At the Enhanced Games, where athletes were encouraged to dope, the sports seemed less like the main event and more like a Trojan horse for a broader business—selling supplements to the masses, @elcush.bsky.social reports from Las Vegas:

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Using AI chatbots for even just for 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford, and UCLA.

Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat (to a pregnant woman) when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001). Notably, 44% of those who offered their seat in the experimental condition reported not seeing Batman. 😀

JFC

"I don’t know how to solve the conflict between what’s best for the user versus health companies. But I think we can all agree that an AI smart bed telling someone to drink every night is not the insight you pay $5,000 for."

"..but the president is different now, firmly in his second term with personal electoral victory no longer a driving force. The guardrails from the first term are gone, and Trump has all but abandoned the pretense of much caring about the Republican Party that he holds in an emperor-like grip."

"A real bozo the clown move.”

"Three factors are pushing the world towards the cliff edge. Oil cargoes available to buy are drying up. Refineries are slashing output of fuel. And demand remains artificially high, especially in Europe. Something big must give somewhere large for energy markets to balance."

Rising sea temperatures are pushing Great White sharks toward a physiological breaking point. New research shows these "mesothermic" fish use 4x more energy than cold-blooded species. As oceans warm, they face a "double jeopardy" of potential overheating and a lack of food to fuel them.

"Trump has since marveled at the ease with which the strait was closed. A guy with a drone can shut it down, Trump has said to people, expressing belated irritation that the key waterway was so vulnerable."

Incredible reporting.

"You’ve heard the joke: The White House is going to start talking about the Epstein files to distract from how badly the Iran war is going."

Bleak

He's confessing to planning war crimes on live television

From forcing down chewy, bacon-flavored Man Cereal to vomiting at the office, buying into the MAHA protein craze was a challenging endeavor. www.wired.com/story/i-took...

“.. US government officials and Wall Street analysts are starting to consider the prospect that oil prices might surge to an unprecedented $200 a barrel.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️ www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

“If the strait does not reopen, people are like, ‘Is this recessionary?’ I'm like, ‘No, it's depressionary.’ This will be so, so, so, so, so bad,” he says. “We're talking about Covid-level demand loss, no cars on the road, no planes in the sky, but with no pandemic.”

"For the record, the so-called “war on protein” is fictional. Not only is protein deficiency rare in developed countries, but experts say many Americans already meet the new dietary guidelines for protein.. 61 percent of Americans upped their protein intake in 2024, compared to 48 percent in 2019."

Excellent thread. Bleak but necessary.

1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

Recommended reading.

“ICE is teaching cadets to violate the Constitution,” he said on Monday at the event with congressional Democrats.

"Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found."

Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

"A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to return a college freshman to the United States within two weeks after she was mistakenly deported to Honduras in November."

Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

"Ochoa is a Border Patrol agent who joined CBP in 2018. Gutierrez joined in 2014 and works for CBP’s Office of Field Operations. He is assigned to a special response team, which conducts high-risk operations like those of police SWAT units."

Looking at the precinct results in TX's 9th Senate district election and the shift is a consistent ~40 points on margin vs 2022 in the outlying areas, matching the pattern of persuasion and Republican dropoff we've seen in special elections for the 2025-26 election cycle.

A federal judge, in a published order, so very much on the record: “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

"Against smoke and rubber bullets By the dawn’s early light Citizens stood for justice Their voices ringing through the night And there were bloody footprints Where mercy should have stood And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets Alex Pretti and Renee Good"

"ICE is a growing cancerous ball of cells in Minneapolis."

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"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs."

"Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol “commander at large” and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon, according to a DHS official and two people with knowledge of the change."

"People are dying in American concentration camps, unseen. And people are being executed on American streets, seen by all of us. This is enough. The radical is the pragmatic. The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded."

"Trump has turned ICE into a sprawling paramilitary that roves the country at will, searches and detains noncitizens and citizens without warrants, uses force ostentatiously, operates behind masks, receives skimpy training, lies about its activities, and has been told it enjoys “absolute immunity.”

"DHS—and those in the employ of ICE and CBP—are an affront to America. Masked armed paramilitary members running around American cities and brutalizing their populations is anathema to the American spirit that I’ve long believed in."

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*

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"The uncomfortable truth is that the president of the United States is a man with the mind of a spoiled child. His debilitating solipsism is a threat to the stability of the entire world. A functional Congress would impeach and remove him."

"The only conclusive result from an intense week of heavy walking is: Any insole is better than no insole, and whichever one I believe is most effective will feel best to me, regardless of whether it actually is. This is a peak example of what I call “placebo tech” in the wellness space."

KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?” @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...