james cameron every couple of years for some reason:

basically, ignore Haidt.

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

grok not beating the allegations futurism.com/future-socie...

miners do not interact. you delve too greedily and too deep

we don’t need to have this conversation. a student getting a failing grade on an assignment because she failed to follow the instructions is not national news. college instructors shouldn’t be second-guessing this student’s actual instructor, who assigned and graded the work.

she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked

A reminder that London is far safer than many major cities, that crime is falling and that racists hate both these truths because they undermine their vicious little divisive narrative. Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.

After the last round of strike action, resident doctors in England gave Wes Streeting a window to deliver sufficient progress towards a viable deal on jobs and pay. That hasn’t happened. Residents have been given no choice but to return to the picket lines. #EndTrainingCrisis #PayRestoration

Shout out to Spec Ops: the Line, aka Silent Hill: Modern Warfare, a decent shooter wrapped around one of the more genuinely unsettling narratives out there

it's advent you know what that means

Look, y'all know I hate AI as much as the next passionate hater of AI, but ChatGPT has nothing on the University of Oklahoma deciding that based on the first amendment students can literally say anything in their papers as existential threat to the university.

To be clear: I’ve argued with professors a lot. That’s not inherently bad, but you need to be able to support your argument with evidence. That’s how fucking academia works. I’ve never met a professor who didn’t like a student who challenged them a bit, but only if the contribution was valuable.

Woke 1 was fighting the dog whistle. Woke 2 is fighting the dog.

Going to go around town ringing people's doorbells with a boom box on my shoulder playing Last Christmas to be the ultimate Whamageddon wrecker.

Twitter is basically a Q-era Chan board at this point; it doesn't help that so may companies, politicians, artists and podcasters refuse to either leave it and SM entirely or move to another SM platform.

Why does he look like the Chaos Reigns fox from Antichrist

Fuck aye

Today, in The Times, there is an attempted hit piece on my employer – Good Law Project. It is *incredibly* weak, and perhaps the biggest compliment really is just how little they have to accuse us of. But it also promotes the Trans Mission concert – to which you should buy tickets! Thread 🧵👇

my stupid stupid brain had to draw this

they should make a James Bond who is a vampire

Can preventing childhood maltreatment reduce depression? 🧒🏽➡️🧑 New meta-analysis pulled together data from half a million+ people & found strong links between early maltreatment & adult depression. The prevention story is real, but far from simple. #ChildMaltreatment #Prevention 🧵 THREAD

A lot of transphobic whataboutism is just straight up trying to make being a bigot sound like a legit position asked in good faith. Nope, same old horseshit.

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Someone’s baking a cake verrry slowly yet verrry aggressively.

Kids getting free school meals are often bullied. The correct solution is that school cafeterias shouldn't have a till. Everyone should get a nutritious three course meal. And we should all pay for this through our taxes.

I know the Daily Telegraph's business model is to get performatively mad at stuff for money, but the Daily Telegraph getting mad at Dungeons & Dragons specifically is somehow very funny.

"What were the other proposed names for the short-lived party 'Your Party'?" is going to be a tough pub quiz question in 10 years.

Yorp conference doing its best to shut down anyone daring to call a transphobe a transphobe.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Not going well for the Yorps, is it?

Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics. Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics

I know I'm slowly becoming a Zarah hater, so it's just confirming my priors, but fuck me, how little imagination does she apparently have! "The Left". Fucking hell

At this point it feels less like a political party, more like a bit of performance art depicting the greatest hits of C20th-21st leftish infighting

I've never founded a political party, but I would not start one without a plan to keep the SWP and other assorted grifters out.

I don’t want people who come to this country seeking safety to be holed up in a single room and unable to engage in some semblance of a normal life, and it’s so fucking weird that so many politicians and journalists assume that I do

They can't use buses, they can't take taxis, they can't have jobs, they can't have houses, and in about six months there will be another uproar about how many refugees are in hospital due to preventable illness

I've told this story before here, but aged 20 my dad, a vicar's son, was at a Christmas party at the Cambridge theology department, and somebody mentioned 'Christ-figures like Aslan' and my dad went 'Aslan was Jesus?!?!'

I am impressed that Your Party have somehow managed to communicate via national mainstream media the feeling of being in an interminably feuding local political organizers WhatsApp with so many daily notifications that it's impossible to keep track of the feuds

Every case study like this should be balanced by one such as a 15-year-old with suicidal ideation unable to receive any help because CAMHS has been cut to virtual non-existence.

The obscene, performative cruelty against the world's most vulnerable people will continue until Britain is great again.

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

We now get Home Office press releases about immigration nearly every day. Interesting to note the language. They obviously want to be seen to be taking action, but “illegal migrants” are not the same as “asylum seekers”

So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get. Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They say we’re regressing to the level of Medieval peasants but a medieval peasant would find this very easy to predict

I think we haven’t sufficiently discussed the allure of AI to people who struggle with literally disabling levels of perfectionism. And instead of learning coping skills or developing self esteem, they’re outsourcing to a machine that burns down hectares of rainforest.

If you truly cared about water overconsumption the most logical course would be to go vegetarian or at least swear off beef. Agriculture is by far the lowest hanging fruit for inefficient luxury uses of potable water.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

The charity-pharma industrial complex is unfortunately real and causes a lot of problems for everyone.