You seemed to have a lot of flak for this. Keep it up. I appreciate companies need money, but promoting "discussion" with the content behind a paywall isn't promoting discussion. Especially when the individuals have comments turned off. Calling you out was disgusting

What does Retsef Levi mean here? "You would never agree to fly on a plane that the aircraft vendor tells you that it's safe. Apply the same level of scrutiny to the safety of your child as much as you will apply to the safety of a plane. And I don't believe that we currently do that."

I just had a labeller give me some lottery award on my post. I'm very happy I can block that sort of noise. I'm less happy labellers can be blocked. Does that mean their comments aren't processed? That would limit their usefulness but then allowing the processing also allows harmful behaviour

most people benefit from being brought into trump's grift, but there are a few who you have to imagine had much better lives when they were private, rich assholes as opposed to public laughingstocks.

presented without comment

Don't slay dragons who have read Adam Smith

A great conversation about how many politicians were born at a similar time and some insights from a pollster about trends and possible causes / outcomes

Hilarious; the editors from TLDR news do Trump’s cognitive test. nebula.tv/videos/tldrn...

A surprisingly good summary I hadn't seen before of some people's reaction to genAI

"But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science." - Winston Churchill, 1940 Only the timing was off.

This is an accidentally honest answer. What she's saying in code is: "The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

VISUALIZING THE BIOMASS OF LIFE 🐛🦉🐟🐸🐐🐌🍄🦚🐙🐍🦑🐢🦂🦧🌴 #biomass #science #infographic #art #sciart #dataviz #datavisualization #biology

@shaneloeffler.com, are you one of the people listed in the Flyover Country app? I wanted to know why wikipedia entries were removed, or am I misremembering and they were never part of the download?

Also if anyone wants a fun bit from a 1975 NASA report on EVs, with the link here: ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365 Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...

Trump: "When I took over it was a mess. I have inflation way down. I have it down to a normal number right now. Lower than a normal number in my opinion, I think."

WATCH: Dashcam footage shows truck driver reacting to deadly UPS plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky.

Sep 30: USDA issues guidance saying they can use contingency fund Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse Oct 23: USDA deletes Sep 30 guidance Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds Nov 1: no funds go out Nov 4: Trump says he’ll defy courts

We've got you 👍

Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”

After official Whitehouse Twitter, and the official Whitehouse news dashboard, I guess this shouldn't be as aggregating as it is but damn the US lost professionalism and respect with this admin: www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/

Obama: "It's like every day is Halloween, except it's all tricks and no treats. And here's the thing -- it's not as if we did not see some of this coming. I mean, I'll admit it's worse than even I expected, but I did warn y'all. And you know what? Donald Trump warned you too."

Wood face.

We aren't dumb. Your company launched Trump's corrupt crypto coin. You greased the wheels of the massively corrupt UAE "trade secrets for cash" deal. You basically did whatever crooked thing Trump asked. And then, voila - your billionaire owner gets a pardon! C'mon.

This place could use a chunky dose of delicious satellite imagery. So here are some of my favorites I've shared over the years. Impossible to not start with the unbeatable, the epic... von Karman vortices

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating) The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

1-minute #GOES19/#GOESEast Visible images showed that soon after making landfall, the eye of Hurricane #Melissa became cloud-filled as the storm interacted with higher terrain on the western edge of Jamaica.

Donald Trump's approval rating in our tracker has fallen to -18, the lowest it has ever been (lower than any point in his first term) www.economist.com/interactive/...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

It looks like sales of non-electric cars peaked in Australia and I didn't know. I checked after reading this summary from Our World in Data about sales in China and globally: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include: -Amazon -Apple -Coinbase -Lockheed Martin -Google -Meta -Microsoft -Palantir -Tobacco companies -The Adelson family Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.

Bannon says Tr*ump is acting as a vehicle of divine providence. This is an old authoritarian propaganda theme.

How is this even real? Check out the White House's Major Events Timeline. #stayclassymyfriends www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

Maybe this is obvious to everyone but…why does the White House need a ballroom? It has enough space for state dinners, no? Is this for dances? Weddings? Storing classified documents? Just confused so the reason would be helpful thx

Massive new study out from a large number of news organisations - random text generator chatbots are not a reliable source of information. Includes demonstrations of how it specifically gets climate answers specifically very wrong -->> www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

Social media users adopt the toxic behaviors of ingroup members An analysis of 7 million tweets from over 700,000 accounts finds that exposures to toxic behavior by ingroup members is the primary driver of contagious toxicity online academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

I need a supercut of Johnson saying "I don't know the details." Seems like he's got a lot of free time on his hands these days. Maybe, I don't know, he could spend some of it brushing up on some of those details?

I don't think I've had a checked bag charge forced on me that was over 50% of the ticket cost. I doubt this is their account, but congrats @etihadairlines.bsky.social. Its worse looking at the free space in the cabin bins (& never fun watching cabin crew failing with geometry/tetris) #etihad-airways

"More Americans approve" could be a lot better at highlighting that it has 80% popularity with Republicans and roughly 30% with everyone else

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

My jaw dropped when I saw this anti-tariff ad from the Mariner's game just now was from the government of Ontario. Wow.

KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right? MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.

Insurance rates up $2000. Food benefits cut off. Farmers unable to sell their crops. Skyrocketing national debt. $40 billion to Argentina. America First!

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

> These days crypto derives its value largely from the support of politicians and government officials — in particular, officials who can be bribed. As a result, at this point crypto is largely a Trump trade