Tech billionaires lack both respect for and understanding of journalism. www.nytimes.com/video/podcas...

Roughly 60% of Americans agree with you on all of that. I'm one of them.

Took me a minute.

"Three years ago, we were impressed that a machine could write a poem about otters. Less than 1,000 days later, I'm debating statistical methodology with an agent that built its own research environment." www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-year...

I'm hoping Bill Clinton will make a public statement that Trump has never performed fellatio on him, "just to set the record straight."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o... Citizens can't take the citizenship test online, but you can take a practice test: www.gilderlehrman.org/citizenship Take the practice test and ask yourself if Trump would pass. I did.

As AI capabilities advance, they will bring political advantages and challenges. We should focus on identifying and using AI systems that foster unity and facilitate collaborative information sharing between citizens and political professionals. www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

Should you trust your data and computations in a U.S. cloud company controlled by an oligarch who is beholden to a pedophile? slashdot.org/story/25/11/...

It drives me nuts when people want to limit growth for economic reasons. Krugman says it best: youtube.com/shorts/iMcsv...

www.theregister.com/2025/11/14/s... If you are a JavaScript programmer who uses NPM, it's essential to exercise caution.

To my students: Lean into skills AI amplifies, not ones it bulldozes. Frame good questions, scope problems, interpret messy data, apply judgment, explain clearly. The bot can autocomplete; you bring curiosity, context, and ethics.

Translation: 'I'm sucking up to Putin, hoping he won't attack Hungary. If Putin does attack he will reward my loyalty by making me the subservient dictator of Hungary as a Russian satellite state again. Fuck everybody else.'

A lot of competition, Trump, Putin, ...

He owns the Trumpstein scandal.

Ephebophilia olympics, "ephebophilia is the sexual preference of an adult for mid-to-late adolescents, typically those aged 15 to 16, who are near physical maturity but below the legal age of adulthood." Apparently 14 and 13, too.

Context: "Ephebophilia is the sexual preference of an adult for mid-to-late adolescents, typically those aged 15 to 16, who are near physical maturity but below the legal age of adulthood."

The scale at which the President is profiting from his post is staggering. Perhaps past presidents and their self-dealing snuck out with a million or so — a briefcase full of cash. This time, it's billions, which you should visualize as a fleet of school buses filled with Benjamin Franklins.

Morning Kitten

I see pardons coming, or maybe given the Epstein heat, this is even too hot for Trumplethinskin.

To the rescue...

Official U.S. government groypers.

Way to go! 🔥👍💯❤️👏 This 14-year-old girl hands Megyn Kelly her ass for her utterly disgusting minimization of child sexual abuse. You go girl! #cdnpoli

It's almost as if blanket tariffs imposed without understanding how they will affect your markets are a bad idea. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Translation: The Trump administration has found a new way to deny benefits. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Overvalued assets are bundled together, so the quality of what's inside isn’t very clear. I'm wondering if some of the bundled cryptocurrencies are worthless coins after a rug pull. Some parts of this feel very 2009, though. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Off the top of my head, I'd like to see Chris Murphy as the Senate Minority Leader and Jasmine Crockett as the House Minority Leader. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...

Translation: 'Out of all the pedophiles I provided children to, to rape, including myself, Trump was the most reprehensible of them all.' This seems believable to me.

Not even burning this amount of sage will cleanse the White House once he is gone.

"Heritage was never a respectable institution doing honest research. It was always in the business of telling lies on behalf of its wealthy supporters. But now it’s trying to turn itself into a MAGA/Groyper institution." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-declin...

Why? The article says why he did it, but I think it was a bad call. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

So the man who ran a pedophile organization for money and probably blackmail, severely damaging the lives of over a thousand children, thinks Trump is the worst? I want to know what he saw Trump do that led him to believe that.

"The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) was the first to flag the outbreak." Is the implication that we can't depend on the Feds to catch this with this administration? arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

www.politico.com/news/2025/11... Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, wrote. “He understood Trump after our conversations. It is not complex. He must be seen to get something, it's that simple.”

$2K for everyone > inflation. 50-year mortgages will only benefit lenders. youtube.com/shorts/cIuam...

Translation: CNN pontificates wondering whether the BBC will cave to Trump like they did.

Or perhaps not the right sci-fi books with the correct understanding. They seem to think that cyberpunk dystopians with businesses in charge will be beneficial to them.

Quoting Chris Hayes on why to end the filibuster: "The thing that's crazy is you need a simple majority to put in lifetime judges who will rule for right-wing causes and to cut taxes, and those are the two domestic priorities of the Republican Party. Anything else you want to do, you need 60 votes."

slate.com/technology/2... In the new 'you can bet on anything' markets, you can fix many more types of games if there is money on them.

"Nobody understands magnets," DJT :-)

I'm thinking the primaries before the midterms are going to be a bloodbath for a lot of incumbent democrats.

Hopefully, we will migrate all asymmetric encryption to post-quantum algorithms before the q-bit lengths become sufficiently long to crack them. Prompt injection, AI-created exploits, and similar threats are already here. www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/10/1...

No surprises here. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Number of potential planets supporting life, and fraction of those that will develop life are not really estimable given our current knowledge. Can there be silicon vs. carbon based life? How necessary are a rotating magnetic iron core, Van Allen belt radiation shield, or a hundred other factors?

“They were careless people, ... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every time I see this headline, I get excited, only to realize they aren't talking about Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...