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There are now cement trucks entering the White House construction site, which is not what you'd expect for a project that hasn't been reviewed by anyone yet. The White House has previously said no NCPC approvals are needed yet because they're just doing demo, not construction.

Dr Oz is estimating the average American will lose about 400 pounds over the next year.

The lack of coordiation here is astounding...

“Where are the Sliwa strongholds?” I hear you ask. No I swear I hear you asking

The ideal state of the adult consumer seems to be: I’m furious, but also here’s my credit card.

It has been my duty as a historian to record how smelly Che Guevara was. Honestly one of the stinkiest dudes in history. He was immensely proud of this & once showed off a pair of underpants he’d been wearing for two months. They were so filthy, he won a bet that they could stand up by themselves.

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

you know, Brendel, he's... yeah, that guy. Yep.

Fuckin' Riker

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

sharing this incredible resource created by a poster in r/boston: a map of local restaurants offering free or discounted meals to SNAP recipients link: mysnapmap.com

Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.

there it is

the sunglasses emoji is how you know you can trust it

Blown away after visiting INM-1 led by Katrin Amunts this Monday – Markus Axer and her showed us their setup of acquiring whole-brain slices (e.g. 7,000 of them to make up Bigbrain 1) – and the mesmerizing effects of polarized light on cryosectioned (raw) brain sections as can be seen in the video.

Can a historian help me, is not feeding or paying your troops typically a good idea

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

*sips tea* virginiamercury.com/2025/11/05/d...

if anybody ever starts telling you about a famous psychology experiment and you don't want to talk to them just say "oh is that the one that was faked?" you'll probably get a hit

Important.

"The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.” ~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)

A friend of mine is a quant who lives in Jersey City. A decade or so ago he left Morgan Stanley for Citadel, and spent two days a week working in Manhattan, and three days a week working in Chicago, commuting by private jet, because Citadel thought that was a good use of resources.

Fuckin' Riker

The fact that Trump or a very good deepfake of him hosted on his official accounts is now just reading off his tweets in front of a podium is giving "Broadcast from der Furher's bunker" energy.

The Big Egg, they call it

This is incredibly Hamilton flavored. Is Lin Manuel Miranda cool again, or is Mamdani cringe?

after high school a bunch of us friends moved into a big, dilapidated house in lieu of college. There was one weird little room that we couldn't figure out what to do with. Eventually we figured out that was Riker's room, so when he grew the beard and whatnot it was like oh, there goes Riker

Which random vizier put this idea in his head?

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

I’ve never seen Axios and Punchbowl take something so hard. They were pumping the Dem cave and now it’s all in ruins. Tuesday night is like their 9/11 it seems like.

Awww it’s a cute animal video of a coati setting a person who posts an “AI” generated cute animal video on fire. The screaming is adorable!

Incredible that Trump has won the inaugural Ethanol Agribusiness Prize for Best Daytime Drama

the thing is, they all (dems and republicans) *should* be trying to figure out how to get out of the shutdown, but none of this reporting actually suggests that either republican chamber leader knows how to actually *do* that. thune, johnson and trump all want mutually exclusive things

Centre-left politicians worried about anti-car policies polling badly in the short term need to remember: every measure that pushes people to cycle or use public transport ultimately creates more centre-left voters; every measure that leads to more people driving creates more right-wing voters

Very similar in tone, sourcing and style to the "Harvard getting ready to cave to the Trump administration's demands" reporting the Times kept trotting out.

Here’s a fun cute animal of an owl making a cute animal video by typing a prompt into sora awwww look at it type clickety clickety click

Day 79 of trying to be hired by Andrew Cuomo

Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

always important to consider the signaling effect of elections. one likely outcome of tuesday is to encourage the strongest candidates to throw their hats in the ring.

I would have been happy to go the rest of my life without having to think about that man ever again. His decisions cost innumerable lives and he never once seemed even remotely apologetic about it. "I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."-Clarence Darrow

just so you all know, i don't have an iphone. siri is the name of the all-knowing demon who lives in my toilet 🥰

Digital humanities researchers often care about fine-grained similarity based on narrative elements like plot or tone, which don’t necessarily correlate with surface-level textual features. Can embedding models capture this? We study this in the context of fanfiction!

i guess we will never know if they were ICE or not

In 6 months we'll get stories about 3 people who actually left NYC after Mamdani won and they'll say shit like "I couldn't bear to see my city destroyed" and then it will turn out they lived there for 9 months but had no friends so they went back to their parents' 2nd home in suburban St. Louis

Trump cancel flights