saw someone on instagram do this and had to try attending all meetings from The Cottage until further notice

I have been saying so much of this over and over to bestie and husband 😆

Just do away with the entire concepts of herd immunity and public health I guess

Somebody let Dr. Van Helsing know that some imbecile pulled the stake out of Neil Gaiman.

Just a suggestion to the NYT - as a news outlet, your reputation is everything. As such, you should avoid making your post to social media a screenshot of a quote with false information in it. It could mislead readers and, ultimately, undermine their trust in you. (Bad Bunny is American.)

BREAKING: ICE has halted "all movement" at a Texas detention facility due to measles infections, DHS confirms.

someone is just … hoisting a box of gingerale?? and everyone started chanting KISS KISS KISS. this is wonderful

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

"We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in #Cursor. It ran uninterrupted for one week." So there’s only a minor problem with that Cursor announcement — every claim in it is a lie. Cursor made one fatal mistake: they put the code up where other developers could see it. pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/27/c...

Impossible to pick a favorite Catherine O'Hara moment. so here's a bunch of them www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZ...

Macaulay Culkin pays tribute to ‘Home Alone’ mom Catherine O'Hara: “Mama. I thought we had time. I wanted more. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you but I had so much more to say. I love you. l'Il see you later.”

Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔

My heart is absolutely broken once again. Fucking hell, this one hurts a lot. May her memory be a blessing. apnews.com/article/cath...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

1. The most extreme anti-trans bill ever proposed is currently rocketing through the Kansas legislature. It would empower bounty hunters to search for trans people in bathrooms, even in private businesses, and sue them for large sums of money. The House is voting on it today.

Ilan Wurman's anti-birthright citizenship Supreme Court amicus. I won't mince words. He bastardizes the common law. It is a methodologically bankrupt approach to the history of Anglo-American constitutionalism. It is little more than preening to gain someone's favor, but certainly not a scholar's.

So, to help illustrate why this thread is so horrifying, Stanford did a study on Lexis+ AI, Westlaw AI-Assisted Research, and Thomson-Reuters Ask Practical Law AI, and found between 17% and 33% hallucinations even though these are supposed to be the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tools.

“It finally happened with a trial judge issuing an order based off fake cases (flagged by Rob Freund). While the appellate court put a stop to the matter, the fact that it got this far should terrify everyone.”

Don't trust Lexis AI, it's no different from any other generative AI, even if (IF) its underlying database is limited to legal filings and documents. It will make stuff up and you will get caught and you will get sanctioned publicly.

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

Never beating the allegations of being creepily obsessed with little girls genitals.

wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off duty ICE officer on New Years Eve in LA. The officer alleges Porter pulled a weapon on him but the family and other witnesses deny that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I don’t know what happened but my thread seems to have broken some how… You can pick it up here: bsky.app/profile/broa...

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE. They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon. They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times. He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”. A 🧵 of ICE abuse

No idea what will happen with this, but it is darkly funny that appealing this order would require the administration to say, more or less, "Please allow us to destroy or alter evidence"

This is a MUST-READ affidavit. This eyewitness to Alex Pretti’s murder — who is too scared to even go home because she doesn’t trust federal agents — directly refutes what the feds are saying happened today:

And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.

ICE claims he drew a weapon. It appears to me his weapon was confiscated before the shot was fired. The man in the tan jacket. Look at his right hand. Empty. He goes in at the victim’s lower back. You can see the victim’s shirt lift. Jacket man walks away with weapon. Shot fired. Man dies. Murder.

I think all the lawyers on Bluesky deserve to share in the joy of the GREATEST PRO SE LITIGANT OF ALL TIME and her fantastically titled filings if you don't enjoy this you are the BIGGEST DISCRACE on this app

/4 Anyway my sense is he’s a deeply unhappy man, though not as unhappy as he deserves. He’s probably as happy as I am that our relationship is over. It was likely embarrassing for him to be friends with someone whose kids are foreigners.

/7 Dave Barry says “a person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”. It’s one of my favorite moral compass sayings. Marc’s would be “if a person is nice to me, it’s hilarious when they are rude to the waiter.”

My local bookshop understands their audience.

It's genuinely astonishing to me the number of people willing to claim with a straight face that this word association tshotchke that didn't exist a few years ago is absolutely necessary for the conduct of science.

Before the vaccine, there were an estimated 200,000 cases annually among children and up to 9,000 children died annually, according to the CDC. I treated a baby coughing with whooping cough for 36 hours during my training, it sounds like this: video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?f...

SCREAMING, ottawa pride hockey saw the sens trying to get in on the heated rivalry buzz and were like NOT SO FAST MOTHERFUCKERS

ICYMI: In a real change of pace, I wrote about how Bill Maher is an entitled, out-of-touch asshole.

I have a theory that the general epistemic crisis has led to a lot of very online people getting used to communicating primarily through oughtposting and kind of forgetting how to deal with isposting

people gotta chill out about making normative vs. descriptive claims. it’s tedious to have to specify “of course, I do NOT support fire” if you’re talking about a house burning down.

About the ICE agent who fatally shot a man on New Year’s Eve while off-duty: A court document "says the ICE agent allegedly whipped his sons with a belt, made homophobic slurs and racist remarks about Black and Latino people and brought a gun to a youth sports game."

Yesterday, Coinbase withdrew its support for the crypto market structure bill. Hours later, the Senate Banking Committee canceled the markup hearing. They’re not even trying to pretend anymore that this bill isn’t written by the industry, for the industry.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

In 2019, Scott Adams got his feelings hurt over being called a white nationalist, threatened to sue for defamation, argued to me that Times v. Sullivan meant that he had more protection from libel as a public figure than a private person would, and then blocked me. And now he’s dead.

“News organizations” are running the hell out of this story because they see their function not so much to report facts but to enforce social norms like “police officers are automatically deserving of respect to a degree it is newsworthy if someone is mean to one of them.”

Are you or someone you know going to the Caps' Pride game on Saturday? Have you watched Heated Rivalry? Is, by chance, anyone going to the game *because* they watched Heated Rivalry? If any of that fits you, my DMs are open. Working on a story and would love to chat!

Of course I had to weigh in on autism in Heated Rivalry.

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be