I know this makes me uptight and boring, but I think a major reason not to steal or lie or litter or do any of the other little shitty things is that it degrades you. You become a thief, a liar, a litterbug, or any other kind of shitheel. You’re not harming Jeff Bezos, you’re hurting yourself.

This is such a great analogy. Even though it is in reference to academia, it applies in other professional contexts as well. An expectation I have of myself and my teams is that we exhibit a deep understanding of the topics we are dealing with, and using AI shortcuts often deprives us of that.

little item for the Senate Dems to ponder: which of the reforms you’re currently floating is going to stop this?

Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????

Sign me up! I’m really excited about the direction Edify is taking under Omar’s direction.

The thing that strikes me about separatists (in addition to the pervasive victim mentality) is that they all are confident of how an independent Alberta will govern itself. Its approach to immigration, education, public health, and environmental regs will be exactly how *they* think it should be.

This is a pretty concise distillation of a certain view of public safety and crime that equates personal discomfort, awkward interactions, visible mental health disorders, and visible poverty and addiction with dangerous crime.

Your periodic reminder that public and media perceptions of crime have almost nothing to do with the actual incidence of crime or the likelihood of being a crime victim, but rather are almost entirely driven by the existence of visible homeless people.

I'm seeing grown-ass adults marvel at how high stocks jumped today - they must think their mom actually vanished when she played "peek-a-boo."

This line of argument is obviously absurd. But even if you take it at face value, the clear admission is that given the choice between taking national security seriously and playing political games, Poilievre chooses the latter.

I also ask my direct reports for updates, but that’s not the issue here. I’m not sure why anyone assumes that this is not already happening in the federal workforce, at more appropriate levels of accountability.

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

A bunch of losers went out and threw Nazi salutes in Alberta, Canada yesterday while holding racist signs. Might be time for the media to stop calling them “hand gestures” and start reporting on this big fucking problem for what it is!

Every cartoonist has a comic they knocked out in a few minutes that people respond to way more than their "real" comics. This is mine, from 2019. The Eye Booger Police.

Edmonton Municipal Region Board just announced that it would be winding up operations and closing down, following recent funding and governance changes announced by the provincial government. This is a blow to regional planning and services in the region. #ableg #yeg

This kind of whataboutism is so dumb. Tell me what the CEOs of those companies did or which ideologies they publicly supported this week without looking it up. The VW instance always drives me particularly nuts though. The company was taken over and run by the British military for five years!

This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.

the constitution is a public and political document as much as a legal one and constitutional meaning is a public and political process. trump can say X but other political institutions, and the nation’s various publics, have to agree for it to mean anything

Democrats should also acknowledge that seeking a middle ground with a man who calls immigrants “animals” and says he will “protect” women “whether the women like it or not” is unlikely to land in a good place.

In any normal workplace, if an employee responded to the hiring of a trans coworker by proposing bathroom rules to specifically exclude that person, accompanied hundreds of tweets about that person, that employee would be disciplined or fired, rightly so. Not the case in the House of Reps, I guess.

Democrats will often look at something that doesn’t poll well and think “oh no, better move away from that!” but they’re getting their role backwards. parties influence public opinion. if you’re purely reactive, you’re just letting the GOP frame every debate.

I’m going to keep it real and hope I don’t get accused of overstating the issue; children’s liberation is the key to the future you want. The active, and often dismissed, oppression of children is near the root of what ails us as a nation.

“buh when did trump ever follow the rules” it’s not about following the rules, dipshits, it’s about whether the words carry any legal authority. there is no button he can press to make congress adjourn. congress would have to choose to do it. and that is a distinction that matters.

The ironic thing about post election chatter is that a lot of the time it’s candidates who lost, underperformed, or underworked who have endless time to go on TV and share their blame story. And for their part, journalists rarely EVER ask if that person actually ran a functionally solid campaign

Canada recently announced lower caps on international student admissions. If they were smart, they would reverse that and seize this opportunity.

What's your dorkiest writer moment? The one you just roll your eyes at now? Here's mine: In college, my friends and I were so nerdy about the Greeks that we actually performed a Bacchic rite! We got trashed and maybe killed a farmer? So crazy lol Your turn!

Bro are you okay? I just heard your leitmotif played on soft strings in a minor key.

The attacks you’re seeing on the Harris and Walz families from the online right are reflective of a different ideological orientation towards family as mere objects that are meant to reflect the greatness of the husband and father, not people with their own lives and emotions.

Once someone pointed out that everyone acts like only democrats have agency, and that republicans are simply a force of nature, all of this kind of coverage made more sense.

Robert Galbraith and the Consequences of Libel

My anecdotal experience driving an EV in Alberta is that, for my e-golf I can get by on plugging in my level 1 charger at night. I use it for work commuting so my mileage isn’t that high and don’t need additional charges outside of the occasional longer trip.

Hostile reminder that "gender tests" in women's sports have NEVER caught a "secret man" but they have historically been successfully used to discriminate against high-performing non-white cis women athletes

Topical.

paul maud’dib: “may thy knife chip and shatter” feyd-rautha:

not only the AI generated image but I suspect the awkward text was generated by a LLM as well. Remarkable but perhaps unsurprising how quickly "the AI-look" has come to aesthetically signal "this is part of a scam run by morons"

Some of the people protesting the Iraq War in 2003 were "Bush did 9/11" weirdos. Some of the signs at the marches were asinine and offensive. The question isn't whether those facts were true, it's whether they should have dominated the debate about the war.

this is the best take i’ve seen so far about the personal finance columnist for NY Mag who gave the "CIA" guy $50,000 in a shoebox

For the last few weeks I've been working with Chris Barkley @cmzhang42.bsky.social of @file770.bsky.social on a report about censorship in the 2023 Hugo Awards. Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations. 1/3

Thank you Joe Brandon and the Central Intelligence Agency for a good Super Bowl.

Taylor Swift leads the CIA in an amazing overtime drive to win the SuperBowl!

No good-faith actor could look at *98% satisfaction rates* for a medical procedure and classify it as anything but a success.

Reminder to new users here: Bonsai is not a single or specific species of tree, it is a Japanese art form that arose from the Chinese art of penjing. It involves growing, tending, and pruning miniature trees in small containers in a way that makes them resemble a full grown tree in nature.

if you want to survive on here you have to establish yourself. you gotta look around, find the biggest, wokest account you can, walk right up to them and scold them for insufficient intersectionality

An answer to the question, "What is the opposite of toxic masculinity?" 1967. digitaltmuseum.org/021018235405...

Republican primary seems to be going great.