Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write

Sure seems like Israel is using the US as cover to simply grab territory

I wonder if any of these men have grown up having to play defense against men trying to grope them. If they had, might they be less cavalier about such intrusions on personal space?

This verdict in particular is an egregious threat to the First Amendment. He was convicted of "corruptly concealing a document or record" for transporting a box of anarchist zines. In other words, transporting printed essays that featured political speech.

Can anyone explain how this is not a quid-pro-quo bribe? Especially since US law demanded the transfer of TikTok’s US operations as the one way to avoid a ban. Big donors to the president got the company as the govt forced the sale, and he gets $10 billion. If not a bribe, why so bribe-shaped?

Funny you should ask

Because there hadn't been enough deaths, and oil prices up to $5.75 a gallon are still not high enough.

"Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

A key strategy in secret police formation is to create a parallel career pyramid alongside more professional existing forces (like the military and FBI). This is the purpose ICE/CBP serves. Pour money and relax standards in that pyramid. This is what the Trump admin has been doing.

Who is willing to to the dirty of an authoritarian regime? A study of the Argentinian secret police found that those who joined "were not the most extreme officers in Argentina’s army. They were the most stuck." Mediocre men whose careers had stalled out. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-secret...

"We were looking for patterns... the officers who joined Battalion 601 had...performed worse than their peers at the military academy. They had graduated toward the bottom of their cohorts. They had stalled in the lower & middle ranks. They were men whose regular career paths had quietly closed."

Happy 80th to Liza Minelli. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCGS...

It actually suggests solidarity with at-risk students and community members in the era of secret police making warrantless searches and violent arrests. Hope this helps!

This is an astonishing story, or, really, the end of one that began with the building of the LA Aqueduct. The LA Aqueduct was a engineering miracle, a gravity fed system that brought water 100s of miles to LA from the Owens Valley, designed by a self-taught engineer named William Mulholland.

There's a distinction, IMHO, between knowing what the tech is, and how it works, & being able to make a case against it, and the inevitability argument that says you will never succeed in pushing back against it.

The ">30% income" definition of "cost-burdened" distorts the qualitatively & quantitatively different level of harm to very low-income folk from unaffordable housing. While more middle-income folks are cost-burdened now, very low-income folks are being left with increasingly impossible $ to live on.

Sweetheart deals and contracts...Abbott Elementary wasn't just fiction.

“Beck is also involved in leading IT consolidation that could affect staff hiring and spending on IT. Faculty have alleged they were not fully informed. The project, which aims to increase efficiency through creating modern IT solutions, has the potential to result in more failed investments.”

SCOOP: WIRED has learned the identity of the DOGE operative at the center of a whistleblower complaint about social security data www.wired.com/story/john-s... by @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social

Except that it isn't a 'cargo cult' cos that's not what the term means. They are looking for spaces within which to be able to perform the kind of traditonal masculine status politics that they see as their right, which they have lost by having to acknowledge women's humanity and equality.

Same reason you don't have massive protests in Egypt or Iran any more.

If Americans truly prefer a car-dependent lifestyle then why are per square foot housing prices in dense walkable neighborhoods so much higher than in auto-oriented suburbs and exurbs?

This is a good & infuriating piece about a putrid phenomenon — one intensified by all the punditry of the last decade that rolled its eyes at feminist analysis. There’s ALWAYS been a living available to women who vibed as “not like other girls,” in every decade, especially in the media

if you are the kind of person who blocks the seat next to you with a bag while on full trains I believe this shame will follow you into the afterlife

The second half of that statement is a lie, by the way. The goal isn’t to help working class men. It’s to make them feel more powerful in comparison to women—specifically through reducing women’s wealth. Which is all a distraction from the wealthiest white men hoarding even more wealth.

Silicon Valley has taken a hard pivot from college-for-all (and coding-for-all) to manual-labor-for-all-except-us-billionaires-and-our-kids.

What if, unlike other utilities that provide services we cannot provide on our own, we create a utility that strips us of an inborn talent and then sells it back to us for a profit?

USAID public servants lost our careers, pensions, and healthcare. Some lost their homes. Some lost their children’s tuition. Some colleagues died by suicide. Now we learn our Social Security numbers were stolen and exposed too.

So much of tech 'innovation' in the last decade or two has been about snatching choices and agency from people - forcing them to pay attention, stealing their intellectual property and placing the onus on them to sue for it back, changing privacy settings to violate prior agreements. The basic..../1

Confederacy of Edgelords.

In his talk last month, Ingo Strauch mentions that he noticed these inscriptions while sightseeing in Egypt after inspecting the Sanskrit inscriptions at Berenike. He photographed them and assumed for sure that they had already been published, only to discover that was not the case!

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

Happy to take the “AOC for President” side of this debate. She’s a generational talent and it is long past time for the highly risk-averse Dem primary electorate to make a bold choice.

Earlier this month, WIRED reported on Grammarly’s controversial AI tool that presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics, without their consent. Now Grammarly parent company Superhuman is facing a class action lawsuit over the tool.

It runs counter to the goal of building your own writing skills and voice. Agree.

"The scenes of devastation — to schools, a desalination plant, passenger aircraft and historic landmarks such as Tehran’s Grand Bazaar and Golestan Palace — have shocked many Iranians.“If they wanted to assassinate the supreme leader, why are they waging full-scale war?” asked one woman."

This is so so upsetting. So Grammerly is violating the memory of bell hooks AND making AI versions of the rest of us before we're even dead. Someone tell me who to sue, not even joking.

I dunno, I used to be this way, in part because a) couldn't afford HBO, b) had an innate suspicion of peer pressure. Sinners is great, though.

I am curious, not least because many non-professors with doctorates follow me, to know what your doctorate was in (broad field ok, narrow if you want to share) and what you do for a living now. TT professors, we'll save you for a different thread. Please share for curiosity's sake, not using data.

The guy is hilarious. I'm also struck by how little US criticism there is of someone like him playing for team Italy in an intl tournament, compared to Eileen Gu representing China in the Olympics.

the truly most bizarre thing about the shoe situation is why these men aren't just buying *the exact same shoe* in a size that fits, instead of clombering around in the too-big ones he bought. He wouldn't know!

This is very fun

Summing up Iran news today, I think. - US/Israel strikes continue - Iran doesn't want talks, still firing on neighbors - US asked Israel to stop hitting Iranian energy infra - US claimed to be escorting tankers - oops no it isn't - Mines in the water - ~80-90% of Iran mine laying capacity intact

The judge is grading midterms.

"Your steadfast commitment to our strategic mission, despite the multiple tramplings, maulings, and other encounters we shall henceforth refer to as 'terminal networking opportunities' has not gone unnoticed." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m...

Faroukh Balsara, and it's not even close.

Second-guessing admissions decisions based on...what exactly?

I have enormous respect for FIRE but I think this First Amendment argument for Anthropic is a mistake and a very dangerous position—we don't want everything an AI does to be covered by the First Amendment. www.fire.org/research-lea...

This is not really a thing that, if it continues, has a quick "undo" button, either.