Adam’s right. It’s more important than ever that our institutions defend First Amendment rights, and that means not firing teachers illegally whether their offense was “Go ICE” or saying something less than hagiographical about Charlie Kirk. Fewer people want to hear that in ugly times. /1

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

If you are targeting Jewish kids camps in Canada then you are an antisemite.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his multicultural economic zone. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his autarkic ethnostate.

Bill’s been on fire this weekend. And if you’d told me 25 years ago that we’d be on the same side…

A provocative idea I used to have was that AI would be able to outperform humans at any intellectual task in my lifetime. Today conventional wisdom in the tech industry is it’ll happen this decade. My new provocative idea is that we will see an equivalent of the Butlerian Jihad in my lifetime.

Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.

Same. Also, techbros & technocracy.

When Bereleh and Faygel Krugman emigrated from Belarus to New York, which was mostly Catholic and Jewish in 1920, I don't think they did for the Scots (with one t) Irish culture

Texas Republicans bought my phone number from somewhere and I get dozens of texts from them. There are better ways than texting STOP to unsubscribe

We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism. There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision. Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.

The Trumpists like to present themselves as defenders of the West. There is one country fighting against brutality and barbarism, and in defense of everything we cherish about the West: Ukraine. The Trumpists are hostile to Ukraine. The Trumpists are betrayers of the West.

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not. 12/12

Larry the cat celebrates 15 years as the British government’s official rodent-catcher and unofficial first feline, a reassuring presence who has served under six prime ministers. Sometimes it seems like they have served under him.

This mug is the GOAT(se)

Fixer-upper.

Went for a walk earlier.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

He can say whatever he wants and issue whatever executive order he wants, but he has no legitimate power to actually do anything like this. Panicked posts like this one give the impression that he can make good on his threats. He can't.

this.

Happy Valentines Day! www.google.com/search?q=sqr...

On this day, Captain James Cook decided to spend the rest of his life in Hawaii.

Crisis in Cortina! www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

This is just a bit more than the budget for USAID was in 2024. Instead we’re using it to build concentration camps. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

given education polarization and MAGA's reliance on low propensity voters, something like the SAVE Act would almost certainly backfire on republicans (i'm reasonably sure senate republicans understand this too)

Guillotines are the moderate solution

One of the long-term consequences of Trump is giving the next century to China on a silver platter Canada, Europe. Brazil (+much of S America) are all negotiating trade deals w China because the U.S. is an unreliable partner Trump squandered #1 place in the world for less than nothing

Happy Friday the 13th

Yes, the Trump administration is unquestionably running concentration camps. They are not, yet, to our knowledge, running extermination camps.

it will absolutely shock you how much i don’t give a fuck. let justice be done though the heavens fall and all that.

A couple of pictures taken using the Pocket Dispo Pro lens on a Nikon Z6ii camera. It's a $70 lens that's intentionally low-fi.

@capitalweather.bsky.social Walter made a snow crab! flic.kr/p/2rW5afq

been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis

Charlie Foxtrot

The gallup presidential approval poll is an institution in American politics that predates world war 2. With Trump’s approval in the 30s, they’re ending it. thehill.com/homenews/med...

I learn from their website that Gallup is proud of all the contracts they have with many federal agencies. thehill.com/homenews/med...

@sjvn.bsky.social @estherschindler.bsky.social @robpegoraro.com

The Schutzstaffel rein of terror in Minnesota continues even if most of us have shifted attention to other things.

Top FDA official Vinay Prasad overruled the agency’s reviewers--career scientists--when he refused to accept Moderna’s application for a new influenza vaccine www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

11 February 1931 | French Jewish girl, Fanny Sosnowik, was born in Paris. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 17 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. --- Children at Auschwitz 📖 Lesson: https://bit.ly/4ryCOJe 🎧 Podcast: https://bit.ly/3O8yeDh

This is not going away.

Your typical rural Indian (which is most people in India) has a median income of around $800 a month, accounting for purchasing power parity. Not per week, per month. This is approximately an order of magnitude better than in 2000, when they made do with around $80 per month, let alone the 1900s.

What this ad doesn’t show: Ring also rolled out facial recognition for humans. I wrote to them months ago about this. Their answer? They won’t ask for your consent. This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance. x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...

Neil Gaiman would be perfect

The January jobs numbers must be worse than we thought.

Crazy opinion: I’m not very familiar with Bad Bunny. I don’t speak Spanish, I mostly listen to classic rock, he’s just not my typical jam. I still think he made a great SB headliner, I don’t think every Super Bowl has to cater to my tastes, I appreciate that other Americans like him. Crazy, right?

@masnick.com Look what just showed up in the mail today!