Beautiful day for a BBQ

kash patel increasingly feels like a tracy jordan-esque character

TONIGHT 6:30-8 PM @ Curtis Bay Recreation Center, Baltimore. State regulators are hearing testimony on the Quarantine Road Landfill permit. Here's why it matters. 🧵

Brandon Scott is not helping himself with this new IG oversight idea.

On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...

Gotta say the number of ads I've seen about Allen Institute's new brand style is kinda ridiculous

This is all publicly available information and McMorrow tried a stupid hit job based off of it.

Seriously, A Manhattan Project to eradicate ticks, when?

very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.

"My reporting for this article is based on conversations with 14 men and women who said they had been sexually assaulted by Israeli settlers or members of the security forces". Why is this piece in the NYT Opinion section?

BESPOKE: “.. The only precedent for when the S&P 500 has been at record highs while fewer than 60% of stocks were above both their 50- and 200-day moving averages: December 1998-March 2000.”

Genuine question: Has the Green Party come out to support proportional representation in Congress?

That's the face of an Israeli Arab lawyer after a police raid. The reason is in the fourth paragraph: "The raid was launched following a noise complaint filed by one of the officers involved, who lives nearby." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

IDF soldier who participated in the mistaken killing of three Israeli hostages in Gaza City in Dec 2023 confirmed to his mother what was widely reported at the time: they killed the men, who were waving white flags, because their unit was under orders to kill all Gazan men they encountered.

A bunch of extremely beautiful pictures of wind farms in China - all photographs by Weimin Chu e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

Yeah, there really is a book for sale on Amazon called Infinite Jeffs, where they replaced all the words of Infinite Jest with the word "Jeff". It's 25 bucks. www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jef...

50% of books from Princeton University Press? Dangerous to my finances

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

I love Boards of Canada

Roses are red Justice rights wrongs

Where can a guy get a Bass VI with a reverse headstock?

I love basketball

Our position paper, "AI Welfare Is Bullshit" just got accepted to ICML 2026 @icmlconf.bsky.social! The AI welfare agenda has already begun to attract institutional investment at organizations such an @anthropic.com. We argue that this idea is essentially Frankfurtian Bullshit.

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Not a huge metal guy, but this I like

I'm glad to see Ahmad's work in a prepeint Cell-type-specific sustained value representations in the claustrum doi.org/10.64898/202...

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I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

Fun start to cross-exam. OpenAI attorney William Savitt asks about Musk's earlier testimony, when he said: “No, Tesla is not pursuing AGI. It’s literally trying to make a car drive from A to B.” Savitt then showed Musk an X post from a month ago: "Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI"

OpenAI attorney really getting under Musk's skin now. Musk is arguing about almost everything the attorney is bringing up

Just a reminder that in Shelby County, Roberts told us not to worry about the loss of VRA preclearance, because we’d still have VRA sec. 2 suits. That was, of course, disingenuous nonsense even at the time. Now, with Brnovich and Calllais, it’s all the more so.

84% of Iowa students taking public funding to attend private school have never been in public school

Andrew Cockburn is Olivia Wilde's dad?!

this is worth watching in full just to understand who is in charge of the DNC right now. just an archetypal evasive, lying politician with zero respect for his audience.

Where is Renee Good's killer, Jonathan Ross? Where are Alex Pretti's killers, Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez? Who killed Ruben Ray Martinez? Who killed Silverio Villegas González?

The Palestinian Authority held the first municipal-level elections in years in occupied territory and in response the Israeli army kidnapped one of the victors and held him hostage and released him only on the condition that he step down from his seat.

1B weekly users is such an absurd goal. It's roughly one eighth of the world a week...

Grant funders are not ready for the AI slop they will be/are getting.

Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours.

I've been getting questions about this paper all week: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... They make EXTRAORDINARY claims - fortunately, these are trivial to verify/falsify. Unfortunately, there's other concerns.

"Is there gas in the car? Yes, there's gas in the caaaaaar!"

This is why I prefer "No Downloads." www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/news/a-messa...

Went to bed early last night, pls clap