PAPA LEONE YES

"The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American. Whatever their immigration status, these are human beings created in the image and likeness of God, and this is a moral inflection point for our country."

I looked up recently what the success rate for LLMs tuned for doing accounting is because that’s an ideal use case and it was like below 70% which is super unacceptable, like if your accountant fucked up that much you’d go to prison.

Alysa Liu, USA. Women's figure skating Olympic gold medalist! Daughter of an immigrant, who left China after Tiananmen Square to seek freedom in America. To Trump, Vance, and MAGA, she's not a 'heritage American'. Nor am I, and millions more.

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

"I was dying of thirst when you gave me water, yet it was not the water alone that saved me. It was the strength of the hands that gave it." -- Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm not comfortable using Holocaust language just yet. We're still in 1930s Germany and Trump / Miller / Noem / Hegseth are not nearly as competent as Hitler and his minions. We still have a chance to stop this thing before we get to the mass graves part.

The only reason why she's signing on is because there's zero chance it will become law. There is nowhere near enough votes in the Senate to override a filibuster, and no support to get rid of the filibuster. If they tried, they may find that some GOP senators won't vote Yes if it matters.

"I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body . . . " anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

"All models are wrong. Some are useful." — George Box.

I think this may become an evergreen comment: “I don’t care about this (paper, etc) - it’s just a container for what I do care about: how well you understand this problem and how you found a solution. Your use of AI shows that you don’t understand the problem and you didn’t find a solution.”

"Detainees are subject to physical and sexual abuse; deprived of medical care, food, water, and sleep; and denied access to legal representation. Mothers have been separated from nursing infants, parents told to sign deportation papers." www.commonwealmagazine.org/munch-trump-...

I truly wonder why so many people assume the GenAI apps are smarter than they are. This helps explain it. As well as confusing the deliverable with the result: “You think it’s great that AI wrote this thing for you in a fraction of the time. But I don’t care about this thing.”

THIS is going to make some heads explode. I actually think he may have liked the guy who blazed the trail for Trump's nemesis, Barack Obama.

Narrator: Europe has not forgotten the World Wars or the Cold War and that is why they embrace democratic socialism.

I must still have that cold because my eyes just keep dripping. Never thought I'd live to see this day.

I'm not crying you're crying.

This sounds exactly like lawmakers saying they’re not banning abortion, they’re just requiring a 48-hour waiting period and two trips to the clinic

What I love about this is not only her honesty but the way she centers the victims in her response.

Wow.

The world is watching…and making plans without us. The US will be seated on the sidelines, like a wallflower who couldn’t get a date for the prom.

"If your experience is the only true version of reality, then other people become NPCs, or “nonplayable characters”—not individuals but mere background actors populating the scenes in your everyday life." This is what happens when a person sees other people as objects: no ethical limits.

Or you could, you know, give it to an experienced human journalist who will be able to create quality copy in one pass on deadline that won't require any "tweaking."

Pope Leo leading by example again. I love this for all the men who explained until they were blue in the face that this wasn’t legit, using arguments, even a 12-year-old could pick apart.

Pro tip for women: change Siri to a male voice, preferably one with a yummy accent, and get used to bossing it around.

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

Not to mention Rosie the Riveter

I didn’t have a problem distinguishing between this and a real news story. The absence of names, the use of second person all were clues to me that this was not a real case. That doesn’t make it less compelling or less effective, to me.

This is what love of country looks like.

An important thread. Start at the top and read to the end.

I enjoyed reading this paper. It’s fundamental to human perception that we filter and focus. I hadn’t thought about the connection between that and our desire to preserve resources: time, metabolic energy.

PSA: Meta, Google cannot be trusted. There are better, more privacy-centered solutions for email, messaging. This is not news. We’ve known for years that they’ve snooped on our accounts for advertising purposes. No stretch to turn the same engine on their users for surveillance purposes.

I knew AOC was great, but I feel like I’m listening to a future president here. If she was white and male, they would already be talking about it. We’ll probably revert to a safe white guy in 2028, but she should run to replace Chuck Schumer, and then position herself for the next major opening.

Depriving a Type 1 Diabetic of insulin is straight-up attempted murder.

Of all the things that have happened via the right-wing noise machine, this is one of the worst. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"They needed to say: Local authorities have lost control. Instead, what they got were organized marches. Clergy standing between protesters and federal lines. Community leaders telling people to go home when tensions rose. Parents bringing water and food instead of fireworks."

It's worse than that. mRNA has so much potential to cure diseases that can only be managed today. I hope the people working in these labs find investors who can see a future beyond the Trump administration and a world that's much bigger than the United States.

I just finished reading a Substack written by a person as they were recovering from an accident that made them a quadriplegic. I'll never see wheelchairs the same way again. I read this article then ended up reading two years' of Substack posts. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

"The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home." Meanwhile, they have removed or demoted 80% of the experienced ICE leadership team.

So that they can do to Zelenskyy what KSA did to Khashoggi? They've been trying to assasinate him since the war started.

This episode has been a nightmare for my city and state, but I hope people realize it’s also a profound defeat and political catastrophe for Trump and DHS, who are slinking away having accomplished nothing. Minneapolis simply wouldn’t bend to them and they lost

Just what my brain needed for the last push of the day.

In fact just as cuts to SNAP, health ins cut deeply for the poorly-educated Red State MAGAs, they are also not nearly as likely to have a passport as the college-educated Blue State liberals. And that's no accident, because global travel helps a person realize the US is not the best at everything.

This thread, which is in response to an article on AI, encapsulates what I’ve been thinking. I’ve been saying for years that you can’t measure, creative output, quantitatively, because it’s the quality that counts.

This is your reminder that it is never ok to call a woman this, even when it is the absolutely abominable monster that is currently the Attorney General of the United States. We cannot build a better future by replicating rank misogyny, among other things.

Epstein and Maxwell were worse than pedophiles. They were sex traffickers who specialized in procuring young victims for their clients and normalizing pedophilia so that their friends could rape young girls and then look at themselves in the mirror the next day.

“ The paper finds that when a community attracts more immigrants, seniors are less likely to end up in health care institutions and, ultimately, less likely to die.” They really are finding so many different ways to try to kill the people who vote for them.

Can we just start calling them straight up Nazis now and drop the weasel words? #TrumpConcentrationCamp