CENTCOM is tired of working weekends

That’s what happens when you get rid of the department of defense

Ken Klippenstein should never live this down.

Man got Chotiner’d without even agreeing to an interview. Astounding

Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility

They’re busily asking everyone on the radio how much fuel they have. The show controllers have switched from their calm air traffic control voices to their “I will cut you” voices.

So… a bunch of storm cels came in just as the parade of AF1 planes was heading to the Mall. Just before they went by, the Mall was evacuated. In the words of the Skyboss on the radio: “Fucking awesome planning here”

We need national service exclusively for people who support national service

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

Dear Media. Vatican II wasn’t just about praying or not in Latin. *Vatican II decided to be less antisemitic. By a lot. * And now Pope Leo (like Francis) is reading the Bible HARD, all that “love immigrants” & “care for others” “🖕 Empire” stuff?! This story is not complicated.

Mechanism and updated prediction for the epic fail of Lincoln Memorial Bioreactor's polyurea coating! First chemistry, then physics It was sprayed in big sections. In addition to pool edges, failure will concentrate at the OVERLAP SEAMS between sections because they likely barely bonded at all. 1/x

loooool some of these ideas are so bad that we were debunking them as fundamentally broken for social media… 20 years ago

The Jalen M. Brunson And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts

this to me, is the promise of america

This is very cool

I appreciate that macOS file privacy is progressing in macOS 27. 👏🏼 (Claude attempted to execute a find in the home directory)

I've never before installed a macOS beta day one, but I've also never been in as much of a hurry to ditch an OS as I have macOS 26. Also expecting stability focus portends a more stable beta. The macOS 27 beta is so far pretty good. Faster build times in Xcode 27 as advertised in the SOTU.

I am feeling very optimistic about Stacey Ford announcing serious quality improvements across the board on Apple OS's (Credit to @vicmsong.bsky.social for the screen cap from the Verge liveblog www.theverge.com/tech/942572/...)

The leaked audio from 2022?? Hello, LA has not forgotten about it!! Disgraced FORMER councilmembers Nury Martinez, Gill Cedillo, and Kevin de León plotted to gerrymander Councilmember Nithya Raman's district and carve out Koreatown specifically to strip away her core base of renters.

Believe it or not, men across class boundaries are willing to overlook the bad behavior of other men. And I don’t think we owe Graham Platner the benefit of the doubt just because he wears jeans and farms oysters

Shame on Proton for sponsoring far right wing influencers. nileane.fr/@nileane/116...

So.... RTX Spark Steam Deck 2?

Also, Andy Kim. On January 7th.

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

Not finding good (even NY style) bagels in LA is a skill issue.

ok so I guess we need to build Watch Duty on AT Proto @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz

Also, remember this when you take command because you will be the dickhead much faster than you can possibly imagine.

My message to the newly commissioned USMA class of 2026 is that if you did not want to sit in the rain and listen to some dickhead bloviate the army was a poor career choice.

Very cool

Braver than any cop at Uvalde (except maybe the one restrained by other cops from engaging the shooter)

really hard to beat this as a symbol of institutional decay. the SEALs — a unit that has become infamously loose in discipline — escorting a corrupt politician without any discipline (Patel) on a party inside a hallowed watery graveyard for the fallen

The Atlantic publishing an endorsement of reality stars vanity mayoral campaign, that approvingly dehumanizes homeless people and drug addicts and is written by a random podcaster even most readers of the Atlantic never have heard of is a good snapshot of what's going on with media.

a huge step forward for cross-platform interoperable end-to-end encrypted messaging

A political cartoon in the Chattanooga Times Free Press

My only contribution to “The Odyssey” discourse is to tell the tale of the time I disrupted my English 201 course for two full weeks arguing with the professor because she said Odysseus was a better leader than Don Quixote and I aggressively disagree.

Who needs horror as a genre when we have investigative journalism

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

Many thanks to @thisismissem.social, @bad-example.com, and @not.germ.ceo for the significant infrastructure work that went into improving logins in this release! Thrilled to join the apps transitioning off atproto transitional scopes as we mature the login experience for atproto apps.

Why is the Best Buy security guard armed? Walks into the ram aisle. Oh

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following 404 Media reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.

Hate coming across Palantir on a LinkedIn or resumé because the person will absolutely talk about it like they worked for the CIA (“I didn’t do much of the crazy stuff really. Spent all day in Excel basically.”) Tell me about the OKRs you had to undermine American democracy.

Lots of smart folks with intelligent words about a profoundly stupid and evil statement. All I have to add, as a Marine veteran, these guys are losers. No Marine infantryman asked for a “forward deployed” data analyst.

I have an entire PhD in political science and have never been sure what constitutes "The West" in a meaningful, consistent way. What is the term meant to include - or exclude? Are the differences between "the West" and other "civilizations" greater than the differences within the so-called "west"?

Cultural chauvinism isn't the opposite of moral relativism - and it presages some really dark stuff.

PSA: the Pitt season finale has a post-credits

I imagine the crew looking like this when they land

"It matters now more than ever" is a phase that comes to mind every year the fellowship announces their new cohort. Today I celebrate these immigrants and children of immigrants as they pursue graduate degrees and remind us that there is nothing more deeply American than being a new American.