If your goal is to learn antisemitic conspiracy theories I guess that might be true

Whenever you see people talking about "the left" and complaining about "the left", they are referring to me. I'm the guy who did the bad things and caused the problems. I'm the one who hates technology, and so on.

They too were wrong when they were young

seeing this shit while donald trump is president is enough to melt my brain

Real insane part of this clip is Hassett saying in the beginning that NY Fed researchers “should be disciplined” for…writing an economics paper that comes to a conclusion the president dislikes? A conclusion that matches the vast majority of economic evidence on tariffs? Nuts

How is AIPAC not a group by Yglesias own definition? It seems like the Malinowski case is actually a perfect example of a single issue group demanding total fealty to their incredibly unpopular position and then tanking you for not adopting it.

I was kind of excited about that steam box valve was going to make, but apparently they had to back burner it because they can’t get ram to put in the machines

Unless you are a skeptic in which case you get in more trouble for claiming to know the answers

A lecturer friend told me they started offering courses on safe use of AI (eg not to complete a assignment but instead finding a quote, revising a clunky phrase) and yet every essay comes back fully AI-generated. And in seminars students just ChatGPT questions and then raise their hands to answer.

Maybe a stupid question but is there a reason Claude AI went with Kurt Vonnegut’s drawing of an asshole from Breakfast of Champions for its logo?

Wishing a meaningful & reflective Mark Wahlberg 40 Day Challenge to all who observe.

when you see the discourse of the day unfolding but you can't figure out the source so it's like dark matter that can only be observed by its effect on its surroundings

The idea that the Chamber of Commerce is "left-wing" is beyond insane. It is completely disconnected from reality. Chamber of Commerce was to the right of Reagan.

the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state

#AI #Education experiments can be great, if careful. A 6-week #writing course gave one group an in-person instructor and the other group a #languageModel. But the AI group accessed the #LLM *during* the pre-test? Shouldn’t baseline conditions be equal? doi.org/10.1007/s442...

capitalism dot jpg

i’m giving up peer reviewing for lent

An Effective Altruist writing about AI should be taken as seriously as a Scientologist writing about L Ron Hubbard webworm.co/newgods

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

25 years ago yesterday ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONGING TO US www.jwz.org/blog/2026/02...

Smells like Nirvana

“If a bilLIONaire could speak we could not understand them” — Wittgenstein

in other news, please post about something else than dem primary discourse. we cannot do 2028 dem primary discourse this early. dear lord.

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

All-timer wikipedia article

i don't think ted needed to say all this but it's very cool he did!

One of the best tweets of all time

unfortunately evergreen

i once confronted one of these people at a public event with direct evidence that "gender surgery for minors" isn't a thing that happens and it made no impact.

this is rage bait

proceed accordingly www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

I got all my grading done before leaving town for the central APA! Very excited to not bring my laptop with me to the conference!

passing out the handout and sitting quietly while everyone reads it for the full 20 minutes and then standing up and going 'any questions?'

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

Hey, DC, is there anything distinctive about your Lanterns that is maybe easy to visually depict? No? OK then, if you say so.

Dinosaurs are a cover story for ancient giant beings (dinosaurs)

it's 2026 and bleeding edge coding AI still randomly decides whether or not to follow your orders, and we're supposed to feel like we're missing out. if i want someone to misunderstand me on purpose i can just post on bluesky for free

If looks could ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86, I’d never look at you again

⚠️ PSA - don’t take health advice from people who snort cocaine off toilet seats. We are truly living in Idiocracy, and you can thank RFK Jr. for this outbreak.

Protip: don’t seek out the context for this post; there is not enough bleach in the world to cleanse your eyes or brain after

From Kay's perspective the Godfather is the story of a New Hampshire wasp learning that every negative Italian stereotype is true

[panera] ME: *eats bread bowl* DATE: pretty sure you’re supposed to eat the soup first

Starting a cursed discourse just to feel something

listening to audiobooks counts as reading. in some instances like historical nonfiction where the author will spend hours demonstrating how year-over-year falling grain yields caused a revolution to happen, it actually counts as reading with a 1.2x multiplier

People seem upset that this list of influential chicagoans includes a Fuentes, even though there is pretty clear anti-Fuentes tone to the summary. I do think he is influential (it’s bad but it is also true)

Flintstones truthers abound