The entire Republican Party has been ignoring Trump's sharp mental decline the same way they've ignored his crimes.

I do keep wondering exactly what this is supposed to be, from that Trump-as-Jesus-the-Red-Cross-Doctor image. Kind of looks like a Transfomer? Optimus Crime?

"Yeah but he's always like that." NOT BETTER. Trump's rock-steady consistency in being batshit crazy and disconnected from reality is a terrible reason to NOT have a conversation about his mental fitness for the job. (But of course I'm also arguing that it is clearly worsening.)

This is terrifying. Either he believes this is true, which means he has lost touch with reality. Or, worse, he knows it's a lie, and this is the level of lying that he now thinks he can get away with: He thinks he can just tell us what reality is and we'll just accept it.

Mark Rober has been working up to this for a long time, but he has finally used engineering to Jump the Shark.

Why is every Internet history thing wrong on Wikipedia? By mid 1990s, "spamming" and "spammed" were already in wide usage, as any casual search of old USENET postings will reveal. And certainly calling unwelcome messages "spam" must predates the verbification of that word.

Real question about "entry interface". Why is there such precise timing on this? The atmosphere doesn't have an edge, it just fades out. It comes only 30 seconds before peak heating, and also the first feelings of gravity? Experts? @planet4589.bsky.social @planetdr.bsky.social @astrokatie.com

I am getting sick of those "homeowners becoming their parents" commercials. Because the defining theme seems to be that "turning into your parents" means being outgoing, interested in the world, and interested in helping?

Looks like Trump-the-Uniter might have successfully united the left and right in their disgust with how he handled this cease-fire. UNITY NOW!

Three days ago, I wrote a thread about vibe-hacking, and one of my main conclusions (below) was that it would lead to dramatic changes in cybersecurity. Turns out Antrhopic was way ahead of me. The entire practice of cybersecurity will have to change. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

In the first four hours of the ceasefire (announced 8pm U.S. Eastern, effective immediately), the IRGC launched at least three major waves of missiles, with the first wave around 9pm US astern and the third wave around midnight US eastern.

All these technical issues about removal are beside the point. Removal by ANY path is, even in the best of times, a primarily political process. Party (GOP) political considerations are driving the bus. Not voting technicalities. So let's game it out...

Theories are validated when they reliably predict outcomes.

"Moon's Haunted." Scientific study, 1924, W. H. Pickering. (Seriously though, he thought shifting shadows on the moon were migrating swarms of alien creatures.) www.google.com/books/editio...

This is supposed to be the photo that shows that Trump is fine? For comparison, check this photo of him in a similar walking position from about a year ago: www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/...

I don't know if Ubiquiti is guilty of any wrong-doing or not with respect to their equipment ending up in Russia. But no matter how hard any company tries to keep their equipment out of sanctioned countries, it is impossible to prevent if the sanctioned countries want to acquire that tech.

Question: What does it mean to be a script kiddie** in the age of vibe coding? What follows is a hypothetical thread on vibe-hacking.

Just today, I asked Google to help me pick between two software packages. The AI of course was 100% wrong.

The initial wave of absurdly bad AI slop is being followed up with a bunch of low effort, kind of interesting, rapidly thrown together videos that are scripted with AI, cobbled together with real and AI clips, real and AI photos and slapped together as fast as possible.

Random question: are jumping jacks still a thing? It seems like they were the foundation of gym class when I was a kid, but does anyone do these any more?

Tortillas make a lot of sense for zero-G. But I bet they're flour tortillas. Corn tortillas would have a high risk of Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (of the food, not the spacecraft).

Since today is a full moon, it means that five days from now when astronauts reach the moon and orbit it, less than a half of the far side of the moon will be sunlit. They'll be able to see part of the near side and part of the far side. The rest will be in inky black shadow.

These two cases against Meta and Google are cases of 'Yelling "Fire" in a Crowded Theater'. [I will now briefly pause this thread while pedantic First Amendment enthusiasts scream at the screen because I dared to say The Forbidden Words in free speech analysis.] [Pause ended. Thread below.]

Can someone explain to me like I'm five how these two recent rulings against Meta and Google in any way contradict Section 230 or erode its protections?

Two spaces between sentences is preferred for historical, technological, and pedagogical reasons.

A deep dive into antisemitism in social media, it's growth in recent years, and the institutional reasons for that growth. And what could be done, but isn't being done about it. melissabrodsky.substack.com/p/engineered...

AI-based Wearable Augmented Reality using Crypto Blockchain in The Cloud. Served by Peer-to-Peer technology as part of the Internet of Things on a 5G network.

So if you want to make a quick meme for your western-hating friends then this graphic, famed as "people who voted against an anti-slavery resolution" is a great graphic. But if you want to understand the politics of the UN, or about slavery in the world, then this is... also a great graphic.

Y'all realize that the "block" mechanism on BlueSky (which breaks existing threads for all readers) is not just effective at getting rid of trolls... it's also effective for propagandists to use to silence any and all fact checking, and to generally silence minority voices.

Regarding the big case that Meta and Google lost today, and a lot of buzz about Section 230, I can't help but wonder: Is manipulative behavior to the point of abuse free speech? I mean if a husband does that shit to his wife, it isn't free speech. But that comparison is extreme.

So today in my antisemitism beat, I noticed that people were upset that a bunch of people were upset that @libyaliberty.bsky.social because she posted a screenshot of a neo-Nazi theory that Eli Weisel was a fraud.

OK, so @revbluessusie.bsky.social engaged with me about my thread on Israel. Didn't like what I said so they blocked me. Didn't like being fact-checked (admittedly I was not delicate in my wording.) But since they blocked me before I could get to providing proof of what I was saying, it is here.

Even though it's much less serious, and did not have nearly the reach, here's a thread on the fake map propaganda. I came across a post from a friend on Facebook who reposted something with this fake map. (My friend removed it, without answering me, after I pointed out how fake it was.)

The thing I find the most disturbing is not the sheer quantity of anti-Israel propaganda out there. What is the most disturbing is people's willingness to believe to instantly believe this propaganda without question. It's a measure of how widespread and normalized antisemitism is.

The difference between a conspiracy theory and a theory about a conspiracy is mainly how many of the "coincidences" rest upon someone waving their hands wildly to distract you from the fact that the "coincidence" has no substance. Epstein: many substantive coincidences; very little hand-waving.

So there's this bizarre claim floating around that Israel launched the missile attack on Diego Garcia. It seems to originate with a site called "Normal Island News" which is apparently a parody site, but people are taking it seriously. Obvious parody (I guess) if you actually read the article.

Iran executed three protesters this week, including a 19-year-old wrestler who had one a bronze medal in an international competition last year. They had been arrested during protests before the war started, and were convicted of "waging war against God". www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/w...

MLB: The all-time hits leader is banned for life for gambling on games. Also, MLB: MLB NAMES POLYMARKET EXCLUSIVE PREDICTION MARKET EXCHANGE PARTNER (Via press release in my inbox)

Sigh. The military has for many years (before Trump's first term) been planning the replacement of it's mine countermeasures ships with a new type of ship called a "Littoral Class Ship" (LCS)

The evil people will do in the world while 100% believing they are doing good is utterly astounding. Perhaps the most evil things humans do to each other are done under the self-delusion of doing good.

Ohh, look, another Constitutionally specified congressional power that Congress is willingly handed over to the King.

The problem with this sign, and more generally this notion, is it trump sits on top of a mountain of corrupt acts, any one of which _should_ get him kicked out of office. Maybe Epstein files are the best shot at getting him out of office. But maybe not. If not, which is the distraction?

When will we have our first court case where a criminal gets off by claiming an AI made him do it?

I am inwardly face-palming that I seem to need to say this out loud, but apparently I do: The name "Temple Israel" does in NO WAY WHATSOEVER make this temple in Michigan (or any of hundreds of other temples with the same name) an "Israeli temple".

Pretty sure this is not how notification dialogs are supposed to work.

In the past week the rate of synagogue attacks world-wide has been greater than one per day.

The synagogue attack in Michigan has gotten a lot of attention, but much less attention has been paid to the two men who were attacked in San Jose this week for speaking Hebrew in public. Incidents like this are happening weekly now (at least), and mostly people don't bother to mention them.

This is in fact the normal way that we identifiable Jews live