough conservatives to justify not torpedoing the agency. illegally, i might add

Just a reminder that earlier this month, the House passed a bipartisan bill that would make most charitable bail funds illegal.

It's important to note that capital makes choices that are not necessarily wise, good or efficient choices, merely ones that best advantage those who control capital. The invention of the automobile did not *have* to lead to, say, the choice to destroy minority neighborhoods to build interstates.

I am torn between the chance to scoop up a couple million from the credulous dipshits running science in the Trump Administration by presenting myself as an expert on the Core and the nonzero chance that this ends with me crammed in a jumpsuit and sent to my death in a Boring Company earth vessel.

I'm mostly with you on this, but this is all so problematic because with ALPR networks and our current car-hegemony, it makes it like 2 clicks for Officer Chud Incel to track down his ex and shoot her and her new partner 3 states over.

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

And the media starts their redemption arc of another heinous Republican.

it's actually worse than that; i don't think the authors actually wrote their own article

“Where do you see yourself in five years?” “Either an assistant professor with a modest house and a dog or standing top of a barricade made of obsolete gas-powered cars, welding a machete as a soldier in the water wars”

literally the point of ICE’s white supremacist social media posts & other propaganda.

NYT: "no one has ever thought of teaching ranching at university" Every ag school: um, would you like to meet our cows NYT: "No, not like that. More romantic. More dilletante. Ugh, we're not /farmers/."

i was asked recently if i thought clarence thomas saw himself as a villain. i said yes and this is a good example. he is totally bloodthirsty and loves the idea of the government executing people.

Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is a cutting-edge seismic technique utilizing fiber-optic cables to gather high-resolution data. It can aid research on ancient climates by prospecting ice sheets for air bubbles containing past atmospheric compositions. Learn more: https://loom.ly/fPpZ4zc

Literally every artist drawing Jews from Christian stories: "What a quarrelsome, stubborn, horrible people. I will draw them as such." Me, seeing these images: "Looks like a decent conversation. Bet they sorted some good stuff in the name of Torah. Sure seems like everyone was having fun!"

Is this good when a space company is sinking 80% of its capital expenditures into Grok, the racist CSAM mechaHitler?

Also FYI, the majority of Colorado River water used for “farms” in the below graphic is actually for cattle feed (alfalfa and hay). The minority of the agricultural water use is for food people eat directly, like wheat. science.nasa.gov/missions/lan...

And then the most powerful and influential venture capital firm in the country hired the murderer who killed my neighbor solely and specifically because he was a Black man, which means every person in tech who wants to work in the startup ecosystem has to be complicit with this kind of depravity.

It feels like a tell for how theatrical and hollow conflict in business and politics in the U.S. has become. They are used to fights with people who go out to dinner with them afterward, and they do not understand what it means to make enemies.

all of us would do better to remember that being young means learning everything the dumbest and hardest way possible and remember fondly back to the time when you put tupperware in the oven or forgot to turn off the stove

conservatives are being pretty clear that they see anything more than a token black presence as tantamount to "anti-white discrimination," and even then, they view that as suspect

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

You might be wondering things like "what is this working paper" and "how and why is it adjusting for household size" and even "it can't really be saying the median income for a 15-year-old Gen Z in 2024 was $35,000 can it?" Let's find the paper and figure that out. 1/

i think it is a solid sign of how fundamentally checked out bezos is from the actual state of american politics that he is mouthing the cliches of 20 years ago as if they are novel insights

NEW "We even have to include a tabletop exercise of me getting arrested" — Maryland's elections administrator Election directors across the US are preparing for everything from ICE showing up at polling locations to officials being arrested during November's midterms www.wired.com/story/electi...

I used to think about a decade ago all of the perverse anti-human choices, economic, social, psychological, cultural, being made by boomers/late gen x was their inability to face aging and death. On top of that a lot of them want to beat off to eliza 3.0 and make you hear about it.

It should be a huge scandal that a close confidante of, and adviser to, President Trump and Secretary Rubio reacted to a deadly terrorist attack at a mosque by calling the mosque "evil" and calling for the deportation of all Muslims from America. But it isn't. *sighs*

Rep. Ogles: "Muslims don’t belong in American society," Rep. Fine on "mainstream Muslims": "I think you should destroy them first" Sen. Tuberville: "The enemy is inside the gates". Rep. Roy posted "No more Muslims" on his social media. None of them censured by Democrats. No penalty.

The sublime Grace Jones is 78 today and won’t be tolerating any of your nonsense.

The worst reflex in our history has been to throw up our hands and say, "oh well just leave them be" to the racists among us. It led to the Redeemer Era. It led to the re-segregation of our schools and communities. And it is leading us to today. Cosmopolitanism is the heart of the idea of America

White man raised under Apartheid brags, to other white men, of how he has sentenced Africans to horrible, preventable deaths.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

“Dr. Antaki, a biomedical engineer, had been building an artificial heart for babies and young children, a pump the size of a AA battery, and he was getting close. But with his research grants stopped, Dr. Antaki slowly drained his lab’s rainy day funds, and he was forced to lay off all his staff.”

"I'm at Best Buy often" - no he isn't - literally no one is - especially not for software - but he thinks gormless proles are so says he is to make himself seem 'normal' - lying about going to best buy often to seem like a normie is so weird it's perhaps the most patrick bateman thing he's done

You mean like decide that life begins at conception despite the religious (and non-religious) beliefs of many millions of Americans? That is to say: we have been here for much longer than many would like to admit. It is coordinated action from every angle that will save us.

Everyone involved in posting this should be fired and everyone in the chain of command whose office is subject to impeachment, including the president, should be impeached. Just for this. I am not kidding in the least, and Democrats who let this go by without comment are putting us all in danger.

I MEAN HOW CAN YOU MAKE A STORMTROOPER BLACK, THAT’S JUST HISTORICALLY INACCURATE. YES IT IS HISTORY BECAUSE IT’S A LONG TIME AGO, DIPSHIT. STORMTROOPERS STAND AROUND AND ARE BAD SHOTS AND KILL UNCLES AND AUNTS THAT SOUNDS PRETTY FUCKING WHITE TO ME OKAY

How bad is the Colorado governor's commutation of Tina Peters' sentence? So bad that even the Republican DA who prosecuted here pushed back, and told Polis to talk to the county officials who have to deal with threats that followed Peters' felonies. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

To be fair, motoko is dressed for the future while the rest of section 9 is going to the Roxbury

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top