I recently learned about Manhattan geometry (also called taxicab geometry) and I can’t stop thinking about it, in particular the idea that pi is exactly four en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab...

… and who are just reminding people of their constitutional rights and responsibilities

It is particularly galling that Trump is calling for the execution of people who actually served honorably in the military, while he took a bone spur exemption and famously boasted that his Vietnam was dodging syphilis in 70s New York. Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.

The Overton Window (as it is popularly understood) is a useful concept that falls short because it presumes that the same range of speech is available across all of society. Today, there is one window for the right, and another window for the center and left.

Call it the Underton Window -- the ever-narrowing field of violence-adjacent language deemed acceptable to ordinary people as compared to the dramatically expanded Overton Window with regard to openly violent language by the regime and its supporters.

Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States: - Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party - Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children - Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats Those are just factual statements.

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I think the key things here are that it wasn't a secret, and that the tolerated norm of powerful men trading access to 18-24 year old women very easily slid into them trading access to children.

There are 4 types of guys online, no exceptions

Crapulous [KRAP-yuh-luhs] (adj.) - Caused by or showing the negative effects of alcohol consumption.

My top3 can't miss movie cliches: 1) Gruff stoic warrior guy who has to protect a small squishy child. 2) Rube Goldberg machines as a mirror for their builder's mental processes/worldview. 3) Closing on a deep-cut banger with a check-in montage for the whole cast, including one-scene characters.

Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.

Not to get all Sun Tzu on it, but when the enemy is weak and divided amongst itself, you do not relieve the enemy by allowing their partisans into your camp. You drive them closer together, force them into tighter company, and intensify their conflict.

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”

In 1998, Cartoon Network commissioned MST3K creator (and CtC guest) Joel Hodgson and his brother Jim to create a new intro for SGCTC. 17 were produced, but were never used. Five of them were eventually released as Easter Eggs on the Volume 2 DVD. Models by Screaming Mad George. Paul Feig played SG

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

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in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

"hey guys notice that the same people complaining about having to deal with silly 'cancel culture' standards don't feel like they should be moored by literally any other set of standards either. curious thing going on there wouldn't you say?"

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

99% of Republicans understand nothing about intraleft politics. they’re still saying shit like “you won’t be so happy when BILL CLINTON is implicated will you?”

I saw Del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN late tonight, and I thought it was a pure delight. In the last scene the Creature walked toward the sunrise. Then suddenly, to my surprise…

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

that said i do think del toro’s frankenstein erred by cutting the creature’s canonical performance of Puttin On The Ritz

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Here’s A Comic About Elon Musk & His Infinite Possibilities

“This man knows no beauty and his whole world has devolved into fights on the Internet.” Man: “Liar. I will fight you on the Internet.”

It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown

Maybe—just maybe—sports leagues getting in bed with gambling companies wasn’t such a hot idea…

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Yikes, I stopped checking in with them around the time they decided to memorialize an extremely awkward appearance on one of Jesse Thorn's podcasts (Jordan, Jesse, Go!) with a strip depicting Thorn as a cannibalistic serial killer. www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/0...

It really seems like if you can lose $12bn at a single company and that company isn't a literal smoking crater in the ground, then we have to consider the possibility that the concept of money has crossed over into the realm of pure fiction, and use that to our advantage.

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

I am in disbelief, I just had the easiest, fastest blood drawing in my life Almost every time I've had lab work done, the technicians struggled considerably, and I've long thought the problem was me (like, my veins are too hidden, arms too fat, etc) But no the problem really was the PHLEBOTOMISTS

the fact that Sandwich Guy is facing this 'wich trial at all is evidence of subpar justice. he is a hero being put through the judicial grinder. i hope the jury wraps up a not guilty verdict without delay or loafing around

the leader of the department of health literally runs away everybody else rushes to the hurt guy and the Make America Healthy Again guy says "I gotta get outta here" let a hundred gifs bloom

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

When Democrats act like Democrats, people vote for them. When Democrats act like Republicans, people figure they’ll vote for the real thing instead. If you run away from progressive issues, you convince voters they don’t matter, so why should they vote for you?

Twenty-four years ago, if you told people that the mayor of New York City in 2026 was going to be a Muslim man, a lot of people would have thought you were crazy. This city is too smart not to recognize our neighbors

Farewell sweet Prince

Calming myself down by watching uncut gems