SIXTY SIX PERCENT OF NYT READERS DIDNT RECOGNIZE CORMAC MC FUCKING CARTHY

make darth the ceo and no one tell him til he gets back

This is actually one of the most shocking things I have learned in my grad school education - that the bulk of PM2.5 comes from tires and electrification will actually accomplish next to *nothing* in improving air quality in that sense

Why can’t American beer be malt forward and lay off the hops? Where’s the heavy thick grainy beers, where’s the crisp lagers, where’s the clove and bubblegum golden syrup Belgians and Trappists like I’m drinking right now There is more than hops! Even when we do European styles they’re too hop

if you want to understand how trump talked himself into an war of choice to overthrow the government of iran, you have to start where all discussions of great wartime leaders start: with french postmodernists and SUNSET BOULEVARD

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

History tells us that US-led regime change efforts abroad almost never bring positive results. Here are seven US regime-change wars — and how disastrously they turned out. Read here: zeteo.com/p/seven-us-r...

I had the horror of dealing with this when a player I was coaching was racially abused. The referees did nothing, the opposing coach mocked the 12-year-old child as did the opposing parents, and the league did literally nothing. I cannot fathom what it is like to experience this.

motivated by the exact same forces that are making American cities less distinct from one another but far less observed and remarked upon because the media propaganda campaign to portray rural areas as bastions of authenticity in order to promote reactionary politics

Clearly this is a perfect time for the "That's bait" meme, but I'd also like to point out that there were computer scientists that called chess algorithms "smart" and "intelligent" in the 1970s and the world would have been a much better place had a philosophy professor put them in their place then.

Two crocus blooming in the front yard. They managed to make it past squirrels in winter.

My wife and I have USB sticks with our collected music library ripped to it (longtime dislike and utter moral disdain for music streaming services) in our cars. My wife *also* likes to set the music to "random" and boy that makes for a weird listen at 6am on the way to a swim meet.

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

LMFAO apologized for *party rocking* and we still can't the President to apologize for war crimes

I will also say that it’s a bit wild to me that no press freedom organization or professional journalistic association has tried to contact me or even put out a statement here. I mean Jesus Christ. A little solidarity from institutions would be nice here!

Hearing someone pronounce "Oregon" as Ora-gone and immediately having a deep twitch throughout my body. Living in Dayton this happens a lot as people talk about the Oregon District.

solving my airport insecurity problem by ensuring no one has a reason to go to the airport

How are we still talking about a Hotchkiss School rich kid cosplaying as working class with a Nazi chest piece that he covered up with a medium white supremacy Norse symbol five minutes ago? How is there anyone who isn't a Nazi still defending this guy?

Current NIH leadership want you to think they are using rigorous, consistent & scientific processes to screen studies to align them with agency priorities. But the process that they have put down on paper is a sham. It’s important to know NIH is not following its own guidance. Here’s why: 🧵1/

Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds. To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.

By @tante.cc who is on point as always. "So there is a new declaration in town called the “The Pro-Human AI Declaration“...before we go into the details, let’s look at who is pushing this for a second because the declaration keeps talking about how broad their coalition is" tante.cc/2026/03/05/n...

"And boy is that tent big. It’s big enough to proudly list Steve Bannon, one of the architects of the new wave of fascism as its second individual supporter. So it’s a declaration white nationalists and fascists can get on board with. ...

As a Chelsea fan, I am very much enjoying this Spurs game. Also: absolutely ridiculous that a hand can be considered offsides. Should just be any part of the body you can legally play the ball with. Arm down to the finger tips shouldn't be considered.

Crazy that in recent software engineering history we had a whole movement for using strongly typed systems that could guarantee behavior (Haskell, ML) and now we have slop generators. [Checks support for those languages in LLM tools] Well that does not bode well.

New in PN: Vance's "war on fraud" is a fraud "It's bad enough that the campaign against MN is driven by gutter racism. Just as shocking is that this president, who spent a lifetime running scams & swindles, says with a straight face that he wants to fight fraud. And that Vance is the man to do it."

Iran-Contra happened 40 years ago! It *literally* involved the US selling weapons to... Iran. So, the argument is we were funding the armed forces of a country we were at war with?

I love to spend several minutes wondering why I can't open Eclipse Marketplace, only to remember that I've just installed it and have to go in and nuke it's annoying JDK. "Point to the good java, dammit!"

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

If Fetterman is dunking on you like this you have to quit

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

Good one by new @flaminghydra.com @katewagner.wehwalt.net flaminghydra.com/issue-513/

I don't think I'd call a city built on the backs of slaves progressive

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

I revisited Hamburg last week and had to see the Verner Panton room again. Designed for Spiegel publishing house in 1969, people ate lunch here every day 🤩 #WeekIforInteriors #AlphabetChallenge 📷

You see a similar example in riverbeds from flash flooding -- remediation can mitigate, but the changed system isn't as good as what was before. And w/ envt cleanup, it costs so much more to try to get back to a decent state than if we didn't ruin it to begin w/

Opening this land for logging will destroy what is a beautiful wilderness - one that I've loved experiencing. This is not something the forests can recover from, it will take hundreds, if not a thousand years to regrow just the trees let alone everything else. Centuries of damage, it's appalling.

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Sure cracking down on cars saves lives but people in Helsinki will never know all the positive sides of living in a fossil fuel death cult with big boy trucks that go vroom vroom, such as feeling very manly once you've climbed the little step ladder into your big boy truck

Something you notice in the winter is that cyclists and pedestrians have to justify maintenance of their infrastructure in a way that drivers never do

Zoomorph B at the Maya site of Quiriguá in Guatemala. www.prm.ox.ac.uk/event/readin...

I want Democrats to start talking about prosecuting Kalshi and Polymarket out of existence and charging their executives for the crimes they are committing every day.

The Assessment (2024). Solid sci-fi dystopia that feels like a lost 70s feminist SF novella drifted down the time stream. Cast is good with Olsen and Vikander the strongest as women left with indelible marks by the violence of motherhood.

Might land on the Moon later. Looks pretty easy.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

it's not the issue of this story, but it is a transparent example of how the "cars are freedom" narrative is a complete farce. when the state controls your movement and can immobilize you on a whim, you are not free. car dependency is an arm of fascism for the car *IS* fascism and must be abolished.

Pet Shop Boys' live performance of "Left to my own devices" from their 2023 #Dreamworld show in Copenhagen is now available to watch on YouTube. The “Dreamworld” concert film is now also available to purchase on Blu-ray/2CD. youtu.be/jioX1LzYJ3o?...