Excellent article It was always going to take a long time for rare circumstances to get a real test. One more done now and given their track record, I suspect we won't hear about similar situations with Waymo anytime soon.

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Mary and Joseph praying over Jesus in the manger, or TWO T. REXES FIGHTING OVER A TABLE SAW? Once seen, cannot be unseen.

Pseudoarchaeology is a grift and a scam, stuffed full of conspiracy bs. Check out this new video at Professor Dave Explains ... Jimmy Corsetti is Human Garbage www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z49A...

The Ellisons’ plan to install Bari Weiss and turn CBS News into a Trump mouthpiece is underway. We don’t need another Fox. Boycott CBS.

They see it. They know. They just like that he hates the same people they hate.

Resignation letter from a member of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Foundation As long as the bigotry wasn't against his group it was OK

Read this 🧵 from a truly good person.

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I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work? archive.is/2025.12.17-0...

The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law. It has no legitimacy whatsoever.

It's almost as if @warren.senate.gov should maybe listen to civil liberties / internet / free speech experts?

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I took my friend with only a high school degree to a fancy party and saw his face freeze up at the terminology being used by the elite. “Hebephile?” “Ephebophile?” I quickly asked him if he wanted to go somewhere else and he anxiously nodded yes and so we went to a Trump rally. By David Brooks

Children are being exploited. Let’s respond by dramatically hindering our ability to point out or criticize children being exploited, using methods we don’t understand because we’re old and incurious.

Kelsey Piper is right about this. It's ridiculous that some 36% of Americans think kids can't be left at home along till ages 14-17. I was working as a babysitter by age 12 - without incident: www.theargumentmag.com/p/how-gettin...

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17 DECEMBER 1775, FORT GEORGE, LAKE CHAMPLAIN: Henry Knox writes to both George Washington and Philip Schuyler that, after ten days, he has succeeded in moving Ticonderoga’s cannon up the lake and will now load them onto sleds to transport them to overland to Boston.

I see an interesting parallel in the current discourse between some unqualified ticket scalper’s grievance about DEI and this great reporting yesterday on Epsteins rise to wealth. The most important take-away is he wasn’t smart, he stole all his money. A good read. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...

The final staging for the Great Swamp Massacre/Fight. /1 bhpsri.substack.com/p/english-tr...

I'm no expert, but have you tried not voting for the extremist zealots whose entire platform is that government can never work

a brief summary of what it’s like to be online in 2025

I hope Trump lives. I hope he lives long enough to see a blue wave in 2026, and another in '28. I hope he lives long enough to see all his damage reversed, and all his cronies indicted. I hope he lives long enough to see justice for his own crimes, against the public and the world. I hope.

Short version: chasing the hardline party’s voters without any real principles of your own makes you lose your own base and convince fence-sitters to support the hardline party, not you.

“.. Trump was inheriting an economy that was on a path toward what he might have called a big, beautiful soft landing.” His tariffs “reversed that momentum.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Cover. 💔 @variety.com variety.com/2025/film/co...

It’s even funnier that his mom is just him in a crooked beehive wig.

You’d never catch me in a million years posing for this “I’m such a bad parent my kids don’t talk to me” shot. Like how is this not your deepest darkest secret? Shame is dead.

We should refer to these closures as anti-vaccine lock downs because that's what causes them.

Trump dismisses Susie Wiles’s claims: “if I had an alcoholic personality, I couldn’t be president. I’d be Secretary of Defense.”

See if you can spot Liberation Day. @usapolling.bsky.social

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Woot! I just successfully remote upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 via Chrome Remote Desktop 😮

You hear that sound? That's the sound of silence from the global Apple-centric media over the conviction of Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, who faces a possible life sentence for criticizing the Chinese government. They'd rather talk about iPhone color schemes. news.kagi.com/world/202512...

People support him because he reflects their values and character. He reflects their souls.

Politico documents a sociopath’s rant. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Every time a young person dies in a school shooting a Heritage Institute intern gets their pocket square

🤣 O'Reilly has always been a bigoted idiot.

Basically, they have climbed to > pre-Port Arthur levels with new gun registrations in the thousands every week. Now 21 people are dead in a mass shooting. If they get enough out there I’m sure they can get to our twice or thrice weekly average.

RIP rob reiner, this sucks man

A holiday mystery. #grickledoodle #batman #robin #gifts #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Everything is really shitty. But what if we could make it even shittier?

Oh. Cool. Just as the President is using every power he can to suppress dissent and stifle speech, @whitehouse.senate.gov and the @judiciarydems.senate.gov are trying to hand Trump a new tool to suppress speech online. What a joke.

Terrible, no-good, horrible idea.

I am a comfortable, influential PhD and published author and broadcaster, and I don’t understand why people of color buying a snack at Cinnabon don’t just reason with the person shouting racial slurs at them, for the good of World Socialism. Today in the Atlantic

Very true :-) I'm guessing they found Irish people were discriminated against in Italian neighborhoods and vice versa