Increasingly convinced that these remakes are being commissioned by a mad libs style process, in that we have had Snow White (everyone who has nostalgia for it is dead) and now Moana (everyone who has nostalgia for it is 20).

Speed running an experiment to combine the experiences of the Nasdaq crash of 2000 and the 2008 fin’l crisis.

Megyn Kelly Anxiously Waits For Everyone Else To Start Condoning Pedophilia Too https://theonion.com/megyn-kelly-anxiously-waits-for-everyone-else-to-start-condoning-pedophilia-too/

If you find out that the United States Department of Justice has subpoenaed information about you from Bluesky, please don’t post through it here on Bluesky. That makes Ken angry.

sounds familiar www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Predator: yah I went to Earth and it was *so* authentic, our guide provided us with traditional weaponry and everything. facing humans armed with nothing but a shoulder cannon and a wristblade was a really spiritual experience.

I'm surprised its only 17%. I think because a lot of sunk costs: applications were sent in before the election. Expect that the enrollment in 2026 will be closer to 0....

Every activist also has AI to produce their responses. AI is spamming tool, regardless of its intended purpose. It will aid obstructionists.

When I showed this slide to my wife, who is a software engineer for a power company who has written environmental impact statements for the DoD, she simply started screaming

This is so delusional as to be laughable. The "problem", the paperwork for a nuclear powerplant is insanely long... So use "AI" to write it for you... Except that it isn't the paperwork itself, it is that every activist within 1000 miles reviews and challenges every scrap of the paperwork!

An amazing thing about this very well reported and thorough article is that it doesn't even get to the fact that the county's main cyber agency has been *gutted* as part of the DHS deportation reorg and it's still probably fair for that to be on the cutting room floor.

this is something we got into in our post-Zohran pod. the case for popularism, *made explicitly in public,* is that we should lie to the voters about what we believe. at least some voters will not like that! www.leftanchor.com/e/the-2025-b...

Yeah, my messaging is devoid of any critique of police excess or mission failure, with a clear admiration for the drug war, police violence and corruption. The Corner, The Wire and We Own This City are there to Back the Blue. My evil output aside, Defund is still moronic and self-defeating rhetoric.

Wait uh if you watch through to the end of the clip THEY TRIED TO BUY TACOS FROM A SHOP WHERE THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY KIDNAPPED A WORKER, WHO IS STILL DETAINED

Except that you know that the US supreme court, in an unsigned and unreasoned 6-3 decision, will say its OK and Kavanaugh will state that it is just a minor incovenience for the victims of the Kavanaugh stop to be tackled and handcuffed.

It is more delta-v to yeet something into the sun rather than into the cold vacuum of interstellar space, but sometimes you just got to not pollute the universe.

"Children’s toymaker FoloToy says it’s pulling its AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” after a safety group found that the cuddly companion was giving wildly inappropriate and even dangerous responses, including tips on how to find and light matches, and detailed explanations about sexual kinks"

at this point, it's safe to say that the Labour government's fear is not Reform taking power, but that unless they demonstrate an eager fidelity to Farage's overt xenophobia, they'll be left out of the fun when voters fully abandon the party ostensibly built around protecting workers from plunder.

(it took me a moment to work this out but also notice that the name they use for her is degraded and racializing. Summers should be gone from any institution that even pretends to respectability)

I’m not a big supporter of violence but if the next ten or so strangers to meet Larry Summers just straight-up sucker-punch him in the face I am not going to lose any sleep.

Online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has been getting noticeably less attention and follow-up from authorities, per NYT, as the DHS is overwhelmingly used for Stephen Miller’s immigration crusade www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

as someone who really thought there wasn’t much there for the longest time I cannot draw any conclusion other than “they are monumentally terrible” at this point

My new faculty orientation in 2011 featured two messages: “get grants and don’t have sex with students.” I thought it was odd because both points seemed obvious, but as the Epstein emails suggest, for many academic men the later wasn’t nearly as obvious as it should have been.

Watched "The Substance" last night. Man that movie was horrible. A mid-tier Twilight Zone episode that Rod Serling could write up with a 30 minute runtime (with commercials) brutally compressed into a two hour and 21 minute movie.

Its wild to see Olivia Nuzzi get this treatment while if I break the ethics rules of my profession I'll never be a CPA again

It's A Wonderful Secret (2003)

We are 100% apt to die out as a species because we considered telephone sanitizers* an unnecessary profession. *or meat inspectors, or random produce sample inspectors, or seatbelt development engineers or electrical system inspectors or municipal plumbing inspectors or so many health & safety pros

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

Blending family and governance

But not for long!

This is such a common dynamic and it absolutely does immense harm to women’s careers. We do not need to tolerate this shit anymore.

Time to dust off this oldie but goodie

Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!

These are documents that get poured over in minute deal by opponents of any nuclear project. They are going to love being able to point to falsities thanks to AI generation in challenging these projects. So yeah, use an LLM to generate them...

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

The US accidentally did a large scale experiment with an actual control group about what would happen if you legalized cannabis. The result: It's completely fine, boring even. The only problems are logistical stuff with permits, licensing, and taxes. There's no reason to keep debating this.

as an independent journalist i’m just glad i finally know how to advance my career (crank hog with roadkill bob)

From my discussions with other faculty, the use of generative AI I hear about the most is writing reference letters. What's the point of having reference letters anymore if everyone is just having them written by machine?

Air Bud Returns (2026)

Trump Blew Clinton vs NYT Nuzzi profile feels like this today online

Tired: Nancy Reagan, “throat goat” ⭐ Wired: Donald Trump, “throat goat” 😬😬😬 (I know, I know, I’m so sorry)

Just peeked into the machine room for the TERRIBLE DAY TO HAVE EYES feed, and there's smoke everywhere bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you don't already agree that there's a moral panic over transgender care, just read the New York Times' articles on hormone therapy for cis people and compare them to their hit pieces on the hormone therapy for trans people.

Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject

Oh this is so utterly fucking disgusting. “Lol we know how you like fucking kids, may I suggest reading Lolita”

Once again, one very easy way for the New York Times to escape the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years would be for it to stop acting in ways that completely justify all of the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years.

One of the more upsetting things in this is that he wasn't blackmailing them: These men were part of this and protecting him not out of obligation or even particularly out of access, but out of solidarity.

...the city's worst in its history down to the best in the modern era in two years. Meanwhile, the overall number of arrests in the city for all crimes is at a modern low. Police, whether sloganeers can bear the thought or not, are actually being applied to job one. Lock up the shooters. And...