coming back to this, what are we even doing with this funding bill negotiation or indeed any budget at all?

What will poor Eric Adams do for work? That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!

LLM operators understand this is their biggest current problem and they are already getting much better. This academic year hallucinated sources will still be a tell. But I suspect that by the 26-27 academic year the best LLMs will still make stuff up but will always cite real sources.

INTERVIEWER: As you know, we are a nation beset by myriad horrors. What are you doing to fight back? SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.

The end of an era. What a career. And what a great final performance to wrap it up.

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

I look at the UK, France, Belgium, Japan, Italy - all former world superpowers and think maybe living in a former superpowers wouldn't be the worst thing for the average American.

I wanted to be upset about this, and I think the CDC will do some stupid stuff, but this recommendation (to not combine MMR with ChickenPox for the first dose) seems to be in line with other developed countries current recommendations.

/3 There are no moral or norm-based barriers to it trying to do crazy, evil things. But that doesn’t make every “what if the administration does this” scenario equally plausible. It’s less likely to do complicated things that take careful planning or follow-through, for instance.

Hi folks: I will be in Rio de Janeiro in early Oct for a couple of days. Have been before and done the obvious sites (Redeemer, Sugarloaf, some beaches) but really not that much. Please share your suggestions for food/bars/neighborhoods/buildings/experiences in Rio or nearby.

I am amazed at just how inept the Democrats’ congressional leadership is on this moment of crisis. Trump is moving troops into blue cities and declaring war against the left, and these guys are complaining that the GOP Congress is pushing a partisan budget. Jesus Christ, wake the hell up.

You know how occasionally you want to clean up but it’s overwhelming and you decide to just pick up a handful of things for a minute? In that spirit, search the word “retard” on Bluesky, block the first ten people who use it as an insult, and go about your business. Every bit helps.

Right, rather than try to shame Republicans for their complicity here, Democrats should simply state -- loudly and repeatedly -- that the Republican Party clearly shields pedophiles. They'll howl about it, but all of their actions to this point leave no other conclusion.

If they don't filibuster, they bear some responsibility for whatever passes. As long as they realize and accept that, fine. But none of this, "No! It's not their fault! What are they supposed to do? Wah!" stuff that will inevitably happen.

Addison "Mitch" McConnell & Lindsey Graham in unison, sounding like two small town old ladies at a church social: "I never did like that Trump boy".

over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone

And further, will all those payments made to clear customs be refunded??

Safety, done, right, is not the enemy of progress. My agency had a big safety push many years ago, and IMO got it right in one important way -- our director was clear, he said "Safety is important, but isn't the mission. Safety is how we execute the mission."

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Despite all the silly AGI hype, the miracle of what AI *can* do remains underappreciated. I had to move my blog from a Movable Type site (Typepad RIP) to a Wordpress site. After support from one hosting company failed to help me, I found a different site and GPT5 guided me through every single step

If the majority of a nation wants their representatives to stop arming a genocide but those representatives refuse, it means they are not afraid to lose votes. By voting for the "lesser evil" for decades you didn't honor the right to vote so many fought for, you devalued the only currency you had.

This social media site will not and cannot succeed until everybody pats me on the head and tells me I’m a good boy for all my opinions

There's Something About Gary

Coworker -frustratedthat the paper towel dispenser took 2 tries to work - spent lunch engineering a solution with multiple redundant sensors that he thinks our company should develop. I told him there is no market for a paper towel dispenser that costs $1k and requires an electrician to replace.

Yes, replace useless Dem incumbents The Dems we have, are the ones who confirmed all the Trump appointees The Dems we have, have given unanimous consent to this mess hundreds and hundreds of times The Dems we have, lost 2 of 3 to the shitgibbom Primary Purge 26

absent a bunch of primaries and incumbents getting got by them, dems will take this as full exoneration of their approach and will absolutely fritter away their 2 years. non-zero chance even with control of both houses the maintain or increase ICE budget!

The median population of a community with a growing Episcopal church is also 13,375—so small town.

people hate insincerity! they hate corpspeak, they hate nakedly cynical pandering, they often find it appealing when a politician sincerely holds a belief they don’t agree with because it means that politician won’t back down on the ones they do

Project “acquire physical media” continues!

I sure do love that whenever a trans person says anything negative about Newsom that a horde of people who are locking in Newsom as the 2028 Dem nominee pop up to scold you. Very fun!

Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.

We’re still having discussions about how Zohran Mamdani is a “socialist” because he wants to open one state-run grocery store, meanwhile the US government now controls 10% of Intel. I find this super amusing.

Chairman Mao touts his state-run economy

You're living through a major technological revolution right now and it has nothing to do with AI. The United States is in danger of missing it and getting left behind because our corrupt President wants us to be buyers-of-last-resort for fossil fuels owned by his paymasters in KSA and Russia.

There are probably people who should mourn James Dobson's death ... his family, friends, etc. But I didn't know the man. He was just the guy who helped my parents "dare to discipline," and told them that "breaking their child's will" through violent coercion was "parenting God's way."

May i offer you a Kirby, in these trying times

wise, wise words

This is the lawsuit that Lawrence HS doesn’t want you to read about. We can see why they’d like to keep it under wraps. Let’s not let them. Streisand Effect, anyone?

just can not shake the feeling that democratic leadership really believes they are just a couple votes away from the halcyon times of enjoying senate softball and seersucker suit day

Wow weird people are reluctant to give money to a directionless party that says “trust me bro” and hands over cash to consultants as it still pays off Harris advertising on the dome www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Newsom has proved that he will set aside every liberal ideal you think he holds for the sake of power. You simply can’t trust him. I don’t object to him forcefully opposing Trump where he can, but the reason people qualify their support is that he’s a snake.

Ice agent struck by sandwich seeks counseling, says he can't even walk through deli without fearing for his life and has been diagnosed with BLTSD

I didn't vote for Biden in the NC primary, and I'm glad I didn't. The calculus of primaries is *completely* inverted from those of a general election. If you don't want to have to vote for a candidate in the general, get to work in primaries. And ignore the Jains and Ygelsiases doing propaganda.

Thought experiment: What if it became possible to evaluate the originality* of student writing reliably? Would we grade on originality? Or would we worry that a) we’re not really able to teach how to do things no one has done before b) it’s unfair to grade on pre-existing talent? * Defined +

Israel operates a "Legitimization Cell" that seeks to frame journalists in Gaza as "Hamas operatives." "The idea was to [allow the military to] operate without pressure, so countries like America wouldn’t stop supplying weapons," one source told @972mag.com.

The biggest contributor to rising producer prices is profit margins. After a year of tariff talk, corporate America thinks the country's softened up for price hikes, even if their input costs aren't higher. There's no way Trump will do anything about this. Wall St will get fat while you suffer.

Thoughts: There is a lot of intentional misreading of the headlines. The proposal is that scientific research that depends on grants be separated from researchers in the humanities. The proposal is not that undergraduates should skip Gen Ed.

candidate 1: i will kill you and your family candidate 2: i will only kill half of your family, and maybe not you candidate 3: I won't kill anybody, what the hell, that's so fucked up Too many of you: Candidate 3 will just take votes from candidate 2, who we must elect to save democracy

We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years. The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.