What I love about living in the Northeast is the four distinct seasons (no, not this one)

"The president has an 'image' of not caring about people with disabilities, and we can't have an ASL interpreter ruining that."

Lying? Incompetence? Or a secret third thing (both)?

As foretold.

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The court ordered limit is 20 days. Some have been held over *5 months*. Turning into a single issue voter very quickly, where the issue is "what punishment do you believe is appropriate for these people, and what is your plan to make that happen?"

I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful: All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.

I would pay good money for "Big Fish" from the perspective of Eric Adams' son.

We need to move past the era of Skinner boxes into a world where peoples' privacy, intentions, and well-being are respected. Resonant Computing won't kill the hyperscalers, but it's a step in the right direction.

I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

"Quick, he's falling asleep in front of the press again, what distractions haven't we tried yet?" "I guess we could call fonts woke?"

Remember Chess? It was a game humans used to play. Lasted over 500 years, then up and disappeared once Deep Blue beat Kasparov in '97 and it was taken away from humans forever.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Me: Why would I write agglomerative clustering? There's plenty of packages out there. Advent of Code: The elves need agglomerative clustering to plug in their lights. Me: Of course, here you go. A nice little hand rolled solution is the least I could do.

Cory Doctorow, fantastic as always. Gets at the heart of the distinction between the "AI bubble" and the useful things it will leave behind (as with the last "AI Winter"/"dot-com bubble"), the inalienable role of humans in art (despite new tools), and more. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

I think people underestimate how much of our modern dystopia is caused by advertising. - Competes for attention and resources on the basis of identity and aesthetics. - Makes population-level surveillance and profiling profitable. - Misaligns incentives for search engines. The list goes on...

Useful numbers for understanding the environmental impact of AI. Yes, the planet is burning, and we need immediate changes. That said, cutting AI usage to 0 doesn't put a dent in the problem. Cocomelon has used more power than OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic combined. We need bigger changes.

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

The OU paper is quite something. On one hand, it did show that the student did read the source and react to it, as per the syllabus. On the other hand, "God should smite the demonic grad student I hate" is a *wild* bad faith paper to submit that should auto-fail at least a whole course.

Actual psycho shit.

Another day, another war crime.

How many companies out there are really being limited by the ability to churn out boilerplate or code that isn't (yet) understood in depth? I'm fairly pro-LLMs-as-a-tool, and I can't imagine how firing a large number of devs working in brownfield projects is going to help the bottom line.

The average person throughout all of history (~100B) has watched ~2 Cocomelon videos (~200B views).

Merchant, 14th century: "This is called a Mango, and it comes from the faraway land of India. It's a once in a lifetime treat that has traveled thousands of miles." Me, most days: "Hm, walking past the pantry again, guess that means it's dried mango time again! Gonna have to go to Costco soon."

The government's treatment of Abrego Garcia has been, and continues to be, deplorable.

Alert! The second (4+ hour!) @defunctland.bsky.social animatronics video has hit this weekend. All further plans are now on hold while I relive the FIRST robotics-era dream of making wildly complicated robots. youtu.be/NyIgV84fudM?...

For any other, as a friend put it, "people who want things that are good", the annual Project Farm roundup has dropped. And now I wait for my air duster to arrive... youtu.be/IVjW8aCCC38?...

DOGE has to be one of the worst programs the US created in half a century. - Saved ~no money. - Burned goodwill/soft power around the world. - Enriched the richest and worst among us. - Contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions if funding isn't restored. - Awful name.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

On the one hand, Universes Beyond seems to be causing serious second-order problems for Magic it feels like the recent sets are suffering as a result. On the other hand, I would spend an unreasonable amount of money on a JoJo set, so I am the problem. Give me "Joseph, Hamon Master" yesterday.

Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Say what you will about Clay Higgins... ...like, "Wow, that guy is really pro child sex trafficking" and "You need to be such a piece of shit to enshrine your name in history as the last Epstein defender in Congress". It's fun, and he deserves it!

SOMEONE: Fuck you! BOVINO: That’s not very nice. THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?

BREAKING: Grijalva has signed the Epstein Files discharge petition. It doesn't appear that Mace or Boebert have removed their names.

I don't want the expensive human-shaped robot, but it is interesting how quickly some of the "I don't want the robots to do anything creativity-adjacent; I want them to do my laundry" people are deciding that it's very important that humans do the laundry.

Eight Senate Democrats saw charts like these and decided "oh yes, now that public opinion is on our side and our opponent is facing electoral consequences for their policy choices, now is a great time to give up all of our leverage in health care negotiations" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/donald-tru...

What the hell, Home Depot.

i wrote about having long covid as a hypochondriac and why no one should ever go on reddit www.late-review.com/p/the-galler...

An hour long attempt to pry out *anything* of substance, and the Democratic nominee for president couldn't (or wouldn't) articulate a path to regaining trust and improving people's lives. Depressing. youtu.be/Z19lHTlKfOk?...

Public: We don't want you, Andrew Cuomo, sex pest. Andrew Cuomo, sex pest: Fine, fine, I'll be racist. Public: ???

So help me, if I get one more "share your best prompts for personal productivity!" email I'm going to lose my shit. Do we ask people for their best Google searches? Their favorite numbers to type into a calculator? Most productive PowerPoint slide formats?

We have a term 'government.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're running, a country, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but the government is fucked.

Shout out to Octordle: www.britannica.com/games/octord... Seems like it's just Wordle but more complicated (which it kind of is), but there's more of a "game" to it since you need to balance solving and exploration. Extreme & Rescue are also really well tuned. Big fan.

"Trump won't seek congressional approval for strikes" So we're not even pretending to be at war; the country is just recreationally blowing up fisherman? Due to the "imminent danger" of being thousands of miles away, off the coast of countries with minimal fentanyl production? Fucking insane.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

They're destroying the jobs! They're suppressing the votes! They're violating the rights of the people who live here!