New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Y'all really owe it to yourselves to watch this one. Among Jon's best work, which is really saying something

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

1. This is terrible. 2. This is such a BS claim from a university: “We are committed to teaching students how to think, not what to think.” No! We do, in fact, commit to teaching you what to think. You sign up for a psych course, you have to learn psychology. You can ignore it later if you choose.

When the Montgomery Advertiser did a lynching series in 2018, I learned of two trials in Elmore County in 1901 in which white men were convicted of killing a Black man. I went to Alabama Archives. And in a box there, I found a complete typed transcript of one of the trials. Untouched for 116 years.

2 years ago the Colts used a top-5 pick on a QB whose scouting profile was "the greatest athlete you on the planet, throws the ball one billion mph with no accuracy" but to unlock their offense they actually needed a middle-aged man who audibly goes "humph" when he sits down in his favorite chair

/8 These culture war issues always flip the script. I think recent events demonstrate why it is, in fact, dangerous to give students a veto over professors based on disagreement with their speech.

Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.

“In that same court document, it is revealed that Epstein took the then 14-year-old to Mar-a-Lago in 1994, where she was introduced to Donald Trump. According to the files, Epstein elbowed Trump playfully asking him, "This is a good one, right?" with Trump smiling and nodding in agreement.”

CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Bari only pulled this program after the promos started airing, which means she probably got a phone call. So she's not just bad at her ostensible job of running CBS news, but she's also bad at her *actual* job of running interference for the Trump admin

Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong

LOL "Bari killed this meticulous story because it was unfavorable to the Trump administration" is literally the story they're giving to their stenographer

yeah Trump was all things to all people, and JD is not going to convince the same low info coalition who sees Trump as some world historic business genius to sign up for KKK hoods

This is not a tricky question, after the first hit I would pass away

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

surprise, surprise. DOJ will release docs over a rolling production over a few weeks -- violation of terms of Epstein law but who's to stop them. Big point is timing -- remember first spin of Mueller Report by Bill Barr? What comes out first will be big influence on public perception.

i think two things can be true: the economy isn't great/projects not to be great in ways that indicators don't necessarily capture and it's really weird that people are more upset about the current economy than they were about generation-defining recessions

Really appreciate the justified anger in this piece by @ryanlcooper.com. The GOP's narrative about trans people "is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."

matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong. at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

This is not just "NCAR boosterism," folks. There are multiple empirical measures by which this is correct--and also, if you took a random sampling of atmospheric & Earth scientists from around the world, I'd bet that a substantial majority of them would agree. NCAR is truly irreplaceable.

Next decade for sure! For those of you who are new here, Elon promised in 2019 that "next year for sure, we will have over a million robotaxis on the road". Tesla still has zero robotaxis.

The Trump administration says it will dismantle a key climate-science center, while salvaging its forecasting capabilities. “Today, predicting the weather without considering the climate would be meteorological malpractice," Michelle Nijhuis argues.

I really think it's important for these millionaire athletes, none of whom are children, to feel great shame for being interested in Adin Ross to begin with. Mookie Betts, you are 33 years old. You have a wife and children. You should not know who Adin Ross is.

True Life: I Accidentally Clicked The Heart React Button On The Public Epstein Files Dropbox

it is long past time people stopped pretending David Brooks had any moral authority whatsoever should have happened decades ago but “covering up for his dead pedophile buddy” should absolutely do it, fire him immediately

I’m at HHS headquarters where RFK Jr. is announcing new restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors by spouting pseudoscience and political misinformation that goes against every major medical association.

All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses

The main part of the headline is that Trump claims something false. Modest inflation = good. President lying = bad.

“Jewish-related” is such an amazing term. Lots of things are Jewish-related! Chanukah! Bagels! New York City! I wonder if this dance is the same as those things, or perhaps different

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

Full on neo-Nazi conspiracy theories from the president tonight — the very same invasion and replacement conspiracy theories that have fueled a cycle of deadly violence targeting so many communities including immigrants, Jews, Latinos, the Black community, Muslims, and more.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Cars are useful things! So are table saws, but I would not want to need to use one every day, and I respect the need to be really careful if I do need to use one.

This is absolutely insane and so incredibly shortsighted. NCAR is a global pillar for all atmospheric science and holds the highest of standards for research excellence. We collaborate with NCAR; source data from them; they pioneer scientific breakthroughs. This must not go quietly.

there is nothing Elon Musk wants that he cannot afford, there are only things he is not allowed to buy. so his enormous fortune is turned to the destruction of liberalism

Being the director of the FBI and releasing a couples podcast while a mass shooter is on the loose is a wild choice

basically every college admissions director will tell you that they could throw out their entire incoming class and replace it with a new one that is indistinguishable in terms of grades and accomplishments

The corded phone era >>>>>> the sponsored sideline tablet era

"put a pebble in your shoe to fool gait analysis" is the Free Space of 'Got Coaxed By The FBI Into Incompetently Planning Terrorism Bingo'

Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

The speeding discourse really underlines how many people think that everybody gets one day of their life when they're in an action movie

Nope! You will have to drive slower so that people do not die. This is the reason the policy is unpopular.

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

“A New Deal against corruption” Stewart & Favreau say Dems can’t just say they’re not as corrupt— they have to show 🇺🇸 they’d to make real changes to a corrupt system, and prove taxing A.I. billionaires (as @timmiller.bsky.social wants to) will lead to tangible programs for regular folks.