"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Monstrous

Ever been to MLA?

Approaching the point at which, if Maine's elected officials don't figure out how to hold every single one of the people responsible for this accountable before the law, I'll campaign on it myself. www.pressherald.com/2026/02/07/i...

Throw these bums out of office www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Rumor has it Olympic ski jumpers are trying to smuggle it into their pants for suit check.

1) I’m curious about where the phrase ‘diffusion of knowledge’ came from in this discussion. The author seems not to recognize it’s a phrase from William Godwin’s definition of ‘literature’ in 1794: …

Never trust a person who abuses animals.

Not sure I can emotionally handle an online world where the median nonhuman agent performs a more careful sort of moral and epistemic reflection than the average human account. It's like walking into a library and feeling shamed by the books.

I feel like it would save people a lot of heartache if they simply understood that ‘AI’ =/= chatbots and stable diffusion.

Once, on a flight to DCA (short runway), we had to do an emergency landing in Dulles. We landed OK, & when they fixed the landing gear issue they said they’d fly us to DCA if we wanted (per terms of service), or we could just get off. Most got off, I said let’s go, get me the fuck out of Dulles.

Let that loser wander up and down the strip like a teenager who got his fake ID taken lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...

Mind you, the culture war that filled MAGA's sails started with the lie that people in my profession no longer teach Shakespeare. And you can be sure this washes over every single one of those hypocrite 'defenders of the West' as it would performed for a dog alacritously nosing its own shit.

‘Democracy dies in darkness’ should be the punchline for a new joke genre modeled on The Aristocrats.

If an LLM output can be informational, why can't literature be? Re. intentionalism, do we know the human mind better than we know the algorithm? Are humans more predictable?

This is more or less what it looks like to me, as an outsider:

‘Softer touch’ is an incredible euphemism for ‘violating the Constitution less exp openly and explicitly.’ We know from the start that you can’t accomplish what they campaigned on w/o flagrant Constitutional and civil liberties violations + skull-cracking.

The Washington Post is Twitter.

Once again: They are taking the CECOT concentration camp in El Salvador as a blueprint for concentration camps in the US. I guarantee what little natural light that comes in now will be blocked if this gets up and running.

It remains a problem that people think 'AI' = proprietary chatbots.

'It isn't a crime to hang out with these bank robbers while they're robbing this bank.'

When you challenge the government they investigate you. Not a free society.

This is fucking insane

This is so fucking stupid

Read this sworn testimony by people in ICE custody. Beatings, denial of medicines and medical care, overcrowding, no beds, unsanitary conditions, and denial of natural light. They're recreating the El Salvador concentration camp at home. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

A major problem in the US is this idea that voting is a form of personal expression and an extension of self rather than a civic duty.

Learn to code, losers www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-employee...

Is the study a dictionary?

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.