At least part of the problem is that we usually think of envy as a bottom-up phenomenon so the idea that marginalized groups could be a target of envy seems like a contradiction in terms. But as I've argued elsewhere, "envying down" might be more common than you think...

Sunstein was one of my favorite professors and in every sense a model academic, including the head-in-the-clouds absent-minded-professor sense. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...

“afoot” and “hitherto” require their own kind of alchemy here it fizzled

I spent the night in jail after an Iraq War protest. About a decade later, I got a letter. I was getting about $8k from a settlement arising from the protest. I hadn’t even heard about the lawsuit! But after moving several times, and with a common name, they tracked me down to give me a check.

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Such bullshit @hyundaiusa.com builds a 7.5 billion dollar factory then gets fucking harassed by the storm troopers.

trans people before the ban kicks in

That "try harder" is often a useful LLM prompt is one of their more confounding aspects. ChatGPT confidently, and incorrectly, identified this bag. When I said, "no, try again," it got it right! It wants to use less resources, but ends up using more, because it can't tell when it's wrong.

This blows my mind. They must have terrible preorder numbers.

The talk in this clip is what we call “cisnormative,” and it’s a good example of how those weird words everybody was talking about yesterday are sometimes useful. Almost every human goes through a sexual transition. It starts around 11 or 12. Cisnormativity is being unable to see this.

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Alright it’s that time of year. I need more college football mutuals. And maybe you do too. Retweet this tweet and follow back everyone who retweets. Let’s talk CFB!

More seriously: You cannot reckon with the current attacks on science without reckoning with the recent history of attacks on gender-affirming medicine. Conservatives were validated by the New York Times in a vibes-based overthrow of good science, emboldening them to move on to all areas of science.

I never thought this would happen for me. I ordered women's shoes and they are TOO BIG.

MS Teams should’ve figured out by now that I’m not trying to speak with my mic off. It’s called “muttering.”

Yeah, I love BlueSky, but it often reaches the point where everything that needs to be said has been said, but not everyone has said it.

This is my favorite way to test LLMs. At least it isn’t telling me that Kobe’s still alive like the last version did. But I’m not quite sure how Jordan’s “living status” disqualifies him from a list of players who are “still alive.”

This is how it goes: in order to persecute a small group, everyone has to carry ID and answer personal questions from private sector employees with no responsibility to keep your information private. And trans men are caught in a catch 22 where they can't use either bathroom.

I guess I am a pick-me because I’ll almost certainly vote for the Democrat, whoever it is. We get a chance to pick and shape a great candidate. That’s the primary. It’s fine then to get angry and demanding. But in the general there are 2 candidates. We either chose one or implicitly help the other.

Certain phraseology just can’t be used in 2025 if you want people to think you’re a human. From an email I just got:

not only means tested but subject to a yearly post-application review where people must submit documents online to prove the degree of their material suffering is not the result of poor choices in life

No one will be shocked to find the US is in second place

Not the point I know, but under this statute, they/them pronouns are fine, right? Surely gender-neutral titles like “coach” or “principal” are fine, even though strictly they don’t “correspond to” a person’s sex. They/them are fine by the same reasoning.

My question is “why not now?” on the merits of birthright citizenship. You have a case or controversy. Force the government to make its losing 14th Amendment argument. These cases will end in the circuit courts forever now, because why would the government seek cert on the merits?

Former Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan is weighing a run for higher office as a Democrat. But is the party ready for him? #gapol ajc.com/politics/202...

I enjoy the “at least one” phrasing. Like, one trans woman using the women’s bathroom would obviously be bad enough to deserve this high-emphasis story. But there might even have been more than one! [every day thousands of trans people are using whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable in]

The NYT decided to kick trans people in the teeth the day after Skrmetti. They wrote a hit piece blaming trans people for their own oppression and attacked the people who have fought hardest to stop this effort to eradicate us. They turned to Brianna Wu to further their narrative.

I recently finished Jason Pierceson’s “Before Bostock: The Accidental LGBTQ Precedent of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins.” Before Skrmetti releases I have some notes to share. (Thread)

Googled lyrics to “The Champ” since I keep seeing that ad Naturally it returns the lyrics to “Be Easy” It was a nice internet we had, once

Hey @ossoff.senate.gov explain yourself And thank you @warnock.senate.gov

I can’t see Friendship anywhere in Atlanta until Monday?? I thought we were a city here.

decent amount of chatter about 2028 Democratic presidential candidates weirdly little chatter about 2028 Republican presidential candidates

I would really love it if mainstream journalists would seriously consider the possibility that RFK Jr.'s politicized HHS under Trump is as accurate about gender-affirming medicine as it is on autism or vaccination.

Fine print in a Wendy’s radio ad: “Unlimited time does not mean forever.” I don’t expect them to offer the $5 Biggie Bag in the year 2525, but is there actually any daylight between “unlimited time” and “forever?” An offer that can be limited later isn’t an “unlimited time” offer.

BTW these write-in results are now up (and perhaps have been for a while). Tracey Verhoeven got 10,226 votes in GA-11. sos.ga.gov/sites/defaul... Barry Loudermilk got 269,849 and Katy Stamper (the fake Dem) 131,064. I can’t decide how to feel about Verhoeven’s number.

People need to be going to jail for this, not just getting fired. The country’s standards might’ve slipped, but mine and yours don’t have to.

Roberts senses that the decades of conservative bona fides he’s banked are about to be drawn upon.

The Atlanta suburbs version of this is when one side is blowing leaves and the other is powerwashing their driveway.

I enjoy the fact that the Missouri River has a 4.5 star ranking on Google Maps. Like, it’s pretty good but could be doing a little better. maps.app.goo.gl/Y1VB1ro2EV3Z...

One of my earliest memories is of my mom telling me I was a “bicentennial baby.” She told me that a lot! Because it was a big deal. Maybe it will sneak up on us, but the 250th seems less anticipated.

“but for a developmental or genetic anomaly” so, like being born with the wrong chromosomes

If there’s a Collateral in a BO6 match, it will be Best Play 100% of the time.

Since I keep seeing people doing this: Braves baseball Falcons football Law and litigation Democratic politics AI Transgender life Parenting World of Warcraft Call of Duty Restaurants Cars The Simpsons Writing and English Bob Dylan What did I miss? My interests are kinda basic.