Its insane to be contemplating an additional tax break while we operate with one o the largest structural deficits we have ever faced

on some level i get why people hate AI, esp. non-programmers. where everyone else feels subject to whatever nonsense googmetasoft does, programming is where it's the clearest how much it's changed, the potential, and where people are in the position to build affordances that bring out that potential

Both showers and public transit rides have 3x multipliers to Thinking Time. You'd think stationary bikes would be too because they're both moving and mindless but actually they're 0.5x at best. Long flights have 10x to Thinking Time but only if you're in the sweet spot of tired but not TOO tired

Jared polis never wants to win a D primary again. I'm not sure why. but I hope his constituents tear him another asshole.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image

"... the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and nationals." Wild carve outs in that So if you're not a US citizen/national or you are but you're communications are getting picked up in the international surveillance dragnet, you're fucked

what the fuck are we doing

The hot in the west was hotter than the cold in the east was cold. #climatechange

operation epic furry

Prediction markets are a cancer

There you go. An overt technofascist Trump ally will now own CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and a big chunk of TikTok

Hey, so everything about this is ass

I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE

Invoking the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to make a version of Claude that can conduct mass domestic surveillance and operate murderbots is psychotic

Have to agree with Costco here

This is seriously fucked up taskandpurpose.com/news/army-wa...

It's so amazing to watch a figure skater with a genuine GRIN as she's skating, not just the "I am required to smile at this time" face. We need more joy in sports like this!

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Olympic highlight in this house.

Fun with dangling modifiers

Very important Olympic update

the winter olympics are magical

Man, what a metaphor.

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

Green Day: “don’t wanna be an American Idiot” Page Six:

Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well....

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say www.pressherald.com/2026/02/07/i...

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A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

the guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

He's looting the U.S. Treasury, people. Most crooked dictators find covert ways to get rich. Trump intends to simply order his government to transfer money into his bank account.

Time to climb! Cairn is available now. Mount Kami awaits, unconquered. This is what you trained for: fight for every meter of the climb and rise to the challenge.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Let’s try this one in foreign correspondent voice: State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official

undo rm -rf /

What’s the point of legislative reforms when (1) the administration refuses to follow the law and (2) the Supreme Court‘s obedient majority consistently prevents lower courts from enforcing the law against the administration? Seems masturbatory.

One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings. This can't be "reformed"

Live somewhere else and want to lecture people on the ground right now? As an alternative, may I suggest fucking off into the sun

It’s possible we live in a country where 25-35% of the population thinks it’s good and just that masked armies are sent into blue cities to execute people who vote the wrong way

I will not post the video of ICE executing a man in Minneapolis this morning. ICE needs to burn. This was an execution.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Democrats are voting to fund this.

Retraining and body cams I say like a fucking dolt

I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans. When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.

I want to emphasize that at this time the unconfirmed reports that President Trump has both arms stuck "elbow deep" in the airplane toilet are just that. We will be monitoring this story. Please be responsible about spreading news that both his arms are "as far as they can go" into the toilet hole.