We need to be as offended when these kinds of ideas are used to oppress the incarcerated, addicts, the poor, etc. The unspoken belief that what makes suffering and cruelty wrong is dependent on who it is aimed at is a cancer on our society. I think it's human nature, but something to be resisted.

Ran into this this in the background of Relay (a good modern take on Cold War spy movies in a private sector setting). youtu.be/aVOzOnqzoj8

In Alabama, incarcerated workers in a work-release program must take jobs at private companies—but 40% of their wages are docked as a “labor-trafficking fee.” A lawsuit brought by incarcerated people argues this is a modern form of convict leasing.

Yeah. Before the fall, CK's act—and his fandom—rested on the premise that his worst self wasn't his true self. Now it's the opposite, and that's just not interesting as comedy.

They’re burying the weirdest part of this story, which is that this congressman’s twin brother keeps trying and failing to replace him in various jobs and is now hoping to replace him in this one

Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”

With a translation: This image shows the same star field as Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning. In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones). Words cannot describe the pollution of near space.

The argument isn't "these are war crimes" vs. "no they're not." The argument is "war crimes are bad" vs. "no, they're good."

how many times has the Seattle Times run a "compassion is great, but" editorial arguing for a lack of compassion at this point? we get it, you think homelessness should be illegal, find literally anything else to talk about. (Also, no Seattle neighborhood has been "destroyed," good god.)

i semi-regularly think about this concept and way of describing it and crack up. absurd

really went dark for the sequel

They were always going to unleash full-on ethnic cleansing. They were just waiting for a plausible excuse.

I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.

fuck you the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh

I contain multitudes Oh Oh shit My multitudes containment system is failing, everyone retreat to a safe distance

Brother I have fucked with all manner of compter shite for decades and never once did misusing the software make me kill myself and I installed Windows 3.1 on a 286.

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Music to perform some late night database surgery to. youtu.be/Uq_e0Z9NflA

RIP Sean Connery you would have loved saying this headline

If everything is a top priority, then everything gets done quickly. That's basic management

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

guys i dont think i defrosted my turkey right

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Live look of the infantrydort:

Just discovered a set of compilations called Punk 45 from Soul Jazz Records. Early LA, Akron, Cleveland, UK, France, and Proto-Punk compilations. Each one gives you a window to a place and time. Good stuff. They should all be up on YouTube and the streaming services. youtu.be/EKYj6ki1VY0

AI is the only technology that can protect us from Tim Allen's breasts

The media has gone from blaming Millennials for not having money to blaming everyone. Progress.

I’m reading a book about former congressman Mark Foley but it’s just got too many pages for me to handle.

1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths 2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

If you start by saying how many people you are going to arrest, the entire operation should be enjoined. That’s not how anything should work.

My favorite piece of content today.

Seen on Fillmore Street

Age verification is not the way to keep kids safe on the internet. CDT has some thoughts about what kind of child safety policies and features might actually be effective: cdt.org/insights/wha...

This was a very interesting research paper. www.usenix.org/syste...

Thoughts on trans day of remembrance: The worst people on earth have a project where they have picked trans people as the fuel of a terrible hate engine just to get more power. I remember this is happening to my coworkers, friends; family. Fighting this is an urgent necessity.

Mike Pence...sometimes I forget how batshiat insane he is because he had the wisdom while in office to be relatively quiet.

They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern. They had misidentified the intern.

Harsher sentences don't improve deterrence and they won't bring victims back to life.

Breaking: Administration officials working overtime to find turkeys with sexual assault and crypto scam convictions so the President can pardon them

Half the political class has been floating in stagnant pools of anti-USSR communism since the 90s and still can't figure out what to do with themselves.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true

My "I don't want to murder members of Congress" press release has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my press release.

the Epstein files have been trending on HuggingFace. > This dataset is provided for... > Evaluating information retrieval and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems. > It is not intended for: Fine-tuning language models. ??