Larry Bushart spent 37 *days* in jail for posting memes criticizing Trump and Charlie Kirk. His arrest was the crest of a wave of censorship after Kirk was killed. Now a Tennessee county will pay $835,000 to settle his First Amendment lawsuit, filed by FIRE. www.fire.org/news/victory...

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

I just scanned a list of the X users Massie follows from his official gray check government account, and I count eight self-described National Socialists, two self-described white nationalists, a couple of instances of the 14 words, and a big pile of WLM / Generation Zyklon / GoyimTV / etc. folks.

What a fascinating quote

Does Gavin Newsom think that when you download software, there's an army of programmers just waiting to deliver some fresh, hand-written code on demand?

what is… “prewritten software”

Mmmmmmmmmn okay *picks up intercom handset* Dr @ryanmarino.bsky.social we have a code Uh Huh Sure on the cop unit I repeat we have a code Uh Huh Sure on the cop unit

Guys. The Ancient Greeks weren't white. They were more like cephalopods than modern humans -- their skin was bioluminescent and constantly shifting its color. And they didn't live in in idyllic seaside villages; they could only survive near deep-ocean vents. They DID have Matt Damon accents, though

Disgusting. An abomination. Also:

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

32 House Democrats joined the GOP to vote to criminalize bail funds. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026169

I got nothing. those who thought I was too mean are encouraged to form an orderly apology line.

Trigger warning: everything (but I'll be vague) ... ... ... Being a scholar of sex crimes curses me with certain knowledge. The claim circulating online that certain allegations in the Kristof article are physically impossible is false. See, e.g. the Ira Isaacs obscenity case. 1/2

DOJ is suing the DC Court of Appeals for regulating the profession of law, like some kind of Sovereign Citizen crank. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

jfc

Thinking back to the time that Marc said a16z would never get involved in politics and that any fight over policy was stupid since you could code your way around anything politicians did.

Rumor is spreading on Twitter that Chud the Builder was just in a shooting incident on stream. It is unclear at the moment who shot who.

If only we could ascertain the name of the degree commonly held by med school graduates.

Trans rights are human rights and this administration is an abomination of hate and greed.

Good morning to everyone except the person at IBM who decided that they should a) name their LLM "Bob" and b) spam me daily about said Bob.

Here's Deborah Lipstadt, who was the Biden administration's envoy to fight antisemitism, approvingly retweeting a post that seems to call for the execution of NYT editors. 😵‍💫

“What Mamdani just did to me, and more broadly is doing to the city of New York, is triggering of the trauma I went through in Chicago." - Ken Griffin, worth $50.3 billion, triggered

news: "the president is scheduled to tra..." Rapid Response 47: "TECHNICALLY IT IS CONSIDERED EPHEBOPHILIA"

Filling up my drafts folder with Reed O’Connor takes that are just a little too spicy for a public forum.

Hey man, you need to stop taking my fucking videos, cropping off my handle, splicing it with other clips (which you presumably also stole), and then slapping your name on it. It’s one thing to download my TikTok and post it instead of just sharing here, but we’re hitting lawyer territory here.

Crows going nuts, dive-bombing the top of a pine. First 6 then 12 then 24. A gigantic red-tailed hawk emerged, crows swarming, pulling wing feathers and tail. Hawk dropped a large rabbit with a loud thud on the neighbors roof. Now the crows are celebrating like they just won the World Series.

Palantir has a "neurodivergent fellowship".

USA Today was never a *good* paper, but this is just embarrassing.

We murdered two more people in a boat today. One survived the strike.

Gerrymandering for me but not for thee, the Republican way.

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

Adam it will shock you to learn he has not responded to my offer

I am once again begging people to understand that articles indexed by PubMed are not actually published or endorsed by the NIH.

I would appreciate it if the United States Justice Department would stop trolling me while I’m on vacation

Like the vast majority of spiders (certain Australian psychopaths excepted) the Brown Recluse does not seek confrontation and will only bite if threatened or trapped. To use words Kyle Rittenhouse will understand, Brown Recluses have a Castle Doctrine and abide by strict Stand Your Ground laws.

I clicked on one Reddit post from a body-hacking forum and now my entire feed is just pictures of people with extremely veiny and red skin describing their "stack" of unregulated drugs ordered from underground labs and research chemical suppliers.

And there’s already a guy in the replies linking this indictment to AIPAC. Very Normal Online indeed.

The FBI has never been a squeaky clean operation, but it's amazing how far my priors on FBI investigations have moved from 'Well there's probably *something* there' to 'This is a political frame job until I see independent evidence otherwise'

bullets are not magic

Bryant Rousseau, named in this story as the NYT editor whose work history matches the anonymous coward in the complaint, is selling AI-generated art and music on his website. The copyright watermarks on work he didn’t do — with fake NYT quotes! — is just chef’s kiss narcissistic entitlement.

Honestly my biggest takeaway from this clip is that Obama is very consciously elevating Mamdani (whom he cites unprompted as an example of the right way to do this) as a model while other top Dems still shirk him.

We used to have regulators who would prevent this kind of thing. Alas.

Between the bafflingly opaque “strikes” system and decisions like this, the Bluesky trust and safety team has really been on a roll lately.

What in the world

A win for free speech, a loss for Matt Taibbi.

incredible work, the most thin skinned people alive

"Never hallucinate or make anything up." yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors that's definitely how the technology works

it would be so cool if there were tech megabillionaires who weren't absolute dipshit ignoramuses who are immune to learning how anything works

Watts v. United States.