Considering the idea is part of the execution, I'd like to know the rare exception? Breathing?

Audible's royalty model recently changed in a way that hurts authors and empowers slop grifters. Please sign this petition to get them to reconsider.

"We will continue shooting messengers until we get only the news we want to hear."

There are lots of great YT channels and books that demystify math, stats, & tech. A weekend of research can give you enough of a background to at least spot bullshit.

Once again, the Supreme Court fails to do any meaningful analysis about what makes a classification "suspect" or "quasi-suspect" and just decides to shit on the political scapegoat of the moment.

some people are asking what the better messaging would be, & it's calling the republicans weird perverts who want the government to go around inspecting people's genitals. walz was on to it before he got pulled backstage and told to knock it off

This is literally my entire life.

For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Looking forward to this! When I used to teach common law methods to students from civil law countries, this was my point: England never adopted Roman law because harmonizing local customs worked so well. Also writing a law code is work and Henry II was too busy drinking with Thomas Becket.

BREAKING: CBO projects the Republican budget reconciliation bill would lead to 8.6 million people being kicked off their health insurance in the next decade.

A couple weeks ago, I wrote that the MAHA movement does not want to eliminate chronic illness- it wants to eliminate the chronically ill. Since then, RFK Jr’s actions and statements have only reinforced my belief that his HHS will target disabled and sick ppl. www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...

IT'S OUT NOW!!!

Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

Trump is an adjudicated rapist and is kidnapping American citizens off the street and sending them to a foreign country to be tortured.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

What happens when you cross a Ponzi scheme with the South Sea Bubble?

The Committee has withdrawn its request! Which suggests that even a little bit of pushback really matters

"Ideas" is chilling. "Money" is hilarious from the administration that is doing everything possible to make money laundering easier.

Yes, put a bunch of engineers, lawyers, and scientists - the most skilled workers in the economy - to work in factories that don't exist. How are these people this dumb?

Wow, this is truly scathing.

Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.

Celebrate Liberation Day! The Largest Tax Increase In 32 Years! Please Share! youtu.be/SgOjBbIksu0?...

These guys think they're spewing cutting-edge posthumanist theory and it's all just the corniest, shittiest science fiction that actual writers wouldn't waste a minute on.

The sooner I can switch all my work to Clip Strudio and ProCreate, the better...

We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

One thing that's really going to annoy me in like 6 months will be the flood of "Trump cut all these programs and the government seems to still be working fine!" op-eds that Very Smart Pundits will write, completely omitting how many people were hurt by the cuts.

Really excellent @stevevladeck.bsky.social post looking at data on Trump lawsuits. Bottom line is that judges of all ideological stripes and all sorts of different venues are ruling against Trump at historic levels — because his policies are unusually unlawful www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-settin...

When I'm looking for a good lawyer, I know that I always look for one that's cowardly and has a prior agreement not to zealously represent me.

Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.

So let’s be clear: in the United States today you can be grabbed in the middle of the street by masked unidentified men and bundled into a van and taken away to God knows where, all because you wrote something that upset the government. That is the United States of America in March 2025.

“Four, this was NOT something PA insiders were expecting — it was genuinely a surprise.” 👊👍👊👍 Folks…. Run everywhere…in 2025 and 2026. Let’s go!!!

Third, he pointed out that neither candidate in this race broke through in a particular striking way—either good or bad. (Ie. the GOP candidate did not do something terribly bad) “To me, that is an endorsement of your approach of running candidates everywhere.” Yes! 👏 👏 4/

The GOP never championed free speech. They championed THEIR speech. Will the New York Times ever stop parroting conservative propaganda?

My hot take for the day is that widespread suggestions that we can stop learning how to program because AI can program for us and will only get better at it are directly mappable to the error that says we have calculators now so general numeracy and maths skills don't matter anymore.

The closest you can come to planeswalking as the player without playing Planechase.

I'm voting NO on the Republican shutdown bill. NO on handing Donald Trump and Elon Musk a blank check to spend your taxpayer money however they want. NO on cutting funding that helps families put food on the table and crack down on wealthy tax cheats. We need to push back.

They don’t want women getting PhDs, they want them pregnant

Anti science. Anti history. Anti math (anti economic and statistical truth). Anti civics. Anti fact. Anti education. As much as it is pro greed or pro power or pro racism or pro misogyny or pro Russia, this administration is the most openly pro ignorance, anti knowledge in our history.

I've long said that if I could go the rest of my life without ever having to mention or write about trans issues, I would be beyond happy. And I am trans.

One of my favorite podcasts with two of my favorite writers from my favorite game site!

Obviously his framing is bigoted but I do want to say that while gender isn't studied in animal models, variables influencing sex are. It's easy to scoff at the concept of "transgender mice" but animal models for hormone therapies DO exist (see our paper). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35863692/

2/ “Blade Runner” font, for hunting down robo-replicant pseudo originalism: @jdmortenson.bsky.social @anthonymkreis.bsky.social @paulgowder.bsky.social @evanbernick.bsky.social @heidikitrosser.bsky.social @lawlawcoolj.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/jeds...

Ctrl-F “Originalism” at Bakin-Fest, Texas A&M w/ @jgienapp.bsky.social Searching and cherrypicking for ye olde words (“allegiance”) against birthright citizenship or for unitary unchecked presidential power (“at pleasure”)? Ctrl-F Around and Find Out:

"The aggressor is always peace-loving, . . . he would prefer to take over our country unopposed." - Carl von Clausewitz

Donald Trump is not fit to be President of the United States of America. His presence in the Oval Office is a stain on the legacy of this country.

Transgender Service Members Aren’t the Problem: The problem is people in high office who can’t recognize bravery, patriotism, and sacrifice.

Hey. NYers. Do me a favor and support the following assembly bills: NY A05464 aka the Freedom to Read Act, which will protect libraries & librarians & NY A05416 aka the Books Save Lives Act, which will require school libraries to maintain a collection of diverse books here's how🧵