yes. the things that would make social media safer for children are almost all just the things that would make social media non-harmful/much less harmful for *all of us*. if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts

and I mean obviously 3) children still want to play and they will end up in the non-play-area bit that is still full of broken glass

and you won't be able to see that that's what's happening. the park should not be full of broken glass. you can't just ban children from the play area and call the problem solved. 1) they now have no play area 2) everyone else is still getting cut to ribbons

Beyond Kuhn and Feyerabend -- read Mary Hesse! aeon.co/essays/why-a...

I wish I could properly explain this to my non-Brazilian followers, but we just built a mecha Lula lol

if, say, the GOP were aggressively competing for the votes of people who post these things, it would be one thing. "The Dems aren't giving me shit, but the Republicans will give me ___" The reality is more like "the Dems don't give me all of what I want, the Republicans give me nothing and take"

I think… I think I may have done something really bad

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

one day, my coworker called me at 10AM asking if i could pick him up from the hospital after a kidney stone and i was like “lmao oh boy you really don’t have anyone else to call do you” and that was also the day my odometer rolled over to BOOBS KM so anyway this is our 10th valentine’s day together

Romantismo nunca vai acabar pq o ser humano é sonhador e divertido por natureza

roses are red cherenkov is blue just use a screwdriver what's the worst it could do

Right on time for Carnaval, I yielded to temptation... (bought some second-hand Astra Militarum minis)

Explaining the plot of Scooby-Doo to my daughter and realizing the central irony of the show is that the gang cruises around looking for magic and mysteries that never pan out, while the only truly supernatural element is the talking dog they all ignore.

Zero Mostel’s genius carved in rock for the ages.

Yup. Prediction markets are interesting only to the extent that they are increasingly: a) Reported on in the same breath as actual news coverage which shapes public perception; b) Creating perverse incentives for insiders and decision makers; c) Gamifying really serious/sensitive issues.

Lovely hot pink dragonfly I saw in Serra da Capivara National Park, Piaui, Brazil 💘 No idea of species - I was there studying the capuchin monkeys so I’m only sure it’s not a monkey

Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off

it's not FOR us

O carnaval vai ser divertido

Denial is a river (also, is Tr*mp a known hater of fax machines or something?)

Exactly. Momentum is good, but Enhanced Cooperation and “One Market” don’t go together. QMV remains the way forward. Breaking deadlock in single market files requires everyone – leaders to officials – to abandon national regimes and commit to true European harmonisation. Still a way to go.

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Name names. Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Jay Bhattacharya, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Martin Kulldorff, Russell Vought, RFK Jr., Donald Trump. All of them contributed to this by their relentless attacks on vaccines and biomedical R&D.

Capability frog is sad

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! Feb 13: Cowboys One of the most iconic parts of US culture, and most Americans aren't even taught the origin of the word "cowboys." Read the whole linked thread.

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

Gramsci says "its morbin time"

I know 'now is the time of monsters' is the popular translation, but 'a variety of morbid symptoms appear' just seems so much more apposite.

there is so much happening in that sentence

I did security work for a while, and, yeah, we had “guy gets bribed to walk out the door with a flash drive“ as part of many people threat models, but like, how do you model a “random guy takes a massive bet on you having a cyber incident and then hires Romanian hackers” problem

Get in losers we’re inventing Digitial Georgism! (I agree in principle even though I am an inveterate domain purchaser)

I've heard of low information voters, but it's incredible how many people seem to be negative information voters.

Going out on a limb to say 'ideally yes'

ICYMI, yesterday I published another "AI, Law, and Otter Things". As usual, it features reading recommendations, academic opportunities, and cute otters, as well as a rant of mine about revising texts. Check it out!

The real problem isn’t that private equity is driving up costs, wages have stagnated, and unregulated hotel chains like AirBnB are gobbling up stock. It’s your relentless appetite for—I’m sorry, I’m getting a breaking update…they’re saying that it’s no longer avocado toast, it’s gut-friendly juices.

Ah. He's doing a bit.

Such a powerful image in Le Monde. (The writing on the plane says "Neutral athletes") Cartoon by: Letton Gatis Sluka

Nem dá pra chamar de piada, foi exatamente assim.

Take a walk on the dark side of European society: @silviasteininger.bsky.social and @jennyos.bsky.social on who is (and who is not) recognised. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Doctor: You're not Pagliacci are you? Patient: Yes I am Doctor: FUCK there goes my idea

'There's no hope' was the entire point of the original Threads (if you understood the film)

A small bombshell on rule of law conditionality from Luxembourg today: Advocate-General Capeta finds in her opinion that Commission was not allowed to unfreeze EU funds to Hungary in December 2023 and proposes that the Court of Justice annul the decision: curia.europa.eu/site/upload/... Thread: