Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Mass incarceration *is* an economic justice issue. It's no coincidence that the poorest & most vulnerable communities are also the most policed.

any "drug war" is a pretext. has always been the case. some ppl genuinely want to help w/drug related problems & believe in bad ideas to do so. but politicians typically support drug wars only when they see as politically useful. bc if you actually want to help ppl, drug war policies won't do it.

Great to see this excellent deep dive into the influential Hard Steps model for the evolution of intelligence and our paper showing why it’s wrong.

Last month, I found out I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, after decades of chronic pain and medical disinterest. I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care: medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba

Good night innernets. (Flamenco & Tango)

The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever. Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years. They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Sadly, I assume the best ones have already been eaten

Sounds like Minerva, Somerville's new Bike Path Mayor

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.

Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain www.nature.com/articles/s41... @tknapen.bsky.social "There's a map of your body in my brain" sounds like a pick-up line but it's actually just factual.

Detecting absence: A dedicated prediction-error signal emerging in the auditory thalamus arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21605

this!!! rates of antisocial personality disorder are higher among people with opioid addiction, but THE MAJORITY DO NOT HAVE ASPD, LET ALONE PSYCHOPATHY. RFK's psychopathy may have increased his risk of heroin addiction, but that's his problem, not having had an addiction.

Mesmerizing indeed!!! 👀

There is no more existential a threat to the survival of social media than this sort of level-headed ecumenicalism, and it must be squashed the moment it pops up. Like, you know, invasive bamboo.

so RFK jr should get no health insurance because of his history of brain worm & heroin injecting, right?

Please amplify, friends, and raise your voices. The world lost an entire generation to AIDS. Heads up @oneaid.bsky.social @friendsofusaid.bsky.social @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

If you ever wanted to be edited by me, now's your chance. (More importantly: This internship pays well and can be remote.) defector.com/would-you-li...

You pull yourself up by your boostraps. Me? I DESERVE free money from the government, and so do my rich friends bsky.app/profile/cwar...

yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore I feel like we need this

Otters + Snow =

I’m writing something about AI and collecting the worst examples of workslop — and AI slop, in general. If you have any particularly appalling and / or hilarious suggestions, send ‘em to me!

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

⬇️New investigation alert!⬇️

Temperature regulation leggie

evergreen

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.

New octopus dropped down in Coral City 👽✌️🐙 #octopus #cephalopodsofcoralcity #cephalopod #headfoot #alien #dropdown #peaceout #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

People really don't understand that dying in childbirth is "natural" & was far more common before modern medicine because these people claim "natural" is always good. Nope.

Bakshi #Caturday

redid my personal site post-layoff :) my contact form is open! if you're looking to talk to or commission someone with expertise in covering and analyzing social movements, prison and police abolition, trans politics, climate organizing, cultural criticism... reach out! (my DMs are cursed rn, lol)

this is really cool...

It’s been amazing to see so many of us get more involved in scicomm. I was just exchanging notes with @srheilbronner.bsky.social at SFN, hearing about what has led to the tremendous success of the Science Homecoming effort. sciencehomecoming.com

and right after they cleared an encampment without doing anything to provide for the people who were displaced....

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Which reminds me of one of my favorite New Yorker corrections

WIRED is hiring for a senior politics reporter who will write our weekly newsletter; detailed job description below. This role will be based in New York or DC and report to me; the salary range is $95,000 - $132,000. condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Honestly more than anything on god’s green earth

Do you have a complex relationship w/touch? "When I was growing up, I had to be touched carefully, because it was overwhelming. So I would avoid & then my parents would avoid. But I really did need the physical contact, so it was weird." @maiasz.bsky.social: thinkingautismguide.com/2016/09/unbr...

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

The idea that the universalist ideals of decency, respect, or kindness could be *genuinely felt* by anyone is alien to them. They can only interpret that kind of behavior as "virtue signaling," some kind of clever second-order selfishness. Everyone is bad if you dig enough. That's bedrock belief.

First country in the world to implement UBI: Marshall Islands! This is a fascinating article how it happened and how it's being paid for: scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i...

SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.