Scary experiment: create a FAKE disease & upload FAKE studies to preprint servers to support and PRESTO AI thinks real. Ugh. Good example of how easily AI can warp knowledge base... Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Visually, Platner as a dark void is an unintentionally powerful image.

Platner can have a nice normal life of civilian regret. He doesn't belong in office. I will never trust someone with that bad of a background in a position of power and you shouldn't either.

Trans people and allies predicted with absolute crystal clarity exactly how this would go down, that they'd start with anti-trans talking points and then come for same sex marriage and abortion, not because we had any special precognitive abilities, but because THIS IS WHAT THEY SAID THEY WOULD DO!

the lightbulb that took me from "we should make bicycling safe, but also it's stupid and worthless compared to transit" to "bicycling is based b/c mass adoption makes populations more prosocial," was hearing this for the Nth time and realizing, "ohhhh bicyclists are the trans women of road users"

If you live in Oregon and you’re mailing in your taxes, make sure to do it no later than this Thursday, April 9th. And if you've filed your taxes and need help with your refund, please reach out to my office! We are here to help.

If you think its reductive and wrong for me to point out that the computer only does what the hardware is PHYSICALLY capable of, you have lost the plot. You are doing a dualism. The computer is not “actually” operating on a manifold world model in the latent space or whatever the fuck

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

or this

This is the source I've seen referenced.

The former Chairman of Denmark’s Defence Committee Rasmus Jarlov makes a good point: “United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea prohibits coastal states from charging tolls for passing through straits. If the USA and Iran now believe they should charge a toll in Hormuz, others might follow.”

Not trying to be all doom and gloom…but this is kind of a big thing - especially for Europe. #RadioFreeAmerica www.earth.com/news/gulf-st...

Ok on a serious note, it cannot be exaggerated how bad formalized Iranian control of the Strait is for the world. The entire global economy rests on an American guarantee of free commercial shipping. That guarantee is gone. We don’t know exactly what will happen but none of it will be good.

did we ever get clarity on whether Iran was indeed accepting cryptocurrency for their hormuz toll? because what better way to drive home to domestic pols the illegitimacy of cryptocurrency crime money

finally, some good Discourse

Freedom of Navigation isn't free. It is policed either by a hegemon (by both diplomatic/political and military means) or by locals. Trump is breaking the order created by the UK and inherited by the US.

To understand the russian information war, read Mehdi Hasan's attack on President Zelenskyy,in which he establishes a false equivalence between Iran and Ukraine👇 Authoritarian dictatorships are weaponising the concept of international humanitarian law and using it to attack Western democracies.

The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction.

Remember that guy a few months ago who tried to use chatgpt to tell if it was day outside, and racked up an enormous bill because it was polling the server like every 30 seconds to see if it was day yet

never thought i'd be so happy to hear the whine of an Amfleet's trucks

Yes, I have engaged and I have heard them out. The secular ones, the religious ones, the small business owners, the ones looking for work. The common thread is the cruelty, the misanthropy, the desire to hurt. "If everyone worked like me they would have what I have". It is a horror.

I think this is true, and part of the Everything is Gender theory. We are governed by that section of the populace that believes that Father having violent tantrums until everyone else cowers, even as his life falls apart around him, was an aspirational display of power and mastery.

The last 24 hours have shown what many have said for a long time. Britain's role as an accomplice to Trump's America must end. We must urgently decouple from a rogue US & seek security with allies closer to home. That starts with suspension of the US bombers on British soil.

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

Stupid Suez is real but the world lost hundreds of children, and for literally no reason.

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I got so annoyed with some of You People that I made a meme Science is not why you and your family are struggling, friends. President Trump and Congressional Republicans are the reason why you and your family are struggling.

AI is now influencing your vote. 🚨 From Trump retweeting a deepfake Taylor Swift endorsement to Indonesian politicians using AI avatars, generative AI is reshaping elections. New @globalvoices.org article by us & Safa Ghnaim: globalvoices.org/2026/04/03/h...

The other day I sought to prove that Grok has been hard-coded with TERF logic, and this was my first chat with it. As you can see, it is literally incapable of acknowledging that passing trans people exist. That's a common, and absurd, GC/TERF talking point. Grok is literally a propaganda machine

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

Yeah he started this literally the day they offered him everything he wanted and it feels like no one on the planet remembers that happened except you, me, and the Iranian government.

It won’t be out for quite a while, but based on what I’ve seen of it, pre-order Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine.

No, there isn’t. We also conclusively killed nuclear nonproliferation as a viable theory of state building. Between our failure to guarantee Ukraine vs Russia and our invasion of Iran, every country on the planet has a clear and valid claim to an existential need for nuclear deterrence.

Looking, again, for a steelman view of this. Is there ANY plausible argument that we didn’t just kill a bunch of people to no purpose and hand a giant geopolitical victory to an extremist regime after making it more entrenched and more extreme?

“Aw, man, i shot [freedom of navigation] in the face”

Richmond would not be bad for symbolism. Destroy Confederate ideals once and for all in its old capital.

Nuremberg was an important symbol of German nationhood so I say with 100% sincerity that this is a job for Philadelphia

If the media were even remotely liberal every story would mention that the nuclear deal Obama cut was working extremely well before Trump withdrew from it out of spite.

I love that the book banning little freaks get booted from school/library boards basically every time AND I want to shout out the wine moms they radicalized who were like ‘oh fuck these people, I’m running for school board.’

And this is how I found out Errol Morris on this site.

You know it's bad when this isn't an op-ed. It's a news article from the largest public broadcaster of the US's closest ally. Not really sure how the US comes back from this. Who wants an ally that just whimsically starts wars, threatens genocide, and tanks the global economy? Absolute clown show.

quite a lot comes down to whether you think the most important thing to understand about someone is 1) that they're dishonest or 2) that they're rich

I am stunned every day that programmers as an entire class were offered a choice between "preserve the open-source ecosystem" and "deniably steal GPL-licensed code whenever you want" and slammed the button on the latter with zero hesitation. an incredibly complete act of industry cannibalism

There’s no quick fix to the shift in media diets and the attendant problems from eschewing sustained focus in favor of short form video slop. Helping children, students, and adults return to focused reading requires a culture oriented towards allowing people quiet contemplation and privacy.

He still needs to be removed from office. A war powers resolution will not suffice. He circumvented Congress to start the war. He circumvented them on tariffs and appropriations. Why anyone thinks he'd adhere to a Congressional war powers resolution is beyond me.

guy forgets to get his ez-pass before leaving port, rolls his eyes, steers into the cash only lane, begins feeding eight million quarters into the slot one by one

things aren't great and it's a whole lot and take care of each other, please. But separately I'm picturing like an ez-pass the size of of a shipping container on the deck of an oil tanker to pay some new toll

Lawyer up, Marco.

I know it's late, but I need you all to realize that as soon as we started paying attention to these races, Moms for Liberty & their ilk, started losing. They exploited a window of apathy & did a lot of damage, but they just cannot win when actually opposed. No unopposed elections anywhere.