all of us who said avatar didn’t have a lasting cultural impact need to reevaluate

no one cares for Gaston he just has a good song no one needs a new origin story for Gaston

I'm still holding out hope that he shits himself on camera. It won't stop the war. But it will make the trauma of this time a little more painful. And I need the trauma to dig deep into the meat and viscera of the American voter.

Always happy to help people find great music. www.gq.com/story/james-...

In the event that tomorrow’s speech is a declaration of further aggression against Venezuela, you should respond in a way that will let you hold your head high years from now, even if it is difficult in the present.

"Yglesias claims to think “rights are good,” but would have us ignore how neutral rules can be used to deny people their rights. Earlier this month, the Trump Department of Justice issued a memo that follows from Yglesias’s reasoning" www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

The Trump promise: a foreign policy you need a massive stroke to appreciate

"but they couldn't possibly succeed, they'd just kill a lot of people for nothing!" Let me tell you about a little thing called war

Is nobody even trying things before claiming AI can't do something? One of my main uses for LLMs is analyzing a codebase and telling me about, answering my questions about it, and finding things deep inside big ones that would take forever to find. And they've been good at this for a while now

all of the "he's gotta fire wiles for this" or any argument like that - he's gotta fire hegseth, he's gotta fire patel, etc. - assumes the "gotta" is because "otherwise he will become very unpopular and be unable to govern" - but, again, what if he doesnt give a shit about that? there's no "gotta"

he doesnt care if the GOP wins in the midterms. he'd prefer it certainly; but the only reason he cares about congress is impeachment, and SCOTUS + 2 failed attempts make that a dead-letter. he doesnt expect to run again. he may not expect to live that long. so why try? what's in it for him?

i think the media needs to internalize something that is glaringly obvious but also weird and disorienting in a way the media is completely unequipped to handle: trump is not trying to be popular anymore. he is not doing politics anymore. he does not care. he just wants to rule until the music stops

workshopping the worst conceivable take in @liberalcurrents.com chat, i got: "liberals shouldn't go back to twitter, they need to go to linkedin"

"mod was kind of a dick, annoyed the shit out of everyone" yes they're. discord mods. you could have skipped the entire thing and just told me an anthropic staffer was a discord mod, between anthropic and discord mod there's a 50% chance they're gay and given discord mod a 100% chance of drama

I keep getting ads on YouTube for "the world's only tactical fleece hoodie with 10 pockets" and that ridiculous phrase has wormed its way into my brain. imagining a guy who looks at his tactical fleece hoodie with only 7 pockets and frowns

This is just straight up climate change denialism at this point

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Yeah I’m sorry, but this is indefensible and is *exactly* the kind of shit that people are talking about when they talk about non-profit/activist brainworms. And it’s causing real harm here! Minorities are more likely to be victims of drunk drivers as well!

this is what I hear in my head when I argue with software engineer guys who decide to give back by teaching programming and fail like 90% of their students btw www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Last night, I celebrated the first night of Hanukkah in Grand Army Plaza with Chabad of Park Slope.

So the pipe bomb dude definitely has an 'anatomically accurate' body pillow of one of the ponies, right?

don't care what it means, i'm reading TILF as trots i'd like to f- *whisked off stage*

Dear Bluesky hammer&sickle crowd: That new dude in your group? He’s an FBI agent.

Mayor Adams is over an hour late to his Hanukkah celebration in Manhattan. Some Jewish members of his admin have delivered remarks while waiting on him, including NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who said it's been an "honor" to work for Adams.

i know it’s been a week packed with bad news, but the widespread apathy to this is a really bad sign. this isn’t about saving votes. if it was, the geriatric leadership of this party would stop dying in office

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

earlier generations understood just how dangerous email is.

Antisemitic attacks—from Tree of Life to Boulder, the Capital Jewish Museum, and now Australia—aren’t isolated. They’re part of a global rise in antisemitic extremism that scapegoats Jews, normalizes hate, and fuels real-world violence. @amyspitalnick.bsky.social on @pbsnews.org

“If anything, him taking money from the nonce meant there was less money for noncing, and for that we should be giving him a medal”

bro what?

a pathetic excuse for a man whose existence is a continual affront to everything good in this world.

This entire weekend

Why do all the Absolute Wonder Woman variant ditch her Mediterranean features?

happy holidays, i hope you'll handle my presents w/ care (theyre sensitive)

Co-ops are often held up as a virtuous example of decommodified housing. I remain skeptical!

In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Olivia Nuzzi went deep into the bowels of power and felched out America’s nasty truths to write American Canto, a book so full of herky-jerky, overwrought purple prose that I genuinely don’t believe that any of the 1,100 (eleven-hundred) people who bought her book made it to the back cover.

cursed

This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm” www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...

flight home completely cancelled so I have some free time: if you’re looking for a last-minute gift, if you pre-order my book and DM me a receipt, I’ll turn a personal photo of yours into art, which you can gift! bio.to/artbutmakeit...

I’ve developed some pretty complicated feelings about Hanukkah over the years but I’m sticking the damn menorah in the window tonight, I’ll tell you that much

The inevitable has happened. I've started a substack. The first post is now live, and its a longform review of Leif Weatherby's Language Machines that uses the opportunity to say some things about inferentialism, computation, and LLMs: deontologistics.substack.com/p/computatio...

Happy Hanukkah, when we celebrate the transformative power of energy efficiency! 🕎

She’s not a fascist, she is merely asking the fascist American government to bomb, invade, and occupy her country so that she can be put into power to help establish a controlled puppet government that primarily serves American commercial interests and the Venezuelan elite who collaborate.

haha, this sucks man

Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.

Jucika Prepares for the Ball (Sound design by hypnadot on NG)

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”